Summary of the week of May 30, 2022

[cobito]

Another application for AVX-512

AVX-512 is a set of instructions that is difficult to take advantage of since its use implies an increase in temperature and a reduction in frequency, so it is not easy to find applications that take advantage of its potential. From now on, there is something new that benefits from the repertoire: JSON processing.

Improve Firefox acceleration on Linux

Mozilla has fixed the bug that made it necessary to run Firefox in sandbox mode to have VA-API video acceleration.

Xeon E5-2670 v3

pos_yo has brought us a Haswell-EP with 12 cores and HT. The Xeon E5-2670 v3 gets the first position of the 25 Haswells we have by doubling the score of the second on the list. In addition, with its 8 years old, it sneaks into position 35 of the general ranking.

Samsung begins manufacturing microLED screens

Samsung has been producing microLED panels for a month. It plans to bring its first screens to the market at the end of the year.

Firefox 101 available

The hundred and first version of Firefox is now available. One of the main features is that it is now possible to use several microphones simultaneously during a video conference.

Forking a process to another computer

Someone has created a library that allows teleforking a process to a computer different from where the program is running. It works in a way similar to fork().

Author Levels: Sabatus Tomb Raider 1

Sabatus Tomb Raider 1: I haven't tried it yet, but it looks very good. It is true that there are already several Remakes of the first Tomb Raider, the one I brought to the forum a few weeks ago was a very good one using the engine of TR4.

Google launches its chip manufacturing portal

Google has presented a portal so that free hardware developers can send their designs and these are materialized in a 130nm process, a maximum area of 2.92x3.52mm and up to 38 input/output pins.

Windows 10 on a phone

Renegade Project has created a series of images that allow Windows 10 compiled for ARM64 to be installed on phones with this architecture.

Distributing malware in the name of Kdenlive

Someone has set up a fraudulent page from which malware is distributed with the promise of downloading Kdenlive under the name of Lightmoon.

How fast are Linux pipes

Linux pipes are an extremely efficient mechanism for communicating the results of the execution of one command to another command. In this entry they explain how such speed is achieved.

Wolfenstein: The New Order for free

It's Thursday and we have a new offer in the Epic Store: Wolfenstein: The New Order. Greetings gamers!!

[kynes]

@cobito said in Summary of the week of May 30, 2022:

Windows 10 on a phone
Renegade Project has created a series of images that allow you to install Windows 10 compiled for ARM64 on phones with this architecture.

This is what I thought the future of computing would be. I remember that HP came out with something called continuum that allowed you to use a phone with windows mobile connected to a dock with a screen, keyboard, and mouse, as if it were a normal desktop windows, and I thought it was the ultimate work tool.

It seems that I don't have a vision for the future, what a big hit they took.

[cobito]

@kynes Ubuntu also ran that idea with Ubuntu Touch. When you used the phone, the typical mobile interface appeared. When you connected a monitor to the phone, the Ubuntu desktop appeared. For me, the perfect device for 90% of the time.