Summary of the week of June 20, 2022

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Ethereum miners have spent 1.5e10 euros

It is estimated that Ethereum miners have spent 15 billion euros on graphics cards. Since the cryptocurrency debacle began, the price of GPUs has dropped substantially and the supply of second-hand graphics cards has increased.

What the failure of Netburst contributed

Netburst was an Intel architecture that worked very well when instructions arrived in a specific order, but it performed miserably when that order was not met, which was most of the time. In this article, they analyze in detail how it worked and what was learned from that failure.

Anatomy of a rootkit

Avast has dissected a rootkit that performs curious operations such as checking if the value 0x08 appears in the reserved field of the TCP header (see RFC 3514). To avoid the action of this type of malware, it is recommended to activate secure boot.

Flashback (1992) for free

Gog.com is giving away a classic from the nineties: Flashback (1992). I see the intro and a tear drops. Salu2! Jugones!

i5-10500T

Krampak has brought us a Comet Lake again, this time from the S series. The i5-10500T comes with 6 cores and a TDP of 35W. Its performance is very similar to the Core i5-8500 and both in the single-thread and multi-thread ranking, it is in the 70s positions.

AMD publishes the code for FSR 2.0

AMD has published the source code for the second version of its FidelityFX Super Resolution. FSR is used to upscale from lower resolutions with a lower computational cost than rendering images at the target resolution.

A book reader for the console

Someone has created a book reader for the console written in Bash. You can search and download free novels from the program itself. The source of the content is FreeWebNovel.