Summary of the week of June 10, 2024

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Microsoft's Recall is insecure

In recent days, news has been appearing about the insecurities of Recall, Microsoft's AI system integrated into Windows. It is now known that it is possible to access the collected data without needing administrator privileges.

Core i9-12900HK

Someone brought us an i9-12900HK a few days ago. It is a portable Alder Lake with 6 P cores and 8 E that stays in the 49th position of the top 100 and very close to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.

Laptop with Snapdragon X Elite and Linux

A laptop manufacturer called Tuxedo has presented a new model powered by the Snapdragon X Elite, the jewel in Qualcomm's crown. It also has 32 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and, as a major novelty in this field, it comes with Debian pre-installed.

Security flaw in Mali drivers

A security flaw has been discovered in the Mali drivers, the GPU for ARM platforms. It affects the Bifrost and Valhall architectures and allows access to the content of freed memory without needing privileges.

Firefox 127 available

The one hundred and twenty-seventh version of Firefox comes with the ability to resolve domains in advance to speed up the loading process. It is also possible to close duplicate tabs. In addition, it tries to load audio and video from HTTPS when the original source is not secure.

Raspberry Pi goes public

What was once the foundation that maintained the development of Raspberry Pi has become a publicly traded company. This change could bring funds to invest in R&D, but it also implies that profits will be required from the sale of hardware.

Extensions for the Linux task scheduler

Torvalds has given the green light to sched_ext, an extension of the Linux task scheduler. Until now, the core of the kernel was very conservative about allowing extensions in the scheduler, allowing only one and without extensions. In Linux 6.11, that will change.

WD presents 2Gb integrated

Western Digital has presented 3D QLC integrated circuits of 2Gbits that use the BiCS8 node of 218 layers. These are the largest flash memory chips to date.