Summary of the week of August 5, 2024

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The cover goes to the beach to read Unix books until September. Don't forget to visit and participate in the forum and the instances of Mastodon and Peertube. And of course, don't forget to pass the test bench to your new machines and validate the result.

Present and future of Intel

Intel has missed the AI train, has serious problems with its current manufacturing process and its quarterly results have been disastrous. After receiving juicy subsidies from the US federal government and after a reduction of 15,000 employees, it hopes to be able to gain financial momentum to give a boost to its new factories with the aim of catching up with TSMC.

Firefox 129 available

Firefox 129 comes with improvements in the reading view where it now allows you to configure character and word spacing, line spacing and other text presentation parameters. It also shows a preview of the content of a tab when you hover over it.