Summary of the week of October 21, 2024

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Next hardware update for Steam Deck

Valve has said that it will not update the hardware of its Steam Deck until there is a significant performance jump without reducing battery life.

How a graphics card works

In this video, they explain how a graphics card works, starting with the evolution of performance from the first accelerators, moving on to the differences between a CPU and a GPU, and ending with why they are not only useful for games but also for general-purpose processing.

Spectre is still causing trouble

A group of researchers has published a research paper with a new way to exploit Spectre to attack a system. The vulnerability affects both Intel and AMD CPUs. The flaw has been fixed for some time, and what has come out now are the details of it.

ReiserFS will cease to exist in Linux 6.13

Linux will stop including support for the ReiserFS file system in version 6.13, which will come after 6.12 LTS. So, starting next year, the few users who are still left will be able to resort to an LTS to continue using their partitions.

New record in the benchmark

Someone brought us a Ryzen 9 9950X a few days ago. This Zen 5 with 16 cores has managed to dethrone the Core i9-14900KF and i9-13900K, achieving the gold medal in both general rankings and surpassing the two million points barrier for the first time.

NES emulator for the console

Someone has created an NES emulator for the Linux console. Plastic (which is what the program is called) has an additional mode for EGui in case we want better image quality.

Intel N95

After the record-breaking with the Zen 5 yesterday, it's time for something much lighter. The Intel N95 is a low-power CPU with 4 Alder Lake cores that has a pretty decent performance similar to a Core i7-7560U.

Bad reviews for the Core Ultra 9 285K

After the debacle of its last two generations, Intel has tried to get out of it with a change of nomenclature. But industry analysts have launched harsh criticisms about the Core Ultra 9 285K. According to them, they are selling CPUs for more than 500€ that need a motherboard of another 500€ that do not bring performance improvements over their predecessors.