Summary of the week of June 9, 2025

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The Switch 2 is harder to repair

According to iFixit, the Switch 2 is harder to repair than its predecessor, although this one didn't have a very good score. It goes from a 4 to a 3 out of 10 in repairability.

Brain drain at Intel

A group of veteran Intel researchers have left the company to found a startup called AheadComputing. Their goal is to create a new CPU using the open RISC-V architecture.

The FAA wants to stop using floppy disks

The US Federal Aviation Administration wants to stop using floppy disks in the country's air traffic controls, whose computers run on Windows 95. Maintaining these systems costs a lot of money and in reality the update is not simple since some systems have to be on continuously. The update will take 4 years to be completed.

Open source vector editor

Graphite is an open source vector and raster graphics editor, which has functionalities similar to Inkscape. One of the peculiarities is that it can be used from the browser.

Apple starts to abandon x86

Next year, Apple will stop releasing major updates of its operating system for the x86 architecture. From that moment on, there will only be security patches. The future macOS 26 will be the last system compatible with Intel's architecture.

More FOSS in AMD drivers on Linux

AMD is going to stop supporting proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan drivers for Linux. Starting with version 25.20 of Radeon Software, official support for the Mesa Vulkan driver will begin.