Summary of the week of October 27, 2025

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Intel wants to change its FOSS strategy

Intel has always been one of the most important contributors in the world of free software, and more specifically, in Linux. It was the first to have free drivers for its GPUs on x86 systems. But now it says it will rethink its participation to prevent others from taking advantage of its contributions.

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Zen 6 will be compatible with AM5

AMD continues with its policy of stretching its sockets as much as possible and has said that future Zen 6 will be compatible with the current AM5 sockets. This also confirms that DDR6 still has time to appear.

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UBIOS is presented

A consortium of Chinese companies has presented UBIOS, a firmware that aims to replace the current UEFI. It has support for chiplets and heterogeneous processing.

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Laptop with optical drive

Fujitsu has presented a laptop whose most striking feature is that it comes with a DVD drive. It seems that the Japanese market continues to demand PCs with optical drives.

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PSF rejects 1.5 million

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a grant of 1.5 million from the US federal government because one of the conditions for accepting the money was not to promote any program that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI in American terms).

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Hardware continues to rise

Both hard drives and high-capacity RAM have experienced a significant price increase in recent weeks. It has now been announced that the main manufacturers of SSD drives are having trouble meeting delivery deadlines for their larger models.

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Multi-device file server

Someone has created a file server with support for http, webdav, ftp, tftp and smb/cifs that can be run on phones and computers. It is written in Python and the goal is to be able to share files locally.

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Reusing silicon

Today, all integrated manufacturers take advantage of defective chips to produce models with lower performance. This happens, for example, in CPUs, where an integrated with a core that doesn't work properly is labeled with a model that has, at most, the functional cores. In this entry, they explain how Intel began to reuse its chips manufactured in the late 70s.