Weekly Summary for April 13, 2026
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Intel and Nvidia work on texture compression
Both Intel and Nvidia have announced a new texture compression algorithm that achieves sizes 18 and 7 times smaller, respectively.
Blu-ray will stick around for a while
I-O Data and Verbatim have stated they will continue supplying Blu-ray discs and drives, even as most manufacturers (including Sony) begin to exit the consumer market.
CPUID and HWMonitor compromised
CPUID and HWMonitor fell victim to a supply chain attack in which, for six hours, downloads from the official site were actually malware.
France plans to abandon Windows
DINUM is the agency responsible for developing a digital strategy for the French government and public institutions. This agency plans to migrate its systems to NixOS. The full plan isn't clear, but it's said to possibly serve as a pilot project before expanding the migration.
Testing Nvidia's texture compression
Nvidia recently unveiled a new texture compression technique that can save around 80% of VRAM. One of its most interesting features is the ability to choose which textures to compress. In this post, they provide an in-depth analysis.
Linux 7 available
Linux 7.0 is now available, with the experimental tag removed from its Rust code. It also includes changes to the process scheduler, a new file system called nullfs, and much more.
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