📰 OpenShot 3.4 Released With Performance Gains and New Video Effects

OpenShot 3.4 video editor delivers a 32% performance boost, new video effects, faster exports, and an experimental timeline aimed at smoother, more reliable editing.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/openshot-3-4-released-with-performance-gains-and-new-video-effects/

📰 I tried using only terminal apps on Linux for a week

Maybe it's because I started my computing journey in the DOS days, but I'm not scared of the Linux Terminal. There are plenty of tricks for making a text-based interface render images, and I can watch YouTube in a Terminal window or control my growing Proxmox empire.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-using-only-terminal-apps-on-linux-for-a-week/

📰 The Significant Performance Gains For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing Performance In 2025

As part of my various year-end comparison benchmarking, I recently ran some tests looking at how the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA 4 performance has evolved since its debut near the beginning of the year. The Vulkan ray-tracing performance in particular was standing out this year as having evolved quite nicely while for conventional OpenGL and Vulkan performance the performance has been largely stable this year with its great at-launch support.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-radv-rt-2025

📰 Self-hosting media server Jellyfin gets a new desktop app with updated features

The self-hosting media platform's server has also been updated.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/jellyfin-new-desktop-app-name-updated-features/

📰 Global Internet Traffic Rose 19 Percent in 2025, Cloudflare Data Shows

Global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, driven by AI bots, increased mobile usage, and expanding satellite connectivity, according to Cloudflare Radar data.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/global-internet-traffic-rose-19-percent-in-2025-cloudflare-data-shows/

📰 Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Presentation At LPC 2025

One of the exciting Intel innovations to the Linux kernel this year has been around the Cache Aware Scheduling for helping to deliver better performance on modern CPUs with multiple last level caches. The kernel patches have yet to be upstreamed but testing has shown to be quite promising for grouping tasks sharing data to the same LLC domain to help reduce cache misses and cache bouncing.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cache-Aware-Scheduling-2025

📰 LilyGo T-Display P4 handheld has an ESP32-P4 RISC-V processor and a 4.1 inch display

The LilyGo T-Display P4 is a pocket-sized device with a 4.1 inch display that looks like a smartphone from the front. But turn it sideways and it’s clear that this chunky handheld is more of a dev kit than a phone. It measures 22mm (0.9 inches) thick and has full-sized Ethernet and USB Type-A ports, as .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lilygo-t-display-p4-handheld-has-an-esp32-p4-risc-v-processor-and-a-4-1-inch-amoled-display/

📰 Mabox Linux 25.12 Released With Panel Improvements and GTK2 Removal

Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 25.12 introduces panel and menu improvements, a revamped update notifier, and completes the transition away from the aging GTK2 toolkit.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/mabox-linux-25-12-released-with-panel-improvements-and-gtk2-removal/

📰 Opus 1.6 Audio Codec Adds New Machine Learning Functionality

Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available. Opus 1.6 brings new machine learning "ML" based features in building atop the machine learning features initially added to Opus 1.5...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Opus-1.6-Released

Pop!_OS 24.04 Full Review | The COSMIC Desktop is Here!
—> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOp7g7BNzRE

📰 Your Raspberry Pi Can Be a Real Desktop (If You Pick the Right OS)

Here are the operating system choices when you want to use Raspberry Pi in a desktop setup.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/raspberry-pi-desktop-os/

📰 AMD Wants Your Logs To Help Optimize PyTorch & ComfyUI For Strix Halo, Radeon GPUs

If you are not satisfied with the current performance for PyTorch or ComfyUI / Stable Diffusion on your Strix Halo APU system or with other consumer RDNA3/RDNA4 Radeon consumer GPUs, AMD engineers are interested in your logs to help better optimize the performance going forward...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Logs-For-ComfyUI-PyTorch

📰 GhostPoster Malware Found in 17 Firefox Add-ons with 50,000+ Downloads

A new campaign named GhostPoster has leveraged logo files associated with 17 Mozilla Firefox browser add-ons to embed malicious JavaScript code designed to hijack affiliate links, inject tracking code, and commit click and ad fraud.The extensions have been collectively downloaded over 50,000 times, according to Koi Security, which discovered the campaign. The add-ons are no longer available.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/ghostposter-malware-found-in-17-firefox.html

📰 Steam Replay is live and only 14% of Steam users played games from 2025

Valve have released Steam Replay for 2025, showing off some interesting stats about your gaming and how it stacks up against everyone on Steam..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/steam-replay-is-live-and-only-14-of-steam-users-played-games-from-2025/

📰 AMD Zen 6 Compiler Support Merged For GCC 16

Ahead of AMD releasing their Zen 6 EPYC and Ryzen processors in 2026, AMD today saw their Zen 6 "znver6" support land into the GCC 16 open-source compiler...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-znver6-GCC-16

📰 Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux

Colin Watson announced that Debusine repositories are now available in beta form, which can be used to maintain APT-compatible add-on package repositories for Debian Linux. This comes down to being similar in nature to Personal Package Archives (PPAs) that are popular with Ubuntu Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debusine-Repositories-Beta

📰 This open-source app is the perfect companion to NotebookLM for long-form research

While Google’s NotebookLM has proven to be an excellent AI partner that excels at summarizing large documents and generating creative insights based on your uploaded sources, you can’t really use it as a note-taking app.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/open-source-app-perfect-companion-notebooklm-long-form-research/

📰 Asahi Linux Gets Microphone Working For M2 Pro/Max, Eyes Installer Improvements

The Asahi Linux project is out with their latest status report to highlight upstream improvements made for the newly-minted Linux 6.18 kernel as well as some of their efforts going on downstream within Asahi Linux itself...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-December-2025

📰 Nitrux proves that using a fancy new Linux distro isn't always a good idea

It's fun to play around with different Linux distros, but you might not want to use every new one that pops up. Here's why.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/nitrux-proves-using-new-fancy-linux-distro-not-always-good-idea/

📰 Intel XPU Manager Updated With BMG-G31 GPU Support

Intel XPU Manager 1.3.5 released today as the newest version of this open-source software for monitoring and managing Intel GPU hardware with a focus on their data center products. Notable with this revision is adding BMG-G31 GPU support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-BMG-G31

📰 Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf has enlisted a massive army of no less than 1.8 million infected devices comprising Android-based TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, and may be associated with another botnet known as AISURU, according to findings from QiAnXin XLab."Kimwolf is a botnet compiled using the NDK ," the company said in a report.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/kimwolf-botnet-hijacks-18-million.html