📰 Kimwolf Android Botnet Infects Over 2 Million Devices via Exposed ADB and Proxy Networks

The botnet known as Kimwolf has infected more than 2 million Android devices by tunneling through residential proxy networks, according to findings from Synthient."Key actors involved in the Kimwolf botnet are observed monetizing the botnet through app installs, selling residential proxy bandwidth, and selling its DDoS functionality," the company said in an analysis published last week.Kimwolf.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/kimwolf-android-botnet-infects-over-2.html

📰 GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"

Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Firefox-MiddleClick-Paste

📰 Driving a seamless Chromium experience on MediaTek SoCs

As Chromium becomes the default UI runtime on embedded Linux devices, we’re closing long-standing V4L2 gaps and enabling efficient hardware video encoding and decoding on MediaTek platforms for both downstream and upstream.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/driving-a-seamless-chromium-experience-on-mediatek-socs.html

📰 How to Install RQuickShare (NearbyShare/QuickShare) on Linux

RQuickShare is a Rust implementation of the smartphone NearbyShare/QuickShare feature for Linux and macOS. It’s a free, open-source, lightweight tool designed to seamlessly transfer files between desktops and smartphones. There are very few options available in the settings; you can only adjust the default bootup.

🔗 Source: https://linuxtldr.com/install-rquickshare-on-linux/

📰 Radeon Linux Driver Patches For Next-Gen Hardware Point To New NPU Integration

Back in November AMD began posting open-source Linux graphics driver patches for some next-gen graphics IP. Those IP block patches were for MMHUB, PSP, and other blocks making up modern AMD GPUs. The GFXHUB patch pointed it to being part of the GFX12 / RDNA4 family. Out today are new patches for enabling the SMU15 IP and an interesting takeaway there is some apparent NPU integration for future Radeon graphics...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-GPU-NPU-SMU15

📰 GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

Long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle mouse paste.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gnome-and-mozilla-discuss-proposal-to-disable-middle-mouse-paste-on-linux/

📰 Dell XPS with Ubuntu Option Due Soon

Dell has announced the return of its XPS laptop line at CES 2026, introducing redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch models, the former of which will be available to buy pre-loaded with Ubuntu later this year. The tech company retired the XPS branding in last January as part of a marketing revamp of its product lines. Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision devices became “Dell,” “Dell Pro,” and “Dell Pro Max” respectively, while XPS models were re-badged...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/new-dell-xps-2026-with-ubuntu

📰 AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D, New Strix Halo SKUs & Ryzen AI 400 Series

Lisa Su's keynote just wrapped up at CES 2026 and in turn the embargo regarding AMD's first consumer product announcements for 2026. The AMD Ryzen AI 400 series and new Ryzen 7 9850X3D 3D V-Cache processors are what's in focus for CES this year.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-400-9850x3d

📰 New n8n Vulnerability (9.9 CVSS) Lets Authenticated Users Execute System Commands

A new critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in n8n, an open-source workflow automation platform, that could enable an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary system commands on the underlying host.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68668, is rated 9.9 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as a case of a protection mechanism failure.It affects n8n versions from.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/new-n8n-vulnerability-99-cvss-lets.html

📰 KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller

Finally! One of the most annoying issues is your system going to sleep while gaming with a controller, and KDE Plasma 6.6 will solve it..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/kde-plasma-6-6-will-finally-stop-the-system-sleeping-when-gaming-with-a-controller/

📰 StarBook Horizon Linux Laptop Now on Sale with 32GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, and Coreboot

Linux hardware vendor StarLabs announced today that its StarBook Horizon Linux-powered laptop is now on sale as a 13-inch Coreboot notebook designed for privacy and …

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/starbook-horizon-linux-laptop-now-on-sale-with-32gb-ram-wi-fi-6e-and-coreboot

📰 AMD Releases GAIA 0.15 - Positioning It As A Framework/SDK For Building AI PC Agents

Last year AMD announced GAIA as short for "Generative AI Is Awesome". It started off as a Windows-only AI demo but over time added Linux support along with introducing different AI agents. For going along with AMD's AI announcements at CES 2026, AMD released GAIA 0.15 where they are now positioning this software as a framework/SDK for building AI PC agents...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.15

📰 My Raspberry Pi is at its best when it does exactly one thing

I lost track of how many times Jellyfin buffered while I tried to turn on my smart lights. How many times have I noticed the LED blinking frantically on my Raspberry Pi’s case. How many times SSH would stop responding, and I had to walk over to perform a hard reset. And I thought it was normal.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/my-raspberry-pi-is-at-its-best-when-it-does-exactly-one-thing/

📰 Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver

The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Own-Intel-GPU-Driver

📰 Transparent Hugepage Performance On Linux 6.18 LTS: Madvise vs. Always

With some Linux distributions like Fedora Workstation and Ubuntu defaulting to "madvise" Transparent Hugepages (THP) while others like CachyOS and openSUSE defaulting to "always", you may be curious about the madvise vs. always THP difference in modern Linux environments. If so this round of benchmarking is for you in looking at the performance impact of madvise vs. always THP.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/thp-madvise-always

📰 First Look at Devuan GNU+Linux 6 “Excalibur” on Raspberry Pi 5

Here’s our first look at the Devuan GNU+Linux 6 "Excalibur" operating system series on the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-devuan-gnulinux-6-excalibur-on-raspberry-pi-5

📰 Debian Urgently Seeks Volunteers After Data Protection Team Resigns

Debian seeks contributors with an interest in privacy to restore its Data Protection Team after all members stepped back.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-urgently-seeks-volunteers-after-data-protection-team-resigns/

📰 Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL & More In 2025 While Pulling In Just $12k USD

The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-2025-Accomplishments

📰 Immutable Distro Nitrux 5.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, New Tools

Nitrux 5.1 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS, new tools, updated components. and other changes. Here's what's new!Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 5.0 as a major update to this immutable and systemd-free distribution.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-nitrux-5-1-released-with-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-new-tools

📰 Ongoing Attacks Exploiting Critical RCE Vulnerability in Legacy D-Link DSL Routers

A newly discovered critical security flaw in legacy D-Link DSL gateway routers has come under active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0625 (CVSS score: 9.3), concerns a case of command injection in the "dnscfg.cgi" endpoint that arises as a result of improper sanitization of user-supplied DNS configuration parameters."An unauthenticated remote attacker can inject.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/active-exploitation-hits-legacy-d-link.html

📰 Lilbits: WiFi 8 hardware is coming this year, LEGO introduces SMART Brick system, and Intel could make handheld-specific Panther Lake chips

CES 2026 appears to be the coming out party for WiFi 8 hardware… which is kind of weird because the WiFi 8 specification isn’t expected to be finalized for a few more years. But it’s not unusual to see companies start to release hardware for a work-in-progress version of the WiFi standard. What is a little .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-wifi-8-hardware-is-coming-this-year-lego-introduces-smart-brick-system-and-intel-could-make-handheld-specific-panther-lake-chips/