In this video, I show how to customize the Bash prompt style on Linux by editing the .bashrc file.This is a simple and beginner-friendly way to change. Perfect for Linux users who want a clean, modern, and personalized terminal.

The Project Zero blog has a
three-part series describing a working, zero-click exploit for
Pixel 9 devices.

Over the past few years, several AI-powered features have been
added to mobile phones that allow users to better search and
understand their messages. One effect of this change is increased
0-click attack surface, as efficient analysis often requires
message media to be decoded before the message is opened by the
user. One such feature is audio transcription. Incoming SMS and RCS
audio attachments received by Google Messages are now automatically
decoded with no user interaction. As a result, audio decoders are
now in the 0-click attack surface of most Android phones.

The blog entry does not question the wisdom of directly exposing audio
decoders to external attackers, but it does provide a lot of detail showing
how it can go wrong. The first part looks at compromising the codec; part
two extends the exploit to the kernel, and part
three looks at the implications:

It is alarming that it took 139 days for a vulnerability
exploitable in a 0-click context to get patched on any Android
device, and it took Pixel 54 days longer. The vulnerability was
public for 82 days before it was patched by Pixel.

The EndeavourOS team announced today the general availability for download of EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo as the latest stable snapshot of this Arch Linux-based distro featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

EndeavourOS 2026.01.12 “Ganymede Neo” is out as the first update of the year to this Arch Linux based distribution…

Renesas Electronics has introduced three new ForgeFPGA devices that significantly expand the company’s low-density FPGA portfolio. The newly announced SLG47912, SLG47920, and SLG47921 more than double the available logic resources compared to earlier 1k-LUT ForgeFPGA parts, targeting space-constrained and cost-sensitive edge designs. Renesas notes that ForgeFPGA is positioned as an alternative to traditional low-end FPGAs, […]

For those shopping for an AI-ready mobile workstation with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics, the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 offers a lot of potential for developers, AI researchers, content creators, and others. This Linux-friendly mobile workstation is well built and aligns with ThinkPad P-Series expectations while being ready to be tasked with demanding workloads.

Sjoerd Simons has published
a blog post about running Debian on the OpenWrt One
router hardware:

With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian
system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage, enabling everything
from custom services and containers to development tools and
lightweight server workloads, all on open hardware.

This project provides a rust-based flasher to install Debian on the
OpenWrt One, opening the door to standard Debian tooling, packages,
and workflows. For developers and power users, it transforms the
OpenWrt One from a network appliance into a compact, general-purpose
Linux system.

See the GitHub
repository for the code and latest build. LWN reviewed the device in
November 2024, and covered Denver
Gingerich’s talk at SCALE 22x about
the making of the router in March 2025.

Arch-based Garuda Linux ISO 260115 ships with NVIDIA 590 drivers, which no longer support NVIDIA 1000 series GPUs.

The upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle will provide expanded GPU temperature reporting capabilities for Intel graphics cards. Additional temperature sensors will now be exposed under Linux with the Intel Xe driver using the hardware monitoring (HWMON) interface for easy consumption by different Linux user-space software…

A significant update to Burn was released today, the MIT and Apache 2.0 licensed tensor library and deep learning framework written in the Rust programming language. Burn 0.20 brings some low-level changes as it continues to strive to deliver high performance AI across the diverse hardware ecosystem…

Opera GX, the gaming-focused web browser, is coming to Linux, with the company confirming active development.

Version
14.0 of the Forgejo software forge has been released. Notable
changes in this release include several database
improvements, new options for approving
actions execution from pull requests, a new
file editor, and progress toward making
Forgejo’s web UI work without JavaScript.

The FOSS Force Distro of the Week — Origami Linux It’s paper folding time at Distro of the Week. Well, sort of… Actually, we’re looking…

The post (title) appeared first on FOSS Force.

Al Viro does not often stray outside of the core virtual filesystem area;
when he does, it is usually worthy of note. Recently, he wandered into
memory management with this patch
series to the slab allocator and some of its users. Kernel developers
will often put considerable effort into small optimizations, but it is
still interesting to look at just how much effort has gone toward the purpose of
avoiding a single pointer dereference in some memory-allocation hot paths.

We have recently noticed that email from LWN.net seems to be
blocked by MXroute. Unfortunately, the company also does not seem to
have a way for non-customers to report problems in mail delivery, so
we have no good way to get ourselves unblocked.

As a result, readers who have subscribed to an LWN mailing list
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is becoming so difficult to send legitimate email as a small
business.

Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what Linus Torvalds decides to call it…

Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies/hypervisors. With libvirt 12.0, improving Bhyve as the FreeBSD hypervisor was a big focus…

DeviceTree patches worked on recently allow for the mainline Linux kernel to run on the ASUS “Kommando” IPMI Expansion Card. This is interesting for opening up new possibilities for this external IPMI/BMC expansion card but too bad that less than three years after launching it’s difficult to find…

The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it’s been up to the open-source community to keep it going…

In late 2024 the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ as an AI accelerator capable of 26 TOPS and costing $110 for pairing with Raspberry Pi single board computers. Today they announced the much more capable Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 that can begin to take on some generative AI “GenAI” models…