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GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets 50K-plus Linux Servers  Dark Reading

Microsoft’s LLMinus AI Targets Linux Kernel Merge Conflict Automation  WebProNews

Distributions  Hackaday

The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming  Hackaday

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January...

Don't Toss That Old Hard Drive - You Can Still Use It  bgr.com

When recently carrying out performance benchmarks of Intel Meteor Lake performance on Linux since launch day two years ago, the geo mean came in at 93% the original performance. Finding the performance trending clearly lower with an up-to-date Linux software stack compared to in December 2023 was quite surprising considering the rather nice gains we have seen over time on other Intel/AMD hardware. As noted in that article though, one of the possible explanations there is the Spectre BHI "Branch History Injection" vulnerability and microcode plus Linux kernel mitigations having come out post-launch and affecting Meteor Lake CPUs. Sure enough, follow-up tests looking at the Spectre BHI impact have revealed a measurable cost in a number of workloads for the Core Ultra processor.

The Surprising Spectre BHI Mitigation Performance Impact On Meteor Lake  Phoronix

Linux Steam Market Share Hits Record 3.58% in December 2025  WebProNews

Tinygrad 0.12 is out today for this deep learning stack led by George Hotz...

IceWM soldiers on while Budgie jumps the Wayland ship  theregister.com

Tungsten Automation Announces General Availability of OmniPage Capture SDK 2025.3 for Linux  01net

auto-cpufreq 3.0 Arrives for Linux with Better Battery Handling and CPU Turbo Control  It's FOSS

Linux Mint 22.3 has arrived, complete with Cinnamon 6.6  How-To Geek

Parrot 7.1 Through 7.3 Planned for 2026 as Focus Moves to AI Security  Linuxiac

Firefox 147 Arrives with XDG Support on Linux, Auto-PiP + More  OMG! Ubuntu

Tech Bloggers Switch to Linux Over Windows Privacy Woes in 2026  WebProNews

A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work  Hackaday

Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux users in finally delivering XDG Base Directory Specification support...

Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support  Phoronix