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The Razer Nari is a decent wireless headset, but it’s a little oddball—because it uses a bespoke USB dongle for pairing. This is all well and good if you’re using a supported configuration; plug it into a Windows PC, run the utility, and you’re good to go. If you’re a Linux user, though, you were out of luck—but [JJ] has just solved that problem.

The tool was created by reverse engineering the pairing protocol used by Razer’s own proprietary software. [JJ] figured out the necessary pairing command, and how to send it to both the dongle and the headset. The headset itself must be connected by a USB cable when initiating the pairing process.

This question comes from Michael, who asks: what’s the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving, assuming you’re obeying the speed limit and driving on paved roads?

To start, we have to define what we mean by “sunset".

With the update they're also now using Easy Anti-Cheat, which has been disclosed on the Steam page as of today. Anti-cheat is rather problematic when it comes to Linux / SteamOS + Steam Deck, but in this case they do have it enabled for Linux platforms to be able to play. We were shared this message from a support ticket the developer replied to:

I've personally tested it just to be sure and it worked fine with a game being invaded on Desktop Linux (Proton 9). Nice to see, since it's a Steam Deck Verified game. Our dedicated anti-cheat page has now been updated to note this.

UTOPIA MUST FALL is absolutely one of the best arcade-styled base defense games made in modern times, and now it's massively better with a new update.

Previously covered here on GamingOnLinux as I loved it so much, and another recent article on the Beta for this new release that's properly out for everyone now.

Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library.

Edera made public today their discovery of a critical boundary-parsing bug in the async-tar Rust library and downstream forks like tokio-tar. TARmageddon is rated as a "high" severity bug and can lead to remote code execution through file overwriting attacks.

The AMD Platform Management Framework "PMF" Linux driver is being extended to enable better integration with user-space tooling. AMD SystemDeck is the initial beneficiary of the integration improvements to this AMD platform Linux driver.

The patches posted last week for the AMD PMF driver introduce a user-space interface to enhance the integration with user-space tooling. AMD SystemDeck is the initial user in mind.

The Linux 6.19 kernel coming out in early 2026 will add full support for the Logitech G13 gaming keypad, a device first launched back in 2009. Some functionality has worked in Linux over the past 17 years while full support is only coming to this next version of the Linux kernel.

As covered back in August, a Logitech G13 Linux support patch was posted for the G13 with its 25 programmable keys, mini joystick, and other functionality. There had been out-of-tree support for the Logitech G13 via the open-source community but now this patch is working its way to rhe mainline Linux kernel.

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out today as the newest major feature release for the Plasma 6 desktop. Plasma 6.5 brings many great improvements and continues further evolving this modern, Wayland-focused open-source desktop.

Plasma 6.5 brings rounded bottom window corners, automatic light-to-dark theme switching, KDE System Settings improvements, the hibernate option from the KDE login screen, various accessibility improvements, better HDR display support with a tweaked tone mapping curve, experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support, various other Wayland enhancements, support for overlay planes for better efficiency, a new desktop grayscale option, and countless other small enhancements throughout the Plasma codebase.