🏃Here's why Google's pushing you to set up Health Connect on your Android phone

Google recently started sending notifications to get users to enable Health Connect, Android’s health and fitness data aggregator.

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🎨 One-click theme packs are coming to Pixel phones thanks to Android's new Theme Manager

To enable theme pack support on Android, Google has created a new Theme Manager feature that builds off Material You.

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🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-theme-manager-3606395/

📞 Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere

The Pixel's October 2025 update has an undisclosed security fix that broke the app that enabled VoLTE and VoWiFi in unsupported regions.

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🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-ims-broken-october-update-3606444/

📱LineageOS releases Android 16 update despite challenges with Android source code

LineageOS 23.0 is here for over 100 different devices and brings new versions of Aperture and Twelve, a new TV launcher, and more.

Here's what you need to know👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/lineageos-23-release-3604073/

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More complicated subject but worth understanding. Your ISP is just another cog in the data collection machine.

https://www.makeuseof.com/dns-encryption-protocols-arent-equal-isp-hopes-you-dont-know/

Interesting move by Amazon.

https://news.itsfoss.com/amazon-vega-os/

The loss of so many Intel maintainers continues to be concerning.

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/USB4-Maintainer-Leaves-Intel

MX Linux often thought as a great compromise for those that did not like systemd. Going forward there is a change in how that will be delivered; fresh installs will be offered which init to run at install. For those of you who run MX Linux let us know if there are losses of software usability under SysVInit.

https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-25-infinity-enters-public-beta-testing-based-on-debian-13-trixie

Interesting

If you remember there was a legal scuffle between Arm and Qualcomm. It seems that Qualcomm may be trying to corner the market before it's competitors can.

https://linuxiac.com/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-pushing-deeper-into-ai/

This is not a breach of Red Hat Enterprise Linux itself. However the notable parts to pay attention to is that brokers are appearing as a middle man for ransom groups.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-data-breach-escalates-as-shinyhunters-joins-extortion/

⚡️China’s 10-Year Plan for AI Dystopia

China’s State Council has unveiled AI+, a sweeping initiative to saturate every layer of society with artificial intelligence. By 2027, they want 70% penetration of “intelligent terminals”—devices with universal connectivity across vehicles, phones, homes, robots, and wearables. If successful, the next phase pushes toward 90%, moving the nation into what they call an “intelligent economy.”

This isn’t just about technology. The plan calls for AI to dominate scientific discovery, industrial production, consumer behavior, education, and even governance. Public security systems will monitor natural persons, digital identities, and robots alike. AI-driven disaster response, welfare management, and social experiments are all on the table.

China isn’t experimenting—they’re engineering a future where AI is everywhere, all at once.

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