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More New Ubuntu 26.04 Yaru Icons

A pair of new icons have been added to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, giving the Resolute Raccoonโ€™s new default apps, a Yaru-y look. A new icon is added for Resources, Ubuntuโ€™s new default system monitor tool. In the Ubuntu 26.04 beta this was using the upstream icon, which didnโ€™t look out of place really but wasnโ€™t using one a Yaru icon set template shape. Thatโ€™s now fixed. Still identifiably a system monitor, but using a circle gauge motif. On a related note, Resources was also updated in 26.04 daily builds to fix a few errant issues, like icons for snap apps [โ€ฆ]

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Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

With age verification/attestation laws down to the OS level enacted by California and being decided upon by other US states, it's been a hot topic of discussion in the open-source world. For the Debian project that is strictly volunteer/community-driven unlike various commercial Linux platforms, they are figuring out how such laws will impact them...

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Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs

A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors...

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AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions. The culprit halving the PostgreSQL performance is known but a revert looks like it may not happen and currently suggesting that PostgreSQL may need to be adapted...

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3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

In addition to 3mdeb firmware engineers porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte EPYC Turin server motherboard, the staff at this firmware consulting company are also porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a modern Ryzen AM5 desktop motherboard. They continue making good strides with that quest for the first readily-available Ryzen desktop motherboard with open-source system firmware...