For the better part of a year, Linux developers had a deadline hanging over their heads: January 1, 2027, the date California’s new age verification law would require every operating system sold or used in the state to start asking people for their birthday. This week, state lawmakers made sure […]
Monthly Archives: August 2026
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Linus Torvalds spent the better part of a day chasing a bug that had been sitting in the Linux kernel for two years. The actual fix came down to one line of logic. Finding it took eighteen kernel boots, twenty four debug patches, and an AI assistant that kept telling […]
HB5511 is officially about TikTok and Instagram. Read past the press release and it’s also about your operating system.
A single line in a technical specification is turning into one of the messiest fights in the EU’s push for digital identity. The document lays out how age verification apps for the EU Digital Identity Wallet are supposed to work, and buried inside it is a hardware requirement that has […]
Linux just did something it hasn’t done before. According to Statcounter’s numbers for July 2026, Linux now accounts for 7.53% of desktop operating systems worldwide. That’s not a typo, and it’s not one good month getting blown out of proportion by an enthusiastic corner of the internet. It’s the latest […]
For the first time, you can install genuinely open-source firmware on a modern AMD Ryzen desktop board, and it boots Ubuntu 26.04 without any workarounds.