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 […]
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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 […]
Remember when California tried to force every operating system to become Big Brother? Turns out they might have accidentally given Linux a hall pass. AB-1856, the amendment that could save your freedom to compute without the state watching, just cleared committee and heads to a vote in June. And buried […]