California lawmakers unanimously approved a major exemption for open-source operating systems, leaving Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android facing the 2027 age-verification deadline.
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Linus Torvalds spent 18 reboots and 24 debug patches chasing a black screen bug in Intel's Xe driver, with an AI that kept wanting to quit.
Illinois signed HB5511 on July 31. Past the TikTok and Instagram headlines is a mandate for operating systems, with no exemption for open source.
A GitHub fight over the EU's age verification app reveals a hardware rule that could shut out Linux, custom ROMs, and anything that isn't Apple or Google.
Linux desktop share just hit 7.53% worldwide. Here's what's driving the jump, and why the number is messier than it looks.