Age verification laws don’t seem to be stopping. California, Colorado, and Brazil, all have some version of the same requirement where OS providers must collect age data at account setup and expose it to apps through a real-time API. Governments call it
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In a post on X (formerly Twitter), GrapheneOS has made its position on age verification laws clear; it won’t comply, regardless of where the demand comes from. The team goes on to state that its OS and services will remain available worldwide,
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Age verification is sadly here to stay, as the politicians pushing these laws don’t seem to care much about what people actually think. Open source projects have been left to deal with the fallout, either by starting compliance work, taking a public
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Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, one of the most widely used Linux distributions around. Beyond just shipping an OS, the company provides long-term security maintenance and support for a massive portfolio of open source packages, and its products span everything from
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LLMs and AI agents are everywhere right now, and if you’ve been putting off learning this stuff, Humble Bundle has a new Packt collection that makes it hard to justify waiting any longer. The LLM and Agentic AI Career Accelerator Bundle packs
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LibreOffice is the go-to for people who want a capable, no-nonsense office suite that does not phone home or push subscriptions in their face. It handles everything from text documents and spreadsheets to presentations and databases, and it does so without asking
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Germany has strictly standardized its digital document requirements. The Deutschland-Stack (in Deutsch), the country’s new sovereign digital infrastructure framework, names just two document formats that public administrations are allowed to use: ODF and PDF/UA. Proprietary document formats from Microsoft like .doc, .ppt,
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