Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: The_Burtons/Getty Images) California plans to exclude Linux and most other open-source operating systems from its new age ...

2025 California law requires OS vendors to obtain user age brackets to boost protection Linux community worried that a lack of commercial ownership make it difficult to enforce The change would also ...

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California’s age verification crusade just hit an unexpected speed bump: lawmakers discovered that open source exists. AB 1856, a proposed amendment to the state’s Digital Age Assurance Act, would ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Passed in late 2025, the Digital Age Assurance Act was designed to shift the burden of age verification from individual websites ...