California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law(tomshardware.com)

667 points by shscs911 1 month ago | 329 comments

Tom's Hardware news article reporting California lawmakers unanimously passed AB 1856, exempting open-source OSes under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from an age-verification law.

Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer(tomshardware.com)

513 points by iancmceachern 5 months ago | 278 comments

Tom's Hardware news article on Louis Rossmann offering to pay legal fees for an OrcaSlicer developer threatened with a lawsuit by Bambu Lab.

Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification(linuxstans.com)

270 points by speckx 2 months ago | 334 comments

Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required(tomshardware.com)

96 points by dragonbonheur 2 years ago | 42 comments

Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream(tomshardware.com)

148 points by croes 2 years ago | 87 comments

Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86(tomshardware.com)

95 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 68 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law(tomshardware.com)

667 points by shscs911 1 month ago | 329 comments

Tom's Hardware news article reporting California lawmakers unanimously passed AB 1856, exempting open-source OSes under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from an age-verification law.

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros(bleepingcomputer.com)

336 points by smig0 1 year ago | 227 comments

BleepingComputer news article about a udisks vulnerability that lets attackers gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk(xda-developers.com)

357 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 197 comments

XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.

Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list(phoronix.com)

223 points by mrkn1 4 days ago | 89 comments

Phoronix news article reporting that Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative accidentally posted several unpatched Linux kernel vulnerability reports to the public LKML.

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)

767 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 572 comments

Xe Iaso's blog note announcing a switch from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux as their main desktop OS in 2026, criticizing Microsoft's recent Windows changes.