Age Verification Laws Are Coming for Your OS. Linux Doesn't Care.

Wed, 20 May 2026 21:40:00 -0300

For most of 2025 the age-verification conversation was about porn sites. By the end of the year it had moved up the stack. By 2026 it is at the operating system, and that is where the story gets interesting for anyone who cares about how Linux is built.

Nine US states put age-verification laws in force during 2025 alone: South Carolina (Jan 1), Florida (Jan 1), Tennessee (Jan 13), Georgia (Jul 1), Wyoming (Jul 1), North Dakota (Aug 1), Arizona (Sep 26), Ohio (Sep 30), and Missouri (Nov 30). Roughly half the country now mandates some form of age gate for adult content, social media, or both.

Musk vs. OpenAI Ends on a Technicality — and the Questions Everyone Wanted Answered Are Still Open

Mon, 18 May 2026 19:30:00 -0300

A nine-person jury in the Northern District of California took less than two hours today to unanimously dismiss every claim in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. Musk had sought up to $134 billion in disgorgement, the removal of Altman and Brockman from OpenAI’s leadership, and the unwinding of OpenAI’s October 2025 conversion into an $852-billion public benefit corporation.

He got none of it. The technicality matters more than the headline.

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Age Verification Laws Are Coming for Your OS. Linux Doesn't Care.

Musk vs. OpenAI Ends on a Technicality — and the Questions Everyone Wanted Answered Are Still Open