>Member states reactivate expired chat control regulation. EU Parliament caught off guard before summer break.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ website also changed its landscape.
We just shipped COSMIC System Monitor and wanted to share what went into it.
The goal was straightforward: system monitors tend to get treated as afterthoughts, useful but not given much thought in terms of UI or UX. We wanted to build one that felt like a first-class part of the DE, not a bolted-on utility.
What's in it:
California's Digital Age Assurance Act, signed last October, was written to push age verification down to the operating system level. The definition of operating system provider was broad enough to sweep in open source systems like Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and Arch, which have no company behind them to collect anything at setup.
After privacy advocates and the Linux community pushed back, the Assembly passed AB 1856 this week, 68 to 1, exempting software you are free to copy, redistribute and modify, which sounds great, but the parts we should be talking about:
The bill still has to clear the Senate, and the underlying law takes effect in 2027.
Full write-up and source list: https://s.vp.net/wv0fJ
I'm in the process of taking all the Kubestronaut exams from Linux Foundation. But the PSI secure browser that is used for the exams only works on X11 for Linux.
How does a company so big in Linux etc use a exam system that is limited on Linux.
Also officially they only support Ubuntu :/
Now i need to dual boot my system just to take their exam.
>Colorado’s amendment is a blueprint. Senator Ball suggested similar changes for California’s version of this bill.
>That has not happened yet. It still threatens open source developers in the nation’s largest tech market. The same exclusion needs to apply there. Every state considering these copy-paste “protect the children” bills needs to understand: you cannot age-gate software without a centralized authority. Open source fundamentally breaks that model. That is the point.
>AI features in Ubuntu features will come in two forms: first as a means of enhancing existing OS functionality with AI models in the background, and latterly in the form of “AI native” features and workflows for those who want them.
>Throughout 2026 we’ll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values. By focusing on the combination of education for our engineers, our existing knowledge of building resilient systems and our strengthening silicon partnerships, we will deliver efficient local inference, powerful accessibility features, and a context-aware OS that makes Ubuntu meaningfully more capable for the people who rely on it
>Ubuntu is not becoming an AI product, but it can become stronger with thoughtful AI integration.