California's age-verification bill has passed in its legislature — but with its open-source carve-out intact, reports the blog Linuxiac:



Back in May, we reported that California lawmakers amended Assembly Bill 1856 to carve open-source operating systems out of the state's upcoming age verification requirements. Three months later, that exemption survived the legislative process intact, and the bill has cleared both chambers of the California Legislature... sending the measure to Engrossing and Enrolling, the final legislative preparation stage before it can be presented to Governor Gavin Newsom...

For operating systems that are covered, AB 1856 builds on California's Digital Age Assurance Act, which is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027. Under the current text, when an operating system runs on a device and includes an account setup feature, its provider must offer an interface that asks the account holder for the birth date, age, or both, of the device's primary user during account setup. The operating system must then be capable of providing a digital age signal to covered application stores and application developers through a reasonably consistent real-time API. Instead of exposing a precise birth date, the signal identifies one of four age ranges: under 13, 13 through 15, 16 through 17, or 18 and older... Covered application stores must request the signal from the operating system and make it available to developers.

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Berlin expected to outline response to incident this month widely speculated to have been coordinated by Russia

The German government is imminently expected to announce who it believes was behind a suspected drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane earlier this month and to outline its response to the incident in coordination with its European and Nato partners.

The chancellor, Friedrich Merz, told the public broadcaster ARD in an interview on Sunday evening: “We are in the process of concluding the investigations; we have reached a broad agreement within the federal government on how we will respond, and we will make this clear in the coming days. It won’t take much longer.”

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People hit the streets of west London as Europe’s largest street carnival marks its 60th year, celebrating Caribbean history and culture

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David ‘Jacko’ Jackson has aimed to raise awareness of brain injuries, with fellow runners sharing their stories

The key for David “Jacko” Jackson is to take each stage nice and gently. “It’s not about running fast,” he said. “It’s more like the hare and tortoise story. Slow and steady – and do it again tomorrow.”

So far, so good. Jackson, a former professional rugby player who retired after a traumatic brain injury, is nearing the end of an extraordinary bid to run 100 ultramarathons (50km, or about 30 miles) in 100 consecutive days.

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With a teal roof and gabled windows, a colonial-style dollhouse is at the center of Isaiah Lee’s practice. In his current body of work, the Chicago artist renders childhood toys that transition from objects of play and nostalgia into uncanny, animate entities. Set in the scaled-down rooms and landscape around the miniature home, Lee’s scenes channel the wonder and theatrics of the adolescent imagination, while confronting the ways these early experiences permeate one’s life.

Born into a fundamentalist Christian family in Missouri, the artist grapples with the contradictions within the teachings of his upbringing, alongside the lived reality of being a Black man in the U.S. In “Shepherd I,” a tiny green astronaut evokes Moses as he leads livestock through the house, while an enormous skull and concealed man loom in the shadows. The vast differences in scale within a single scene gesture toward the outsized impact of some encounters and how our memories have the capability of exaggerating the scope.

Narrative ripples throughout Lee’s paintings, with “Romeo and Juliet” and “Juliet” capturing two different points of view of the same scene. The artist’s ability to shift perspectives is a compelling world-building technique and, like his heavy use of shadow, positions each composition as an illuminated nook amid a vast network of the unknown. “They arrive at a moment when it feels necessary to return to childhood as a way of uncovering who we are and what good we are still capable of bringing forth,” he adds.

Darkness pervades many of the pieces, not necessarily in a sinister way but instead to suggest the omnipresence of the unknown and a sense of underlying fear. He writes that “faith cannot simply be abandoned but must be understood as an inheritance wrought into the body and the imagination.”

Lee is preparing for a solo exhibition this fall at crosswalk in Chicago. Titled A Thief in the Night, the show nods to the Biblical notion that people need to repent in order to be “right with the Lord.” “For many, this warning creates a persistent sense of unease, fostering the belief that no amount of faithfulness is truly enough,” the artist says. “Life becomes a race against time, a race that cannot be won.”

If you’re in Chicago, you can see some of Lee’s works through November 1 in an exhibition celebrating the city’s emerging artists at Hyde Park Art Center, and A Thief in the Night opens on October 16. Find more on Instagram.

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De aanhef van de levende Singer is vanaf nu 'mama'. Actrice Bonnie Blue stelde haar leven in het teken van het maken van geluksvogeltjes - zo vree ze eens met 1.057 romantici achter elkaar, die thuis trots konden opscheppen dat ze heipaal nummer 832 waren, of misschien wel 988, of vooraan in de rij stonden als nummertje 107. De laatste keer vree ze met circa 400 hengsten en als de inseminatie dan is gelukt ben je niet zwanger, maar drachtig. Inmiddels is Bonnie Blue bevallen van een kind. Een onschuldig kind, in de wieg gelegd als psychopaat, maar gelukkig is er een lieve en volstrekt normale moeder om hem te behoeden voor al het kwaad.

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date stamped on slide, July 1963, from a box labeled "Models, Amherst, 1963"

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De ondernemingsraad (OR) van de Rotterdamse vervoerder RET is bang dat het bedrijf verder gaat bezuinigen op sociale veiligheid. Aanleiding voor die vrees is een proef met qr-codes in de tram voor mensen die zich onveilig voelen. "Verdwijnt de conducteur straks uit de tram?", vraagt de OR zich af.

Bij een woningoverval aan de Scheerderij in Maassluis is maandag een oudere dame bestolen. De dader ging ervandoor met haar ketting.

Nationwide average temperatures in July surpassed the previous record set in 2010, Russia’s national meteorological service said.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het Rode Kruis heeft op giro 6868 tot dusver 1,6 miljoen euro aan donaties binnengekregen voor noodhulp in het rampgebied in Nepal, na de zware overstromingen van vorige week. "Dankzij deze steun kan de hulporganisatie duizenden mensen direct helpen met schoon drinkwater, voedsel, dekens en hygiëneproducten", laat de hulporganisatie weten.

Naar de langere termijn wordt ook gekeken. Zo biedt de organisatie gezinnen hulp bij het herstel van hun woningen en inkomsten. Het Rode Kruis wil de komende tijd ook mensen helpen door vanuit mobiele klinieken gezondheidszorg te bieden.

Volgens het Rode Kruis zijn ongeveer 93.000 mensen getroffen. Meer dan 6000 huizen zijn geheel verwoest. "Soms reikt de modder tot aan de tweede verdieping en zijn woningen compleet opgeslokt", citeert het Rode Kruis de eigen medewerker Fleur Verwer vanuit het rampgebied. "Mensen proberen de modder uit hun woningen te scheppen en zijn op zoek naar hun vermiste familieleden. Hele dorpen zijn onleefbaar geworden."