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• To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App

  20-09-2026 13:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  The European Commission "proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised accounts until 15," reports Reuters.
  "Enforcement would rely on a tool Brussels built itself" — a free, open-source age verification smartphone app "that tells a platform whether a user meets an age threshold without revealing their identity..."If passed, the proposed Kids Act would create the world's largest social media access restriction, covering 450 million people across 2
  
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• Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal

  20-09-2026 09:04 via politics.slashdot.org
  Saturday morning President Trump announced he's creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico.
  "I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS," Trump wrote Saturday in what Politico earlier described as "a lengthy Truth Social post on Saturday morning."TRUMP: Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE
  
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• Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees

  20-09-2026 04:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  Mashable writes:
  Flock Safety offered employees voluntary buyouts on Friday, WIRED reported... Without the buyouts, those familiar with the situation suspect the company would have to lay off some of its 1,500 employees.
  WIRED writes that people familiar with the program "say they believe that a significant number of the startup's roughly 1,500 employees may try to depart."
  Flock is making the severance offers as it continues to lose customers... The company has had many of its contracts either
  
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• Developer Abandons 'PS5 Linux' Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit

  20-09-2026 00:05 via games.slashdot.org
  "In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,"
  writes the blog It's FOSS.
  It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5's on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he's "stopping all my work on PS5 Linux" and "stepping away from the PS5 scene."
  stopping work on porting the project to the PS5 Pro, which would've shipped sometime in 2027.Andy Nguyen: After pouring my heart and months of my life into it, including plans to finish PS5 Pro support and
  
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