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Oh dear - ARC Raiders was logging your private Discord chats
6 Mar 2026 at 8:58 pm UTC

Updated with the statement Discord sent over.

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Many more US states are planning or already have operating system age verification laws
6 Mar 2026 at 12:16 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaThank God US laws don't apply to the rest of the world... yet!

A common thing people say - but the reality is the opposite. If you want to do any kind of business or service in the US, the laws very much do apply.

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Many more US states are planning or already have operating system age verification laws
6 Mar 2026 at 10:19 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: GoEsrThey're basically inventing a "pirate" industry where open-source software will have to implement these measures, then the community will create patches (cracks) to remove them. 😆

Ah, but you've touched on a good point actually. With open source - nothing stops people taking a distro and doing a spin with a patch to remove it all huh? How will they deal with anything like that...

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California law to require operating systems to check your age
5 Mar 2026 at 12:36 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyApparently Canonical is proposing changes that would force ALL Linux users to verify their age during setup, too... I did post a link to a video discussing this last night; but it needed to be approved by Liam and from what I can see, it doesn't look like he's approved it.

No, Canonical are not currently proposing that. They haven't made any decision, their statement is in the other article.

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EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
5 Mar 2026 at 12:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pete910It will be to run game servers, Not client. Don't get ya hopes up people !

Well, no, that wouldn't make sense. They wouldn't use anti-cheat on the server builds because that's their servers, this is all to do with the client-side stuff.

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Proton Experimental gets improvements for Vermintide 2 and more controller support for launchers
2 Mar 2026 at 9:13 am UTC Likes: 2

It has been working for a while but you needed an opt-in Beta. Seems you no longer need that.

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Steam Survey for February 2026 shows a big swing to Simplified Chinese
2 Mar 2026 at 9:11 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: fenglengshunChinese New Year, as usual.

We do usually see a drop every February, but nothing like this, it's usually quite minor.

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The Boomer Shooter Blueprint bundle is an epic deal with Selaco, CULTIC and more
25 Feb 2026 at 6:56 pm UTC Likes: 2

I'm curious what the issue is with that? It's so they can ensure people actually buy games they want and actually redeem them, instead of sucking up cheap keys to put up on a reseller.

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Steam Deck now out of stock in the EU in addition to USA, Canada and Japan
20 Feb 2026 at 11:47 am UTC Likes: 2

Update: the article original noted both models were out out stock across all of Asia, it was amended as that's just for Japan. Also made it clearer it's the EU.

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Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. release 28 "Boiorix" is live
19 Feb 2026 at 4:50 pm UTC Likes: 12

I'm not going to quote everything they say, but I do suggest instead of instantly thinking like that, you read the blog post for the part you're interested in. They give clear reasoning to explain what was done.

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