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The New York Times

Roblox, Where Kids Game and Chat, Will Analyze Users’ Faces to Verify Age

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...
CNN

Lawsuits claim Roblox endangers kids. New AI age verification aims to block them from chatting with adults

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph ...
The New York Times

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents? By Kevin ...
Gulf News

Roblox chat in the UAE: When will the feature return?

Roblox tells Gulf News they’re rethinking moderation and age checks for millions of kids Inside Roblox’s plan to rebuild trust in the GCC: new rules, new tech, and a very different chat system.
The Bulletin

Visit Bend finds ways to spend tourist taxes on projects that benefit locals, too

When Bend’s vintage Pine Shed building was moved a mile-and-a-half to the corner of Second Street and Hawthorne Avenue in 2023, it had the help of more than the flatbed truck it was riding on. The old ...
NPR

How To Do Everything

Half advice show. Half survival guide. Half absurdity-fest. (Wait, how does this work again? We're not numbers people.) Each episode, we answer all your burning questions, from how to survive a public ...
TechCrunch

Roblox will require all users to perform age checks to access chat starting in January

Following a spate of lawsuits and investigations over its child safety systems, Roblox is going to implement mandatory facial verification for all users who want to access communication features, ...
The Daily Beast

Musk Rushes to Bend the Knee to Trump After Public Shaming

The world’s richest man dutifully fell in line and did exactly as Trump asked after the president talked down to him at a billionaire gathering. Night News Reporter Elon Musk groveled to Donald Trump ...
Houston Chronicle

Thousands of Fort Bend ISD students will be rezoned next year. The district is still deciding how.

Fort Bend ISD parents urged trustees Monday to be more transparent as the district drafts a rezoning plan that will move thousands of students next year. The district decided last year to nix plans ...
PC Gamer

Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put 'common-sense limits' on the age ranges users can chat within

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...