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 ...

TikTok is making 'upsetting' changes to comply with the social media ban. Here's how it will work

Some tech giants have already started kicking under-16s off their platforms. For others, it’s only a matter of time. What is ...
Hosted on MSN

What is masked email? This new spin on an old practice supercharges security

Online security used to be simple. All you needed was a good password and, in the early days, you didn’t need a ton of numbers, letters, and special characters to achieve that goal. No need for ...
IGN

How to Complete Villainy Wears Many Masks

Villainy Wears Many Masks is one of many Halloween Duties that you can complete during Disney Dreamlight Valley's Trick or Treat Event. It is a quick Duty that you can complete to unlock the Purple ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
Asharq Al-Awsat

Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Slop'

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...
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 ...
BBC

Roblox blocks children from chatting to adult strangers

Children will no longer be able to chat to adult strangers on Roblox - one of the world's most popular gaming platforms - as part of an expansion of its safety measures. Mandatory age checks will be ...