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 ...
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 ...
Wired

He Hunted Alleged Groomers on Roblox. Then the Company Banned Him

Last month, Kentucky attorney general Russell Coleman announced the details of yet another lawsuit against Roblox over suspected pedophiles lurking on the hugely popular gaming platform. While doing ...
Hosted on MSN

How attackers exploit malicious, vulnerable software libraries to launch stealth attacks

Andrzej Jarmolowicz, Operations Director at Cybershure. Modern cyber attacks seldom begin with loud, disruptive breaches. Instead, attackers increasingly rely on malicious or vulnerable software ...
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 ...
Nature

Putting nature on the balance sheet: how to account for the ecological costs of our actions

Jacob Hochard is an associate professor of conservation economics at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. An economist might celebrate a nation achieving record economic growth on one day, yet ...
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, ...
Mashable

Want to chat on Roblox? You'll need to verify your age.

Roblox chat will only be available to users whose age is estimated. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Dima Berlin / iStock / Getty / Roblox The gaming platform Roblox will begin using age ...
ZDNet

Use AI browsers? Be careful. This exploit turns trusted sites into weapons - here's how

Researchers disclosed a HashJack attack that manipulates AI browsers. Cato CTRL examined Comet, Copilot for Edge, and Gemini for Chrome. Could lead to data theft, phishing, and malware downloads.
cbs12.com

Roblox to scan gamers' faces to verify age to protect children

Crash on Turnpike in Boca Raton closes all northbound lanes A crash on the Turnpike in Boca Raton has closed all northbound lanes on Thursday morning. Florida woman accused of sending child sexual ...
Liliputing

Lilbits: iPad-style multitasking on iPhones, and maybe Lenovo didn’t leak any Android PC plans after all

Last week news started to make the rounds that Lenovo has published a web page spelling out the pros (and many cons) of PCs running Android. But Lenovo has since removed that website and claimed that ...
GamesRadar+

Fortnite channels its inner Helldivers 2, adds ragdoll-like tumbling, which is either very funny or incredibly embarrassing depending on who you ask

Fortnite Fortnite Chapter 7 was designed to take the game "back to its battle royale roots," even though it didn't actually start as one, and one lead is "both in awe and hugely proud of this team" ...