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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
IGN

No, Steam User Data Was Not Compromised In a Hack, Confirms Valve

Valve has dismissed recent reports its Steam platform suffered a "major" data hack, confirming there was "NOT a breach" of Steam systems. While some users were concerned about reports that over 89 ...
CNN

Wall Street banks scramble to assess fallout from hack of real-estate data firm

Hackers stole a trove of data from a company used by major Wall Street banks for real-estate loans and mortgages, setting off a scramble to determine what was taken and which banks were affected, ...
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 ...
Forbes

Logitech Data Breach — What We Know As 0-Day Hack Attack Confirmed

I have always been a fan of Logitech mice, I mean, who isn’t? But I’m not a fan of reading the words “Logitech International S.A. ("Logitech") recently experienced a cybersecurity incident relating to ...
GameSpot

Next Minecraft Update Release Date And Contents Speculation

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The next Minecraft update hasn't been revealed yet, as Mounts of Mayhem was only recently released, on 9 December. Usually, the next Minecraft update ...
Reuters

JPMorgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley client data may be exposed by vendor's hack, NYT reports

SitusAMC said in a statement, opens new tab on its website on Saturday that it had been the subject of a cyberattack on November 12, compromising certain information from its systems and that "data ...