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

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, ...
CNET

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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 ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Two Teens Plead Not Guilty to Charges Over London Tube Hack

Two British teenagers pleaded not guilty to charges relating to a cyber attack on London’s transport network. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 19, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Friday faced ...
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KPD: 3 taken to hospital after KAT bus rear-ends trailer

The bus driver, one city employee and a bus passenger went to the hospital for minor injuries, the Knoxville Police Department said. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says ...
Forbes

AI Hacks AI: Cybercriminals Unleash An AI-Powered, Self-Replicating Botnet

Hackers use AI to generate attack code targeting AI infrastructure, and then getting compromised AI systems to find others to attack, researchers warn in a new report. Hackers have started using large ...
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, ...
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 ...