How you lose control of your phone with a single WhatsApp click

Gurgaon: A 78-year-old man losing Rs 23 crore after being shown an AI-generated video of \"CBI officers\" is not an isolated ...
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 ...

What happens when you kick millions of teens off social media? Australia’s about to find out

In the next two weeks, social media platforms will start deactivating accounts for children under 16 in Australia under new laws designed to reduce harm online. Other countries are watching, but some ...
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Australia bans under-16s from social media in world-first crackdown

Australia banned under-16s from social media in a world-first crackdown on Wednesday, declaring it was time to "take back control" from formidable tech giants. "We will take back control." ...
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This Massive Swap Meet In Maryland Proves $20 Still Goes A Seriously Long Way

The 8th Ave Flea Market in Glen Burnie, Maryland is that rare retail unicorn where bargain hunting still feels like striking gold in your own backyard. In an era when inflation has us checking our ...
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 ...
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, ...
BBC

How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts

Dozens of high-engagement accounts on X have been accused of misleading users following the roll-out of a new transparency feature that shows user locations. Users on the social network seized on ...
TechCrunch

X begins rolling out the ‘About this account’ feature to users’ profiles

Elon Musk’s X has begun rolling out a new feature for user profiles that will display information about the account, including where it’s based, how many times the account has changed its username, ...
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, ...
Business Insider

X erupts after the platform reveals the locations where accounts are based

X announced that it will display the region in which an account is based. The information is visible under the new "About This Account" section. X removed the feature for some accounts on Saturday.