Columbus Dispatch

Roblox addresses predators with new age-verification and chat rules

Roblox is introducing new safety features to limit interactions between adults and minors on its platform. Users will need to verify their age with a government ID or facial scan to use chat features.
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, ...
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 ...
Business Wire

Roblox Expands Facial Age Checks for Communication, Setting New Safety Standard

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roblox Corporation (NYSE: RBLX), an immersive gaming and creation platform, today announced it is in the process of rolling out age-based chat, following its ...
The Hill

Roblox steps up age checks, will group younger users into age-based chats

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people ...
New York Post

Roblox sued for enabling ‘sick and twisted freaks’ to sexually exploit kids on wildly popular platform

Texas has sued Roblox for allegedly enabling pedophiles to groom and expose children to sexually explicit content, turning the wildly popular online video game into “a digital playground for predators ...
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 ...
collider

A New Banner Soars Over Disney To Save Adam Driver's Star Wars Movie After Shareholder Meeting [Exclusive]

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...
Comic Book Movie

Fans Pay For New Banner To Fly Above Disney Asking The Studio To Make THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO

Kylo Ren lives... in the minds of fans, who want to see his solo movie get made. In October, the Star Wars fandom was sent into a frenzy when Adam Driver revealed he had developed a concept for a ...
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Roblox Stock (RBLX) Slips Despite New Safety Features

Roblox (RBLX) stock was down on Tuesday after the video game company announced updates to its safety standards to better protect children who use its gaming platform. The company now requires facial ...
Nature

First new type of malaria treatment in decades shows promise against drug resistance

Promising results from a new malaria drug offer hope against emerging drug resistance in Africa. In a clinical trial, ganaplacide–lumefantrine (GanLum) cured 97.4% of participants, outperforming an ...