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 ...
Techlicious

How to Stop Cookie Jacking and Keep Hackers Out of Your Accounts

Hackers can steal your browser cookies to access your accounts without passwords. Learn the steps that block cookie jacking ...

The Forge—Tips for beginner miners, crafting recipes, and picking your next equipment upgrades

Choices between pickaxe upgrades, ore recipes, and quest objectives get overwhelming in The Forge, but a few tips may be just ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Emmy Awards go to 3 actors from 'The Bear,' but Chicago show loses top award to 'Hacks'

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Arc Raiders Patch Notes Teased a 'Very Hot Fix' for Locked Room Exploits and Now Cheaters Are Getting Cooked

Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios released update 1.4.0 this week, and in the patch notes teased a “very hot fix for the locked room exploits.” It turns out they weren’t kidding.