Roblox sued by Southern California families alleging children met predators on its platform

The San Mateo, Calif., company has faced scrutiny over child safety concerns but has been rolling out new features to protect ...

Hidden in plain sight: Mom discovers 'calculator' app on child's phone was vault for ...

A Nassau County mother found an innocent-looking calculator app. She was horrified to find out what it was really hiding and ...
Opinion

Irish schoolkids are being exposed to grooming & sexual abuse on Roblox gaming platform ...

ROBLOX is one of the world’s most popular online gaming platforms for primary school–aged children. However, it is facing renewed scrutiny over the safety of its youngest users. Last month, a ...
Android Authority

ChatGPT's Voice Mode moves into chats for faster, more natural conversations

ChatGPT’s Voice Mode is now available directly within chats. It was previously open in a separate voice chat interface. With the update, Voice Mode will now display a live transcript as you converse ...
Thurrott

ChatGPT’s Voice Mode is Now Built Into Chat Conversations

OpenAI is changing how voice conversations work in ChatGPT by integrating them right into chat conversations. Until now, Voice chats were a separate mode showing a blue orb screen, but the new ...
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.
progameguides

Roblox Age Checks for Chat Explained – How the New Rules Work (and What You Need to Do)

Roblox is introducing major changes to its age verification system in an effort to combat inappropriate behavior and make the platform safer for younger users. Naturally, this has raised a lot of ...
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 ...
KOAT Albuquerque

Roblox introduces age-based chat to enhance child safety

VEHICLE. THE COMPANY THAT OWNS THE POPULAR GAMING PLATFORM ROBLOX, CONTINUES TO FACE LAWSUITS AND BACKLASH. SOME CLAIM THEY AREN’T DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT KIDS. ALIYAH CHAVEZ JOINS US IN STUDIO AFTER ...
KAAL TV

What the Tech? Roblox’s Bold New Safety Move: Your Child’s Selfie Is Now the Price of Chat

(ABC 6 News) – Roblox, one of the world’s most popular games for children, is taking a controversial new step to combat the pervasive issue of online predators in its chat rooms. After facing repeated ...