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 ...

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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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
Reuters

Roblox to require age checks to use platform's chat features

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Gaming platform Roblox will require users to verify their age using facial recognition software to chat with other players, a company executive said, with the goal of ...
Player.One on MSN

'Roblox Control' codes December 2025: Play as CTRL employee to investigate a haunted place

If you are a fan of Remedy's iconic "Control" game, the "Roblox" version will feel instantly familiar. This eerie adventure ...
NBC News

Jay Jones prepares to take office — and put his violent text scandal behind him

Democrat Jay Jones, Virginia’s attorney general-elect, won his race earlier this month despite facing a scandal involving years-old violent text messages that threatened to upend his candidacy in the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Roblox promises age checks as Australia's under-16 social media ban looms

Roblox says it will roll out verification checks in Australia and two other countries from early December. The move is likely to coincide with the federal government's social media ban for under-16s, ...
NPR

How To Do Everything

Half advice show. Half survival guide. Half absurdity-fest. (Wait, how does this work again? We're not numbers people.) Each episode, we answer all your burning questions, from how to survive a public ...