Child sexual exploitation lawsuits against Roblox centralized in San Francisco

Nearly 80 lawsuits accusing videogame platform Roblox of knowingly facilitating child sexual exploitation will be centralized ...

Roblox hit with sexploitation lawsuit after online user allegedly attempted to kidnap 5-year-old

The predator allegedly approached the 5-year-old and his brother and mentioned that he was the boy’s friend on Roblox, the ...
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 ...
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, ...
ABC News

1st human known to be infected with H5N5 strain of bird flu dies, Washington state officials say

The person was an older adult with underlying health conditions, officials said. The first human to have ever been infected with the H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials ...
Forbes

First Human Bird Flu Case In The U.S. Occurs After 9 Months. Here’s What To Know

A Washington resident has been hospitalized with a strain of bird flu that has not been seen in humans before, according to the Washington State Health Department. Since 2024, there have been 70 ...
Phys.org

Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...
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, ...
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How to Get the Lethal Rabbit Deviation

In Once Human, Deviations make your life easier by aiding you in combat or working at your Base. Lethal Rabbit is one such Deviation, though prepare to grind if you want him on your team. Here's how ...
The Conversation

If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving

Michael A. Little does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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How to Get Engineering Plastic

After exploring the Iron River region of the map, it'll be time to move on to Chalk Peak. In this area, it's recommended that you're at level 32 before you enter it, but you can go there are any time.