Their kids made friends playing games online. The relationships took a dark turn

The popular gaming platform Roblox is facing a growing number of lawsuits from families across the country who say the company has failed to protect children from sexual predators who use the platform ...

Roblox CEO says child safety is industry-wide issue, plans tools to keep bad actors off platform

Roblox CEO David Baszucki defends the gaming platform's child safety protections amid mounting lawsuits and explained what ...
Commonwealth Journal

KY attorney general sues gaming platform, alleging Roblox failed to protect children

Republican Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is suing the online gaming platform Roblox for allegedly failing to protect children from an “online environment in which child predators thrive, ...
Android

Android’s New Verification System May Limit Offline App Sideloading

Google’s upcoming developer verification system for Android may prevent users from sideloading apps without an internet connection. This change, discovered in a recent beta, raises concerns that a ...
CoinTelegraph

Why we Bitcoin — Vietnam closes 86M bank accounts that fail biometrics

Bitcoin advocates are jumping up and down again after reports that Vietnam has closed 86 million bank accounts that failed to comply with a facial biometric authentication mandate. Several Vietnamese ...
Android Authority

As Android developer verification gets ready to go, here's a new reason to be worried

Google is putting together its framework for Android developer verification, connecting dev names to even sideloaded apps. Recent additions to the Android SDK offer a little insight into how the ...
GitHub

SSL Certificate Verification Failed when trying to fetch mcp tools

I was trying to add a MCP. When I was using the streamable http server params and was trying to fetch mcp tools from a url of https it was giving the belo error: httpx.ConnectError: [SSL: ...
primetimer

Roblox to implement new age verification features for all users amid child safety concerns

Roblox has decided to extend age estimation technology for all users on September 3, 2025. Notably, the latest announcement intends to prioritize child safety, which has been creating concern for a ...
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Louisiana Lawsuit Forces Roblox’s Hand: New Features Aim to Protect Kids

Parents who've been following Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's high-profile lawsuit against Roblox are now seeing a direct impact on the gaming platform, most popular with children. In a ...
The Record

Roblox to verify ages of all gamers who use chat and text features

Roblox says that by the end of the year it will expand its age estimation program to anyone using its chat and text features. The gaming site, which hosts 112 million users daily, has been dogged by ...
Movieguide

Roblox to Expand This Feature to Make Platform Safer. Will It Work?

Roblox announced plans to extend the reach of its age-estimation technology to all users by the end of the year to allow the platform to have a general idea of how old every single player is. “Today, ...
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'Roblox' Requires Mandatory Age Verification to Access Text, Voice Chats

The latest announcement from Roblox confirms that there will be a mandatory age verification on the platform for all users, regardless of age. Text and voice chats on the platform will temporarily be ...