Missing Teen with Intellectual Disability May Have Been 'Lured' Away from Home via Roblox

A search is underway for a missing teen who may have been lured away from home through a popular online game. Jahmez ...

Roblox's Age Verification Is a Joke

Roblox has a new AI age-verification system aimed at protecting kids and teens during chats. Users can verify their age using ...
TheGamer on MSN

These parents wish Roblox never existed - why can't this game ever shake its association with predators?

Roblox's rollout of age verification is a disaster, but it's also facing lawsuits over its issue with online predators - ...
Destructoid on MSN

Roblox is now scanning kids’ faces with AI to protect them from predators, and to no one’s surprise, it isn’t working properly

Two days after Roblox introduced a new age verification process across all platforms, the results are creating problems for ...
The New York Times

Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘What We Can Know’

Ian McEwan’s latest novel, “What We Can Know,” is many things at once: It’s a science fiction imagining of a future world devastated by climate catastrophe; it’s a literary mystery about a scholar’s ...
NBC Sports

Joe Burrow “can’t see” leaving Bengals in 2026, but “you think about a lot of things”

Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow said after last Sunday’s loss to the Ravens that his frustrated mood at a press conference last week had nothing to do with dissatisfaction about the team’s direction, ...
Variety

As Hollywood Navigates Roblox and Fortnite, What’s Working — and What Isn’t

Here’s a stat that might shock anyone who isn’t the parent of a Gen Alpha kid: As of October 2025, online gaming platform Roblox boasted more than 151 million global daily active users. For ...
Wall Street Journal

Can’t Sleep? Try Listening to This Man Talk About Torture and Death

Dennis Long discovered “Forensic Files” when Court TV showed a marathon of the docuseries in the early 2000s. “I would stay up the whole time even if it meant a few cups of coffee,” says Long, who ...
Times Union

Commentary: We need to talk about the Roblox problem

Kentucky’s attorney general calls Roblox a "playground for predators." A Florida family alleges their child was coerced into sending sexually explicit content on the site. A lawsuit is filed against ...
The Conversation

People who talk with their hands seem more clear and persuasive – new research

Giovanni Luca Cascio Rizzo 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 ...
CNET

Teens Can't Talk to Character.AI's Chatbots Anymore. Here's What They Can Do Instead

Stories with visual elements and a choose-your-adventure vibe are the first new feature to replace open-ended conversations. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy ...
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

The feature will be rolled out globally by January 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on Google ...