If you have kids, one of the most dangerous objects in your home is the screen you may be using to read this column. We can lock our doors and set the alarm system, but digital dangers are ...

TL;DR: Ethical hacker Ryan Montgomery exposes the 764 group, a large satanist cult targeting children online through grooming, extortion, and coercion to produce explicit and self-harm content. Using ...

Roblox continues to widen its lead in the metaverse and social gaming space. Daily active users surged to 151.5 million, up 70% year over year, and 39.6 billion hours of engagement, indicating the ...

Attacks from The Deer, The Bat, and all manner of creepy cultists are distracting enough, but don't forget your main goal in 99 Nights in the Forest: Find the lost children. The Roblox survival ...

Look, I get it, I really do. When a CEO of a billion-dollar tech company like Roblox turns up for an interview at the New York Times, and the interviewer selfishly obsesses over whether the platform ...

New York Times podcast hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose have published a "tense" interview with Roblox CEO David Baszucki when he was questioned over the company's child safety measures. In an ...

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 ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology.

A new series of age checks and chat groupings are coming to Roblox that are meant to keep children from falling prey to predators. Despite its massive popularity among young gamers, Roblox has come ...

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 ...

As various countries continue to crack down on online safety, Roblox has confirmed that it's rolling out a new age verification system for players who want to use the in-game chat feature. The system ...