
Roblox defends expanded age‑checks after parents raise concerns over errors
With 144m daily users, the gaming company is extending its tech to introduce two age‑specific accounts.
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With 144m daily users, the gaming company is extending its tech to introduce two age‑specific accounts.

The State IT Agency’s request covers the outright purchase of personal devices, peripherals, consumables and related services.

We send the voice of the dead across space as an act of continuity and care, while on Earth we tally the bodies. Which do we choose to become?
Four people are sleeping 19,000 miles from the moon when the voice of Apollo 13’s commander arrives.
“Hello, Artemis II. This is Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. Welcome to my old neighborhood.”
Flynn Coleman is an international human rights lawyer,...

Experts say natural kratom may offer benefits and blame synthetic derivatives for surge in poisonings noted by CDC
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows that kratom poisonings have soared in the US, but experts say this is probably due to synthetic derivatives like 7-OH, and that blanket kratom bans could harm people using natural kratom to aid pain management...

A draft environmental scoping report has recommended Thyspunt, between Oyster Bay and Cape St Francis, as the preferred site for Eskom’s proposed 5,200MW nuclear plant. Thyspunt is already owned by Eskom and has better access to the power grid than rival site Bantamsklip, partly because wind farms have already brought new powerlines to the area. […]

Water filters promise the moon—but only some back up their claims. Here are the best filtered-water pitchers for those who prefer their water free of heavy metals and forever chemicals.
Will some programmers become “AI babysitters”? asks long-time Slashdot readertheodp. They share some thoughts from a founding member of Code.org and former Director of Education at Google: “AI may allow anyone to generate code, but only a computer scientist can maintain a system,” explained Google.org Global Head Maggie Johnson in a LinkedIn post. So “As AI-generated code becomes more accurate...

Social media platforms need to stop young users wasting hours doomscrolling, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.

Fear of job loss is driving some employees quietly to sabotage AI projects, a global study has found.

The challenge with agentic AI is no longer choosing a model and building agents, but the complexity of managing the infrastructure to run thousands of agents securely.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

The financial watchdog investigates online trading platforms, citing high investor losses and conflicts of interest, while ramping up supervisory tech capabilities.

Introduction The digital world is growing at an unprecedented pace, and so are the threats that target it. Every day, organizations face new risks from increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Traditional security approaches, while helpful in the past, now struggle to keep up with the speed and complexity of modern attacks. As a result, many businesses are […]

Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED reveal how unprepared local authorities were.

The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It’s an attempt optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.

Tech-driven border management curbs illegal crossings and leads to arrest of more facilitators aiding illegal migration.

Stafford Masie steps down as African Bitcoin Company chairman, but stays on as executive director amid a broader board reshuffle.

SportyTV said on Monday that it has acquired pay rights to broadcast all 104 matches of the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

AgileSP operates multiple points of presence inside Teraco’s data centres – JB1, JB3, DB1, CT1 and CT2.

PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them
A new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently introduced by the NHS has been announced.
Researchers at London’s Institute of Cancer Research and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin have developed the...

Direct-to-device technology threatens to pit satellite and mobile operators against each other in the years ahead.