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.

Australia’s under-16 Social Media Ban and what it means for Roblox. Which platforms are included, and which are not.

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Developer Roblox Corporation recently introduced a new face-scanning feature as a way to increase child safety protection on its game creation ...

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, ...

Roblox, which averaged 151.5 million daily active users in the third quarter of this year, has been banned by several countries including Iraq and Turkey over concerns about predators exploiting the ...

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people around ...

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People across the world are receiving strange messages on their computers. And it is all to do with Cloudflare, the web infrastructure company that powers much of the internet. When people tried to ...

A major Cloudflare outage has caused chaos across the internet, hitting popular services like X (formerly Twitter), Canva, Discord, and many others. As users try to open these sites, many are running ...