Roblox features millions of such games, many of them generated by the very children who play them. Grow a Garden — essentially a remake of the legendary time-waster FarmVille — recently smashed ...

A popular Roblox game has become a way for players to bypass the game’s chat filters. Roblox has amassed a platform of over 90 million daily active users, and the company has been working to make the ...

Built to spot grooming and child endangerment through chat pattern analysis. Sentinel scans over six billion messages daily in real-time. Trained on past violations of Roblox’s child-endangerment ...

Roblox is releasing an open-source AI system, Sentinel, designed to proactively identify predatory language in game chats, addressing criticisms and lawsuits concerning child safety on the platform.

The AI system has detected and reported 1,200 cases to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children this year. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven ...

Roblox will soon allow unfiltered chatting, but only to players whose age has been verified by an AI tool. In a recent blog post, Matt Kaufman, chief safety officer for the widely popular gaming ...

Picture this: It’s 10:37 PM on a Tuesday in April 2025. You just got eliminated from Natural Disaster Survival again, and all because your friend didn’t warn you about the volcano. Wouldn’t it be ...

Roblox now uses facial scans to let 13+ users unlock unfiltered chats through the new Trusted Connections feature. Teens must pass the age check or verify with ID to chat freely, while parents get ...

What just happened? It's not just porn sites and UK Reddit that are introducing facial scan/government ID-based age verification. Roblox, the online game creation platform popular among minors, is ...

The “next step” to make talking to others safer in-game? One of the things that we’ve talked about over the last few months is that Roblox may be a “great game” in terms of its overall composition and ...

Roblox, the popular gaming platform, has revamped the way it will handle player communications, particularly for those under 18. As detailed in a blog post, the company says it's changing "Friends" to ...