Roblox announced a "Facial Age Check" service last week to be required for members to use social features for safety, and it isn't working as designed.

Roblox's attempt to improve child safety has reportedly backfired, with a new AI verification system misidentifying ages and locking users out of chats.

Kids are being identified as adults—and vice versa—on Roblox, while age-verified accounts are already being sold online.

So, you've decided your child can play on Roblox. Now, this is where you'll discover that Roblox actually has several parental controls in place to keep kids safe on the platform. However, parents ...

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Roblox has just suffered a major outage, preventing thousands of users from gaining access to the game as well as its virtual worlds. Reports from the outage tracking website, DownDetector, show that ...

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Officials in Florida and New Jersey are scrutinizing popular video game apps Roblox and Discord over child safety concerns. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to Roblox Corp.