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Roblox.

Roblox Q3 daily active users jump 70 per cent, beating estimates

Roblox reported its best quarter ever, with daily active users leaping 70…
Students using ChatGPT

Professors say students used AI to write cheating apologies

Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign grew suspicious after receiving…
AOL

Italian tech firm Bending Spoons acquires internet pioneer AOL from Apollo

Vintage tech brand AOL is being acquired by Italian technology company Bending…
Video game privacy.

Video game studios ‘scandalously’ violating child privacy laws, study claims

Video game studios are systematically disregarding legal frameworks and exploiting children’s privacy…
AI companion apps

Ex-OpenAI safety lead blasts return of AI ‘smut’ amid safety fears

A former product safety lead at OpenAI has publicly questioned the company’s…
Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow: tech giants deliberately ‘enshittify’ services for profit

Digital rights activist Cory Doctorow claims Google executives pitched a strategy in…
virtual reality

Stanford study finds VR fosters personal attachment to boost climate concern

Immersive virtual reality can make distant impacts of climate change feel immediate…
Doritos

Student handcuffed at gunpoint after AI mistakes crisps for weapon

Police officers drew their guns and handcuffed a student at a Baltimore…
Donald Trump AI video

Trump posts dozens of AI-generated videos as propaganda strategy normalises deepfakes

President Donald Trump has posted AI-generated content dozens of times on his…
A couple on a bench.

People with dark personality traits use touch to manipulate romantic partners

People with narcissistic, psychopathic and Machiavellian personality traits are more likely to…