age verification

OpenAI’s plan to add a dedicated “adult mode” to ChatGPT — a feature intended to let age‑verified adults request erotica and other mature content — has been delayed again, with the company telling reporters it will prioritize broad improvements to ChatGPT’s core intelligence, personality...

California, Colorado and New York have pushed a radical idea into lawmaking: move age checks out of websites and apps and into the operating system itself, forcing device vendors and OS maintainers to collect users’ ages at setup and broadcast a persistent “age signal” to apps and stores — a...

Discord’s decision to make most accounts “teen by default” and roll out mandatory age verification has done something unusual: it exposed how dependent millions of communities are on one product, and how thin the options are when you need voice, screen-sharing, moderation, and community features...

Discord's decision to push its global age‑verification rollout into the second half of 2026 — and to pause while it retools vendor relationships and adds lower‑friction verification options — is a rare and revealing moment for a platform that has tried for years to square user privacy, community...

Discord’s latest safety pivot has detonated into one of the service’s biggest community crises — a global “Teen‑by‑Default” setting that funnels every account into a restricted experience unless the platform’s age‑assurance systems say otherwise, and a verification flow that can include...

For organizations wrestling with where to place scarce IT dollars in the new fiscal year, a striking message is emerging: modernizing endpoint hardware to support on-device AI — the class of machines Microsoft brands as Copilot+ PCs or AI PCs — can materially change the economics of AI adoption...

Discord’s recent data-safety catastrophe — in which government IDs and age-verification images supplied by users were exposed after attackers compromised a third‑party support system — has ripped the thin veil off a problem every platform adopting the UK’s Online Safety Act must now confront...

Valve’s storefront has quietly moved the goalposts: games with mature themes that would once have been allowed into Steam’s Early Access program are now being refused entry outright, a change that has developers scrambling and reignited a broader fight over who — platforms, payment networks...

Microsoft's Xbox division has quietly begun nudging UK players to prove they are adults — and made clear that failure to do so will blunt the console's social engines beginning in early 2026, a direct consequence of the UK's Online Safety Act and the regulator's demand for "highly effective" age...

I would like to join a, or several chat rooms. I have not done this in a few years and it is not like I rememer it. It is kike joining the foreign legion, with whatis this and what is that, then some goofy dame comes on and wants you to sign up for something and prove you age, which doesnt...

A demo has been released for the highly anticipated Aliens vs. Predator game. At the moment the demo only appears to be available via Steam. Aliens vs Predator - Age Verification