Amazon's cloud unit hit was hit by least two outages involving AI tools in December: FTThe service interruption was an "extremely limited event" when a single service in one of the two regions in mainland China was affected, t...
20 Feb, 2026, 12.11 PM IST
Discord adopts facial recognition in child safety crackdownMessaging platform Discord announced Monday it will implement enhanced safety features for teenage users globally, including facial recogni...
09 Feb, 2026, 11.20 PM IST
Turkey edges towards curbing social media access to minors amid global pushTurkey is preparing a draft law to restrict social media for minors, after a parliamentary report urged age verification and content filter...
06 Feb, 2026, 04.24 PM IST
What parents need to know about Roblox’s new age-check requirement19 Jan, 2026, 05.07 PM IST
Selfie-based age checks boom as govts push for online controlsGovernments worldwide are tightening rules on online platforms, fuelling rapid growth in the AI-powered age-verification industry. Startups...
29 Nov, 2025, 02.12 PM IST
Roblox cracks down: AI age checks block kids from chatting with adults after lawsuitsRoblox is introducing AI age verification for its users. This new system will use facial scans or government IDs to confirm ages. The platf...
18 Nov, 2025, 09.31 PM IST
US stock market today: Why S&P 500 falls while Dow, Nasdaq rise — here’s which major stocks made the biggest moves today?US stock market today ended mixed. The S&P 500 fell 0.3%, dragged by tech losses, while the Dow Jones rose 85 points (0.2%) and the Nasdaq ...
11 Nov, 2025, 10.00 PM IST
Amazon Web Services outage exposes internet’s reliance on few tech giants - Experts call for diversificationA major Amazon Web Services outage recently impacted platforms like Snapchat and Roblox. This incident revealed the internet's deep relianc...
21 Oct, 2025, 07.12 AM IST
Amazon's cloud unit reports outage; several websites downAmazon said on Monday its cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage, disrupting several popular websites and apps across the world inclu...
20 Oct, 2025, 05.33 PM IST
Is Reddit down? Users report app and website failures due to AWS issuesReddit is experiencing a global outage, with users reporting failures across its app and website. The disruption is strongly suspected to b...
20 Oct, 2025, 04.55 PM IST
Amazon Web Services outage impacts major US airlinesMajor airline websites like Delta and United experienced disruptions Monday due to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in its US-EAST-1 reg...
20 Oct, 2025, 03.37 PM IST
AWS outage reason: Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite and other sites down; Check Amazon's official statementAmazon’s cloud services division, AWS, experienced an outage on Monday, affecting several popular apps, including Fortnite and Snapchat, an...
20 Oct, 2025, 03.22 PM IST
Children plug into AI chatbots, leaving reality, parents behindConversational AI apps like Chai and Character.AI let users create and interact with virtual personas, while Roblox is a social gaming univ...
12 Oct, 2025, 09.12 AM IST
Online age checks proliferating, but so are concerns they curtail internet freedomAge verification measures are increasing online, aiming to protect children from harmful content. These checks, involving IDs and face scan...
28 Aug, 2025, 03.56 PM IST
Roblox Getting Shut Down rumours: What legal hurdles is the gaming giant facing?Roblox, a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, has evolved far beyond being just a game. It functions as a vast platform where millions of crea...
21 Aug, 2025, 09.42 PM IST
Roblox rolls out open-source AI system to protect kids from predators in chatsRoblox is releasing an open-source AI system, Sentinel, designed to proactively identify predatory language in game chats, addressing criti...
07 Aug, 2025, 05.52 PM IST
Gamitronics skyrockets Lif3Sim into Web3 spaceRajat Ojha, CEO of Gamitronics, introduces Lif3Sim, a Web3 platform enhancing PartyNite with modular building, SDKs, and Brahamand AI for a...
15 Jul, 2024, 06.28 PM IST