Valve adds credit card-based age checks for UK users to access “mature content” games on Steam; Discord and others are using selfies for verification
UK's Online Safety Act requires blocking minors from accessing mature content Asha Bardon / CBR : Steam Now Needs Your Age & ID Verified When You Buy Mature Video Games Richard Devine / Windows Centra...
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts
The Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification. — That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous. — www.thev...
YouGov: 87% of Britons would back a law requiring developers to prove their AI tools are safe before release and 60% support banning “smarter-than-human” models
Billy Perrigo / Time : Forums: r/ControlProblem , r/artificial , r/OpenAI , r/ukpolitics , r/technology , r/LabourUK , and r/unitedkingdom Forums: r/ControlProblem : Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than H...
Opensignal ranks Japan #1 in G7 mobile reliability experience between July 1 and September 28, followed by France, Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK
Research highlights impact of poor network performance on consumers — Mobile users in the UK had the least reliable experience … Bluesky: @seanfionn . X: @workmj . Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/unitedk...
Founders fear that the collapse of SVB, which had branches in the UK, Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, and more, could wipe out startups around the world
Because startups that banked with SVB don't have access to their funds … Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Silicon Valley Bank collapse is impacting many Indian startups Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Philip Elmer‑D...
UK's FCA warns UK citizens against offers from crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, saying it lacks authorization to market financial products in the country
We believe this firm has been providing financial services … CoinGape : Binance CEO Blocks OKEx CEO, LINK & ETC Price Reach Critical Resistance Levels & More Noah Bradley / CoinGeek : UK's FCA retract...
Ofcom finds 78% of Britons have concerns about harmful online experiences, with 70% of citizens wanting more regulation of social media, up from 52% a year ago
Online Nation is a new annual report that looks … Ofcom : People's online experiences revealed Daily Mail : One in ten Britons still never uses the internet at all, a major Ofcom study published today...