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OpenAI's Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-09-21 20:53:52

OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user’s parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are un

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OpenAI Rolls Out Teen Safety Features Amid Growing Scrutiny

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-09-22 21:53:52

OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user’s parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are un

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Sony is rolling out a PlayStation parental controls mobile app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 06:50:03

Sony is finally catching up to something Nintendo and Microsoft have had for years. The new PlayStation Family app mainly serves as a mobile extension of on-console parental controls. However, parents also get a few extra perks in the mobile version. The app includes a "thoughtfully guided" onboarding process. (I imagine many people will prefer their phone or tablet over the console for that.) Once things are set up, parents can do everything they already could on the console. This includes set

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PlayStation launches new app for parental controls

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-02 14:43:34

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. PlayStation is launching a new PlayStation Family app for iOS and Android to help parents manage their child’s playtime on PS5 and PS4. Parents can already set parental control features directly on a console, but this app gives parents another way to set limits and keep track of what t

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Sony rolls out new ‘PlayStation Family’ parental controls app

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-02 14:20:04

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a dedicated parental controls app called “PlayStation Family” on iOS and Android. The new app features a series of new tools that allow parents to manage their children’s activity on the console, including an activity report, greater visibility into what their children are playing, and the ability to approve extra playtime requests. While Sony has long offered parental controls, the new app brings all of these tools into

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Philips Norelco i9000 Shaver Review (2025): A Close Shave

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-10-03 19:37:00

You never really expect your shaver to have an opinion about you. And yet here I was, receiving a failing grade from Philips Norelco’s new i9000 Prestige Ultra shaver, released this spring. According to a phone app paired to the device, I had apparently been using my shaver wrong. I'd pressed too daintily, whispering along my skin too lightly for an optimal shave. My stats were, in fact, downright abysmal. I had applied optimal pressure just 30 percent of the time. By extension, I had probably

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US sues robot toy maker for exposing children's data to Chinese devs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 22:53:32

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued toy maker Apitor Technology for allegedly allowing a Chinese third party to collect children's geolocation data without their knowledge and parental consent. A complaint filed by the Justice Department, following a notification from the Federal Trade Commission, alleges that Apitor violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) by failing to notify parents or obtain their consent before collecting their children's location information. Ap

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OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-16 04:09:02

OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month — part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress. The new guardrails come in the aftermath of the suicide of teenager Adam Raine, who discussed self-harm and plans to end his life with ChatGPT, which even supplied him with information about specific suicide methods. Raine’s parents have filed

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OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-16 09:10:26

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its simulated reasoning models, following what the company has called "heartbreaking cases" of users experiencing crises while using the AI assistant. The moves come after multiple reported incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to intervene appropriately when users expressed suicidal thoughts or experienced mental health episodes. "This work has already been underwa

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Parents sue OpenAI after ChatGPT allegedly encouraged teenage son's suicide, company announces safety changes

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-10-20 10:03:00

What just happened? The parents of a 16-year-old who killed himself after ChatGPT advised him on methods and helped draft his suicide note are suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman. The company says it is now making changes to its chatbot, including strengthening safeguards and expanding interventions. Adam Raine's parents accuse OpenAI and Altman of "designing and distributing a defective product that provided detailed suicide instructions to a minor, prioritizing corporate profits over child safety

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Miss your landline? Verizon's new Family Line lets 5 phones share one number

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-23 06:05:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Verizon's new Family Line gives you a single shared mobile number. You can share the number across as many as five smartphones. Verizon Family Plus with Family Line will cost you an extra $10 a month. My wife and I got rid of our landline years ago, relying solely on our individual mobile phones to make and receive calls. One feature I miss about our home phone was the way we could shar

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Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-11-06 15:19:54

Three parents—Reni Cao, Xiao Zhang, and Susan Rosenthal—were worried about their children’s screen time, so they left their tech jobs to create a product that encourages children to engage with the real world while also helping them learn a new language. Their move has paid off, as the company recently raised $4.8 million in funding. The newly launched gadget is called Dex and resembles a high-tech magnifying glass with a camera lens on one side and a touchscreen on the other. When kids use the

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CRDT: Text Buffer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 22:38:45

← Back to the algorithm list Published on May 19th, 2024 Collaboratively editing strings of text is a common desire in peer-to-peer applications. For example, a note-taking app might represent each document as a single collaboratively-edited string of text. The algorithm presented here is one way to do this. It comes from a family of algorithms called CRDTs, which I will not describe here. It's similar to the approaches taken by popular collaborative text editing libraries such as Yjs and Auto

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SIMD Binary Heap Operations

news.ycombinator.com Wojciech Muła 2025-11-14 08:09:32

SIMD binary heap operations Author: Wojciech Muła Added on: 2025-01-18 Introduction Binary heap is a binary tree data structure having some interesting properties. One of them is an array-friendly memory layout, achieved by building (almost) complete binary tree. A binary heap keeps at index 0 the maximum value, or the minimum one depending on convention — let's stick to maximum heaps. There is exactly one invariant: a child node, if exist, keep a value less than the parent node. For compariso

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Study Reveals ChatGPT Gives Dangerous Guidance to Teens, Despite Safety Claims

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 02:49:00

A disturbing new study reveals that ChatGPT readily provides harmful advice to teenagers, including detailed instructions on drinking and drug use, concealing eating disorders and even personalized suicide letters, despite OpenAI's claims of robust safety measures. Researchers from the Center for Countering Digital Hate conducted extensive testing by posing as vulnerable 13-year-olds, uncovering alarming gaps in the AI chatbot's protective guardrails. Out of 1,200 interactions analyzed, more th

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The Ending of ‘Weapons’ Is Very Personal to Zach Cregger

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-24 09:20:21

You can’t watch a movie like Weapons and not sense that parts of it come from deep within a person. The portrayals of family, fear, and loss—it’s all heartbreaking and scary even before you get to the chills and thrills. Writer-director Zach Cregger fully admits the film was written as a way for him to cope with the loss of a good friend, but his personal connections to the material go even beyond that. Speaking to Vanity Fair, Cregger talked about some of the big reveals in the final act of th

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DJI’s first robovac features drone tech and a transparent design

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-30 18:33:01

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Following the reveal of its first 360-degree action camera a week ago, DJI has announced its first robot vacuum cleaner. The DJI Romo is available in three versions that are mostly differentiated by their appearance — two use transparent shells to reveal thei

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GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 04:01:09

About Us We're a digital caregiving platform dedicated to helping older and disabled adults live independently and thrive in their own homes—avoiding the need for retirement communities. We adapt on-demand APIs from companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart to meet the unique needs of individuals with cognitive, visual, mobility, and dexterity challenges. We're a highly profitable and fast-growing startup. Our team is fully remote, with a total engineering headcount of 12 (including thi

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DJI goes from drones to dust with launch of new robot vacuum

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-01 11:15:30

DJI TL;DR Drone-maker DJI has entered into a new category with the launch of its robot vacuum lineup. The DJI Romo uses two panoramic cameras along with three lasers to scan for objects while it is cleaning. There are three models, including a transparent Romo P, which looks like something Nothing would design. DJI is a popular name when it comes to drones, video stabilization rigs, and action cameras. But the company recently entered into an entirely new category outside its forte of imagin

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Surveillance-Minded Parents Can Now Hide AirTags In Kids Shoes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 09:00:19

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to bring you a new development from the blossoming world of child surveillance: the sneaker brand Skechers is selling new kids shoes that come with a hidden AirTag compartment, enabling parents to quietly track their meandering progeny at all times. Readers, we're officially Skech'd out. According to the sneaker company, the tiny Apple tracking devices can be slotted into a hole in the heel of the shoes that's accessed by lifting the sole. Th

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Skechers releases kid shoes with a hidden AirTag compartment

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:10:41

Skechers just released a helicopter parent's dream shoe. Find My Skechers is a new line of children's shoes that encourages parents to hide an Apple AirTag under the heel. If tracking them on Snapchat wasn't enough and tracking their smartwatch didn't quite cut it, now you can hide an AirTag on their person. Remember running around the neighborhood with your friends and being told to be home for dinner? Or perhaps biking to and from school? You were figuring out how to navigate the world on you

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What my mother didn’t talk about (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Karolina Waclawiak 2026-01-02 04:43:23

We did not visit Poland often. Only when someone died. I have not been able to bring part of my mother’s ashes to Poland yet because of the pandemic. They sit in my living room, waiting to join my other dead relatives in her village of Bedoń. I live in California, 3,000 miles away from where I grew up, and when my mother couldn’t sleep she’d call me. I always picked up. “I think I know how I got sick,” she said once. My mother had an aversion to being sick and to anyone knowing about it. Her

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What My Mother Didn't Talk About (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Karolina Waclawiak 2026-01-02 10:43:23

We did not visit Poland often. Only when someone died. I have not been able to bring part of my mother’s ashes to Poland yet because of the pandemic. They sit in my living room, waiting to join my other dead relatives in her village of Bedoń. I live in California, 3,000 miles away from where I grew up, and when my mother couldn’t sleep she’d call me. I always picked up. “I think I know how I got sick,” she said once. My mother had an aversion to being sick and to anyone knowing about it. Her

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It’s World Emoji Day – which are your favourites?

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-10 18:34:00

I’m sufficiently old and grumpy to have resisted the use of emoji for a long time, wondering what was wrong with, you know, words – but I did find myself assimilated in the end. The tiny colorful substitutes for vocabulary now make up a growing percentage of our communication, especially since Apple allowed any emoji to be used for tapback reactions .. In fact, we apparently send five billion of the little critters every day. World Emoji Day is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that Jul

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Roblox introduces new safeguards for teens, including age estimation tech

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-11 10:00:00

Roblox announced Thursday that it’s launching new safeguards for people who are between the ages of 13 and 18. The company is introducing “Trusted Connections” to allows these users to connect more freely with people they know, alongside age estimation technology, more privacy tools, and insights for parents of teens. Roblox has come under fire in recent years for how it handles child safety. In April, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to Roblox in response to reports th

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Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal

news.ycombinator.com Dutch Data Protection Authority 2026-01-20 04:38:46

2005–2019 false allegations of fraud The typical red-and-white envelopes used by the Benefits agency, previously part of the Belastingdienst The Dutch childcare benefits scandal (Dutch: kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire or toeslagenaffaire, lit. '[childcare] benefits affair') is a political scandal in the Netherlands involving false allegations of welfare fraud by the Tax and Customs Administration (Belastingdienst) against thousands of families claiming childcare benefits.[1][2] Between 2005 and 20

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Will That Massive ‘Superman’ Revelation Impact the Future of DC?

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-20 14:30:35

James Gunn’s Superman centers on a few key moments. One of the biggest is the message Kal-El, played by David Corenswet, was left with from his Kryptonian parents. If you’ve seen the movie, you know how it plays out. (And, if you haven’t, it’s a pretty big spoiler, so proceed with caution.) Either way, it’s a bombshell revelation that changes not just the character but the entire trajectory of the movie, and so we had to talk to the people most directly affected by it. Recently io9 sat down wit

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Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-01-29 04:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to younger riders with the launch of teen accounts in Phoenix. Teenagers aged 14–17 can now sign up for an account on Waymo One, the company’s ridehail service. The account will be linked to their parent or guardian, but approved teens will be allowed to ride independently without an

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Teenagers can now hail a Waymo robotaxi in Phoenix

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-29 04:00:00

Waymo has started offering teen accounts for families in Phoenix as it works to expand its user base and entrench young riders in the autonomous life. Waymo’s teen accounts will be similar to those offered by Uber, which also allows parents to make teen accounts in Phoenix and other cities across the country. Parents in Metro Phoenix can link a profile to their Waymo One accounts for teenagers aged 14 to 17. The teens will then be able to order their own rides and share trip status with parents

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