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Roblox Blocks Children From Chatting To Adult Strangers

Par :BeauHD
20 novembre 2025 à 23:40
Roblox is rolling out mandatory facial age-verification for chat features to prevent children from communicating with adult strangers. The platform will restrict chat to verified age groups, expand parental controls, and become the first major gaming platform to require facial age checks for messaging. The BBC reports: Mandatory age checks will be introduced for accounts using chat features, starting in December for Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands, then the rest of the globe from January. [...] Rani Govender, policy manager for child safety online at the NSPCC, said action had been needed because young people had been exposed to "unacceptable risks" on Roblox, "leaving many vulnerable to harm and online abuse." The charity welcomed the platform's latest announcement but called on Roblox to "ensure they deliver change for children in practice and prevent adult perpetrators from targeting and manipulating young users." The platform averaged more than 80 million daily players in 2024, about 40% of them under the age of 13. [...] Matt Kaufman, chief safety officer for Roblox, told a press briefing the age estimation technology is "pretty accurate." He claimed the system can make close estimates of "within one to two years" bracket for users aged between five and 25. Currently it can be used voluntarily by anyone in the world.

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US Employee Well-Being Hit New Low In 2024, Survey Reveals

Par :BeauHD
20 novembre 2025 à 23:03
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: New research from the Human Capital Development Lab at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School analyzes the state of the American workforce in 2024 and shows an overall decline in employee well-being compared to years prior. [...] The latest research confirms a decline in general employee well-being since 2020. In 2024, employees reported the lowest well-being scores on record, as opposed to 2020, when employees reported the highest well-being scores. "In some cases, the lower scores represent a reduction in employee flexibility for either flexible hours or remote work," the latest research states. "In other cases, these scores could be related to challenges associated with greater economic shifts related to inflation or productivity needs." In prior years, well-being scores for managers and employees were comparable to one another, and during the pandemic, managers and top leaders often reported lower scores due to the extra burden of that time period. However, one of the most noteworthy shifts the current data shows is a rise in well-being scores for managers and senior leaders, while well-being for employees and individual contributors decreased in 2024. Rick Smith, director of the Human Capital Development Lab and author of the study, says that the increase in well-being scores for managers could reflect the return to regular operating conditions since the pandemic, which may be indicative of the distance between leadership and workers. "What we're seeing is a growing gap between how leaders and their teams experience the workplace," said Smith. "Managers may feel a return to normalcy, but that doesn't mean their employees do. Leaders must be cautious not to assume their own well-being reflects the broader workforce at their organization. The data shows a potential disconnect, and that's a signal for action."

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A Marseille, l’Etat refuse de voir dans l’assassinat de Mehdi Kessaci un « échec collectif »

En visite commune, jeudi, le ministre de l’intérieur, Laurent Nuñez, et celui de la justice, Gérald Darmanin, ont mis en avant les progrès dans la lutte contre le narcotrafic, tout en appelant à « faire beaucoup plus ».

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Le ministre de la justice, Gérald Darmanin, et le ministre de l’intérieur, Laurent Nuñez, à Marseille, le 20 novembre 2025.

Vaccins et autisme : la principale agence sanitaire américaine promeut une fausse théorie

A la suite d’une mise à jour de leur site Internet mercredi soir, les Centres de prévention et de lutte contre les maladies évoquent désormais des liens supposés entre les vaccins et l’autisme, un revirement impulsé par le ministre de la santé, Robert Kennedy Jr, et vivement condamné, jeudi, par les médecins et scientifiques.

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Le secrétaire d’Etat à la santé, Robert Kennedy Jr, lors d’une conférence de presse sur un rapport des CDC sur l’autisme, à Washington, en avril 2025.

COP30 : un incendie, rapidement maîtrisé, sur le site à Belem met à l’arrêt les négociations

Le feu a démarré sur le stand d’un pays près de l’entrée mais a été très vite circonscrit par les pompiers et n’a fait aucun blessé. Alors que les difficiles négociations doivent s’achever vendredi soir, cet incendie fait planer de lourdes incertitudes sur leur issue.

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Un agent de sécurité demande aux personnes présentes de quitter le site de la COP30, jeudi 20 novembre 2025, à Belem, au Brésil, alors qu’un incendie s’est déclaré sur le site.
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