A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and ...

At present, Xbox users "can continue to play and enjoy Xbox" without verifying their age. However, starting early 2026, age verification will be required for UK Xbox users with adult accounts to ...

After the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act went into effect on Friday, requiring porn platforms and other adult content sites to implement user age verification mechanisms, use of virtual private ...

More tech companies based outside the UK are starting to use age verification tools. These changes are not just ...

The streaming platform is implementing a facial scan process in partnership with Yoti, which also provides its services to ...

X has run into some issues with age verification, which Musk says are being addressed. "We are working on this," said Musk in ...

If you're wondering why companies like Discord, Reddit, and Microsoft have started rolling out age verification processes lately, its got to do ...

Xbox will be rolling out age verification in the UK as response to the UK government's Online Safety Act laws.

After deindexing many of its games featuring adult content, itch.io is actively looking for new payment processors.

The Online Safety Act is in full swing, and big tech companies are scrambling to comply with the new UK laws. But will this adaptation be as simple as they’re making it out to be?

The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

You'd think that Discord and Reddit would notice thousands of users suddenly resembling Norman Reedus.