Roblox-Sperre in Russland: Immer mehr Kritik und erste Proteste auf der Straße
Für öffentliche Kritik an staatlichem Handeln gibt es in Russland so gut wie keinen Raum mehr. Trotzdem wird die Kritik an der Blockade von Roblox immer lauter.
Roblox's AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using tech from a company called Persona, faces criticism for misidentifying ages (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/robloxs-ai-powered-age-verification-is-a-…
slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
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🤏 CRAFT printing method makes affordable, realistic replicas as structurally complex as a human hand
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-craft-method-realistic-replicas-complex.html
EU reveals details on 90 billion 'Ukraine Support Loan': https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/eu-reveals-details-on-billion.html
Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"
X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is
slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
The suspect believed to be behind the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada made a Roblox game simulating a mall shooting; Roblox says it removed the account (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/tumbler-ridge-shooter-created-mall-shooting-simulator-in…
Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/indias-emversi…