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Roblox is an online platform and game engine where users create, share, and play user-generated games, monetized via Robux, its virtual currency.
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Meta will let games built in its two new AI tools, Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, play inside Facebook and Instagram feeds with no download. For a Horizon platform that has struggled to draw players, the feed slot matters more to creators than the prompt box.
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Roblox now pays out one creator balance at three DevEx rates, $0.0035, $0.0038 and $0.0054 per Robux, according to a developer's published rate module. A one-constant earnings panel errs high or low depending on the balance's mix of pre-September-2025 and 18+ Robux.
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The designation attaches to a capability. Any assistant that answers prompts from the open web can be read as a search engine, and the four-month clock starts at notification, a date fixed by that filing.
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ChatGPT is the first AI assistant pulled into the Digital Services Act. It was filed as a search engine, which puts annual risk assessments, independent audits and researcher data access on OpenAI Ireland by the end of November.
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Job lures arrive by email, romance by social media, tech support by phone, across three months of one vendor's telemetry. The counts measure delivery; conversion, where the training math gets harder, isn't part of what's tracked.
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Meta's second action against Ofcom this year disputes the categorisation that attaches extra transparency, user-control and fraud-advertising duties to two of its services. Ofcom's online safety director told peers the regulator is operating in a highly litigious environment.
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The judicial review turns on qualifying worldwide revenue, the figure behind Ofcom's annual fee and a fine cap of 10 percent of global turnover. The substantive hearing is set for October 2026, after the first invoices are expected.
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An unofficial Dungeon Lootr companion runs every class, item and build through a Zod schema at import, then cross-checks the whole dataset. A guide pointing at a class that was never defined fails at build.
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The builder shipped 30 Roblox guide sites on Next.js and Vercel in a month, then audited them and found invented code tables across most of the network, plus a canonical tag pointing at a domain he never registered.
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Prosecutors in Ukraine's Lviv region say three men spent about a year harvesting Roblox session cookies and running them through software that valued each account before sale. They put the potential take at $480,000.
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Roblox told its developer conference that creators earned roughly $1.7 billion in the year to 30 June 2026. The median of the 42,000 people in its payout program got about $1,500 of it, and the tier averages show where the rest went.
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The new 2D tools and the prompt-driven Build app arrive with daily actives down 7% sequentially at 123 million, third-quarter bookings guided lower for the first time in four years, and over-18s at 27% of age-verified users.
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Elastic documented four programs that stay in the user profile after the stealer wipes itself. The credential rotation that closes the ticket does not restore the update services or clear the Defender exclusions.
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Roblox told its developers conference that browser play arrives on Chrome by the end of 2026, and that offline solo play, switched on per experience by creators, follows in mid-2027.
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The prompt-to-game tool Build is now live in three countries, and the standalone app builds that would take Roblox titles off roblox.com were announced at the developer conference with no ship date.
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Henna Virkkunen told Axios that America gets its AI guardrails through courts and state law rather than statute, which means a team waiting for federal clarity is really waiting for a settlement that arrives as a product spec.
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The longest section of the deal is about telling adults from children, and both available techniques collect more from everyone: behavioural inference on accounts already being logged, or a face scan before you can send a message.
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The deal with 48 states writes AI age estimation into an audited schedule with a twelve-month deadline. Every consumer platform now has a written description of what regulators will call adequate.
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Three attorney general offices published three different guaranteed floors. The rest of the money only moves if rivals who were never sued adopt Meta's teen rules and pay a matching share.
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A compiled timeline of identity-verification failures since 2011 puts nearly half the incidents in the category where what leaked was the face or the document itself.
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