Two Bay Area chat and gaming companies are being sued for allegedly facilitating child sexual exploitation and abuse. The suit claims San Mateo-based Roblox and San Francisco-based Discord allowed ...

The ROOST initiative aims to provide other companies with free, open-source AI tools to help protect children online. The ROOST initiative aims to provide other companies with free, open-source AI ...

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited ...

The mom of a teen boy who died by suicide after being abused while playing Roblox is suing the popular online game for wrongful death. Rebecca Dallas filed the lawsuit Friday in San Francisco, ...

Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord have formed a new non-profit organization to help improve child safety online. The Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) initiative aims to make core safety ...

Roblox and Discord are being sued by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who died by suicide after allegedly being targeted by “an adult sex predator” posing as a child on the platforms. A wrongful death ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

(Bloomberg) -- Officials in Florida and New Jersey are scrutinizing popular video game apps Roblox and Discord over child safety concerns. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to ...

The mother of a 15-year-old California boy who took his own life is now suing Roblox and Discord over his death, alleging her son was groomed and coerced to send explicit images on the apps. Rebecca ...

Roblox Corp. and Discord Inc. are the latest targets in a wave of lawsuits over social media addiction, in a case alleging an 11-year-old girl was exploited by a sexual predator while playing online ...