UAE sets minimum social media age at 15, mandates age checks

DUBAI, June 18 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has set a minimum age of 15 for social media use, becoming the first Arab country to introduce such a restriction as governments worldwide seek to ...

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
InfoQ

Ky 2.0 Fetch API Wrapper with Revamped Hooks, Smarter Timeouts, and Built-In Schema Validation

Ky 2.0 is an open-source JavaScript HTTP client built on the Fetch API, featuring significant updates such as consolidated ...
EurekAlert!

An exploration study on the relationship between chronological and perceived age in Chinese women with systematic validation of a new method for perceived age determination

This study enrolled 308 Chinese women aged 15–65 years to explore the relationship between chronological age, perceived age, and facial aging manifestations. Participants underwent expert assessment ...

France can enforce porn site age checks, EU court says

PARIS, June 16 (Reuters) - The EU's top court ruled on Tuesday that France can require pornographic websites based elsewhere ...
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Your PC Might Soon Demand Proof of Age Before Letting You Browse. Here's What to Know

Age verification started with porn and social media. Now, governments are passing laws requiring operating systems to collect ...
Tech Xplore

UK Home Office to use AI age estimation on asylum seekers—how accurate is the technology?

Starting next year, the Home Office plans to use AI-driven facial age estimation to assess the age of asylum seekers. At the ...
The Star

Social media users to verify age using official docs from June 1

KUCHING: Social media users will need to verify their age with government-issued documents from June 1, following changes to the Online Safety Act 2025 by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia ...
Nature

An explainable machine learning model for early pediatric sepsis prediction using cytokine and routine laboratory data

Early sepsis diagnosis in children remains challenging due to nonspecific presentations. This study aimed to develop an interpretable machine learning (ML) model to improve early prediction. The ...
Yahoo Finance

Justices validate SEC’s use of disgorgement in securities enforcement

Thursday morning brought the first three decisions from the April argument session, with two of the three being unanimous. The first of those was Sripetch v SEC, which did just what the argument ...

Apple Bringing App Store Age Verification to Texas as SB 2420 Takes Effect June 4

Apple today said App Store rules in Texas are changing due to the enforcement of SB 2420, a law that adds age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. Apple users located in Texas ...
The Guardian

Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities A coalition of more than a hundred refugee children’s organisations has said ...