Roblox to roll out new age-based accounts, parental controls
“These accounts will more closely align content access, communication settings, and parental controls with a user’s age,” Roblox said. Source link
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Global Demand Destruction: Subsidies, Empty Gas Stations, Rationing, Flight Cancelations, Export Limits, Price Controls
In the past two weeks we have discussed demand destruction as a result of soaring oil prices (here and here), and we are increasingly seeing anecdotal evidence of just that (here is a table from Goldman we showed previously, laying out where demand destruction is most acute). We start, as always, with Asia which has emerged as ground zero of the global energy crisis – as a reminder last week we first presented a map by JPMorgan’s resident commodity expert who how the shockwave from the Iran war spreads across the world, hitting Asia first, then Africa and Europe, before settling on the US, but mostly California. Source According to UBS, a shortage of jet fuel in Asia and very high prices for what is available are now leading to greater flight cancellations. European jet fuel trades around $1713/tonne, up 114% since the war began. Singapore fuel is up around 140%. Both Vietnam Airlines and Air New Zealand have had to cancel flights due to limited fuel supply. Let’s go down the list. 1. Panic buying …
EU PFAS restriction moves closer as ECHA backs controls
The committees, operating under the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), concluded that existing controls are insufficient to manage emissions of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a large class of industrial chemicals widely used for their resistance to heat, water and oil. Their assessments now feed into a broader regulatory process that could lead to one of the most far-reaching chemical restrictions in the EU to date. Scientific committees align on need for EU-wide PFAS restriction The Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) has finalised its scientific opinion, determining that PFAS pose increasing and long-term risks to both human health and ecosystems. These substances are known for their extreme persistence, allowing them to accumulate in soil and groundwater and travel far beyond their original sources. According to RAC’s findings, some PFAS compounds are linked to serious health outcomes, including cancer and reproductive toxicity. The committee concluded that current regulatory frameworks do not adequately limit emissions, strengthening the case for a coordinated EU-level response. The Socio-Economic Analysis Committee (SEAC), meanwhile, has issued a draft opinion that broadly supports a PFAS …
Pennsylvania regulator fines BetMGM over weak fraud detection controls
Pennsylvania gaming regulators have levied a $100,000 fine against BetMGM after concluding the company did not have strong enough safeguards in place to prevent fraud on its online betting platforms. The penalty was approved during the board’s public meeting on March 25 and stems from a consent agreement negotiated with the agency’s Office of Enforcement Counsel following an investigation into BetMGM’s account monitoring and identity verification practices. Fraud rings exploited gaps in identity checks According to regulators, BetMGM’s systems were not strong enough to stop users from opening and operating multiple accounts using stolen or improperly used personal information. Officials pointed to shortcomings in the operator’s Know-Your-Customer (KYC) procedures, which are meant to verify a bettor’s identity before they can place wagers. Investigators said four separate fraud rings exploited those weaknesses over periods ranging from 19 to 34 months. Over that time, the groups created hundreds of accounts using other people’s identifying details and funded them with fraudulently obtained payment methods. operated for approximately 25 months until January 2024 with 1,567 accounts created using personal …
Roblox to introduce new controls in Indonesia to comply with child social media block
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Trump controls the economy’s key levers, from oil to the Fed
US President Donald Trump and Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 19, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | CNP | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi embraced President Donald Trump on Thursday, and not just on policy grounds. The newly elected Japanese leader threw herself into the arms of the U.S. president when he greeted her at the White House. “It is only you, Donald, who can achieve peace across the world,” Takaichi said later as the two met in front of reporters in the Oval Office. Beneath the flattery is an important truth. Trump is singlehandedly shaping the course of global events to a degree that far outstrips even the power he wielded in his first presidency. With his presidency unshackled, his military and other policy decisions are reshaping the economy in real time — and clouding the economic outlook. Trump’s predecessors weren’t willing to make the choice he did in Iran. President Barack Obama’s response …
The House Article | Labour MPs Push For Tighter Controls On Holiday Lets
Illustration by Tracy Worrall 9 min read29 min Short-term holiday lets are a major part of Britain’s tourism industry – but many Labour MPs want tighter controls on their number. Will the government listen? Noah Vickers reports Across the world, politicians are getting tough on short-term holiday lets. Barcelona plans to ban all self-catering rentals from 2028, while in New York it is already illegal to list your property online unless you are staying with your guest throughout their visit. Concerns about holiday lets have grown as their popularity – and importance to tourism economies – has soared. Platforms like Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com have been variously blamed for hoovering up housing supply, hollowing out communities and driving up prices among the few homes that remain. Neighbours, meanwhile, complain about holiday lets being used as party houses, pop-up brothels or drug dens. While still in opposition, Labour promised to establish a “licensing system” for holiday lets, though details of how it would work were never fleshed out. In a 2022 speech, …
Pentagon tightens controls over Stars and Stripes after calling it “woke” : NPR
US soldier Sgt. John Hubbuch of Versailles, Ky., one of the members of NATO led-peacekeeping forces in Bosnia reads Stars and Stripes newspaper on Sunday Feb. 14, 1999. AMEL EMRIC/AP hide caption toggle caption AMEL EMRIC/AP The Defense Department has begun to exert greater control over Stars and Stripes, weeks after a top spokesman accused the independent military newspaper of focusing on “woke distractions.” The Pentagon announced what it calls “modernization” changes this week, in a memo dated March 9 and effective immediately, according to a copy seen by NPR and first reported by Stars and Stripes on Friday. It’s the latest effort by the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to apply extraordinary limits on journalists covering the agency. The memo says that Stars and Stripes will continue to “operate with editorial independence.” However, it also says that the newspaper must immediately begin implementing the Defense Department’s new interim policies and stop publishing several types of content. It also declares that the publication’s content “must be consistent with good order and discipline,” which is …
Power without a throne: how Khalifa Haftar controls Libya | Libya
In July 2025, four of Europe’s most senior officials landed in eastern Libya for an urgent meeting. Italy’s interior minister had watched migrant arrivals surge during the previous six months. Greece’s migration chief was reeling after 2,000 people reached Crete in a single week. Malta’s home minister feared his island was next. And the EU’s migration commissioner was scrambling to rescue an agreement worth many hundreds of millions that was visibly failing to stop the boats. Libya is a place where crises converge. Its 1,100-mile coastline, the longest Mediterranean coastline in Africa, has become the main departure point for migrants heading north. Since Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in 2011, the country has been torn apart by successive civil wars. Russia, Turkey, Egypt and the UAE arm rival factions, and the contest no longer stops at Libya’s borders. From military bases in the south, Russia and the UAE funnel weapons and fighters into Sudan’s civil war, which has driven hundreds of thousands more refugees north towards Libya’s coast. Whoever controls Libya holds leverage over Europe. Yet …
Enterprise MCP adoption is outpacing security controls
AI agents now carry more access and more connections to enterprise systems than any other software in the environment. That makes them a bigger attack surface than anything security teams have had to govern before, and the industry doesn’t yet have a framework for it. “If that attack vector gets utilized, it can result in a data breach, or even worse,” said Spiros Xanthos, founder and CEO of Resolve AI, speaking at a recent VentureBeat AI Impact Series event. Traditional security frameworks are built around human interactions. There’s not yet an agreed-upon construct for AI agents that have personas and can work autonomously, noted Jon Aniano, SVP of product and CRM applications at Zendesk, at the same event. Agentic AI is moving faster than enterprises can build guardrails — and Model Context Protocol (MCP), while decreasing integration complexity, is making the problem worse. “Right now it’s an unsolved problem because it’s the wild, wild West,” Aniano said. “We don’t even have a defined technical agent-to-agent protocol that all companies agree on. How do you balance …