Scammers are exploiting a real Microsoft email address to send phishing links. Here's how to spot it and how to stay safe.

Some age-verification systems are no match for enterprising children, who have found that drawing on a fake mustache with a makeup pencil is enough to skirt the blocks of adult websites. U.K.-based ...

Apple first launched its own age verification feature in the UK back in March, before rolling it out to other countries. The move is intended to comply with a growing trend for age verification ...

The porn giant blocked its content from new UK users in February but says device-based age verification is more secure than third-party sites. Three months after Pornhub blocked access to new users in ...

A hot potato: Plenty of states (and countries) now have age-restriction measures placed on pornography sites, which are often circumvented using VPNs. But a Utah law is about to go into effect that ...

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Editor's take: Google is once again trying to simplify something that was already fairly easy and convenient. Mountain View's latest target is email-based authentication, which is now dropping the ...

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced PlayStation users in the UK and Ireland will be required to verify their age later in 2026 in order to access certain features. The features that will require ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters ...

Anthropic has started rolling out identity verification on Claude "for a few use cases." The company didn't list out those use cases in its announcement, but we've asked it for details and will update ...

VerificarEmails has announced the launch of its next-generation email verification service, achieving up to 99.8% accuracy and setting a new benchmark in the industry. By combining traditional ...