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World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its shift from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 17, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: AI Backlash gets violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot is coming The…

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Turkey launches review of how social media platforms handle children’s data as it prepares new rules including identity verification and age restrictions (Turkish Minute)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 22, 2026

Turkish minute: Turkey is launching a review of how social media platforms handle children’s data, as it prepares new rules…

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Lyft launches teen accounts in the U.S. more than two years after Uber, with security features like PIN verification, real-time tracking and audio recordings (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support | Ping Wu, CEO of Cresta Grit explores what…

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Roblox’s AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using technology from a company called Persona, faces criticism for age misidentification (David Gilbert/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 13, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Can we build a better social network? The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin…

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Cambridge University analysis reveals how cheap SMS verification to create online accounts fuels global influence and manipulation campaigns (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 13, 2025

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Cambridge University analysis reveals how cheap SMS verification to create online accounts fuels global influence…

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Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its first-of-its-kind location verification technology in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 10, 2025

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its first-of-its-kind location verification technology in recent months, which could show in which country…

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Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, after rolling out to seven countries and California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 22, 2025

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming…

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1kosmos, which provides identity verification and authentication software without password, has collected a B series of $ 57 million, including a line of credit of $ 10 million (Duncan Riley / Siliconangle)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 13, 2025

Duncan Riley / Silicion:: 1kosmos, which provides an identity verification and authentication software without password, increased a B series of…

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A look at tensions between Meta, Apple and Google on the question of whether applications or application stores should check if a user is a minor, because states work on age verification bills (Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 26, 2025

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:: An overview of tensions between Meta, Apple and Google on the question of whether applications or…

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Google, Amazon, Cohere and Mistral intensify efforts to reduce Hallucinations of AI via technical corrections, data quality improvements and fact verification (Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 22, 2025

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial time:: Google, Amazon, Coere and Mistral are efforts to reduce AI hallucinations via technical fixes, data…

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Melania Trump slides down and tries to get Jimmy Kimmel fired

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a better OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45 million Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a valuation of $250 million (Sofia Chierchio/Forbes)

A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw its request, but the judge refused (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with hybrid 30B-A3B MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family has seen more than 50 million downloads in the past year (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to expand, enhance and crop photos (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Browsing: verification

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its shift from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Turkey launches review of how social media platforms handle children’s data as it prepares new rules including identity verification and age restrictions (Turkish Minute)

Lyft launches teen accounts in the U.S. more than two years after Uber, with security features like PIN verification, real-time tracking and audio recordings (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Roblox’s AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using technology from a company called Persona, faces criticism for age misidentification (David Gilbert/Wired)

Cambridge University analysis reveals how cheap SMS verification to create online accounts fuels global influence and manipulation campaigns (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its first-of-its-kind location verification technology in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in (Reuters)

Tinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, after rolling out to seven countries and California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

1kosmos, which provides identity verification and authentication software without password, has collected a B series of $ 57 million, including a line of credit of $ 10 million (Duncan Riley / Siliconangle)

A look at tensions between Meta, Apple and Google on the question of whether applications or application stores should check if a user is a minor, because states work on age verification bills (Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg)

Google, Amazon, Cohere and Mistral intensify efforts to reduce Hallucinations of AI via technical corrections, data quality improvements and fact verification (Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times)