Valve launches Steam Families with improved game sharing and better parental controls

Jason Cipriani/ZDNET If you have multiple gamers in your family, you’ll want to pay attention to how Valve has overhauled Steam’s family sharing system. Starting today, the new Steam Families system gives you not only more parental controls, but makes some big changes to how games can be shared. Essentially, Families combines Steam’s two current … Read more

Australia Extends Paid Parental Leave, Remains Below Average

Most developed countries today offer some amount of support for new parents to take time off work just before and after childbirth or adoption. Australia’s Senate just passed legislation on Monday to extend its total paid leave offered to new parents to 26 weeks, instead of the current 20 weeks, beginning in 2026. For parents … Read more

Steam debuts Steam Families with new parental controls

Today, Steam launched Steam Families, an overhaul of its family sharing system. The new system gets rid of limits on how many people can play games from one library, makes buying games for your kids easier, and adds new parental controls and sharing options. Before, you needed to use two different systems — Family Sharing … Read more

Meta is rolling out tighter teen messaging limitations and parental controls

Meta announced today that it is rolling out new DM restrictions on both Facebook and Instagram for teens that prevent anyone from messaging teens. Until now, Instagram restricts adults over the age of 18 from messaging teens who don’t follow them. The new limits will apply to all users under 16 — and in some … Read more

Ja Rule Gives Parental Advice to Ashanti, Teases Direction of New Music

Play video content TMZ.com Ja Rule is excited to be an uncle once again — through Ashanti and Nelly’s pending bundle of joy, and he thinks parenthood will be a cinch for them. TMZ Hip Hop caught up with Ja Thursday in NYC, where he told us he’s been tracking the news updates on his … Read more

Parental Advisory: This Chatbot May Talk to Your Child About Sex and Alcohol

The highest ratings went to AI services for education like Ello, which uses speech recognition to act as a reading tutor, and Khan Academy’s chatbot helper Khanmigo for students, which allows parents to monitor a child’s interactions and sends a notification if content moderation algorithms detect an exchange violating community guidelines. The report credits ChatGPT’s … Read more

Set your parental controls: A combined Disney+ and Hulu app is on the way

Disney/ZDNET If you’re a Disney+ subscriber, you might notice a pretty big change in the next few months. When you go to pull up Blueyor The Mandalorian, you might have to scroll past Only Murders in the Building and The Handmaid’s Tale. Even though Disney purchased most of Hulu back in 2019 (it acquired the … Read more

Censorship, Gore, And The Parental Advisory Sticker

Frank Zappa and Dee Snider testified earlier than the US Senate concerning the Filthy Fifteen – Picture: Mark Weiss/Getty Photos It has been a long time since 15 songs – the so-called “Filthy Fifteen” – have been declared obscene in America. The designation of a Filthy Fifteen was a part of a backlash marketing campaign … Read more

Methods to arrange parental controls in your PS5

At present’s children are tech-savvy at a really younger age, however you may not need your youngsters sitting down in entrance of a PS5 with out some guardrails in place. Sony has constructed parental controls proper into the software program for its console, they usually can be utilized together with the consumer profiles characteristic to … Read more

Apple confirms Display Time bug in Parental Controls

Apple has admitted to a Display Time bug that has mother and father upset. Based on The Wall Avenue Journal, mother and father have been complaining on Apple boards and Fb teams that Display Time settings aren’t “sticking,” which means children have had limitless entry to units. Display Time settings seem to reset to default … Read more