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Gamers in the United Kingdom have found a surprisingly simple way to bypass online age verification checks now required by law on some websites using just a video game. An X user named Dany Sterkhov appears to be the first to discover the hack. On July 25, he posted that he had bypassed Discord’s age verification check using the photo …

HBO has handed a Season 4 renewal to Julian Fellowes’ period drama The Gilded Age. The pickup comes ahead of the Season 3 finale on August 10, which will wrap some storylines while setting up more drama and intrigue. The Gilded Age, which leans into the New York theater community for its strong — and expansive — ensemble cast, has …

Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images Virtual private network (VPN) apps have become the most downloaded on Apple’s App Store in the UK after sites such as PornHub, Reddit and X began requiring age verification of users on Friday. VPNs can disguise your location online – allowing you to use the internet as though you are in another country. It …

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Enforcement of the UK’s new online safety rules started on Friday, forcing a variety of platforms to roll out mandatory age verification tools for Brits. We already know that the age-gating checks are easy to bypass with a VPN, but what we didn’t know is that the face scanning tools used by platforms like Reddit and Discord can also be …

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 NASA is testing a new nuclear fuel, americium-241, that could revolutionize deep space exploration. 🔋 The Stirling generator design allows for continuous operation with minimal wear, even in the event of a convertor failure. 🌌 With a half-life of 432 years, americium-241 presents a viable alternative to plutonium-238, promising longer-lasting power. 🌍 NASA’s collaboration with the …

Viewing adult content now requires age verification within the United Kingdom. The UK’s Online Safety Act went into effect late last week, causing many to see prompts to scan their own face or scan an ID. Several popular websites began preparing for the age verification requirement earlier this month, including Reddit. But with the Online Safety Act enacted and being …

Tom Lehrer cutting a cake backstage at the Palace Theatre in London in 1959. Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Evening Standard/Getty Images Tom Lehrer cutting a cake backstage at the Palace Theatre in London in 1959. Evening Standard/Getty Images Tom Lehrer, a popular musical satirist who rose to fame in the 1950s and ’60s before returning to a …

Of all the dirty, rotten, down-low things Netflix has done, providing a gaping pit of gold coins for Adam Sandler to cannonball into like Scrooge McDuck might be the worst so far. When left to his own devices, Sandler’s style of comedy isn’t exactly — how do I put this kindly — pleasant to ingest in massive quantities. The comedian …

A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday. The BBC reports that around 6,000 porn sites have said they will start verifying users’ ages to comply with the Online Safety Act, although at least one major site was not requiring age checks as of Friday morning. The law also requires that online …