‘Crossing the Rubicon’: UK wants device-level age verification for sharing nudes
The government’s three-month ultimatum leans on nudity-detection algorithms that have never reliably worked, while Aylo quietly stands to gain if the compliance…
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Two men charged under Take It Down Act as US deepfake law finally bites
The Take It Down Act has its first defendants, but the same critics who warned about over-removal are watching to see whether…
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Kiiroo Keon 2 lands at $239 with Wi-Fi syncing and a ‘finisher mode’ built for speed
Six years after the original Keon, Kiiroo has bumped the numbers and added wifi, but the design barely moves. The more telling…
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Lelo’s first thrusting vibrator costs $239 and promises no ‘jackhammer’ motion
Lelo leans hard on the word ‘jackhammer’ to sell subtlety, while gating its most interesting modes behind the app. Here’s how the…
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Aylo’s Utah lawsuit could have huge implications for VPN porn workarounds
Aylo is suing Utah over a law that would make porn sites responsible for verifying the age of users who mask their…
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Dating appdates (May ‘26): ‘Pixel twins’, Tinder’s iris scans, and a gay hook-up gold rush
While the broader dating app market sheds Millennial users, gay hook-up apps are pulling in serious money. Match Group just put $100…
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Kickstarter performs screeching U-turn on adult content rules after creator backlash
The reversal leans on a familiar villain. Stripe won’t process adult content, Kickstarter ran rules to match, and the creators caught in…
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Kickstarter’s sweeping adult content ban has a sextech problem it hasn’t figured out yet
Kickstarter’s new Mature Content Creator Guide names Stripe directly, an unusually candid admission that payment processors are driving platform policy. But while…
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New York’s sex-positive NSFW club closes its doors, says Stripe finished what the NFT pivot started
Daniel Saynt’s NSFW is asking for donations to cover $10,000 in debt after a decade of exclusive sex parties, a crypto pivot…
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EU bans AI nudify apps under amended AI Act, with December deadline
Most countries targeting deepfake non-consensual content go after individual images or videos. The EU’s AI Act amendment goes after the apps themselves,…
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Apple’s iOS age check gives Aylo the device-level win it lobbied for, but Ofcom isn’t convinced
Aylo is framing Apple’s iOS 26.4 update as proof that device-level age verification works. Ofcom’s response suggests it sees things differently, and…
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Radiant Mobile wants to build a phone network ‘void of porn, LGBT, trans’
Radiant Mobile is pitching itself as the first US carrier to use non-bypassable network-level porn filtering. It’s also blocking LGBT content by…
