OpenAI says teen users spend less than 15 minutes a day on ChatGPT on average, and fewer than 2% use it for more than three hours at a stretch. In tests using more than ten accounts, Common Sense Media found that conversations about suicide, self-harm or eating disorders did not trigger timely parental alerts. OpenAI says account linking and alert activation can take several hours.
Common Sense Media found that ChatGPT for Teens still invited teens to keep talking in some mental health crisis conversations. When the risk involved a teen’s relationship with the chatbot itself, it rarely directed them to an adult. OpenAI disputed the testing methodology, saying some tests may have taken place before parental controls were fully activated.
According to AFP, a Tokyo court ruled in voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda's case against TikTok that imitating his voice without permission infringed his rights, marking the first recognition in Japanese judicial practice that a person's voice is legally protected. The court partly accepted his claims but did not order TikTok to remove the videos because the account had been closed.
Reddit says it will stop supporting RSS on November 13, citing its use for large-scale data scraping and automated abuse. Public API access will end in March 2027; AI assistants and other products that rely on it to read discussions will need a commercial agreement with Reddit to continue accessing the data.
China’s market regulator has approved the OFD-H national standard for electronic medical records, effective April 29, 2027. Once healthcare providers adapt their systems, they can view and verify records from other institutions. The standard supports both human viewing and machine reading; collecting records across regions for phone access remains a planned, gradual application.
Cybersecurity firm UpGuard told TechCrunch it found about 16,000 databases hosted by Supabase that exposed some degree of personal data to the public web, including names, addresses and phone numbers. Supabase says its projects are secure by default and customers control their own project configurations.
Security researcher Patrick Wardle found that an undisclosed Muse voice configuration setting could be changed by an app or script running with the user’s permissions. An attacker could use it to intercept voice commands and an authentication token, then control the signed-in account and its connected apps. Meta says it has removed the setting in a hotfix.