KANE'S TECH TIPS:
SUNDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 2025
Welcome to another low down on all the latest Tech news, Tips and Tricks to help you keep up to date with the latest from the Tech world!
You can hear the feature On Air on a Sunday with Mark, and throughout the week.
Roblox Age Checks
Children will no longer be able to chat to adult strangers on Roblox - one of the world's most popular gaming platforms - as part of an expansion of its safety measures.
Mandatory age checks will be introduced for accounts using chat features, starting in December for Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands, then the rest of the globe from January.
Roblox has faced criticism for allowing youngsters to access inappropriate content and communicate with adults, and is being sued over child safety concerns in several US states.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lp5pn9e1qo
Source: BBC News
Cloudflare Downtime Affected Apps & Websites
A number of high-profile websites, including X and ChatGPT, went down for many people on Tuesday, due to problems affecting major internet infrastructure firm, Cloudflare.
Thousands of users began reporting issues with the sites, as well as other services, to outage monitoring site Downdetector shortly after 11:30 GMT.
Cloudflare said the "significant outage" occurred after a configuration file designed to handle threat traffic did not work as intended and "triggered a crash" in its software handling traffic for its wider services.
"We apologise to our customers and the Internet in general for letting you down today," it said in a statement.
It said while the issue had been resolved, some services might still encounter errors as they came back online.
A wide range of apps and websites were impacted by the outage.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o
Source: BBC News
Home Heated By Shed Data Centre
An Essex couple have become the first people in the country to trial a scheme that sees them heat their home using a data centre in their garden shed.
Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers.
Data centres are banks of computers which carry out digital tasks. As the computers process data, they generate lots of heat, which is captured by oil and then transferred into the Bridges' hot water system.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rpy7envr5o
Source: BBC News
App Of The Week
This weeks app of the week is called Me+ Lifestyle Routine
This app combines routine building, mood tracking, and self-care reminders into one neat package.
The interface is clean, colourful, and well thought out. Everything was laid out clearly, making it easy to jump between routines, mood entries, and habit check-ins.
This app is free to download on IOS and Android Devices
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=daily.planner.routine.habits
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/me-lifestyle-routine/id1596403446
🛡️ Security Corner 🛡️
Many people love playing games online. In fact, an estimated 1.2 billion of us are regularly logging on, signing up and playing online.
Unfortunately, whenever money or personal data is changing hands online, criminals can be watching, looking for some way to turn the situation to their advantage.
Your gaming account (or accounts) should be well protected with a strong password, ideally one which you don't re-use on other accounts. You should also turn on 2-step verification (2SV) if available which will provide you with an extra layer of protection to prevent someone hacking into your account.
