Neowin News Feed for: Suicide

AI chatbots are causing suicides, psychosis, and grooming children, AGs warn Microsoft

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:10:01 +0000

Microsoft and other firms were warned by US AGs that their AI chatbots are linked to suicide, psychosis, and child grooming, demanding 16 safety safeguards. Read more...

ChatGPT will soon alert parents if it detects a teen experiencing 'acute distress'

Usama Jawad — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:48:01 +0000

OpenAI is implementing parental controls in ChatGPT in order to protect the mental well-being of young users, who it also refers to as "AI natives". Read more...

Google Search now provides better suicide prevention information in the U.S.

Paul Hill — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:32:01 +0000

Google has updated its search results with a new hotline for suicide prevention. It also said that it has rolled out similar hotline numbers to other countries, including Costa Rica and Pakistan. Read more...

Bill Gates on meeting Epstein: It was a huge mistake

Usama Jawad — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:14:01 +0000

In his latest interview, Bill Gates has reflected on his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, saying that he has major regrets about his interactions with the disgraced financier and sex offender. Read more...

UK to introduce laws to improve safety on social media

Paul Hill — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:28:01 +0000

The UK government is looking to introduce new laws that will apply to social media platforms. The laws will seek to crackdown on terrorist and child sexual abuse material as well as misinformation. Read more...

Saudi Arabia bans 47 video games including GTA V

Usama Jawad — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:18:01 +0000

It appears that Saudi Arabia has banned 47 games, including extremely popular ones like GTA V and The Witcher 3 in response to two suicides linked to the viral "Blue Whale Challenge" game. Read more...

YouTube cuts ties with Logan Paul following insensitive suicide forest video

Usama Jawad — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:04:01 +0000

It appears that YouTube has cut ties with Logan Paul following his disrespectful Japanese suicide forest video, removed him from a lucrative ad platform, and put his YouTube Red shows on hold as well. Read more...

The Ashley Madison hack: a confusing battle between good and evil

Justin Luna — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:56:01 +0000

Ashley Madison is a website that helps encourage the act of adultery, and for its illicitness, hackers took it down. But isn't infiltrating a system illegal as well? Read more...

Two people commit suicide over Ashley Madison hack

Justin Luna — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 05:46:01 +0000

In a recent report by the Toronto police, two people associated with the user data leak of Ashley Madison have committed suicide. They also warn about a scam that claims to delete Ashley Madison data. Read more...

Teenager killed himself after $700 bill for Xbox games on mother's credit card

Andy Weir — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:58:53 +0000

A 13-year-old was "genuinely stunned" about how much he had spent on Xbox games when his mother confronted him about a £420 ($700) credit card bill - and later hanged himself. Read more...

Ask.fm revises safety policy after user suicide

Paul Ferson — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:57:32 +0000

After the suicide of an Ask.fm user relating to abusive questions, the site has announced a new safety policy, to come into effect in September. The change provides more straightforward reports. Read more...

Teen commits suicide after being blackmailed on Skype

Phi Ha — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:52:45 +0000

After he asked his Twitter followers to Skype him, Daniel Perry believed he was talking to a girl his age. Events took a wrong turn when they threatened to release the conversation unless he paid. Read more...

Aaron Swartz's family blame US attorneys and MIT for his suicide

John Callaham — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:35:08 +0000

The family of the late Internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz have released an official statement, blaming US attorneys and MIT for contributing to Swartz's suicide this weekend. Read more...

Aaron Swartz commits suicide

Andrew Stevenson — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:16:21 +0000

It is with great sadness that Aaron Swartz, the co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification and one of the three Reddit co-owners, has taken his own life at the age of relatively young 26. Read more...

Woman commits suicide live on Facebook

Christopher White — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:07:54 +0000

A woman, upset that her boyfriend didn't visit her on her birthday, committed suicide while chatting with friends on Facebook and posted pictures during the entire process. Read more...

Workers in Apple iPad factories forced to sign anti-suicide contracts

Christopher White — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:15:42 +0000

Do you think you have a difficult job? Try working for Foxconn in an Apple iPad/iPhone factory in China. As reported by The Daily Mail, in addition to working nearly 100 hours of overtime in... Read more...

Suicide prevention takes a forward step

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:30:53 +0000

In a move to curb the alarmingly high rate of youth depression and suicide, social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter could be scanned for signs of "at risk" behaviour. Researchers at New... Read more...

Foxconn worker commits suicide after losing iPhone prototype

Sam Symons — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:12:58 +0000

Apple's a company well known for secrecy; you'll know so after having read the article we posted about it not too long ago. Though, can this obsession with secrecy actually be harmful to a human... Read more...

Teen commits suicide on live video site

Damien Reynolds — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:50:57 +0000

We have all heard of Cyber Bullying where a group of users online would taunt and stalk helpless users until they break down online and even offline but this is a case where it went... Read more...

Ministers seek curbs on internet suicide sites for teenagers

James Hall — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:33:19 +0000

Websites which encourage vulnerable teenagers to kill themselves are to be blocked under plans by the Government to tackle the dozens of suicides that have been linked to internet chatrooms. Ministers are alarmed that... Read more...

Man Arrested Over Valentine's Net Suicide Pact

Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:35:13 +0000

An American man has been arrested after allegedly trying to arrange a mass online suicide pact for Valentine's Day on Monday. Gerald Krien, 26, was caught after one woman alerted authorities after hearing one of... Read more...

Trojan poses as bin Laden suicide pics

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:56:25 +0000

Greetings, fellow Neowinians! I've recently joined the staff here at Neowin as a newsposter. Some of you may have seen other news submissions or forum posts from me as "WishX". Just a quick introduction to... Read more...

Tech Could Stop Future Hijackers, Suicide Planes

Steven Parker — Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:53:32 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The next time a terrorist aims a jet at building, maybe the plane should say no. From computers that could steer airliners away from skyscrapers to face-recognition devices already... Read more...