The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16
… A recent study by Australia’s online safety regulator eSafety found that 70 percent of under-16s in the country continue to access banned social media platforms. …
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The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
… Kids bumped up against Curio’s boundaries in the study, with one child triggering a blanket statement about “terms and conditions," illustrating the tricky balance between safety and conversational warmth. …
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
… The report, titled “The Online Safety Act: Are Children Safe Online?” showed that 46 percent of 9- to 16-year-olds believe that circumventing age controls is very easy. …
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
… A person familiar with the school said the high school wing and auditorium were being used even though executives and staff knew the areas were off-limits due to safety deficiencies that hadn’t been corrected. “They knew it and they were still operating, even though the fire department had not give… …
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026
… Trust and Safety Apple spent a notable chunk of the WWDC keynote emphasizing its efforts to allow parents to control the content kids can see and the amount of time kids spend on their devices. New child safety features let parents control which apps kids can use at specific times of the day. …
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
… OpenAI bars unsolicited safety testing, efforts to bypass safeguards, and using outputs to “develop models that compete with OpenAI.” Google prohibits attempts to bypass safety filters outside its safety and bug-testing programs, along with content involving self-harm, child sexual abuse or exploit… …
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
… The new bill focuses not only on the environmental and community impacts of data centers, but on AI safety as a whole. …
Streamers Like Clavicular Are Humiliating OnlyFans Girls For Clout
… "Much of the online conversation became focused on damaging my business relationships rather than establishing the facts of what actually occurred," he claims. …
The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths
… While the connection felt with an AI chatbot can be strong for adults too, it is especially heightened with younger people. “Teens are in a different developmental state than adults—their emotional centers develop at a much more rapid rate than their executive functioning,” says Robbie Torney, seni… …
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
… You spearheaded the Responsible AI Safety and Education, or RAISE, Act. In a nutshell, it requires major AI developers to publish safety testing practices. …