(TNND) — California lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that could effectively ban social media accounts for kids under 16 in the nation’s most populous state. The bill, AB-1709, is specifically designed to keep children off platforms featuring “addictive features,” such as notifications, endless scrolls and autoplay that are core parts of popular social...Read More

A state Senate committee voted Wednesday to ban kids under age 14 from using social media. The bill would also require social media users who are aged 14 or 15 to get a parent’s consent to create an account. Lawmakers say apps like Facebook and Instagram can have harmful effects on young people. Social media...Read More

Instructure’s Canvas learning management system has suffered a major data breach affecting schools and universities worldwide, intensifying scrutiny of systemic cyber risk in education platforms. Hackers claiming responsibility, including the ShinyHunters group, say they stole about 275 million student and staff records from the widely used platform. The dataset reportedly spans more than 7,000 universities...Read More

Photo illustration by Emma Spainhoward with photograph by Getty Images. Good morning. A decent day ahead: sunny, warming to a high around 69. Clear overnight with a low near 46. You can find me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address below. Subscribers to the email version of...Read More

Recently cheapo video walkie-talkies popped up on everyone’s favorite online retailers, which naturally lured in the usual gaggle of reverse-engineering enthusiasts of cheap tat to see what’s inside these devices, as well as what more they can be made to do. Cue [Aaron Christophel] doing just that, with the typical DOOM demo as proof of concept....Read More

This is my favourite time of the year, not just because spring is here and the promise of summer is on the way. But also, because one of my must reads each year gets published. There are a few must read reports that I have on my reading list for each year and the Verizon...Read More

For the last forty-plus years, videogames have become an increasingly favorable and evolving pastime typically meant for children. Since then, with the implementation and expansion of the internet, video games started to not only appeal to people across the world from the comfort of their own homes, but allow its users to collaborate with one...Read More

By the age of 8, a quarter of American children have a personal phone. By age 12, nearly half of them are on social media. In the digital age, a kid’s journey into the world of social media is only natural. While the flashy apps that buy and sell our attention are disguised as harmless...Read More

The report also documented what Google believes may be the first observed case of an AI-assisted zero-day exploit intended for mass exploitation. This means that attackers have found a vulnerability known to the company and tried to exploit it. The exploit targeted a widely used open-source administration tool and attempted to bypass two-factor authentication through...Read More

A criminal extortion group claims to have stolen 275 million records from Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas platform. WASHINGTON — A cybersecurity attack on the nation’s most widely used classroom software has potentially exposed the personal data of millions of students and educators across the country. Instructure, the company that runs the...Read More