🚨 MGM Resorts Hit by Cyber Attack 🚨 Las chaos! Guests locked out, Mandalay Bay, Bellagio affected. MGM responds, investigation underway. ATMs down, cash-only restaurants. Impact extends beyond Vegas. Financial data secure. Stay tuned for updates! #MGMCyberAttack #LasVegasLockoutVegas Go to link...
🎮 Call of Duty's AI-Powered Speech Police 🚫 Activision cracks down on 'toxic speech' in Call of Duty with AI. No opt-out for players. Penalties for violators, including cyberbullying. Beta already underway, full rollout soon. Reflects growing trend in online censorship. Your thoughts? 👇 #CallOfDutyAI #OnlineGaming #Censorship Go to link... [...]
Big Tech's Political Ad Shift X (formerly Twitter) allowing political ads again raises concerns about misinformation. But it's not alone. YouTube and Meta have also made policy reversals. This, coupled with AI advancements, poses 2024 challenges. 🤖📰 Are platforms retreating from misinformation control? 🚫📣 Share your thoughts! 👇 #TechPolitics #Misinformation [...]
When it comes to the question of toxicity in video games, there really is little to argue about. It’s all too real. If your child is a gamer, there is no doubt that he or she has witnessed discrimination, harassment and hate of all kinds. And the hate, well, [...]
At Savvy Cyber Kids, we get a lot of questions about gender based technology habits - if they differ from one another or if there are more risks for one than another. Articles and studies, including a recent one from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, will posit that [...]
While boys spend more than two and a half times as much time playing video games as girls, the gaming industry reports that 46% of players worldwide are female (Fnatic, 2022). And it turns out that the benefits to girls who game are worth talking about! Since girls are [...]
The dangers that can be found online are, for everyone, but especially for young people, daunting and something to be concerned enough about to revisit as an ongoing conversation within every family, again and again. The sad truth is that you will never run out of real-life news stories [...]
As our vast online worlds grow and continue to change, it’s important to remember to keep cyber safety and digital privacy front and center. Here our top six tips to keep your family protected throughout 2023! Tell your kids to keep their clothes on! If your child is old [...]
If you have been following our posts and guidance since we launched Savvy Cyber Kids as an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2007, you know how we feel about parenting in a world filled with technology. If this is your first visit to our site, and one of our [...]
Identity theft is on the rise. According to the FTC, millions of Americans filed fraud reports last year. In 2021, people filed a total of 5.7 million reports. In addition to identity theft reports and complaints about businesses, 2.8 million of those reports were about fraud. Consumers reported losing [...]
