CYBER SAFETY NEWS FEED
We have searched the headlines for the news that matters to Savvy Cyber Kids. Seen with a cyber ethics lens, these clipping keep us abreast of when technology is used for bad—to inspire us to be aware and make necessary changes in our homes and at our schools. Conversely, when technology is used for good, let’s read all about it, celebrate the successes and bring these lessons home.
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Headlines from across the globe:
- “I messed up”: Thousands of teen boys are being extorted in sexting scams
- Losses to online fraud among young people escalates
- ShinyHunters member pleads guilty to $6 million in data theft damages
- What Our Phones, Cars and Refrigerators Need: More Buttons
- TikTok Employees Say Executive Moves to U.S. Show China Parent’s Influence
- Column: He spent 24 years building his business. A ransomware attack blew it to smithereens
- Chandler Jones arrested in Las Vegas after bizarre social media episodes
- Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed
- Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers
- Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data
- Florida attorney general warns of criminals using AI to target teens
- On TikTok, videos promoting steroids are exploding — and at times targeting teens
- FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Trucks Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris
- China Is Investing Billions in Global Disinformation Campaign, U.S. Says
- Artificial intelligence partly to blame for rise in sextortion schemes, according to the FBI
- Plans for Tuesday’s vandalism were an open secret on social media, and the destruction was documented in videos through the night
- Vickroy: Ignore your kid’s tech use at your own peril — and theirs — because cyberbullies, sextortion are everywhere
- Scots schoolgirl blackmailed online by prolific 'sex slave' paedo calls on tech giants to act fast on safety bill
- Predator who groomed a 13-year-old girl through social media is jailed
- NJ school district where bullied girl took her own life allowing officials to go through students’ phones
- Staying Safe Against Cyberhate
- Portugal stabbing death tied to twisted ‘Blue Whale’ suicide game
- Briton, 35, killed in row playing social media suicide game near Portuguese campsite
- Hayward man charged after girl’s parents walk in on them sexting, police say
- Westfield child predator sentenced to 38 years