A Testing Company Breach Exposed Millions of Students' Records
This week's biggest story isn't about an app your kid chose. It's about a company your kid's school chose. A testing contractor's breach exposed records on millions of California students, including d...
26 Okt 9min
ChatGPT for Teens Sent Parents Zero Alerts in Testing
ChatGPT for Teens promised parents an alert if their kid was in crisis — so what happened when testers talked about self-harm for an hour? Plus New York's sealed-until-now allegation about a TikTok sa...
12 Okt 11min
Alabama Just Made TikTok Change the App. Here's the List
Most weeks we report what somebody is thinking about doing. Not this week: Alabama's Attorney General walked out of a Montgomery courtroom with a signed list of things TikTok has to change about the a...
5 Okt 29min
Middle Schooler Made AI Nudes of Classmates. Kentucky Charged Him
A police report landed in Henderson, Kentucky on the Thursday we recorded last week's episode — AI-generated nude photos of middle schoolers, passed around the school. By Monday a child was in a deten...
28 Sep 26min
The FBI Confirmed It: A School District's Student Data Was Stolen
Springfield, Massachusetts went back to school Monday. On Tuesday evening the FBI told the district its data was gone — student addresses, ages, ethnicities and medical information — and a ransomware ...
21 Sep 20min
A Dr. Seuss Character Got 10+ Kids Arrested
An AI-made Cat in the Hat, posted with a threat naming a real school, has put more than ten kids in handcuffs in at least eight states — including one in Andalusia, Alabama, where a Snapchat warrant e...
13 Sep 17min
600,000 Kids, No AI at School — and Two Corrections We Owe You
New York City just told 600,000 kids they can't use generative AI at school this year — and banned companion chatbots in every grade. But the part that should change your Tuesday night is what the Met...
6 Sep 17min
