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Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his company's credit card — 'I’m going to be working until I’m like 94,' refuses to set up GoFundMe or put up crypto coin to help repay massive bill (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-19 | by Jowi Morales | get Amazon Kids parental controls device → | tags: minecraft, youtube ads, credit card fraud

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RIP to Cult Actor Gerrit Graham, Star of ‘Phantom of the Paradise’ and ‘Child’s Play 2’ (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-18 | tags: gerrit graham, phantom of the paradise, child's play 2

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Everybody's Lost Their Minds (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: ai ethics, llm hype, child sexual abuse material

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Europe's EU Kids Act would ban social media access for children under 13 (engadget.com)

2026-09-17 | by Steve Dent | get Amazon Fire HD Kids Tablet parental controls → | tags: eu kids act, social media ban, european commission

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Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: jeffrey epstein, child sex abuse material, justice department

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EU chief confronts Big Tech with a bloc-wide proposal to protect kids from social media (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-16 | get Bark parental control monitoring service kids phone → | tags: ursula von der leyen, european commission, social media ban

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The EU Bans Social Media For Under-13s (wired.com)

2026-09-16 | by Isabella Ward | get Bark parental control monitoring device → | tags: eu kids act, ursula von der leyen, social media ban

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Here’s what’s new with parental control features in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-15 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: ios 27, ipados 27, macos 27

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Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: texas, tiktok, child safety

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California, Which Is Creating All the AI That’s Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids (futurism.com)

2026-09-13 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: gavin newsom, california, ai chatbots

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From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere (wired.com)

2026-09-12 | by Andy Greenberg | tags: claude, meta, ai child abuse ads

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Has Gentle Parenting Ruined a Generation of Kids? (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-11 | get No-Drama Discipline book Siegel Bryson → | tags: gentle parenting, parenting styles, child discipline

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California’s Governor Signs New Laws to Protect Children Online (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-10 | get Bark Phone kids smartphone → | tags: gavin newsom, california, social media regulation

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Mother Horrified When Meta’s AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters (futurism.com)

2026-09-10 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: meta ai, instagram, facebook

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Investing in Mothers? The Long-Run Impact of a Universal Child Care (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-09 | by Michael Baker | tags: universal child care, nber, statistics canada

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Microsoft adds age-awareness APIs that can tell if users are children, teens, or adults (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-09-08 | tags: microsoft, windows 11, age-awareness apis

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Apple and Google Miss Deadline to Block Child Nudity on Their Phones in the UK (wired.com)

2026-09-08 | by Isabella Ward | tags: apple, google, lisa nandy

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Congressman says TikTok backed out of a meeting to avoid child safety questions (theverge.com)

2026-09-03 | by Lauren Feiner | get Bark Home parental controls device → | tags: tiktok, china, meta

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Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-03 | by Lenore Skenazy | get Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy book → | tags: child protective services, william and mary, security guard

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The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-03 | by Thomas Macaulay | get MIT Technology Review magazine subscription → | tags: child safety, fossil fuels, fertilizer prices

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How Meta will pull off massive changes to its social media apps (cnbc.com)

2026-09-03 | by Julia Boorstin | get Kitchen Safe time locking container phone → | tags: meta, facebook, child safety

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Social media companies are using AI and face scans to spot more kids on their platforms (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-01 | get Circle parental control device home internet → | tags: meta, age verification, face scans

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Nigerians extradited to US for sextortion, deaths of two teens (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-31 | tags: sextortion, operation artemis, nigeria

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Grok Not Only Generates Child Porn but Was Also Trained On It, New Lawsuit Claims (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-28 | tags: grok, csam, child pornography

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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-27 | tags: xai, grok, child sex abuse materials

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Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | by Mike Masnick | get Bark Home parental control device → | tags: meta, child safety, youtube

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Reform of all social media should come with Meta changes, UN says (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-27 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | get kids phone with parental controls → | tags: meta, tiktok, youtube

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Meta's latest teen safety commitments are US-only (for now) (engadget.com)

2026-08-27 | by Kris Holt | get Circle Home Plus parental controls device → | tags: meta, facebook, instagram

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The Morning Risk Report: Meta Reaches $18 Billion Settlement Over Child-Safety Claims (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-27 | tags: meta, flock cameras, fbi

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Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts" (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-26 | get Circle Home Plus parental control device → | tags: meta, facebook, instagram