School cellphone bans, which have gotten a lot of positive press in the US, have generated their own version of whack-a-mole, young people told me. Aiden’s school in Los Angeles instituted a ban last ...

A preliminary injunction in federal court cited the First Amendment, handing a win to tech companies like Apple and Google.

On the “Hard Fork” podcast, the hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss a new law in Australia barring kids under 16 from ...

Each year, the internet gives birth to a new lexicon, one that's as fast-moving and unpredictable as the online trends that ...

The beloved kids television show is adapting to the age of streaming—and AI. In the world of the long-running kids show Cyberchase, Motherboard, a sort of digital queen and literal technocrat, is the ...

Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein- and Diddy-themed play sets are being made with Sora 2 and posted to TikTok.

The best way to know if your child is using AI chatbots "is simply to ask, directly and without judgment," said Akanksha Dadlani, a Stanford University child and adolescent psychiatry fellow.

New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content ...

Parents who raised kids in the '90s are "surprised by how young boys are when they first encounter it," one mom said.