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The FTC orders Google, OpenAI, Meta and Instagram, Snap, xAI, and Character.AI to provide information on how their AI chatbots impact children and teens (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-11/…

A student is dead after shooting 2 teens at his Colorado high school and then himself (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-high-school-shooting-evergreen-6ab8dd48ce8497c79174669f1c902e49
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p46#a250911p46

Forget about nation-states for a moment: The top four items in today's Metacurity all deal with serious cybersecurity threats emanating from teen hackers.
Don't miss today's issue for the complete run-down of infosec developments you should know, including
--ShinyHunters threatens to release data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms,
--Salesforce refuses to pay ShinyHunters ransom,
--Qantas braces for the release of its data,
--Two teens busted for…

ShinyHunters threatens to release data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms
Salesforce refuses to pay ShinyHunters ransom, Qantas braces for the release of its data, Two teens busted for Kido nurseries cyberattack, Qilin claims attack on Asahi, Chinese hackers infiltrated Williams & Connolly, DPRK hackers have stolen $2b in crypto so far in 2025, much more

What ? You thought there'd only be one traumatic #shooting incident in USA today?
#MassShooting at #Denver School
At least 3 teens, including a suspected

I would guess that 98% of my microcontroller needs are a cheap board I can program using the Arduino IDE along with any of the zillion of existing libraries out there.
Thanks to Earle Philhower's arduino-pico project I switched to using the $4 USD Raspberry Pi Pico years ago, and I was using the Teensy LC boards before that but those were discontinued. (I like the Teensy boards but they are more than I need for 98% of my projects.)

As Russia recruits Ukrainian teens for sabotage, Ukraine races to reach them first: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/as-russia-recruits-ukrainian-teens.html

OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress in the next 120 days, including routing conversations to GPT-5-thinking (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/02/chatgpt-openai-mental-health-teens

OpenAI to safeguard ChatGPT for teens and people in crisis
The company says parents will soon be able to link their accounts to those of their teens.

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»Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia:
Two teenagers have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of espionage, reportedly on behalf of pro-Russian hackers.«
Telegram is absolutely insecure, not only because it is unencrypted or the drug market that goes through it, but because Russia knows exactly how to exploit young people like the mafia.
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Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia
Reports said two boys arrested in the Netherlands are suspected of working on behalf of pro-Russian hackers outside prominent buildings in The Hague.

OpenAI releases a blueprint the company hopes lawmakers will use in crafting safety standards for teens using AI, with five suggestions for AI companies (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/06/openai-blueprint-teen-ai-safety-standards

Exclusive: OpenAI unveils blueprint for teen AI safety standards
OpenAI is trying to get ahead of criticism — and shape the norms for teens' use — by touting its new safety mechanisms to policymakers.