RECALL ALERT: 213,000 Magnetic Building Toys Recalled
 Goody King magnetic building toys have been recalled because the cubes can break open and release high-powered magnets. 

There were 27 reports of the toys breaking, and two children who swallowed magnets needed surgery.
 If you have them, st

RECALL ALERT: 213,000 Magnetic Building Toys Recalled
 Goody King magnetic building toys have been recalled because the cubes can break open and release high-powered magnets. 

There were 27 reports of the toys breaking, and two children who swallowed magnets needed surgery.
 If you have them, st

YouTube Kids doesn’t stress me out.

Most parents I’ve spoken to are worried about @YouTube for their littles but had no idea this feature exists, so here’s your PSA:
 On the YouTube Kids app (not the regular YouTube app) you can use Approved Content Only mode so your kids can only watch what yo

The back-to-school bullying talk needs to include cyber. I’ve seen a trend of parents prepping kids for bullying, but no one’s talking about what teens actually face once everyone has a device (especially in middle and high school). I spent yesterday morning talking to teens who had experienc

BREAKING: @New Jersey Gov Sherrill just signed several bills focused on kids’ online safety.
 The goal is to put more responsibility on tech companies. One of the biggest pieces is the NJ Kids Code Act, which changes how online platforms can design their products for kids. That includes str

Don’t Just Toss Old Medicine in the Trash!

Throwing it away “as is” is a poisoning risk for kids and pets.
 And it can also be easy for someone to misuse.
 So here’s the safest way to get rid of it:

1. Look for a Take-back location. It could be in a police department, community center, pharma

Oheka Castle was designed not to burn. It was built between 1914 and 1919, after Otto Kahn lost a previous home to a fire so he designed this one to resist fire. He incorporated fire-resistant design like reinforced steel and concrete, unusually thick walls, and instead of using wood on ceil

This is why I’m careful with random cheaper versions of things I see online (especially with kids products). I get why it’s appealing, sometimes you really are just paying more for the name. But other times, the difference is in the materials, testing and quality control you can’t see from a

Sometimes the responsible thing to do online to swipe away, not share and not search for something, just because everyone else is talking about it. And if your kids use social media, this is probably a good time to remind them that if they see something disturbing to swipe away and tell an adul

New FTC warning: Fake CAPTCHAs
 The FTC has received reports of fake CAPTCHAs people come across while browsing. These wouldn’t be from well known sites, but as you come ads, phishing links or things promising “free” downloads, you may come across this scam. If a CAPTCHA ever tells you to press

#Ad In collaboration with @emergent.sh, I tested one of the biggest shifts happening in AI right now: “vibe coding.”
 You may have seen people use AI to build apps. Sometimes they’re silly, like an app that laughs at your jokes, and sometimes they’re more serious, like study platforms.
 But Eme

The fastest way to make me distrust your product.
 These posts use fake cheating, revenge, and family drama to trigger real emotional reactions. 
The outrage drives comments, the algorithm spreads the post, and the company gets millions of views. 
For me, this is the fastest way for a company to

Your car’s electronics could be a fingerprint?
 A surveillance company called Leonardo is marketing SignalTrace, a system that detects electronics traveling together (like phones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, RFID tags and infotainment systems) and uses that combination to help recognize a vehi

Personalized backpacks are cute, but I skip them.

They usually cost more, are harder to pass down, and it feels risky to display a kids name (especially if you post them online).
 Personally, I use luggage tags, labels inside the bag, or painter’s tape that I can remove later. 
 #BackToSchool

Turning dress-up shoes into less of a hazard. My daughter loves all the princess dress-up stuff but I hated watching her slip all over the hardwood floors so I added some stick-on rubber soles, and now she can actually walk in them. 🙌 #ParentingTips #ChildSafety #MomHack #girlmom #t

AI Sycophancy is bigger than I thought. 

This is becoming one of the biggest media literacy issues of the AI era: search engines that mirror bias back at us as “the answer.” 

In this case, wasps were a low stakes example, but imagine something that actually matters- politics, medicine, finances,

🤖AI is powerful but it’s not perfect. It’s been years since my viral ‘strawberry’ video and AI still can’t spell. This is a reminder that we still need to double check pretty much everything AI says. Confidence isn’t the same as correct. #Ai #techtips #digitalliteracy #fail #t

Human can read this but bots can’t! (Although personally the video version is hard for me to read too) In any case, designer Eric Lu created a Decoy Font and a Ghost Font available through Mixfont, that allows humans to see one message, while AI may read another. 

It’s not encryption and A

@Spotify is cracking down on AI slop. It says it removed 75 million spam tracks in one year and they’ve begun testing AI disclosures as well, but they’re not banning AI music. Spotify believes AI could be used as a legitimate creative tool, but it doesn’t want spam gaming the royalty system

When do we get to the next fort? #wildfires #northeast #oregontrail #millennial