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Meta brings ‘teen accounts’ to Facebook and Messenger

Engadget

Meta is bringing its teen accounts to Facebook and Messenger. Like on Instagram, the company will begin automatically moving younger teens to the new accounts, which come with mandatory parental control features and restrictions on who they can message and interact with. Teen accounts on Facebook and Messenger will operate similarly.

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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

This is the vision behind a new language learning platform that recently launched. Then, you dive into the story and language through an informal video lesson called After Short. And if you want to spend a lifetime learning a language, it has to be entertaining, or else you will throw in the towel. since then.

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Meta is using its AI age-detection tech to shuffle more young users into teen accounts

Engadget

Meta says it's doing more to make sure as many of its younger users as possible are using the teen accounts that it has rolled out for Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. Meta debuted teen accounts in Instagram last fall and recently expanded them to Facebook and Messenger.

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Instagram has a new program for school officials to report bullying

Engadget

This time, however, Meta is enlisting school officials directly in an effort to speed up its response to safety issues affecting young teens. But while these features can help teens avoid certain types of negative interactions, they still required teens (or their parents) to tweak their settings.

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New Jersey AG sues Discord over alleged child safety failures

Engadget

Teen Safety Assist , also introduced in 2023, added automatic content filters and a new warning system for people who violate the apps guidelines. In 2025, Discord launched a nonprofit coalition called Roost with the express purpose of developing open-source child safety tools.

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A teen is reportedly the mastermind behind the Lapsus$ hacking group

The Verge

News of EA’s hack last year was first posted to the cybercriminal underground by the user “Breachbase” on the English-language hacker community RaidForums , which was recently seized by the FBI.

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‘Unspeakable’ video highlights the role of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Black Lives Matter

The Verge

His daughter surprised him, however, and came back to him with a question: “She said, ‘hey, Dad, how come there’s no people doing sign language or ASL in your photos and videos?’ “I sort of gave her the Cliffs Notes version, to give her some inspiration.”. It was a great point, we weren’t.”

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