toys Another 1960s game I would not give my kid Jason Weisberger

Games Kickstarting Sugar Heist, a delightful card game about stealing candy from babies Thom Dunn

Gadgets Have some fun with these attention-grabbing face mask designs Boing Boing's Shop

Sex This children’s book on the miracle of life is very graphic and very anatomically correct Thom Dunn

elves Horrors await poor Sophie Foster in 'Keeper of the Lost Cities: Legacy' Jason Weisberger

Games Review / Control Rob Beschizza

Kids Educational spyware company to school boards: hire us to spy on your kids and we'll help you sabotage teachers' strikes Cory Doctorow

Kids Teens are filling Tiktok with memes deploring #Life360, a parenting app that tracks teens Cory Doctorow

law A deep dive into stalkerware's creepy marketing, illegal privacy invasions, and terrible security Cory Doctorow

AI Ever, an "unlimited photo storage app," secretly fed its users' photos to a face-recognition system pitched to military customers UPDATE Cory Doctorow

security Your kid's "smart watch" lets anyone in the world trace their location. Again. Cory Doctorow

Treating kids' phobias in three hours, and OCD in four days David Pescovitz

law Verizon/Aol fined $5m for knowingly helping advertisers track children Rob Beschizza

Business Whatsapp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850,000,000 when I quit Facebook Cory Doctorow

police New Orleans Police used predictive policing without telling the city's elected officials Seamus Bellamy

television Grant Morrison on Happy! "the world is a nihilistic hellhole plunging toward screaming entropy, but … we have hope" Thomas Negovan

halloween The 2017 Halloween Candy Hierarchy: Definitely Not Fake News David Ng and Ben Cohen

Funny Amateur queer ghost hunters investigate Trump's childhood home Andrea James

happy mutants Party Discipline: a novella set in the world of Walkaway Cory Doctorow

real estate Iconic (and super creepy) Clown Motel is up for sale Rusty Blazenhoff