Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dangerous viral trend has been going around TikTok where kids try to make their Chromebooks start smoking by putting foreign ...

Schools across the US are warning parents about an Internet trend that has students purposefully trying to damage their school-issued Chromebooks so that they start smoking or catch fire. Per reports ...

The Chromebook Challenge gained traction on TikTok in May. The trend encourages students to stick small items into school-assigned Google Chromebook USB ports. A New Jersey high school student has ...

Some students have been suspended and even criminally charged, as some of the computers catch fire or damage the surroundings. By Christine Hauser Across the country, students are short-circuiting ...