US schools warn against new TikTok challenge: making computers smoke

Some Connecticut schools have had to be evacuated due to smoke filling the classrooms from Chromebooks damaged by students, NBC Connecticut reported. — Pixabay

Wake County and school systems across the US are sending out warnings about a new TikTok challenge that has students setting their laptop computers on fire.

In a message posted May 8 on Wake’s website, the district says some students across the country have been participating in a challenge that involves intentionally damaging school-issued Chromebooks to make them smoke. Wake says some incidents have already been reported in district schools.