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Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time.More infoA teacher who was found guilty of possessing over 4,000 indecent images of children has been spared a prison sentence. Trainee teacher, Andrew Moore, 28, was discovered as threat to children when he was working in a PE department. Once police were alerted to an image he had downloaded, deemed to be indecent from online platform Tumblr, they detained him at the school he worked at, which can’t be named. Andrew Moore was spared jail at court this week after being found guilty of possessing over 4,000 child abuse images (Image: Reach Plc) This week a court heard how sick Moore first denied any wrong doing before authorities seized his electronic devices. Officers found over 4,000 images on two laptops, two iPhones, an iPod and a kindle at Moore’s home in Clough Meadow, Stockport. At Minshull Street Crown Court, Prosecuting, Suzanne Hargreaves revealed how Moore was discovered to have been posing as a 14-year-old girl…

Jade Schulz for BuzzFeed News In January 2021, the Instagram account for Julia Rose’s magazine, ShagMag, got banned from the platform.Rose received a message saying that the account for the online pinup publication had violated Instagram’s rules regarding nudity and impersonation. She had tried to play by the rules, but her posts had been reported and suspended multiple times for alleged nudity. She said she reached out to Instagram to appeal but had no success.For influencers like Rose who rely on Instagram for the promotion of their work as well as sponsorship deals, losing an account can be a massive blow to their income, leaving them desperate to get it back at any cost. But Rose had one more option. After her appeals to Instagram went unanswered, a friend put her in touch with a man who told her he could help her get her account back — for a price.The man claimed he had a connection to a supervisor at Facebook, which owns Instagram. He sent her a contract saying he could restore the account, as well as her personal account, which had also been banned for alleged nudity, in exchange for $65,000 and a 2.5% stake in her…

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Instagram is retiring its “swipe-up” feature and replacing it with “link stickers” for those who have access starting on Aug. 30.Currently, only users who are verified or have several thousand followers can use the “swipe-up” feature on their Instagram stories to share links to other pages.Instagram says it’s still evaluating whether to expand link access to more accounts in the future. Developers are looking at things like integrity and safety, like how expanding access to link sharing could impact the spread of misinformation and spam.The company, which is owned by Facebook, says the transition to “link stickers” will help them determine whether expanding access to more people is the right decision.Instagram says its current stickers – like those for donations, music, and polls – help streamline the story experience on the app and the “link stickers” will do so as well. The company says they’ll help users further express themselves and share what matters to them.The “links stickers” will look and function the same way as other current stickers on Instagram stories, according to the company.“It can toggle to different styles, be resized, and be placed anywhere on your story for maximum impact,” wrote Instagram in…

Michael Hyssong does crazy stuff with cars and trucks for a living, recording his stunts and exploits and posting the videos on YouTube. He got his start six years ago when he posted videos of him doing crazy stuff with his old pickup truck, and it took off. “I come from a lower-middle-class family,” he said, “and when I got my first YouTube check, it was $300. I thought, I could do this.” And he’s still at it. His latest video depicts him jumping his Lamborghini Urus — a $218,000 car — over a Lamborghini Aventador.  He is approaching 1.2 million followers on his YouTube channel, Street Speed 717, and, according to his attorney, the 27-year-old Harrisburg resident “makes more money than both of us combined.” It’s all good fun, doing crazy things with very expensive cars and trucks. He didn’t know it would get him into trouble with the law. How he got into trouble involves a Dodge Ram TRX — a pickup that retails for more than $70,000 and is powered by a 702 horsepower Hellcat engine — and Doe Run Creek in northern York County. On Jan. 9 this year, an anonymous tipster sent a complaint to the state Game Commission’s Operation Game Thief tip line about a YouTube video depicting a truck driving…

Google takes account security fairly seriously and, over the past few years, has been pushing 2-step authentication/verification for users, sometimes requiring it for specific account actions. This week, Google has announced that YouTube creators will be required to use 2-step verification to access key functions starting later this year. In a tweet from the “TeamYouTube” account, Google has confirmed its plans to require creators to use the stronger account protection. YouTube will require that creators use 2-step verification to access YouTube Studio. The requirement kicks in starting on November 1, 2021. There is one exception here, though. You’ll still be able to use YouTube and even upload videos without 2-step verification, but only if you’re not in the YouTube Partner Program. So, essentially, YouTube is making the stronger account protection a requirement for those making money through the platform. 2-step verification on Google accounts is available through your account settings, or this direct link, and can take the form of codes sent via SMS, backup codes you print out or save elsewhere, Google Authenticator, or a notification sent to your smartphone/tablet via Google Prompt. That last one is currently Google’s default option and works on both Android and iOS devices…

Snapchat is amongst the best social networking apps that lets you share your daily moments, stories, and entertaining content with your family, friends and followers. Moreover, the messages including photos and videos that you send or receive automatically get deleted after you’ve viewed them or after 24 hours unless you save them. However, you can still recover the deleted Snapchat messages by requesting your account data.With the help of the Snapchat My Data feature, you can request your account data for retrieving the deleted messages. Go to My Data Page > Select Deleted Messages and then click on the Recover button.How to recover deleted Snapchat messages?Listed below are the steps:Login to your Snapchat account and open the My Data pageSelect the messages option that you wish to recoverTap on the Submit option RequestOnce your request has been submitted, the support team will be asked to prepare an archive for your accountAfter the data is ready to download, you will receive an email The email received will have a download link, tap on it that would further direct you to the My Data pageNow, click on the mydata.zip file to download it on your deviceCan Snapchat messages be recovered by police?Through…

OnePlus Nord and OnePlus CE 5G are receiving OxygenOS 11.1.5.5 and OxygenOS 11.0.6.6 updates, respectively. Both smartphones are also receiving an update for the Android security patch — August 2021 for OnePlus Nord and July 2021 for OnePlus Nord CE 5G. The updates also bring new features, bug fixes, and improvements to the two pocket-friendly smartphones from OnePlus. As is the norm with most updates for OnePlus smartphones, the updates will also be rolled out in increments.The updates for OnePlus Nord (Review) and OnePlus Nord CE 5G (Review) were announced through a couple of posts on its community forum.OnePlus is updating the always-on display (AOD) with the OxygenOS 11.1.5.5 update for OnePlus Nord. Users will now be able to take screenshots of their AOD. Additionally, users are also getting the Bitmoji AOD that has been co-developed with Snapchat. It brings the users' Bitmoji avatar to AOD and the avatar is updated throughout the day based on users' activity and their surroundings. To activate, head to Settings > Customization > Clock on ambient display > Bitmoji.OnePlus Nord CE 5G gets an improved system performance, the June 2021 update for Google mobile services (GMS), and optimised camera effects.Firmware versions for the update for OnePlus…

Linda Almond drowned in the Tennessee floods after she livestreamed it on Facebook. Facebook A Tennessee woman drowned in the rising floodwaters after she livestreamed the deluge on social media. The death took place during the catastrophic flash flooding in Tennessee that has left at least 22 people dead. Linda Almond went live on Facebook around 10:15 a.m. on Saturday morning, showing the deadly situation developing around her home in Waverly, Tennessee. The one minute video would be her final words to the world before she was carried away. “Well, if anybody’s seeing me on Facebook Live, we’re being flooded right now in Waverly, Tennessee. Really scary,” Almond’s quivering voice says in the video. She shows the mud-brown water filled with debris ripping past her home. She then lights a cigarette. “Whoa. Whoa,” she says at one point, after something seems to have suddenly changed. The Facebook video showed the deadly situation developing around her home.Facebook “I think something just hit the side of the house,” a male voice says off-camera,  » Read More

Hey Facebook Fix your System Today I got myself banned on Facebook for 24 hours. The reason was that Facebook’s algorithm thought I was posting pornographic pictures. In my defense any human being can quickly see that this is not porn. It is a slide of NASA Astronauts in Skylab. It was part of a talk that I was attending. This is what I posted that got me banned from Facebook: I didn’t realize it until now that the FB community considered the picture of NASA astronauts as nudes!! I was offered a chance to dispute this. I did dispute it. I wanted it to know that a human being disputed the machine. (Rage against the machine). By sending the dispute, I had hope to send a signal to the algorithm that it needed to recalibrate. So I chose that option to let FB know that its algorithm is way off. However, “due to the covid pandemic”, there wasn’t going to be enough reviewers to get to my case and remove the lock.  » Read More

A Victorian man who raped his sleeping friend after sending her a series of late-night messages that received no response has been jailed for at least three years and 10 months.The 29-year-old Phillip Island man, who cannot be named, raped the woman, then 25, at Cowes in March 2020.He messaged her on Snapchat after she left a party they had both attended, asking “where you at”.The man then walked to the house the woman was staying at, which was unlocked, looking for a phone charger.Another man also at the home asked what the 29-year-old was doing and walked him home.A Phillip Island man who raped his sleeping friend has been jailed. Creative image. Credit: 7NEWS.com.au“I’ll come back when he is asleep,” the 29-year-old then messaged the woman on Snapchat.The man later returned to the house and raped the 25-year-old woman while she was asleep.“What the f*** happened last night,” he messaged her the next day.“I am so sorry. I feel soooo bad today. I can barely remember last night and I have lost my f***ing keys. I want to die”.The 29-year-old later told police he had a “hazy” memory of the incident having drunk beer and spirits, as well as…