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Posted Feb 20, 2026 at 1:03 PM UTC D Dominic Preston WhatsApp helps you catch the group chat up. It’s rolling out Group Message History, which lets group chat admins (and members, depending on permissions) share the most recent messages with new members of a chat. That should make it easier to catch people up without blasting old messages back to the whole group. You can share up to 100 messages at once. Image: WhatsApp Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Dominic Preston

Credit: Shutterstock.com/Algi Febri Sugita The Competition Commission of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has joined several other antitrust agencies in probing Meta’s exclusion of rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, but stopped short of issuing an interim injunction to suspend the new terms. To read more Subscribe to Global Competition Review Register for limited access Register for free to unlock full access to our Insight content, including Guides, Reviews and Hubs. Plus, get our newsletter straight to your inbox. Register now Subscribe to unlock unlimited access Get news, unique commentary, expert analysis and essential resources from the Global Competition Review experts. Subscribe now Already have access? Login below

An Elburn man has been sentenced by a federal judge in Chicago to 37 years in prison for sexually exploiting nearly 100 children he communicated with on social media, according to a press release on Wednesday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Illinois. Shaun Healy, 45, used Snapchat to contact and persuade young girls to create and send him sexually explicit images and videos of themselves, often posing as a young girl himself to gain the girls’ trust and induce them to produce the material, the press release said. Healy apparently provided graphic, step-by-step instructions to them, including the type of explicit conduct they should engage in and how to record and send it to him, the press release said, and threatened to publish the images and videos they sent him if they didn’t produce and send him even more such materials. In December 2022, Healy was arrested at his home in Elburn, the press release from the Northern District said, and his cellphone was searched. Law enforcement found a password-protected album on the phone containing dozens of folders of children that Healy had stored from his Snapchat account, each containing the child’s Snapchat username, image

Fairfax County students, staffers uneasy after school shooting threat | I-Team by John Barr Thu, February 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM Updated Thu, February 19, 2026 at 6:29 PM A 7th grade student at Katherine Johnson Middle School was suspended for roughly two months after posting threats online in late November, a school staffer told 7-News (7-News). FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Social media posts in late November, in which a Fairfax County student made threats of violence against the middle school the student attended, have led to questions about the decision by school officials to re-admit the student after a period of suspension. The student, a 7th grader at Katherine Johnson Middle School, made three separate posts as part of an Instagram slideshow, according to a staff member at the school familiar with the social media content, who spoke with the 7-News I-Team on condition of anonymity. In one post, according to the staffer, the 7th grader said: “Stay home boys. Me figuring out if I should shoot up the school or wait another day.” The student then listed the names of students who would be considered safe. In another post, the student wrote: “Do not trust me around

Feb 20, 2026, by Bob Curley LinkedIn has 1.2 billion users, but how many of us are truly using it effectively? Bryant University  Marketing Professor  Stefanie Boyer, Ph.D. , who has more than 15,000 followers on LinkedIn, says it’s not enough to just have a presence on the professional networking and career development platform; she details strategies to optimize LinkedIn engagement, grow your following, and present the most authentic and impressive version of yourself to potential employers. Stefanie Boyer, Ph.D. To improve LinkedIn engagement: Be authentic. "The posts that work don’t sound polished or corporate," Boyer says. "They sound like a real person sharing something useful. I always ask: What problem does this help my audience solve today? If the answer isn’t clear, the post usually falls flat." Be present. "Engagement is the conversation that follows the post," she emphasizes. "Respond to all comments, ask follow-up questions, and stay in the conversation. Posting and ghosting will make you lose momentum and signals to the audience that you only want a one-way conversation, which will lower your engagement and reach." Be curious. "When you reply to post comments, add value or ask a thoughtful question," Boyer says. "'Tell me more about that

The Graduate Business Birds and the Zimbabwean Students Association have teamed up to help students unlock their full career potential. As a part of their Global Career Accelerator Series, students can join Zoom meetings, where they can learn business skills from guest speakers and professionals. Each meeting is interactive, including discussions and opportunities for students to learn. Participants can ask questions and receive feedback on their work. This week’s meeting included guest speaker, graduate teaching assistant at Illinois State and software engineer, Vaibhav Dabhi. Dabhi focused on making LinkedIn profiles that stand out to employers. He recommended using a clear and simple profile picture that conveys professionalism. “Whenever employers open your profile, they will look at your profile photo first. If they look at your photo, it builds security. By looking at a photo, they can identify if you’re serious about getting hired,” Dabhi said. He also talked about the importance of having a customized LinkedIn URL and a compelling headline. “Let’s say I have to search for someone and it’s really hard because this person’s LinkedIn contains an eight- or nine-digit number, which is hard to remember,” Dabhi said. “If you look at mine, mine is separated by first

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BotezLive is turning chess into pure content chaos – viral hits, savage blunders, and must-follow creator energy you can’t pause. BotezLive: The Chess Queens Turning Brainpower Into Viral Chaos If you think chess is slow, BotezLive is here to delete that idea from your brain. Alexandra and Andrea Botez turned a classic board game into a full-blown content machine packed with trash talk, travel, and nonstop creator energy – and the internet cannot look away. Willst du sehen, was die Leute sagen? Hier geht's zu den echten Meinungen: Watch German YouTube deep dives on BotezLive’s wildest chess moments Scroll fresh BotezLive Instagram reels, fits, and behind-the-board vibes Get lost in viral BotezLive TikToks, blunders, and meme cuts auf Deutsch Going Viral: Current Content & Vibes BotezLive is all about high-speed, high-emotion chess that feels more like an esport than a quiet board game. On their Twitch channel, you’ll catch everything from sweaty blitz marathons to IRL travel streams where they challenge strangers and other creators. Recent hits? Fans are obsessed with their rating climb grinds on chess.com and Lichess, chaotic viewer arena battles, and collab streams where they face off against top creators and titled players while chatting like it’s

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Vimeo has just gone through the biggest change in its history. In late 2025, Milan-based tech company Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo in an all-cash deal worth about 1.38 billion dollars , and by February 2026 the new owner had already pushed through a second major round of layoffs in less than six months. Reports from employees and media outlets describe a “large portion” or even “most” of the staff being let go, including core video engineering teams and international offices. At the same time, Vimeo is still marketing itself as an AI-powered video platform and shipping new features. Vimeo’s January 2026 product update highlights fresh aspect ratios in the editor, 4K recording, a Google Meet integration, and stricter domain-level embed controls, all aimed at teams that rely on video for marketing, training, and events. Your existing embeds still work. Your library is still online. There is no public roadmap that says specific features are being shut down or that the service will be discontinued. For anyone who depends on Vimeo for business-critical video hosting, that mix of signals is uncomfortable. You are looking at a platform that is simultaneously releasing updates and undergoing heavy restructuring under a private equity-style owner