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A 27-year-old Illinois man pleaded guilty to several charges related to a campaign of hacks involving the Snapchat accounts of about 600 women. Kyle Svara of Oswego, Illinois is facing decades in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, computer fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud and false statements related to child pornography. His sentencing is scheduled for May 18 and the charges carry a cumulative maximum sentence of 32 years in prison. Svara was charged in December with using social engineering attacks and other methods to gain access to the Snapchat accounts of young women and girls.  In 2020 and 2021, he posed as a representative of Snapchat and contacted 570 women demanding security access codes that were prompted by his initial attempts to break into their accounts. He used the codes to access the accounts of at least 59 women and downloaded nude or semi-nude photographs from their accounts. Svara went on to sell the images online and trade them with others on internet forums.  Svara marketed his tactics to others on the internet, offering to break into people’s Snapchat accounts for a fee.  He was hired in at least one instance by Steve Waithe

Emma Stone is "too afraid" of her "own mental health" to launch an Instagram account. PUBLISHED ON February 06, 2026 3:54 AM Emma Stone is "too afraid" of her "own mental health" to launch an Instagram account. The 37-year-old actress much prefers being a "lurker" and looking at other people's content rather than creating a profile on the photo-sharing site in her name. Asked if she would ever start a lifestyle website, she told Rolling Stone magazine: "One hundred per cent no. "That's why I don't even have Instagram. I'm too afraid of my own mental health to be engaged in that way, and that's why I'm such a lurker and love following other people's stuff." The Bugonia star is to feature in a brand-new commercial for Squarespace, in which the company helps her to acquire her own website domain name. A 30-second version of Emma's Squarespace ad will air between the first and second quarters of Super Bowl LX on Sunday. Filming the commercial led to Emma wondering why she hadn't bought her own website name beforehand, and the star admitted it was a "lack of foresight" on her part. She said: "I don't know what I never actually

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Today’s date is February 6, 2026. Yesterday, the markets delivered a stinging verdict on the future of Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP), as the company’s stock plummeted 12% in the wake of its Q4 2025 earnings report. While the headline figures initially suggested a corner turned—boasting a surprise quarterly profit—the underlying metrics revealed a more troubling narrative: a sharp decline in users within the company's most lucrative market, North America. As Snap attempts to reinvent itself as an Augmented Reality (AR) powerhouse through its newly spun-off "Specs Inc." subsidiary, investors are left questioning whether the pioneer of ephemeral messaging can survive the increasingly hostile regulatory and competitive landscape of 2026. Historical Background The story of Snap Inc. is one of the most volatile in the modern technology sector. Founded in 2011 as "Picaboo" by Stanford students Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, the app was built on the counter-intuitive premise of ephemerality. At a time when Facebook (now Meta) encouraged permanent digital footprints, Snapchat offered a way to communicate without the burden of a "permanent record." By the time the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in March 2017 at $17 per share, it was valued at

LinkedIn has redesigned its static application security testing pipeline (SAST) to provide consistent, enforceable code scanning across a GitHub-based, multi-repository development environment. The initiative was a result of the company's shift-left strategy by delivering fast, reliable, and actionable security feedback directly in pull requests, strengthening the security of LinkedIn's code and infrastructure and helping protect members and customers. At a high level, SAST analyzes source code to identify potential vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle. At LinkedIn's scale, legacy approaches that relied on multiple disconnected scanners and custom integrations resulted in uneven coverage, limited visibility into pipeline health, and friction for developers. The redesign aimed to standardize scanning, simplify adoption, and more deeply embed security into developer workflows without introducing bottlenecks. At the start of the redesign, LinkedIn engineers established key guiding principles, prioritizing developer-first security to minimize workflow interruptions, extensibility to allow other teams to add rules or integrations, resilience to prevent failures from affecting developers, and observability to monitor coverage and performance at scale. The new architecture leverages GitHub Actions to orchestrate two primary scanning engines, CodeQL and Semgrep, chosen for their complementary coverage and extensibility. LinkedIn engineers implemented custom workflows to manage rule execution, orchestrate scanning, and

Recent research highlights how inequalities in platform policies, advertiser demand, and payment infrastructure shape creator income outcomes around the world. A report published by Communiqué and TM Global titled “Africa Creator Economy Report 2.0” documents persistent gaps in how creators are paid across regions, with African creators facing materially different monetization outcomes from their counterparts in the United States and Europe.  While the report focuses on African markets, its findings describe platform mechanisms that apply broadly across the global creator economy. The report examines creator income, monetization access, and investment across multiple African countries and platforms. It finds that many of the constraints affecting African creators are not unique to the continent, but reflect how major platforms structure eligibility, advertising demand, and payouts by region. Earnings Disparities Tied to Platform Mechanics One data point highlighted in the report shows African creators typically earning less than $1 per 1,000 views, compared with $3 to $10 per 1,000 views reported for creators in the United States or Europe. The report links this gap to a combination of factors, including payment ineligibility for certain monetization programs, inconsistent CPMs (Cost per Mille) for locally generated traffic, and lower advertiser demand in African markets. These

Prepare to witness the next chapter of Diablo IV. On February 11th, tune in to our Diablo 30th Anniversary Spotlight where we’ll unveil the next class arriving with Lord of Hatred, a new force in Sanctuary that will reshape how you fight, survive and master the battlefield. We’ll also dive deeper into major updates to skill trees and new endgame systems that were first revealed in December. In addition to seeing what’s next for Diablo IV, you’ll also get a glimpse at what’s coming next for Diablo Immortal, Diablo II: Resurrected. Tune-in to our official Twitch and YouTube channels to catch the broadcast. For the first time on Twitch, earn the mark of Diablo and wear your dark allegiance proudly across the platform. From February 11, 2 p.m.—February 25, 11:59 p.m. PST, subscribe to any eligible streamer in the Diablo IV category to unlock this exclusive gothic badge—reserved for those who answered the call. Hot off the heels of the Diablo Spotlight, join us in the Sanctuary Discord on February 12 at 11 a.m. PST to sit down with developers to discuss everything covered in the broadcast. Join the live Q&A segment in the Sanctuary Discord where we’ll answer your