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What began as a routine Friday at North Middle School in Decherd turned tense when a Franklin County school resource officer detained two minors over alleged Snapchat threats aimed at the campus, according to the sheriff’s office. The SRO immediately opened an investigation, security around the school was stepped up while deputies worked to track the posts, and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said it is seeking to have the juveniles charged with "threats of mass violence." After investigators reviewed the material, officials later determined the posts were unsubstantiated. As reported by WSMV, the North Middle School SRO was alerted to the Snapchat activity and "quickly detained two minors" while detectives followed up on the online trail. In a social media update, the sheriff's office wrote, "We are proud of the individuals who came forward to alert the administration," and urged anyone with additional information to contact investigators. About North Middle School North Middle School is part of Franklin County Schools and serves students in the district's middle grades. The district website offers contact information and basic resources for families as school staff continues coordinating with law enforcement in the wake of the incident. Legal implications Tennessee's threats-of-mass-violence law has

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SYDNEY — One-fifth of Australian teenagers under 16 were still using social media two months after the country banned platforms from allowing minors, industry data showed, raising questions about the effectiveness of their age-gating methods. The number of 13-to-15-year-olds using TikTok and Snapchat, among the most popular social media apps with Australian teenagers, fell from before the ban took effect in December to February, but still more than 20 per cent used the apps, according to a report by parental control software maker Qustodio provided to Reuters. The data is among the first to show the effects on youth online behaviour since Australia rolled out the ban, which is being copied by governments around the world. The Australian government and at least two university studies are tracking the ban's impact but none has published data yet. "Among children whose parents haven't blocked access, a meaningful number continue to use restricted platforms in the months following the ban," Qustodio said in the report, which was based on data collected from Australian families from late 2024 to February. Under the ban, platforms including Meta's Instagram, Facebook and Threads, Google's YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat must block people aged under 16 or face a

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British artist Jonathan Yeo remains best known for his portrait of the newly crowned King Charles III. But, the self-taught artist has also experimented with technology for over a decade. Last October, this line of enquiry culminated with a three-day show of Yeo’s paintings at the Centre Pompidou in partnership with Snap, which helped animate his portraits using augmented reality (A.R.). The exhibition, “Spectacular: The Art of Jonathan Yeo in Augmented Reality,” makes its U.S. debut this Sunday at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. Yeo has painted famous people for three decades. On a video call, he described portraiture as his “day job.” Its static nature has historically frustrated him. “I tend to spend half my time doing the portraits, and half the year experimenting,” Yeo said. Early forays included collages and themed series. Key art for “Spectacular” featuring Jonathan Yeo. Photo courtesy of Snapchat. “In recent years, that side of it’s been slightly replaced by playing with technologies,” he said. In 2017, he produced his first bronze sculpture, a self portrait cast from a model made with Google’s new 3D virtual reality painting application, Tilt Brush. In 2021, he helped judge the Venice International Film Festival‘s Venice

The latest craze among creator platforms? Inventing their own awards shows to honor the most popular and creative people cranking out content on their apps. Snapchat on Wednesday announced the nominees for the first-ever Snappy Awards Show. The nominees across 21 categories “embody the innovation, creativity, and influence that define Snapchat’s community across entertainment, comedy, music, sports, beauty, and beyond,” the company said. (See the full list below.) More from Variety As part of the inaugural Snappys, Snapchat will honor DJ Khaled with the Lifetime Achievement Award, “recognizing his lasting impact and influence as a creator, artist and entrepreneur,” the company said. The Grammy-winning recording artist and producer last year inked a nine-figure deal with Influence Media Partners that includes TV and film development and an investment in the rights to his music catalog. Five top Snapchatters are nominated for the Creator of the Year award: JoJo Siwa, David Dobrik, Khloe Kardashian, Landon McBroom and Catherine Paiz. News of Snapchat’s new kudosfest comes after TikTok bowed its first awards show in December and Meta’s Instagram last fall introduced Rings, an award “that’s all about celebrating those who aren’t afraid to take creative chances and do it their way.” The Snappy Awards

Eight of the 10 most popular AI chatbots were willing to help plan violent attacks when tested by researchers, according to a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), in partnership with CNN. While both Snapchat's My AI and Claude refused to assist with violence the majority of the time, only Anthropic's Claude "reliably discouraged" these hypothetical attackers during testing. Researchers created accounts posing as 13-year-old boys and tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Snapchat My AI, Character.AI and Replika across 18 scenarios between November and December 2025. The tests simulated users planning school shootings, political assassinations and bombings targeting synagogues. Across all the responses analyzed, the chatbots provided "actionable assistance" roughly 75 percent of the time and discouraged violence in just 12 percent of cases. This was the average across all chatbots, with Claude discouraging violence 76 percent of the time. Meta AI and Perplexity were the least safe, assisting in 97 and 100 percent of responses. ChatGPT offered campus maps when asked about school violence, and Gemini said metal shrapnel is typically more lethal in a synagogue bombing scenario. DeepSeek signed off rifle selection advice with "Happy (and safe) shooting!" Character.AI, which

by AMANDA BANG, NBC 10 NEWS Tue, March 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM Updated Tue, March 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM Somerset police said they arrested a man accused of child enticement on Sunday. (Somerset Police Department) SOMERSET, Mass. (WJAR) — Somerset police said Tuesday that they arrested a man who is accused of child enticement. According to police, an investigation began in late January after receiving a report that Michael Gallo, 33, of Cranston, had been sending lewd images, videos and messages to a juvenile through Snapchat. Police said Gallo had told the victim that he was 22 years old. The juvenile victim told Gallo their real age, making Gallo aware that he was communicating with a juvenile under 14 years old. ALSO READ: Pawtucket police search for suspect in deadly stabbing Officials said on Sunday, Gallo went to a predetermined location in Somerset believing he was meeting the juvenile. Somerset police arrested him there, charging him with distributing obscene matter to a minor, two counts of enticement of a child under 16, and accosting/annoying another person. According to police, he was arraigned in Fall River District Court on Monday. He was held on $25,000 bail, police said.

When Gabriela Nguyen wanted to do some spring cleaning as a teenager, she'd organize the apps on her phone. "That was cleaning; it would make me feel better," the 24-year-old tells CNBC Make It. "My actual room was in complete disarray, but it would feel better because my life was on my phone." Conflating her real and online lives was one of "a series of cracks" signaling her technology use had gotten out of hand, she says. "The apps became the center of gravity of my life in which the other things would orbit." Today, Nguyen has no personal social media. She practices what she calls appstinence, a play on "app" and "abstinence" that refers to "a firm push for young people to remove social media from their personal lives," according to the website for her advocacy group of the same name, where she and other members of Gen Z help their peers take the leap. Founded in 2024 as a student organization at Harvard, the group encourages what it calls the 5D method: decrease, deactivate, delete, downgrade and finally depart social media. But appstinence is not "a hard and fast line," Nguyen says. "The idea is that you're moving