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Services like Snapchat and WhatsApp are popular ways to send quick photo and video messages, but Skype is now getting in on that action with its new  Qik app . Essentially Skype Lite, Qik users can share short videos as a one-off message or part of a conversation. It's available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone today, though not all features are available on all platforms at launch. "We know you love your weekly Skype calls with family or friends [but] Qik keeps you connected in between," Skype program managers Piero Sierra and Dan Chastney wrote in  a blog post . "Dinner with friends? Bored at work? Having a great day in the park? Go on, share it right from your phone." The Snapchat-meets-Skype service stores videos for only two weeks, and makes it easy for Android and Windows Phone users to delete a message from the chat, even if it's already been viewed. You can also block contacts on Android and Windows Phone, a feature that will be availab...

Last night a slew of nude pictures started showing up on 4chan. Not terribly unusual, except these were images  apparently snagged  from hundreds of thousands of  Snapchat  users. The event has been dubbed “the Snappening,” named after a previous nude photo hack called “The Fappening.” A month ago, a group of hackers found their way into several celebrity iCloud accounts, stole nude images found there, and posted them to 4chan. Most notable among the people targeted was actress Jennifer Lawrence, who called the incident a  sex crime . This time, hackers took photos from 200,000 accounts, according to social media consultant and writer  Kenny Withers . Snapchat has issued the following statement to VentureBeat in response, confirming that a hack has occured. But Snapchat makes clear that its “servers were never breached” and played no role in the hack [emphasis ours]: We can confirm that  Snapchat’s s...