I understand why Town & Country shoehorned three techies into their "Sexiest Bachelors 2014" list. If coders are the new bankers, and bankers were the new imperial vassal lords (or something), it fits. To a regressive glossy, powerful parvenues are the best bachelors—but try not picking the creepiest in Startupland.

This guest post originally appeared on Symantec.com. A few weeks after our blog post about porn and secret admirer spam targeting Snapchat users, a new spam campaign using sexually suggestive photos and compromised custom URLs is circulating on the photo messaging app.

Those private ephemeral ads for losing pounds and enhancing penis size you see above appeared in my Snapchat feed yesterday, along with a handful of new "friends" in my contacts. I'm not the only one being inundated by spam.

OMFG: the startup scene is ablaze with the same lip gloss-smudged rumor: Spring Fling tiara-wearer Taylor Swift and sociopathic app dude Evan Spiegel kissed with their mouths on New Year's Eve.

Over a week after fucking up your privacy, Snapchat says it's "sorry" for a security hole that put your phone number in the open. All it took was universal umbrage!

In a recent interview with Forbes as part of their "30 Under 30" bonanza, the mag sat down and talked Facebook diplomacy with Evan Spiegel, the young, sorta-sociopathic chief executive of Snapchat. He tried to look cocky-confident, but with the truth out, he just looks like a cock.

An app that lets you send disappearing pictures and videos now has an at least very slight influence in our American democratic process, The Hill reports.

If money is the root of all evil, inflated venture-backed paper valuation is probably the root of acting like a Silicon Valley dick: friends say Snapchat's David Kravitz, part of the startup's inner circle, needs to do a social media disappearing act.

The $3 billion boy, Evan Spiegel, had a very good New Year's Eve. He allegedly partied at a lavish L.A. company fete with Taylor Swift and coworkers, looking back on a meteoric 2013. His millions of users, however, had their phone numbers stolen—and so far, he doesn't think he owes anyone an apology.

In a new Q&A with the Wall Street Journal, Marc Andreessen argues that skeptics who predict the second coming of the dotcom bubble "just don't know what they're talking about." This time around, he says, it's all about building a franchise, baby.

Snapchat issued a statement about the security breach that exposed 4.6 million accounts. The company promised better privacy protection with the next update, but apparently brogramming means never having to say you're sorry.

On Bloomberg West today, Christopher Soghoian, a former privacy advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, said that after its recent security breach Snapchat better lawyer up because a federal investigation and class action lawsuits are undoubtedly coming its way.

Fresh off of being hacked, Snapchat's logo makes an appearance at the Rose Bowl, in honor of the university that birthed it. Technically, guys, it shouldn't have eyes or a mouth, which were removed due to the startup's ongoing legal battle.

While everyone was drunk last night, hackers published the user names and private phone numbers ("private") of 4.6 million Snapchat profiles. This comes directly after the startup, valued for its privacy, ignored the exact security hole that made this possible.

On Christmas Eve, Gibson Security published information on how to exploit loopholes in Snapchat's security that "allow mass matching of phone numbers with names and mass creation of bogus accounts," reports ZDNet. Gibson published the codes because they were "sick of" Snapchat ignoring their warning since August.

After all that jazz, Snapchat confirmed to TechCrunch that it only raised $50 million for its Series C round from a little known hedge fund called Coatue Management. Although Evan Spiegel says the cofounders didn't cash out this time around, Dan Primack has a theory that secondaries might have been sold separately.

The volume of pure resentment spewing out of Snapchat is approaching early-Winklevoss levels: TechCrunch reports the co-creators, embroiled in legal grappling, are now asking for a restraining order against their former friend after alleged leaks to the press.

According to a Business Insider report, a new regulatory filing unearthed by VCExperts, which measures data on private companies, shows that Snapchat will only raise $54 million, a steep drop from the rumored $200 million round. But the biggest nosedive is the ephemeral trendsetter's valuation. The filing says investors value Snapchat at $2 billion—not the $3 billion, or $3.5 billion, or $4 billion previously reported.

When you can afford something like this, why not turn down $3 billion? Ha ha, joking, that's still baffling. At least Bobby Murphy, the other, 25-year-old, slightly less Machiavellian guy behind Snapchat, can ponder his business moves in a new, $2.1 million, ultra-modern Venice Beach fortress. [via Curbed]

Snapchat's 23-year-old founder continues his goodwill campaign: in a video deposition clip obtained by Business Insider, Evan Spiegel says his only regrets about forcing out his partner is "the generosity" of letting him work for free.