Discord confirmed that around 70,000 users had their government ID photos exposed in a third-party data breach involving its customer support vendor.
The Covid-19 lockdowns turned Discord into a lifeline for millions, helping friends, students and online communities stay connected. Today it hosts more than 200 million monthly users across the world.
Russia has for several years ordered foreign technology platforms to remove content it regards as illegal, issuing relatively small but regular fines when it rules that companies have failed to comply.
Discord, the popular gaming communication platform, has now introduced audio and video calls inside the platform with end-to-end encryption. This enables improved security to ensure that the app’s servers don’t access the user data.
The platform came under scrutiny after an NBC investigation last month found that the platform was being used for child grooming, extortion and exploitation.
Jack Teixeira was a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. He is accused of leaking classified military documents in an online Discord group.
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The bug caused performance drops on Nvidia GPUs if Discord was running in the background
The team will collaborate with selected users to give them early access to new features and gather feedback
OpenAI shared a waitlist on their official discord server which surveys interest in payment options
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The Discord and PlayStation integration will begin.
Yet another competitor to Clubhouse
Discord has reached out to potential buyers and Microsoft is one of them, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter, while one of them said it was more likely to go public than sell itself.