Russia is banning chat platform Discord, the Washington Post reports. The app joins platforms like Facebook and X, which have also been blocked in the country since the start of its war with Ukraine. The twist is that the Russian military relies on Discord to coordinate communications, since the military doesn’t have its own platforms […]
Iranian hackers charged with hacking Trump campaign to ‘stoke discord’
The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against three hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing the trio of a four-year-long hacking campaign that included this year’s hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. On Friday, U.S. prosecutors published an indictment accusing Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, and Yasar (Yaser) Balaghi of […]
Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats
Discord, one of the largest group chat apps in the world, announced on Tuesday that audio and video calls inside the platform will now be end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), meaning even Discord won’t know what users in those conversations talk about. In the last 10 years, end-to-end encrypted chat went from being a rare exception — […]
A16z’s Joshua Lu says AI is already radically changing video games and Discord is the future
Andreessen Horowitz’s partner Joshua Lu knows that, in the video game industry, you can never get too comfortable. When he was head of product at Zynga, he experienced the height of mobile games, working on hits like Words with Friends; then as a vice president at Blizzard Entertainment, he helped produce tentpole hits like Diablo […]
Fans Fear Group Is “Crashing Out” Following Idol’s Admission Of Serious Discord Between The Members And Company
Fans are growing more and more concerned for boy group n.SSign. In 2022, the survival program Stars Awakening selected seven competitors to form the final group, n.SSign. The following year, after pre-debut activities, n.SSign was restructured, adding three new members before their official debut on August 9, 2023. Earlier this summer, many were shocked by several messages shared […]