After the alarm was initially raised about Persona, Discord claimed its work with the Thiel-backed firm was only temporary, and that it didn’t have new contacts with it moving forward. It also ...

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Some Discord users are flocking to open-source messaging protocol Matrix. But will it also be forced to require face scans or ...

Discord's plan to require face scans or ID verification is capitulation to overbearing legislation that's still far from ...

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You open Discord, tap into a channel you’ve used before, and suddenly everything’s blocked or blurred. Then you see it: a prompt to verify your age. In that ...

But to aim all the ire at Discord misses the point and fails to tackle the real issue: the haphazard age-verification regulations that have been passed by governments worldwide with the intent of ...

The company stressed not everyone will need to verify their age, and that for many users their experience using Discord won't ...

“LummaStealer is back at scale, despite a major 2025 law-enforcement takedown that disrupted thousands of its command-and-control domains,” researchers from security firm Bitdefender wrote. “The ...