AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...
Associated Press

Discord delays global age verification rollout after criticism

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Futurism

Discord’s Verification Saga Has Devolved Into a Complete Self-Inflicted Embarrassment

Back on February 9, the company announced that it was launching “enhanced teen safety features” that would require underage users across the world to have their faces scanned or upload a form of ID.
HotHardware

Discord Concludes Persona Age Check Pilot As UK Privacy Concerns Erupt (Updated)

Update 2/24: This article was originally titled "Discord Drops Persona After Users Blast UK Age Checks And Data Practices". Per a statement we received from Discord after publishing, we've altered the ...
Security Boulevard

How Discord Can Expose Corporate Data

Discord improves collaboration, but a compromised account can expose credentials, customer data and internal plans. Learn the risks and how to reduce exposure.
Yahoo

Discord distances itself from Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found on a Google Cloud endpoint

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Persona, partially funded by Peter Thiel’s venture firm Founders Fund, continues to provide age verification services for OpenAI, ...
Kotaku

Discord Says It Knows You Don’t Want Age-Verification Requirements But It’s Rolling Them Out Anyway After A Short Delay

Discord hears you. It gets your concerns. It wants to win back your trust. That’s the message from cofounder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who announced the company’s controversial new ...
Lifehacker

Now Discord Is Saying It's Delaying Global Age Verification

Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops, phones, and more for over 10 years. She is based in New York City and holds a master's degree from NYU. In a post ...
The Verge

Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash

The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end. The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end. is a news writer who ...
Wired

The Rise of RentAHuman, the Marketplace Where Bots Put People to Work

WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss." Following the release of ...
PC Gamer

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

Gaming Industry An AI-generated review of Resident Evil Requiem written by a fake 'iGaming and sports betting analyst' briefly hit Metacritic AI Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an ...
PC Gamer

US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms ...

DHS has issued hundreds of subpoenas to major online platforms to obtain the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of accountholders who criticize ICE. When you purchase through links on our site, ...