Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

Katy Shi, a researcher who works on Codex's behavior at OpenAI, says that while some folks describe its default personality ...

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

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
PCMag

It Took Me Just 2 Hours to Vibe Code a Mass Surveillance Site With OpenAI's Codex

With zero coding skills, and in a disturbingly short time, I was able to assemble camera feeds from around the world into a ...
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.
TechCrunch

Discord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash

Discord no longer plans to roll out age verification globally in March and is delaying the launch until the second half of 2026, the company announced Tuesday. Discord had faced heavy backlash from ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...