Let’s explore the best alternatives to Discord Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of 2026, and users are concerned about the privacy of uploading a government ID or face scan to the network. While users can still access most features without verification, many remain uneasy giving more information to a company that suffered a...

Money transfer app Duc exposed thousands of driver’s licenses and passports to the open web A publicly accessible Amazon-hosted storage server allowed anyone with a web browser to access potentially hundreds of thousands of people’s personal data without needing a password. This included driver’s licenses, passports, and other personal information collected by the Duc App, a money-transfer...

ChatGPT’s new GPT-5.3 Instant model will stop telling you to calm down Take a breath, stop spiraling. You’re not crazy, you’re just stressed. And honestly, that’s okay. If you felt immediately triggered reading these words, you’re probably also sick of ChatGPT constantly talking to you as if you’re in some sort of crisis and need delicate handling. Now, things may be improving. OpenAI says...

Australia to investigate rape and torture claims by flotilla activists against Israeli forcesGlobal Sumud FlotillaJuliet Lamont, Neve O'Connor, Gemma O'Toole and Luca Lamont were detained in May by Israeli forcesThe Australian Federal Police (AFP) are investigating claims that Israeli forces raped and tortured a group of activists who were detained after trying to deliver aid to Gaza by...

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them  In 2026, you cannot pry AI coding tools out of developers’ vise grip, researchers have discovered.   But while AI is undoubtedly helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, other researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them.  Specifically,...