Minecraft players in the UK with adult accounts will have to complete age checks starting in February to continue using the ...

Medicare beneficiaries will see major updates in the new year as Medicare.gov transitions to use ID.me and CLEAR. The new ID tools will used to verify recipients’ identity online following major ...

In a nutshell: Discord is finally acknowledging a long-running problem: its Windows 11 app can quietly chew through far more RAM than it should. And with memory prices climbing again, users are paying ...

From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong. I've been covering the tech industry, ...

The “Verification Required” screen in Discord appears when the platform detects activity that differs from your usual behavior. This automated security measure is designed to protect both your account ...

While the IPO market is frozen during the government shutdown, Discord is poised for an initial public offering that would break a multiyear drought in gaming and interactive entertainment stocks to ...

There's a broader concern coming out of the Discord breach. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Seventy-thousand. That's the number of users who may have had their ...

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Texas law that requires age verification on certain websites to go into effect. But another, lesser-known Texas law is about to go into force, too.

Discord Confirms 70K Govt IDs Exposed in Breach, Hackers Are Posting People's Age-Verification Selfies Online Discord also confirms that hackers accessed user data by breaching a third-party service ...

The breach of thousands of Discord users’ data appears to be worse than initially reported, as details of the age verification data lost to hackers are reported. Zendesk is identified as Discord’s ...

Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site. Like an increasing number of sites, Discord requires certain ...