Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted using Discord applications. But Discord has ...

In March, Discord began testing its new and improved Clyde bot, which uses OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence technology to act more like a chatbot. Think of it like Discord’s own version of ...

Artificially intelligent text generation tools like ChatGPT and the Bing search engine’s chatbot have many rightly scared about the tech’s long-term impact, folks are finding new ways to crank out ...

A single swatter allegedly placed more than 20 bogus police calls in 11 states and Canada in a little under four months. Reading time 2 minutes Swatting has become a game for some, and in this most ...

Nicole Clark (she/her) is a culture editor at Polygon, and a critic covering internet culture, video games, books, and TV, with work in the NY Times, Vice, and Catapult. In March, Discord began ...