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Twitch Sues ‘Hate Raid’ Organizers
10.9.2021
Twitch is taking a big stand against the organized harassment campaigns, widely known as “hate raids,” that have proliferated over the past few months by filing a suit against two possible coordinators of the attacks.Read more
Status plans to incentivize node operators for decentralized messaging protocol
10.8.2021
According to the project, one of the pushes for its development was Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently encouraging developers to consider non-financial applications for DeFi
Genshin Impact's Official Discord Hit Its Max User Capacity Forcing Devs To Create A Second Server
31.7.2021
I knew Genshin Impact was a popular game. I also knew it had a ton of active and ravenous players who can’t get enough of the free-to-play online RPG. But I had no idea it was so popular that it was pushing Discord to its limits and forcing the devs to start a second server for everyone.Read more
Unionize
30.7.2021
Steve Kim is a software developer and graphic designer.Read more
How To Buy A PS5 Or Xbox Series X/S
20.7.2021
Trying to get your hands on a PlayStation 5 or one of Microsoft’s next-gen consoles—the Xbox Series X and the smaller, less-powerful Xbox Series S—remains a fool’s errand. Stock sells out as soon as it becomes available. When it pops up from unofficial retailers, it does so with a staggering...
Gamer Chair Apologizes For Bad Tweets, Promises To Do Better
19.7.2021
Vertagear, a self-proclaimed “top gamer chair brand trusted by many esports teams,” is now under fire by everyone else for trying to turn a sexist joke into an edgy meme.Read more
Discord Buys AI Company To Combat A Big Problem: Harassment
14.7.2021
It wasn’t all that long ago that Discord housed some of the internet’s most noxious groups, including white supremacist communities like The Daily Stormer. Since the Charlottesville rally in 2017, however, the chat platform has worked toward slowly but surely cleaning up the mess. But as Discord...
Videogame Article
18.6.2021
Pithy opening that assumes my position as the imparter of information, but also implies my confidence that over a beer we could get on just fine. Declaration of the news story in one line, strongly suggesting—though absolutely not directly saying so—that I am first to break this story.Read more
Kenyan Capital Markets Regulator Wants Better Coordination With Other Bodies When Testing Crypto Assets
7.5.2021
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) says the country needs a more encompassing approach that enables it to leverage other regulators’ expertise when testing crypto assets. Kenyan Crypto Interest Also, the Kenyan body, which favours a joint financial sector regulatory sandbox, says...
Sony Plans To 'Integrate' Discord With PlayStation
3.5.2021
Sony Interactive Entertainment has invested a minority stake in the popular communication app Discord, SIE president Jim Ryan announced today in a blog post. The companies plan to “bring the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile starting early next year.” Read...
Report: Microsoft No Longer In Talks To Buy Discord
20.4.2021
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft was in exclusive talks to acquire Discord. Today, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, those talks are off.Read more
Discord Blocks All iOS Users From Accessing NSFW Servers
13.4.2021
If an iPhone is your main window into Discord’s cacophonous void of yelling gamers, your options just got a lot more limited.Read more
Encrypted Messenger Company Signal Faces Scrutiny Over Mobilecoin Integration
11.4.2021
Signal, the cross-platform encrypted messaging service is facing criticism this week, after the company Signal Messenger told the public it was integrating the cryptocurrency mobilecoin. Moreover, controversy surrounds the company’s founder and CEO Matthew Rosenfeld, known as ‘Moxie...
Encrypted messaging app Signal enables private payments using MobileCoin
7.4.2021
High-speed privacy payments using MOB available to UK users only
Rewards system allows decentralized messaging app users to earn crypto
6.4.2021
The messaging app project was aimed at avoiding third-party data harvesting
Discord Deleted Thousands Of Violent Extremist And Criminal Servers In 2020
6.4.2021
Thanks to the endlessly depressing extent to which covid has kept everybody trapped inside, Discord is more relevant than ever. But as the company revealed in its latest transparency report, that has led to new challenges—and improved efforts to confront other challenges it probably should have...
Private Messaging App Signal Now Accepts Donations in Cryptocurrencies
17.3.2021
The nonprofit foundation behind the privacy-driven messaging app Signal is officially joining the cryptocurrency venture. In this case, the Signal Foundation announced it has started accepting crypto donations. Signal Foundation Also Takes Donations in Privacy Coins According to an announcement...
Signal encrypted messenger now accepts donations in Bitcoin
16.3.2021
Encrypted messaging app Signal has started accepting donations in 12 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ether
Man Charged, Banned From FIFA After Sending Racist DMs To Actual, Legendary Player
4.3.2021
Last May Irish teenager Patrick O’Brien was playing a game of FIFA, and one of the players he was controlling was Arsenal and England legend Ian Wright. O’Brien lost that match, and so decided to jump into Wright’s DMs and send a succession of disgustingly racist attacks.Read more
Welcome To Hell, Bambi
27.2.2021
This week on Snapshots we have some great Assasin’s Creed shots, a laid back Spider-Man, a large rodent in danger, some nice-looking vistas, and one very, very lost deer. Read more