6 posts tagged ‘instant messaging’
UC Irvine Students Hospitalized After Hackers Sent Disgusting Images to Their Discord Server
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A disturbing cyberattack on Discord reportedly sent some University of California, Irvine students to the hospital on Wednesday, according to a CBS News report. Hackers infiltrated student Discord servers and bombarded them with graphic images that reportedly traumatized students, causing them to cry, vomit, and even… Read more...
Come Chat With Jezebel on Discord
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Jezebel has joined Discord, and we want you—our beloved, brilliant readers—to join us there. You can find our server here, and to kick off our journey on this new (to us) social platform, Jezebel staff writer and noted internet addict Kylie Cheung will be live chatting during tonight’s GOP debate. The debate starts at… Read more...
Apple Quashes Beeper Mini App to Lord Over the Blue Bubbles
Apple isn’t keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android users send blue bubble messages to their friends and family on iPhone by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol. Read more...
Android iMessage-Style Messaging App Sunbird Shuts Down Over Serious Privacy Concerns
This week brought a series of disasters (and quite some embarrassment) to Android messaging apps that were trying hard to break the infamous green-blue bubble barrier between Android and Apple users. It started with the failure of Nothing Chats and recently extended to the shutdown of Sunbird. Read more...
Nothing's Failed iMessages Workaround Was Too Good To Be True
Last week was certainly exciting for the prospect of green and blue bubbles finding peace and harmony in the chat realm, though that excitement was a bit premature in Nothing’s case. Read more...
It's Time to Say Goodbye to Clyde, Discord's AI Chatbot
Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot, Clyde, in December. Considering it was introduced just earlier this year, why it’s being shut down so soon is unclear. Read more...