From welcoming new members to automating complex workflows, Discord bots are the secret sauce behind thriving online ...

Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots. Meta has acquired Moltbook, the social media network where AI agents interact ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

A Python-based malware family known as VVS stealer has been observed using advanced obfuscation and stealth techniques to target Discord users and extract sensitive ...

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When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed. “But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as ...

An X user is threatening to sue the company after Elon Musk’s AI-powered chatbot Grok wrote graphic rape fantasies about him in multiple public posts on the social media platform. Responding to ...

Federal prosecutors ripped down hundreds of artificial intelligence-generated phony social media accounts used by Russian operatives to create a "bot farm" that spread lies and pro-Vladimir Putin ...

A malicious package named 'pycord-self' on the Python package index (PyPI) targets Discord developers to steal authentication tokens and plant a backdoor for remote control over the system. The ...

Your Discord status reflects what you are currently up to, whether you are completing a quest in a game, or just hanging out with friends in a voice chat. The right status can best help represent you, ...

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