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Boop et Chocomino sont 2 jeux de société parfaits pour se remonter le moral
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Sunday, 7 July - 11:25
Découvrez deux jeux de société placés sous le signe du réconfort : Boop et Chocomino.
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Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 26 April - 18:06
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Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down.
404 Media, which broke the story of Spy Pet's offerings, reports that Spy Pet seems mostly shut down . Spy Pet's website was unavailable as of this writing. A Discord spokesperson told Ars that the company's safety team had been "diligently investigating" Spy Pet and that it had banned accounts affiliated with it.
"Scraping our services and self-botting are violations of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines," the spokesperson wrote. "In addition to banning the affiliated accounts, we are considering appropriate legal action." The spokesperson noted that Discord server administrators can adjust server permissions to prevent future such monitoring on otherwise public servers.
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C’est quoi AirChat, ce nouveau réseau social basé sur la voix qui cartonne ?
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 19 April - 17:08
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Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 17 April - 19:42 · 1 minute
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It's easy to get the impression that Discord chat messages are ephemeral, especially across different public servers, where lines fly upward at a near-unreadable pace. But someone claims to be catching and compiling that data and is offering packages that can track more than 600 million users across more than 14,000 servers.
Joseph Cox at 404 Media confirmed that Spy Pet, a service that sells access to a database of purportedly 3 billion Discord messages, offers data "credits" to customers who pay in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other cryptocurrency. Searching individual users will reveal the servers that Spy Pet can track them across, a raw and exportable table of their messages, and connected accounts, such as GitHub. Ominously, Spy Pet lists more than 86,000 other servers in which it has "no bots," but "we know it exists."
An example of Spy Pet's service from its website. Shown are a user's nicknames, connected accounts, banner image, server memberships, and messages across those servers tracked by Spy Pet. [credit: Spy Pet ]
As Cox notes, Discord doesn't make messages inside server channels, like blog posts or unlocked social media feeds, easy to publicly access and search. But many Discord users many not expect their messages, server memberships, bans, or other data to be grabbed by a bot, compiled, and sold to anybody wishing to pin them all on a particular user. 404 Media confirmed the service's function with multiple user examples. Private messages are not mentioned by Spy Pet and are presumably still secure.
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Nourrissez vos animaux à distance avec ce distributeur de croquettes à moitié prix
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 11 April - 08:34
[Deal du jour] Si votre chat ou votre chien vous réclame souvent des croquettes, un distributeur connecté peut s'avérer utile quand vous n'êtes pas à chez vous. Ce modèle de Xiaomi est peu cher à son tarif de base, mais devient bien plus intéressant à (presque) moitié prix.
