TikTok is laying off dozens of workers in its advertising and sales unit, becoming the latest tech company to trim jobs in the new year.

The Pentagon is announcing its plans for tightening protections of classified information following the explosive leaks of hundreds of intelligence documents that were accessed through security gaps at a Massachusetts Air National Guard base.

Discord is a social app favored by gamers.

Step into a U.S. military recreation hall at a base almost anywhere in the world and you’re bound to see young troops immersed in the world of online games.

The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking highly classified documents that have caused an international uproar had set his sights on joining the military from an early age.

A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman has appeared in court, accused in the leak of highly classified military documents.

The chatting app Discord is one of the most popular ways gamers communicate online.

A Massachusetts Air National Guard member has been arrested in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues.

A major leak of classified U.S. documents that’s shaken Washington and exposed new details of its intelligence gathering may have started in a chatroom on a social media platform popular with gamers.

Florida Gators quarterback Jalen Kitna was arrested Wednesday on child pornography charges, according to the Gainesville Police Department.

Shortly before police say he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary.

For months, the nationwide protests against racial injustice and COVID-19 lockdown orders have attracted all manner of extremists using online platforms to plan, coordinate and drum up support for their activities. One of the posts about the Kenosha shooting said one of Jake's guys provided unspecified medical care while the other was escorting the kid to safety," presumably referring to Rittenhouse. To avoid the ban, some boogaloo groups relaunched pages under innocuous sounding names. An Aug. 12 report by the Tech Transparency Project found that Facebook's slow and ineffective response has allowed many boogaloo groups to avoid detection using simple re-branding techniques. It's pretty obvious that they're just saying that because they're worried they're going to be removed from the service," she said.

Officials say the students sent "threatening messages" on a gaming app and social media platforms. ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Three middle schoolers were charged in connection with a "potential assault" on their school in the Greater Rochester area Thursday, authorities say. The students were removed from Albion Middle School, northwest of Rochester, pending an investigation into "inappropriate and threatening messages" disseminated on a gaming app and social media platforms, according to the Albion Central School District superintendent. The school district formed a threat assessment team including local authorities and the FBI to investigate the threat, the letter says. Discord, the online gaming app, is a voice and text chat app designed specifically for gamers, according to its app description.

(CNN) - Brandon Clark, who is accused of killing 17-year-old Bianca Devins, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, according to his attorney, Luke Nebush of the Oneida County Public Defender's Office. Clark, 21, is accused of killing Devins on July 14 and then posting gruesome pictures of her body online. A motive remains uncertainPolice said Clark and Devins met on Instagram about two months ago and grew close. ... We are looking at the dynamics of the relationship, what the relationship meant to him, what the relationship meant to her. And it was on a social app for gamers, Discord, where Clark posted photos of Devins' body, police say.

(CNN) - He's accused of killing a teen internet personality and posting gruesome photos of her body online. Now, Brandon Andrew Clark, 21, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Bianca Devins, according to Utica police in upstate New York. The body of Devins, a popular personality among internet gamers, was found under a tarp nearby. A motive remains uncertainPolice said Clark and Devins met on Instagram about two months ago and grew close. And it was on a social app for gamers, Discord, where Clark posted photos of Devins' body, police say.

Police said the suspect in her death shared photos of her body on the gaming chat app Discord. Bianca Devins grew her following across several apps where she shared photos and details about her life. The callsAround 7:20 a.m. Sunday, police responded to several 911 calls in Utica, New York, about a suicidal man who claimed to have killed a woman, the department said. When officers arrived, the man began to stab his neck with a knife, police said. "It is believed that he took and distributed photographs of the killing on the Discord platform," police said.