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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Insecure TLS certificates will be ‘a massive cleanup job’ for system admins.

Eight certificates issued by India-based eMudhra have been compromised, theoretically allowing attackers to spoof trusted browser and app credentials. Cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda told Ars that the number of affected devices means it’ll take longer to clean up than Heartbleed, an infamous OpenSSL vulnerability that rocked the internet in 2014 and took years to fix.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
YouTube has a new way to protect hacked channels.

When unusual activity is detected on an account, the platform will now temporarily pause features for 24 hours, including uploading or updating videos, livestreaming, creating or adjusting playlists, uploading thumbnails, and making private videos public. Full feature access will be restored once the account’s security is verified.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Xbox is experimenting with a blades dashboard.

Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet has been “cooking up retro vibes” as part of Microsoft’s new Xbox Labs effort. The result is what looks like a vibecoded option to pick your dashboard on an Xbox console. This is simply an experiment right now and it’s not clear if we’ll ever see such an option, but Xbox CEO Asha Sharma asks “blades on the web. Do we like this experiment?”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Twitch’s new Stream Recaps let you catch up on a stream you missed.

Twitch describes the recaps as a “highlight reel.” By default, they include clips made by a streamer and their editors, but Twitch says streamers can add, remove, or edit clips.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Elon Musk believes Starlink connectivity could generate “several hundred billion dollars a year” in revenue.

During today’s Q3 SpaceX earnings call, Musk also said the company should “probably” do a “longer presentation on the game plan” for the business.

In Q3, SpaceX’s Connectivity business reported $5.2 billion in revenue, and the company recently acquired low-band spectrum as part of a plan to become a “major mobile carrier” that competes with T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon.

You can read more about SpaceX’s earnings in our story here.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Who slowed down Ukraine’s Starlink? Trump and Musk call not-it.

After Ukraine said a Starshield slowdown had interrupted its military operations, Elon Musk claimed any limits “are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.” Then the president told reporters, “It wasn’t me... and I don’t think it was Elon.”

Now WSJ sources are pointing the finger back at Musk, with some claiming “Musk acted unilaterally.”