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InfoSec in 2023 is in a strange place. The leaked (and altered) security files on Ukraine that have been floating around seem to have emerged out of a series of Discord servers. Bellingcat says the trail leads through a Discord server focused on Minecraft and a Filipino YouTuber:

We’re still waiting for podcasts to drop on YouTube Music, but the streamer continues to take baby steps to support podcasts on the main platform. Now that you can designate playlists as podcasts on YouTube, creators can also file them under an official Podcasts tab on their channels, reports 9to5Google.

YouTube has issued a warning about phishing emails that appear to come from [email protected], an official email address. This serves as a reminder that even if an email looks legit, always double-check to see if the content passes the sniff test so you don’t get hacked.

It feels like barely a week goes by without a prominent YouTube channel getting hacked to promote crypto scams. This time it’s Linus Tech Tips, one of the biggest tech YouTube accounts — with 15.3 million subscribers. The channel has been taken over by scammers live streaming crypto scam videos. These breaches have been happening for well over a year, and it’s beyond time YouTube helped protect creators from falling victims to this.

YouTube TV is making its new multiview feature available to all customers sooner than expected. The streaming TV service originally planned to start with an “early access” group and expand from there, but the March Madness fervor has proven overwhelming. People want their basketballs games. All the games at once.

YouTube has rolled out some features in YouTube Studio so you can get your podcasts all set up for appearing in YouTube Music. But that’s still a little ways off: “Podcast inclusion in the YouTube Music app is coming soon to creators in the US,” YouTube writes on a support page.

Its 2021 shutdown followed this NYT article (called a “hit job” at the time by founder and CEO Carlos Watson) exposing the whole thing as a sham, reporting COO Samir Rao pretended to be a YouTube executive while on a call with potential investors.

Neal Mohan was the chief product officer back then — we’ll have to have him back now that he’s in charge as SVP.

Feeling insecure about the Canadian presence on digital streamers and social media, the Canadian government is days away from passing a law requiring more Canadian content on TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, Netflix and so on...

All monetizing creators on the platform are now able to earn ad revenue on videos that use licensed music — a change the platform announced last fall.

This lengthy read from The Atavist Magazine depicts the struggles of one mother who wants her young son to be successful on YouTube — but not at the expense of his safety and well-being.

It’s February 1st, so YouTube Shorts are now eligible for monetization, granting creators a 45 percent share of the revenue generated from viewership.

Last year, TikTok was the event’s main sponsor, highlighting a major shift in the creator video space. This year... YouTube is back. (And surely, it’ll want to remind creators to use YouTube Shorts.)