Day: July 24, 2018

The Camp’s first live show starts on July 31st at 5PM Eastern, when a handful of partnered Twitch streamers will answer questions. You’ll also have access to on-demand videos from successful streamers and a calendar of future events if you’re looking for more advice.

There’s a strong financial incentive for Twitch to offer this helping hand: the more people improve the quality of their broadcasts and make careers out of livestreaming, the more likely viewers are to stay tuned in. Even so, there’s no question that this could be genuinely helpful. Livestreaming is still a relatively arcane field with concepts like overlays, channel bots and Discord chats. Although this won’t guarantee Ninja-level fame and fortune by any stretch, it might encourage you to stream on a regular basis if you were previously too nervous.

The price of the 5G-oriented service is still “under discussion,” the sources said. YouTube TV costs $40 per month, though, so we wouldn’t expect that price to vary unless there are significant changes.

Apple and YouTube have declined to comment. We’ve asked Verizon if it can speak about the subject as well. Regardless of what Verizon says, there’s little doubt that it would want help providing video — the company’s in-house offerings haven’t fared very well. It’s shutting down its free Go90 service after struggling to find a wide audience, and it quietly dropped a live TV initiative that would have taken on the likes of DirecTV Now and Sling TV. Even if a partnership was only temporary (as CFO Matt Ellis hinted in May), it could represent the network’s best chance at a ‘hook’ that convinces early adopters to climb aboard.

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According to the DHS, the long-running Russian campaign has affected “hundreds of victims,” and some companies may not even know they’ve been compromised as the attacks relied on the credentials of actual employees, making intrusions harder to identify. The attack is believed to have surfaced in spring 2016 and could still be continuing.

However, while the potential consequences of these attacks are serious, some experts maintain that the tangible risks are no greater than they were before these fresh attacks came to light. After a similar hacking revelation last year, CEO of cybersecurity firm Dragos Robert M. Lee wrote that “Our adversaries are at the starting point of their journey to cause significant disruption to our power grid, not the finish line.”

Following the most recent news of Russian interference, Lee took to Twitter to reiterate that while the warnings of threats are important, much of the language used in reporting them is “not helpful and often misleading.” He noted that cyber threats to industrial infrastructure are getting more aggressive, but urged people not to “hype up” the issue, adding that “It’s bad enough without added fear.”