Security firm Socket found that the Chrome and Firefox extension 'Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot,' which promises ad-blocking and forced 1080p playback, secretly captures users' Twitch OAuth session tokens. The credentials are routed through proxy servers run by JeetBot, a Russian-language streaming and chatbot service, where they land in plaintext request logs accessible to the vendor. The extension exempts ten hardcoded Russian-language channels from this behavior, and its own store listing admits earlier versions sent tokens to its servers outright.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-14
Frame Fatales, the women- and femme-focused speedrunning community under Games Done Quick, kicks off its week-long Flame Fatales charity marathon on September 13, streaming daily from 1PM ET until midnight on Twitch and YouTube through September 19. The event features over 50 runs, including a chaos-modded Super Mario 64 race and an Animal Crossing bingo challenge, with proceeds going to the Malala Fund's push for girls' secondary education worldwide.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-10
The Ladybird browser project shipped a major August update that adds video streaming support for Twitch and more YouTube formats through expanded Media Source Extensions codec support, plus CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging tools in DevTools, pausable downloads, and session restore. The team also shifted focus toward performance, introducing a new style engine, layout caching, off-main-thread CSS animations, and moving CSS parsing and painting pipelines to Rust for safety.
ladybird.org
· 2026-09-04
Spanish entrepreneur Alvaro Gellings shared at the OOAK Mastermind conference in Italy how he built rapid-growth companies by partnering with online creators instead of relying solely on paid advertising. After selling a gaming company built on ad spend, a chance conversation with a Twitch streamer convinced him that audience reach itself had commercial value, leading him to co-found fashion label Ama Studios with German influencers Trymacs and Amar, which generated about $1.4 million in sales within its first launch hour in 2021. He later applied the same model to a 2024 sportswear venture, Day One, with athlete Arda Saatçi.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-02
Pearl Abyss has launched a free 20-minute playable demo of Crimson Desert that runs entirely through Twitch's cloud streaming, requiring no download or installation. The demo works on any device with a web browser, though notably not on current game consoles. It coincides with the rollout of Crimson Desert Enhanced, a major free update released last week.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-02
A new breakdown outlines how fans can watch most NFL games this season without a costly cable package by combining a digital antenna, NFL Plus, and Amazon Prime Video for Thursday games. It also notes that international, holiday, and Super Bowl games are scattered across Netflix, CBS, Fox, NBC, Peacock, ESPN, and ABC, meaning no single cheap service covers everything.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-30
Rockstar Games released a 26-minute gameplay preview of Grand Theft Auto VI, ahead of its November 19th launch, drawing nearly 10 million YouTube views in a day. The footage also aired on Netflix, where traffic was so heavy some viewers hit error messages, and Twitch reported bandwidth strain from fans reacting to the clip. Sensor Tower estimates the game already has roughly 4.6 million preorders.
games.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-29
A class action lawsuit filed by Connecticut streamer Warren Pandiscia accuses Amazon of using Twitch users' broadcasts to train its AI models without consent or compensation. The suit claims this violates Twitch's contract with streamers, who collectively produced over 215 million hours of content in early 2026 alone. It seeks damages plus a court order to stop Amazon from continuing the practice.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-08-24
A lawsuit accuses Twitch and its parent company Amazon of using streamers' broadcasted content to train artificial intelligence systems without proper consent or compensation. The suit claims this practice exploited creators' work for commercial AI development purposes they never agreed to.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-23
Connecticut-based streamer Warren Pandiscia has filed a class action lawsuit against Twitch and Amazon, alleging the companies used his streams and videos to train AI models without licensing or consent. The suit follows Twitch's recent rollout of an opt-out (rather than opt-in) setting for AI training use of channel content, with a Twitch executive admitting few users would opt in if given the choice upfront.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-23
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