A feature offered by Twitch, the Amazon-owned live video streaming platform that's popular with teens and kids, is being used by predators to record and share child sexual abuse content, per a Bloomberg News analysis.
The big picture: The investigation reveals another way predators have used evolving media and technology to sexually exploit children and teens.
The year ahead will likely bring on a bout of déjà vu for cyber defenders still recovering from 2023's onslaught of attacks, experts tell Axios.
The big picture: Cyberattacks last year came at a fast pace, reached a vast scale, and had a growing sophistication, Wendi Whitmore, senior vice president of Palo Alto Networks' threat intelligence team, tells Axios.
Expect 2024 to feature more talk about "pre-internet" life — a subject of intense curiosity to the growing cohort of people who never experienced it.
Why it matters: There's been a pronounced generational tipping point: Boomers, Gen Xers and elder millennials are now the last people who remember what it was like to use a pay phone, a paper map, a typewriter, etc. — and they're being rapidly outnumbered by younger adults who don't.
