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Xbox is putting a ceiling on cloud gaming, capping Game Pass subscribers at fifteen hours of streaming per month. Microsoft says the move is driven by the rising cost of delivering cloud play, and argues the limits will free up investment to improve overall performance. Whether users see that as a fair trade-off remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, a data breach at hardware wallet maker Trezor has grown significantly wider, with sixty-seven thousand additional customers now confirmed exposed. What makes this particularly troubling is that some of the compromised records date back to two thousand nineteen, years past the ninety-day data retention window that Trezor says its third-party partners had explicitly agreed to honor.
And on a more unexpected note, the sextant, that three-hundred-year-old navigation instrument once used by sailors to chart the open sea, is being revisited as a potential backup tool for astronauts. The idea is straightforward: when digital systems fail in deep space, a reliable analog instrument that reads the stars might be exactly the kind of redundancy that saves lives.
Stay curious out there. Tech Beat out.
