Microsoft restored streamer Joshua Khane's 25-year-old Xbox and OneDrive account after it was compromised by a hacker and then suspended, putting years of personal data, baby photos, and thousands of dollars in games at risk. IGN reports: While he was "extremely happy" and thanked Microsoft for its help recovering his account and all the invaluable information therein, he levied some criticisms toward the brand for its initial response, claiming it had told him the suspension was "irreversible" at first. "It's unfortunate that such a big company can bring back your account if you ask them to," he said. "The way it all went, to me, is a little bit shady, because it's not that they can't bring back your account -- they won't bring back your account if you're a nobody."
Khane credited the community for making his story go viral and bringing it to Microsoft's attention, but felt that without their help, he would have been up a creek without a paddle. He also tied the situation to the growing conversation surrounding digital ownership, comparing it to Sony's decision to stop printing physical game discs starting January 2028.
Khane credited the community for making his story go viral and bringing it to Microsoft's attention, but felt that without their help, he would have been up a creek without a paddle. He also tied the situation to the growing conversation surrounding digital ownership, comparing it to Sony's decision to stop printing physical game discs starting January 2028.
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DirtyGlassEye has added a photo to the pool:
Flickr, stop giving me ads for pro, I know there's an upload limit. And you're not going to get a single bit of my money until I've fully lived the limit out. You can wait.
I've been waiting to get a chance to do this one for a long time. I was just waiting for an opportunity since this week has been a bit slow up till now. But I've done 2 washed shots back to back so I thought I'd bring a vibrant one out. I know this looks crowded but I redid the focus as much as possible so that way it didn't feel overwhelming (God please let this do well I worked hard on it). It was hard to get an "establishing shot" as it seems to be called cause of how densely packed it is. Even after 5 years (as of the shot's taken time), there's still a reservation system to get in here (as well as the toad restaurant), which neither of the American parks did. I genuinely don't know why USJ somehow gets more crowds then either of the American resorts (probably Jaws, one of the best rides Universal's ever made, never close it).
Getting back on topic, Things were a bit overexposed and there were people so I began to get into the mindset of needing to edit everything I take in here (and in this park in general) so I jsut went to a railing and tried to see what I could get away with. Most people and excess parts were obscured and removed, a powerful vignette on the bottom and inserted blurred clouds in the sky (blast and curse this haze). Got rid of more people on railings or in yoshi carts on the bridge. I toned down the light on yellow objects and the thwomps. I put more textures on the trees and the pyramids. Smaller details that would draw eyes to the main piece specifically, mount beanpole. And reduced clarity on the yoshis and lamps on the right. I know it's a lot to take in and that the details are either going to help the photo or be it's downfall. I hope I edited enough to make it cohesive to my regular customers.
Rafael Zenon Wagner has added a photo to the pool:
We'll get to enjoy this fantastic scenery for three days. No matter how long — even if it's just one da — go for it.
Halong Bay, Vietnam.
Mykhailo Fedorov, celebrated by many for innovative, tech-driven approach, was sidelined for military old guard
Volodomyr Zelenskyy’s abrupt dismissal of Ukraine’s youthful and innovative defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, at precisely the moment Kyiv appeared to be gaining advantages in several spheres of its war with Russia has exposed, not for the first time, a troubling flaw in the president’s leadership.
The move, which has startled senior European officials and caused consternation, and demonstrations, in Ukraine, is all the more shocking given Fedorov’s role in pushing a clear strategy to prosecute the war, leveraging Ukraine’s rapidly developing technological advances in drone and missile technology.
Continue reading...Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation has been met with almost universal acclaim – from mostly male film critics. Might women find the journey less comfortable?
Long ago, almost as long ago as Homer composed The Odyssey, I was a film critic on the Sunday Telegraph. People sometimes ask me how sexist the scene was then, back in the bronze age mid-noughties, when male critics outnumbered female by about eight to one. Well, there wasn’t any sexism. It was actually totally fine and everyone was really nice.
They were nice in Soho, anyway. Farther afield, less so. Particularly certain readers, when it came to certain films, made by certain directors. Quentin Tarantino, obviously. Ken Loach, weirdly. And Christopher Nolan. Question their genius and prepare for epic correction by a legion of self-appointed bouncers.
Continue reading...Visas will be shortened to 240 days, down from five years, and Chinese journalists will be limited to 90 days
The Trump administration has said it will drastically shorten visas for foreign journalists in the US to 240 days, down from five years, and cut those for Chinese journalists to only 90 days.
The rule announced by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will do away with the “duration of status” system, which allows foreign journalists to stay and work in the United States as long as they meet eligibility requirements.
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From portraits taken around Harlem in the 1940s to assignments for Life magazine to the 1963 March on Washington, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) wielded his camera as a tool for social justice. He captured civil rights activists like Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr. in addition to artists and celebrities such as Helen Frankenthaler and Ingrid Bergman. But he may be best known for his candid portraits of families and communities in the segregated South during the era of Jim Crow. All of these and more will be on view in Voices in the Mirror at Jack Shainman Gallery in mid-September, also marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Parks was spurred to pursue photography in 1937 after seeing photos taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which held a mission to document American life. “I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs,” he said. “I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” In 1942, he became the first Black photographer hired as part of the initiative, introducing him to Washington, D.C., where he noted that “discrimination and bigotry were worse there than any place I had yet seen.”
Among the images included in Voices in the Mirror are seminal portraits like “American Gothic, Washington, D.C.” (1942), which captures a government worker named Ella Watson with a broom and mop. The work nods to American Regionalist painter Grant Wood’s likewise iconic “American Gothic” painting, created 12 years earlier as an ode to American values. Parks’ image represented a starkly contrasted reality.
After speaking with Watson about her life and experience in D.C., Parks recalled that it was “so disastrous that I felt that I must photograph this woman in a way that would make me feel—or make the public feel—about what Washington, D.C., was in 1942.” He positioned her in front of a flag with a symbolic mop and broom. “I didn’t care about what anybody else felt,” he said. “That’s what I felt about America and Ella Watson’s position inside America.”
The exhibition is accompanied by numerous anecdotes and reflections by some of those who appeared in the photos or had close relationships with those who did, such as Malcolm X’s daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, and Cora Taylor, who was one of the women standing near a pair of segregated water fountains in “Segregation in the South” (1956).
Voices in the Mirror opens on September 18 and continues through November 7 in New York. You might also be interested in the works of other FSA photographers who documented the South during the 1930s and 1940s, such as Russell Lee and Marion Post Wolcott.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘Voices in the Mirror’ Honors the Legacy of Pioneering Photographer Gordon Parks appeared first on Colossal.
Feyenoord heeft in een oefenwedstrijd tegen het Belgische Charleroi met 3-1 gewonnen. De Rotterdamse goals werden gemaakt door Gaoussou Diarra en de verdedigers Mats Deijl en Tijme Wessels.
Na de vermissing van shorttracker Roes vraagt Marijn de Vries zich af: Hoe leer je atleten dat ze er ook mogen zijn als mens?
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Wat defensielobbyisten en experts in Brussel zien: er is héél veel geld, maar het effectief uitgeven lukt amper. „Het schandaal is dat Europa zoveel uitgeeft en er zo weinig voor terugkrijgt.”
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De Amerikaanse singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams heeft een sterrenstatus. Op haar derde album ‘Daughter from Hell’ maakt ze soms indruk, maar te vaak blijft ze hangen in de stijl van haar grote voorbeeld Taylor Swift.
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Microsoft has delayed the removal of the -Credential parameter from Exchange Online PowerShell until December 2026, giving administrators more time to update affected scripts and automation. The -Credential parameter is used when connecting to Exchange Online PowerShell. It allows an administrator to supply stored username and password credentials. These days, it is heavily discouraged, particularly when more secure authentication methods are available. Microsoft had designated the parameter for removal in July 2026 as part of its move away from password-based authentication. The trouble is tracking down automation scripts that use it, updating them, and validating the changes – assuming a fix is even possible. Once the parameter is gone from the Connect-ExchangeOnline and Connect-IppsSession cmdlets in the Exchange Online PowerShell module, any scripts still relying on it will break, potentially taking carefully built workflows down with them. However, Microsoft has opted to push back the retirement beginning December 2026 – a festive gift for administrators. The company stated: "If your organization uses the -Credential parameter in PowerShell scripts or automation workflows connecting to Exchange Online or Security & Compliance PowerShell, those scripts will break when you update to an Exchange Online PowerShell module version released beginning December 2026." As such, the retirement won't take effect until an update is performed. The server-side retirement of the underlying authentication flow is planned "for a later date." "When that occurs, the -Credential parameter will stop functioning even on older module versions." Microsoft said it delayed the retirement due to "customer feedback," although it came late in the day. That said, a few extra months will be welcomed by affected administrators dealing with the impact of the change. And the change is still coming. Microsoft added: "While our published timeline extends to the start of December 2026, we strongly recommend that all customers transition away from the -Credential parameter as soon as possible and not wait until the deadline." ®
