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Industry Vets React to Xbox Leaders Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Departing, Bond Gives Her Statement
From Peter Moore to Reggie Fils-Aime, key gaming industry figures talk about Xbox's leadership changes as Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond exit Microsoft's gaming brand.
5 hours ago
India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up
Sarvam's Indus chat app is currently available in beta.
6 hours ago
A Coding Guide to High-Quality Image Generation, Control, and Editing Using HuggingFace Diffusers
In this tutorial, we design a practical image-generation workflow using the Diffusers library. We start by stabilizing the environment, then generate high-quality images from text prompts using Stable Diffusion with an optimized scheduler. We accelerate inference with a LoRA-based latent consistency approach, guide composition with ControlNet under edge conditioning, and finally perform localized edits via […] The post
6 hours ago
‘Send Help’ Producer Zainab Azizi’s Studio Filmmaking Playbook
In this episode of the No Film School Podcast, producer Zainab Azizi joins GG Hawkins to break down her journey from agency mailroom to president of Raimi Productions and producing studio features like Send Help. Azizi shares how she develops original ideas, packages t...
7 hours ago
Regional Endpoints for Geo-Replicated Azure Container Registries (Private Preview)
Imagine you're running Kubernetes clusters in multiple Azure regions—East US, West Europe, and Southeast Asia. You've configured ACR with geo-replication so your container images are available everywhere, but you've noticed something frustrating: you can't control which replica your clusters pull from. Sometimes your East US cluster pulls from West Europe, and you have no way to pin it to the co-located replica or troubleshoot why routing behaves unexpectedly.
7 hours ago
Why the Final Goodbye in ‘Casablanca’ is Actually a Heroic Beginning for Rick Blaine
The last few moments in Casablanca (1942) turn the Casablanca airfield tarmac into a platform that holds tremendous emotional weight. Thanks to quotes such as “Here’s looking at you, ki...
7 hours ago
10 Best Westerns of the 1970s: Ranked
The “frontier myth” positions America as a wide, open expanse of land that offers unlimited opportunities if you are ambitious, strong-willed, hardworking, and self-reliant. This romanticized idea was the inspiration behind the advent of Western films, a.k.a., their cl...
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:55:02
The Dark Trope Where the Mentor Becomes the Final Threat
Even for the most steel-hearted hero, to realize that their mentor is evil in reality is psychologically devastating. Ask Batman or Winston, and they will tell you. That’s probably why, although underused, the “mentor becomes the final threat” is one of fict...
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:45:02
Title Plan Update - February 20, 2026
📁February 20, 2026 - Title Plan Now Available Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:38:50
What Is a “Button” in Screenwriting?
The first time I had heard the term “button” when discussing a scene, it went right over my head. It was while reading the feedback notes from a colleague on a script that I had given him to read. “Great work. Only a few scenes are missing their buttons!” read a scribble on the first page after he returned it to me.Some believe that its meanin...
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:35:02
Styx: Blades of Greed Review
This sequel mostly delivers the same stealth gameplay as its predecessors, with all the good and the bad you might expect.
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:31:58
Xbox President Sarah Bond Is Also Leaving The Company, Microsoft Confirms
"Sarah Bond has decided to leave Microsoft...".Much of the spotlight has been on Phil Spencer and new Xbox boss Asha Sharma in relation to today's huge shakeup over at Microsoft Gaming - but thanks to a departing statement from Phil himself, w...
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:30:00
Venom Animated Movie From Final Destination: Bloodlines Directors in the Works at Sony Pictures Animation
Sony is reportedly making another Venom movie, and this time, it’s going to be animated.
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:26:26
How Sylvester Stallone Fought to Keep the 'Rocky' Script From Being Sold Without Him
This story starts in 1969. 23-year-old Binky, a.k.a. Mike Stallone, has had a few stage appearances to his credit. Nothing noteworthy, though, for if it were, that act wouldn’t have been followed by weeks of homelessness and then a starring role in a pornographic movie. This $200 worth of stint later, Mike reverts to his or...
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:25:02
How ‘This is Spinal Tap’ Turned a Simple Amp Joke Into the Greatest Rock Satire Ever Made
Imagine a heavy metal rock star (“star” being an excessive word here) crediting the so-called “more thunderous and booming” vibe of his rock band to, not their songs, not music, or their act, but to an amplifier that has an extra digit on it.“These go to eleven,” he says, indicating the volume knobs that go up to eleven, and not just ten,...
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:13:10
Pokémon Fans Are Worried FireRed and LeafGreen Won't Be Compatible With Pokémon Home, Making the PokéDex Impossible to Finish
Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Nintendo Switch next week. And while The Pokemon Company and Nintendo have already answered a number of questions about the releases, there's one we still don't know the answer to: will these games be compatible with Pokemon Home?
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:03:58
The creator economy’s ad revenue problem and India’s AI ambitions
The creator economy is evolving fast, and ad revenue alone isn’t cutting it anymore. YouTubers are launching product lines, acquiring startups, and building actual business empires. In fact, MrBeast’s company bought fintech startup Step, and his chocolate business is outearning his media arm. This isn’t just one creator’s strategy. For many, it’s the new playbook....
Friday, 20 February 2026 23:00:00
Get Some Mega-Savings on These Functional and Fun JOBY GorillaPods
While it's always preferable to shoot your films and videos on pro-level gear and with high-end cameras, there are times when videographers will be looking for quick and easy options for setting up their shots. But just because you're going DIY, you don't want to put your gear at risk.That's why, for our latest "
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:40:04
How to enable HTTPS support for Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education
Starting on June 16th, 2026, or soon after, Intune will enforce HTTPS content delivery for customers using Microsoft Connected Cache for Enterprise and Education. To continue using Microsoft Connected Cache to localize Intune Win32 app downloads and reduce the bandwidth impact on your network, you’ll need to configure HTTPS on Connected Cache nodes. Without this configuration, devices will still fetch the requested content, but they’ll fall back to the Content Deli...
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:37:52
HLS Copilot Use Case Webinar Series
Friday 2/27 - Taming the Excel Jungle of Clinician SchedulingNurse clinicians face enough pressure without spending hours wrestling with six‑week schedules in Excel. Even with time‑tracking systems in place, many teams still export schedules, staff details, and skills into spreadsheets to manually resolve conflicts and coverage gaps—adding frustration and stress to an already demanding role. In this HLS webinar on February 27 at 12:00 PM ET
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:36:29
Phil Spencer Reflects on 38 Years at Microsoft: 'I Never Could Have Imagined the Path Ahead'
Longtime Xbox head and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is retiring. While we've previously shared Spencer's internal email to the company, Spencer has since taken to social media to post a more personal message to the gaming community, thanking those who made his work "full of joy and wonder."
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:32:27
The Top 10 John Travolta Movies
John Travolta is an actor who feels like he danced his way into stardom and never left. But really, he's been acting his biutt off fr decades, inventing and then reinventing his career in the limelight.And that's afforded him the opportunity to take on no interesting roles.From his early days as a disco king to his resurgen...
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:30:03
New Xbox Boss Makes Official Statement As She Takes Over From Phil Spencer
"I feel two things at once: humility and urgency.".In a seismic bit of news today, Phil Spencer announced that he's retiring as Xbox boss - which means that naturally, someone else has to assume that position over at Xbox HQ. The person taking over is Microsoft's Asha Sharma, who has just shared her first statement as she begins her role as CEO of Microsoft Gaming.
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:30:00
Hollywood's AI Secret Is Out, According to Janice Min
Janice Min has spent decades at the center of the entertainment industry, running The Hollywood Reporter, now leading The Ankler, the newsletter that Hollywood C-suites quietly pass around. She recently appeared on the podcast Channels with host ...
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:20:03
Which Directors Became Cinematic Adjectives?
I was writing a different post the other day and went to use the word "Lynchian" and then stopped. That's when I sat and decided to think of all the filmmakers who have names that actually evoke words or...
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:10:03
How to Design a Swiss Army Knife Research Agent with Tool-Using AI, Web Search, PDF Analysis, Vision, and Automated Reporting
In this tutorial, we build a “Swiss Army Knife” research agent that goes far beyond simple chat interactions and actively solves multi-step research problems end-to-end. We combine a tool-using agent architecture with live web search, local PDF ingestion, vision-based chart analysis, and automated report generation to demonstrate how modern agents can reason, verify, and produce […] The post
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:05:04
Get a New Alienware 16 Area-51 RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop for Just $1,999 at Woot
A nearly identical configuration costs $3,100 at Dell direct.
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:05:00
Plan for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 2016 LTSB end of support
Three Windows products first released in 2016 are close to reaching end of support (EOS) on the following dates: Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016: October 13, 2026
Friday, 20 February 2026 22:00:00
AMC Just Pulled an AI Short Film from Screens After Backlash
An AI-generated short film was almost played in theaters nationwide this month. Then the internet found out.The short film is Thanksgiving Day, made by filmmaker Igor Alferov. It won the inaugural Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival, a contest whose top prize included a national theatrical run. The festival was or...
Friday, 20 February 2026 21:56:41
Microsoft gaming head Phil Spencer is retiring, replaced by an AI exec who promises no "soulless AI slop"
Ah, it's a Friday night, time to rela- Wait a minute, long-time Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer's retiring, his assumed replacement and Xbox president Sarah Bond has resigned, and the suit now being tapped to take over Spenny's gig currently has the following job title: president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product. Right, guess I'm writing a news.