Microsoft has announced a 10-year agreement with Boosteroid to bring Xbox first-party PC games to its cloud gaming platform.The announcement was made with a Microsoft news post, where it was confirmed that the Xbox PC games being brought to Boosteroid will include Activision Blizzard games like Call of Duty. Boosteroid has its software development team based in Ukraine and is now the largest independent cloud gaming provider in the world after recently surpassing 4 million users. This partnership will bring the Call of Duty franchise more than 150 million additional players.Players deserve more choice than they have now when it comes their favorite games Link to article

It has become frequent for us to see in each news or newspaper, news regarding a new data leak, large-scale cyber attacks, theft of money from the bank accounts of Companies or People, etc. and all this ultimately generates a feeling of discomfort, uncertainty and fear on the part of the general public. What worries people the most at this time is uncertainty, and we are permanently saturated by data that increasingly worries us: the plummeting economy, and cybercriminals who, like most of us, are heavily teleworking, looking for new victims.
Technology is a wonderful tool when we use it properly, but it is also the means or vector that the cybercriminal uses to reach us; It is important that we know the technologies and understand how they work in a basic way.
The objective of this article is in no way to continue with the fearful and gloomy spirit that currently afflicts us, but rather to give a glimmer of hope that the cybercriminal will not win if we decide not to allow it.
It is up to each of us to decide whether or not to be a potential victim of cybercriminals; and here comes the question: How do I avoid being a victim?; The answer is very simple: Awareness!!!;
which is the way to go?
It is very simple: we could say that like everything in life, we are reaching levels by burning stages; We are going to see some of the steps that we must take to improve our level of cybersecurity, without having to be technical experts.

1. Cyber hygiene: Perhaps the most important of all the concepts that we must appropriate in our lives and inject it into our digital DNA: We must observe cyber hygiene rules when using our devices; I am not referring to the Mask and the antibacterial Gel; I mean that we do not make mistakes as frequent as: Installing any application on our cell phones that we have found attractive, pleasant or useful for the simple fact that it caught our attention; how many times have we installed an App to never use it; but yes: he asked us for access to our photos, our contacts, our camera, our microphone, our geolocation and we said yes to everything!!!!, without thinking that we ourselves have just authorized someone to have access to our most personal information , intimate and private; then we ask why or how they could have access to our photos or our emails to bribe us; With Cyber Hygiene we cover the proper use of our technological devices in a conscious way; Another example: how many of us give our cell phones to the boy or girl so they can play and leave us a few minutes of peace of mind? We use Cell Phones and tablets as a digital babysitter, without controlling what minors do or where they access with our devices; Many times we have the data of our credit cards or bank accounts stored on our devices, and through a game, we give the criminal access to this valuable data. Last example: Your children may already have access to their own computers, cell phones, tablets, or video game consoles; Did you know that one of the favorite mechanisms for pedophiles to contact and communicate with minors are Video Game chats? Hence the need to implement parental control, which are technologies that allow parents to control and monitor the use of devices by minors. Cyber hygiene, as you can see, has to do with the safe, adequate and conscious use of our devices.
   
2. Understand that each interaction on the internet leaves a digital shadow with different data of ours, which could be used by a cybercriminal to profile us, so we must control and understand how much information we deliver to the world; we are talking about: photos, emails, messages, etc. The concept of profiling has to do with understanding the victim: their full name, ID, telephone number, emails, likes, relatives, friends, spouse, company where they work, books they read, places they visit, where they live, where they travel , associations or entities to which it belongs, etc. Very valuable information for a criminal who wants to attack a password, or send us a false email so that we fall into a trap; And the worst thing is that if you think about it carefully, you are already delivering a large part of this information on your social networks; and here comes a recommendation: Select privacy options on your social networks and do not accept anyone who sends you an invitation; just as they do in real life; Do not get carried away by that false sense of tranquility, believing that being separated by a screen, the bandits cannot harm us.
   
3. Inform us about the defense mechanisms that we can use or implement, such as antivirus, safe browsers, email encryption and many more.
   
4. Consult the experts about any doubts you may have; Let's remember that it is not our obligation as users to know everything or be experts in everything; For that, there are people with the right knowledge and the desire to share it!!!
   
5. Situational Awareness: Whenever we are interacting with a website, checking an email, receiving a link through our preferred messaging, think about the information I am delivering and the information I am receiving and determine what level of risk we could be facing up.
   

As you can see, if we follow these simple recommendations, we will exponentially increase our level of cybersecurity, making it difficult for cybercriminals who are always lurking to act.
I just have to say goodbye, wishing you the best, that you continue to be healthy both physically and digitally, and that you share this information with everyone you can; we may be able to prevent other cybercriminals from getting away with it.
Greetings!!!
David F. Pereira Q. CEO SecPro Security Professionals

5- Ibn Taymiyya's Belief of Hell Being Non-Eternal
From Shaykh Abdur Rahman Sondalaani:
In blatant opposition of Quran, Sunnah and Ijmaa’, Ibn Taymiyyah said in his book:
ﺍﻟﺮﺩ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻣﻦ ﻗﺎﻝ ﺑﻔﻨﺎء ﺍﻟﺠﻨﺔ ﻭﺍﻟﻨﺎﺭ
“Ar Raddu ‘ala man qaala bi fanaa’il Jannati wan Naar” (The Refutation of the one who affirms the end of both Heaven and Hell)
Ibn Taymiyyah said:
ﻓﻴﻪ ﻣﻦ ﻣﻨﺎﻗﻀﺔ ﺍﻟﺤﻜﻤﺔ ﻭﺍﻟﺮﺣﻤﺔ ﻣﺎ ﻻ ﻳﻈﻬﺮ ﻓﻲ ﻏﻴﺮﻩ ﺃﻫـــ ﻭﺃﻣﺎ ﺧﻠﻖ ﻧﻔﻮﺱﺗﻌﻤﻞ ﺍﻟﺸﺮ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﺪﻧﻴﺎ ﻭﻓﻲ ﺍﻵﺧﺮﺓ ﻻ ﺗﻜﻮﻥ ﺇﻻﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﻌﺬﺍﺏ، ﻓﻬﺬﺍ ﺗﻨﺎﻗﺾ ﻳﻈﻬﺮ
“But the creation of souls that commit evil in the dunya, then will only be in torment in the Hereafter IS A CONTRADICTION. The contradiction of Divine Wisdom and Mercy is more apparent in this issue than anything else.”
In the same book, he said:
ﻟﻴﺲ ﻣﻌﻬﻢ ﻛﺘﺎﺏ، ﻭﻻ ﺳﻨﺔ ﻭﻻ ﺃﻗﻮﺍﻝ ﺍﻟﺼﺤﺎﺑﺔ -. ﺃﻫــــ ﻭﺣﻴﻨﺌﺬ ﻓﻴﺤﺘﺞ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻓﻨﺎﺋﻬﺎ ﺑﺎﻟﻜﺘﺎﺏ ﻭﺍﻟﺴﻨﺔ، ﻭﺃﻗﻮﺍﻝ ﺍﻟﺼﺤﺎﺑﺔ – ﻣﻊ ﺃﻥ ﺍﻟﻘﺎﺋﻠﻴﻦﺑﺒﻘﺎﺋﻬﺎ
“In which case, the argument for the ending of Hellfire is supported by the Quran, the Sunnah, and the statements of the Sahabah; while the affirmers of its eternality have with them no Quran, no Sunnah, and no statements of the Sahabah.”
TO EVERYONE:
Please NOTICE how he not only blatantly outright contradicts the Quran, Sunnah and Ijmaa’ on an issue that is ma’loom minad Deeni bid Daroorah (known from the Deen by necessity – i.e. known by every Muslim scholar or layman), he also claims (as usual for all his innovations) that the Quran, the Sunnah, and the statements of the Sahabah AGREE with him, and DISAGREE with the Hellfire existing forever. smh. ARE YOU SERIOUS?? REALLY??
If anyone wants to download it:
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Shaykh Abdur Rahman Sondalaani comments further:
This is the famous Ibn Taymiyyah. He was famous because he was a scholar, fearless, outspoken, wrote a lot of books and even made jihad. HOWEVER, he said a lot of things against Allah, his Rasool SallAllahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, his blessed family, Sahabah, and the scholars of earlier and later times that caused him to be incarcerated repeatedly until he finally died in prison.
Allah will judge him like He will judge us all. But Ibn Taymiyyah has outlived his lifespan through his literature that still contain a lot of his incorrect beliefs (like the one above), and through certain individuals who call themselves “Salafis” that all too often only learn his interpretation of the Deen and try to impose it on the rest of the Ummah as being the correct understanding that the Righteous Predecessors of the Muslims had. That is why I criticise him the way I do. To raise awareness.
At the end of the day, I do not curse him like some do, and I don’t say “may Allah have mercy on him” like many others do. I simply show people the other face of Ibn Taymiyyah so they won’t believe the hype about him being “Shaykhul Islam”.
Shaykh Abdur Rahman Sondalaani continues:
Laymen, as well as scholars, already believe Heaven and Hell are forever. He derived his understanding about there being a difference by

1. Following his intellect, which he constantly accuses the Sunni theologians for relying on instead of the texts.
2. Following the methodology of bypassing the clear-cut (muhkamaat) and relying on the ambiguous (mutashaabihaat). This is the methodology Allah warned us is the way of people who have deviation and perversion in their hearts in the beginning verses of Surah Ali ‘Imraan.

The verses he refers to mention that the people will stay in Hell for as long as the Heavens and Earth remain, except as your Lord wills.
“As long as the Heaven and Earth remain” – is a figure of speech that the Arabs use to mean forever.
The scholars of tafseer disagree about the exception mentioned in the ayat:
“Except as your Lord wills”
Al Imam Ibnul Jawzi Al Hanbali (D. 597AH) RahimahUllah mentioned seven meanings for it in his tafseer of the Quran:

1. The exception is in the right of the monotheists that will exit Hell by the intercession. – Ibn Abbas, Ad Dahhaak
2. It is an exception that Allah will not do. – Ibn Abbaas, Az Zajjaaj
3. They will abide in Hell forever, but Allah will order the Hellfire to consume them until they perish, then He will recreate them. So the exception is mentioned in reference to that state. – Ibn Mas’ud
4. That “except – illaa” here means “besides – siwaa”. Like if you say in Arabic, “If we had someone with us except Zaid” meaning besides Zaid. So the meaning would be “they will dwell in it as long as the Heavens and Earth remain except the eternity and additional time your Lord wills them to stay.” This is the opinion of (the Arabic linguist and explainer of the Quran) Al Farraa. Ibn Qutaibah said, “An example of it in common speech is like saying “I will let you stay in this house for a year except as you will” – meaning except as you will for me to let you stay longer.”
5. When they are resurrected and gathered together, they will be in the conditions of the Day of Resurrection. So the exception applies to the period of time they stand for judgment and reckoning (before entering Hell). – Az Zajjaaj
6. The exception applies to their wailing and crying (mentioned in the ayat before it), except what your Lord wills of other types of torment that has not been mentioned. – Az Zajjaaj
7. That “except – illaa” here means “just as – kamaa” (just as your lord wills). – Ath Tha’labi

End quote from Ibnul Jawzi.
Number six stood out to me because I remember reading a hadeeth that mentioned that after eons of them crying out to Allah to make them not exist, Allah will say to them the verse of the Quran “ikhsa’oo feehaa wa la tukallimoon! Be cursed therein and do not address me” then He will seal their mouths and noses so their breath will not exit but only go back and forth between their chests and heads. That could be the other torment that was not mentioned. The verses would then mean that they will scream and wail in Hell forever except the rest of eternity in which Allah wills for them to suffocate, unable to scream again. MAY ALLAH SAVE US!!
Notice that Ibnul Jawzi did not even mention the possibility of the Hellfire ending in all the quotes he brought. But some scholars did mention some weak narrations attributed to some of the Sahabah that mention the doors of Hellfire swinging and there not being anyone inside, like Al Imam At Tabari in his tafseer. But even those scholars, at the end of the research affirmed that Hellfire would not end, and if those narrations applied to anyone, it would be the believers.
In conclusion, Shaykh Abdur Rahman Sondalaani mentions:
But please note that there are also some places in his books where he mentions that Hellfire will NOT end. A Salafi may try to defend him by mentioning that. But at best, his statements are contradictory on a clear cut issue where that is not allowed. No where did he explicitly say that he was of one opinion and changed his mind for us to know what his final position was. So we are left with his contradictory statements in his book “Fanaa Al Jannah wan Naar” and the statements of his top student Ibnul Qayyim in “Haadil Arwaah” and “Shifaa’ul ‘Aleel” and what their contemporaries have affirmed about them on this issue.

As video game time loops go, The Wreck's endlessly repeating car crash has to be one of the worst fates to get stuck in. Sure, it's not quite as bad as 'death by exploding sun' in Outer Wilds, say, but when each crash is also accompanied by heroine Junon reliving a harrowing memory from her past that she'll need to sort through and analyse before she's able to (quite literally) move on with her life, I reckon that one-two punch of sudden physical trauma and deep, emotional soul-bearing is probably just about on par with having skin and muscle seared off your own bones by a honking great supernova. You know, figuratively speaking.
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Soon, it will be time to step into the shoes of Leon S. Kennedy and experience Resident Evil 4 Remake. Until then, you can play the game's opening to tide you over until it releases on March 24.The demo starts in the secluded village full of undead folks and a big, chainsaw-wielding fella hellbent on taking it to your neck Link to article

Hi everyone, I was in the attic of our hundred plus year-old row house doing some research before installing ceiling fans and noticed that one of the ceiling joists is cracked about 2 1/2 or 3 feet inward from where the joist rests in the masonry pocket.
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Diablo IV won't be coming to Xbox Game Pass anytime soon, with Blizzard confirming that it currently has "no plans" to add the highly anticipated ARPG to the service.The to-the-point answer came from Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson, who took to Twitter to address the question. There never seemed to be any specific rumor or indication that Diablo IV would appear on Microsoft's service, but Fergusson said Blizzard received questions on the matter regardless.It's awesome seeing the excitement around the Diablo IV Beta, and our Wolf Pack puppy! We’ve been getting some questions about D4 on Game Pass and I want to let you know we have no plans for that. See you in Sanctuary during the Beta Early Access weekend starting on March 17! — Rod Fergusson (@RodFergusson) March 13, 2023Some fans may have believed Diablo IV would come to Game Pass due to Microsoft's planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a deal that is currently pending regulatory approval and one that has seen the US Federal Trade Commission sue Microsoft Link to article

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