Flash is dead, but these 2000s games hope to live on
By The Washington Post
By Elise Favis, Shannon Liao
In mid-January, a Twitch streamer named QuackityHQ rallied his 100,000 viewers to log in to the video game Habbo Hotel en masse. His plan was to overwhelm the game s servers and send a message to the developers: that longtime Habbo fans were unhappy with recent changes after a transition from Flash to Unity, which left out core features and changed the user interface. They re destroying their own game, and we re going to stop [them] from doing so, Quackity said during his stream, urging players to flood into different virtual rooms.
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Patch Exchange now, and test your Windows updates
If it weren t for some serious security issues involving on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers, I d say things look pretty good for this month s batch of patches. Traitov / Getty Images
If it weren t for the serious security issues surrounding on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers (CVE-2021-2685, CVE-2021-27065, CVE-2021-26857 and CVE-2021-26858), I would say things look pretty good for this month s Patch Tuesday. There are still things to test on the desktop, including printing, remote desktop connections via VPNs, and graphically intensive operations. And while the other lower-rated Microsoft Office and Development platform updates require attention, they don’t require a rapid response and can be added to the regular testing regime and deployment cadence.