Few places hold as much shared history for Helldivers 2 players as Malevelon Creek. Around this time last year, it was the site of a massive Automaton incursion, with divers fighting through a hail of scrap and laser-fire. Now, it seems like we might be heading back to the Creek.In its most recent update, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Studios announced in-game that players had failed the most recent Major Order. The Automaton Incineration Corps, armed with powerful flame weaponry, made significant gains."The enemy remains at large," the notification read. "Reports indicate the enemy's strategic goal is to seize old industrial assets in the Severin Sector, where the Automatons first emerged."The Severin Sector is home to several planets, chiefly Malevelon Creek, where players took the planet back in a last-ditch effort against the Automatons in April 2024. It was a stunning experience for anyone who dropped into it, as players fought to re-take the Creek after initially losing it.The phrase "Robot Vietnam" was tossed around, thanks to Malevelon Creek's dense jungle environment. It became so notable that Arrowhead released a cape commemorating the fight to reclaim the planet.Now, with the prospect of Automatons returning the sector to take territory, potentially armed with flame weaponry, Helldivers are gearing up for a scrap."A part of me is in fear as I was there but another part of me WANTS to go back," one Reddit user wrote, in response to a post about the Major Order update. "... a part of me never left," another responded.Some expressed terror at returning, while others are ready to hold out again. "I fought hard for that planet once, and I'm prepared to do so a second time," one user responded.PlayThe Major Order failure has raised another point of concern for Helldivers 2 players, though. As one post outlined, some Major Orders can feel frustrating to accomplish, organize around, or not feel incentivized. As responders note, the active player base can also vary, which can make quantity-driven Orders difficult if they're not based around the current average.One player puts it succinctly: "Stop giving us kill quantity MOs when the player base can vary by up to 70k over the course of a single week." Further replies suggest percentage-based scaling.Failure can make for interesting storytelling, as proven by the initial fight at Malevelon Creek. Heading into what feels like a major moment for Helldivers 2 though, it'll be interesting to see how Arrowhead handles it all. Alongside teasing a return to one of its most infamous battle sites, the team has also sent a black hole directly towards Super Earth. There's no shortage of threats for the Helldivers these days.Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.

Amazon's Big Spring Sale starts tomorrow, and if you've been hoping to score some nice discounts on video games, you don't have to wait for the sale to start. There are a few early deals available right now that are worth checking out ahead of the sale event. One of our favorites at the moment is on LEGO Horizon Adventures for PS5, which has dropped to $37.08 at the retailer. This is 38% off its list price of $59.99. If you've had this one on your shopping list, now's a great time to pick it up for your game library.LEGO Horizon Adventures PS5LEGO Horizon Adventures takes the magnificent mechanical world of Horizon and rebuilds it brick-by-brick with LEGO. IGN's Jada Griffin said in our review that the game, "reimagines Horizon Zero Dawn with a playful Lego twist, simplifying the story while keeping the heart of its key moments and characters."It isn't the only video game deal that's caught our eye recently, though. Right now you can also score a great discount on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth at Woot (an Amazon-owned online retailer). This one has just dropped to its lowest price yet, so if you've been waiting for your chance to jump into this excellent RPG, there's truly no better time than now to do it.PlayAs mentioned earlier, there are plenty more deals still to come as Amazon's Big Spring Sale kicks off tomorrow. This sale event is set to run from March 25 to March 31, so you'll have plenty of time to pick up the discounts that catch your eye. To see more gaming deals, have a look at our dedicated roundups of the best PlayStation deals, the best Xbox deals, and the best Nintendo Switch deals. Each of these features discounts on games, accessories, and hardware, so you can save on a variety of items for your preferred platform.More Game Deals at AmazonSonic X Shadows GenerationsDragon Ball: Sparking! ZeroRatchet & Clank: Rift ApartMonster Hunter WildsMadden NFL 2K25Final Fantasy XVIUncharted: Legacy of Thieves CollectionSilent Hill 2Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.

In another time, in another place the world has been poisoned. So opines the introductory wall of text in ODessa. Marketed ahead of its release as writer-director Geremy Jaspers new rock opera fantasia starring Sadie Sink and Kelvin Harrison Jr., from the outside the film looks of its current moment with the stars of Stranger Things and Waves marqueeing a streaming release. But inside its own head, there burns a fever dream that is something much more hallucinatory and retro.Just take that opening insert text and the visions of post-apocalyptic ruins which accompany it. The message is superimposed on an old school 80s television set and what appears to be a ream of faded VHS tape; the dystopian bent of the image on the TV, with its matte painting aesthetics, might have appeared in any video store curio from 30 or 40 years ago, or perhaps in an NES game about the power of love and music. Its a wild audiovisual time warp, and to hear director Jasper tell it, that is kind of the point.Those are seminal film experiences for me, going to the ShopRite or going to Blockbuster and renting these kind of 80s pan-and-scan VHSs, Jasper muses now. That was my entire childhood, and so many times the VHS covers were more engaging than the film itself.Something of a connoisseur of cult VHS covers, Jasper admits to collecting the most lurid and fantastical paintings in his free timecovers like 1990: The Bronx Warriors, a 1982 Road Warrior knockoff where a hero wields a battle mace from the top of a speeding chopper bike. Recalls Jasper, Hes screaming, and youre thinking, This is going to be the most insane thing Ive ever seen! And then its a great movie, its a classic, but its not that.Still, that image and countless others like it have lived rent-free in Jaspers head for decades, all the way through his debut film and festival darling, Patti Cake$. That image has waited for ODessa, a film about a six-string guitar-slinger, or rambler, who stares down an authoritarian regime in an urban wasteland, and who changes her life and those around her through the power of epic, glorious song. And now, 20 years since first dreaming of ODessa, she is living flesh and blood.Theres gonna be this young woman wandering this dystopian surreal wasteland and shes gonna have to go into the underworld, Jasper says of the original kernel of an idea in the mid-2000s that begat this film. At the time, he originally thought it might be a musical for the stage, an avant-garde theater piece that adapted the Orpheus myth through a gender-bending prism of science fiction, fantasy, and modern folklore myth.Obviously the idea never quite took hold on the stageperhaps not least of all because at the time, and still to this day, Jasper has had nothing to do with theaterbut after his first film was a success and folks immediately asked what was next, the memory of his rambling troubadour and a handful of VHS covers came roaring back into the minds eye.Im interested in those big mythic stories, those fairytales, those mono-myths, from everything from Star Wars and Mad Max to the Man with No Name, Jasper considers. Theres countless versions of them. I think they take you out of our reality, they put you in a strange world. They also put him in touch with a younger self too.Bringing Comfort to the DisturbedNot surprisingly for the director of Patti Cake$ and ODessa, music is a crucial part of Geremy Jaspers life. After all, the filmmaker wrote all of the songs in ODessa, including several for the voices of Sink and Harrison after they were cast. And a line uttered in both lyric and dialogue verse several times in the film is that a song should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed, which as much or more as old school VHS dystopian flicks is the youthful zeal that carries the film.When I feel like connecting to my younger self, Im always listening to albums that had that magic power over me when I was 14, 15 years old, Jasper says. Theres just something that always brings me back to it. Maybe its just that sense of the world feeling like its opening up a bit, the feeling you have when youre that age and finding an album or a song that breaks your mind open.The filmmaker likens his need to return to that release to a heroin-addict trying to recreate their first high. In which case, ODessa is the biggest hit yet. Here is a film where a young person, Sinks eponymous ODessa, through song and heartache influences the world around her with a sound that blurs the borders between folk, punk, and anthem rock. Even ODessas father onscreen, who is briefly seen in a flashback, looks suspiciously like a singer who did all of the above.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!Everybodys father is Johnny Cash, Jasper muses. Hes sort of like the father of American roots music in some weird way. Hes everyones daddy, Johnny. And in ODessa, the Man in Black, along with other mythic touchstones like Dylan and Lennon, loom above all like the hippest choir of angels ever. Those are godlike figures in my imagination, Jasper adds. Theyre my myths, those musical American artists all take up a lot of space in my imagination.They also represent perhaps the greatest part of the fantasy of ODessa: that a musician traveling from town to town can have a profound impact by playing her songs intimately, personably. Live. Increasingly, that unto itself looks like a fantasy in the age of Spotify, TikTok, YouTube, and the litany of other ways music has become homogenized and mass-communicated.It breaks my heart that theres less and less connection between artists and audience, and audience and artists, and were getting further away in our own little safe bubbles, Jasper says. You can still find good stuff in some dark corners, but I do feel like theres a bit of the spark thats missing the little dirt under the fingernails like we used to have.Finding a Real Rambler and Her Tiny DancerFor anyone whos already watched ODessa, they know that dirt was found again by Sink who gives a raw, earnest performance of a young woman who travels from the wasteland to the big city, which proves equally wasted. Yet through it all comes a voice as clear as a Broadway bellwhich is not entirely surprising given Sinks Great White Way origins in the 2012 Annie revival. Theres also a folk sound that might do Papa Cash proud.Says Jasper of his leading lady: It was very difficult to find someone who was young enough that they didnt feel worldly. A lot of the great actors, theyre later in their 20s, pushing 30, and to find someone like Sadie who who was 21 when we shot this, which is basically the age of ODessa, and who had a face like a silent movie star that lit up the screen[I realized] she could carry someone whos coming from a real innocent place only to become disillusioned by the world, to become active in the world, to fall in love in the world. Plus, he knew she could carry a tune and legit play the guitar.Indeed, many of the songs Sink sings on the soundtrack were written years in advance by Jasper, but the young actor had such an uncanny ear for mimicry she could match his sound while making them her own. This, for the record, is a bit different from her love interest in the film, a soulful and gender-bending headliner at a cabaret in the desolate Satylite City, Kelvin Harrison Jr.s Euri Dervish.[Kelvin] had this sort of world-weary melancholy that he brought to the character and a certain sweetness that really just worked, Jasper says. [But for the music], I was singing the Euri songs on the demos, and I have a lot more of a ratty, screamy, garage rock-y voice, which is the exact opposite of Kelvins voice. So I would sing these things, and hes like, Oh yeah, thats cool. Okay, let me try. And he has an amazing R&B voice. So we had to completely reimagine the songs as we worked together. He was really game to figure out different ways to phrase things they became less aggressive and more stacked and kind of weird. Like he could do more Frank Ocean style stuff.He also brought a look to the film that, like Sinks ODessa, perhaps bends audience expectations. Consider that Sink is rocking a 50s styled pompadour throughout the film and eventually dons a white suit while romancing Euri, a character who is introduced doing a veritable dance of the seven veils in a nightclub.Ive always been interested in musicians that blurred those lines, be it David Bowie or Annie Lennox or Grace Jones or Prince, or Little Richard, Jasper smiles. Theres a long list! So that was always just a part of the world of ODessa. Gender was a blurred experience. Its a world where ODessa is the gunslinger and Euri her Eurydice. A punk rock take on the Orpheus myth.A Return to Mega-City DecadenceThe influence of that old school sound bleeds throughout ODessa, right down to the green and purple color scheme of the film which washes over the Searchlight Pictures opening fanfare like a modern day Rocky Horror Picture Show salvo.I dont really know, Jasper initially laughs when asked where those colors come from. However, he elaborates that he really got into these late 60s, early 70s album covers that used a lot of infrared photography. Like Captain Beefheart covers and Frank Zappa. So I loved the way the landscapes looked. They would flip the greens and make greens look purple and it just was really beautiful to me, and I wanted to create a sci-fi world that used that. So the excuse was nature has been perverted through pollution in the movie, and everything thats green has gone purple and then everything thats purple has gone green.That upside down color scheme belies a heightened look for the film that by intention is a throwback to the type of post-apocalyptic fantasias Jasper used to peruse while walking down a video store aisle. He cites Terry Gilliams 1985 film Brazil as a profound influence on ODessa, but so many of the noirs and sci-fi movies of the 80s were informed by sprawling metropolises of waste. Think Blade Runner (1982), Streets of Fire (1982), or Batman (1989).Another big influence on this one was Spaghetti Westerns, the director adds, because those cities just had like a main street, and you had a church on one side and you had a saloon and a bordello on the other. Thats pretty much it, and I always thought of this metropolis as being a little bit more concentrated, a little bit smaller, a little bit more ragtag. I always thought of it somewhere between the Brooklyn that I lived in for a couple of decades and [the Man with No Name] Westerns.Ramblin On Down the RoadWhen Jasper and I sit down to discuss the film, its on the eve of ODessas debut on Hulu. After years of toil and decades of dreaming, his troubadour is finally hitting the road. Yet the writer-director cannot help but muse what her life beyond the first few days of streaming might be. He even jokes about one day releasing a VHS cut of the film.Like George Miller did the black and chrome version of Mad Max, Jasper chuckles while referring to the black-and-white editions of Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa. We will do the opposite for ODessa. Well do like a pan-and-scan, super shitty VHS version and be like this is how it should be seen!Its an amusing image, but not too far from Jaspers real hopes for the film. As he later confides, his ambition is that the movie has the figurative shelf life of those strange cinematic oddities that once fired up his imagination so many moons ago.Says the director: My dream for it, my prayer for it, is its that weird little movie that I used to try to discoverthat a young person finds it and it turns them on to a different world and a different group of films and music, and inspires them to go and make something. It could be a week, it could be a year, it could be a decade, but as long as it lives on.As long as it keeps ramblin.ODessa is streaming now on Hulu.

After battling deep into the heart of a desolate city to retrieve the kidnapped President of the United States, Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) hands over a cassette tape at the end of Escape from New York. The tape, were told, contains the secret to nuclear fusion, a technology that could convince the warring nations of the world to finally stop their fight and finally erach peace. But when the President plays the tape, we hear not scientific secrets, but the sounds of Bandstand Boogie Snake destroys the tape as he limps away, confident in the oblivion that follows.Now compare this to a scene in Snowpiercer where, after battling from the depths of the train that holds the last of civilization following a natural disaster, Curtis Everett (Chris Evans) faces down the inventor Wilford (Ed Harris). Wilford explains that both the train and the revolution that Curtis just led are necessary parts of sustaining life. Wilford offers Curtis a position toward the front of the train, assuring him that peace will be restored. Instead Curtis blows up the train engine. Two survivors, a young woman and a boy, have lived through the explosion, but now face a frozen wasteland, complete with an oncoming polar bear.The similarities between these two endings, the first from Escape from New York and the second from Snowpiercer, prove that John Carpenter and Bong Joon Ho have a lot more in common that one would think. No wonder, then, that people are so excited about the revelation that Carpenter will score a movie for Director Bong. As different as the two may be seem, the two share similar cinematic tastes and muses.Genre KingsJohn Carpenter spent his career creating masterfully constructed genre pictures. Sometimes these movies found surprising audiences, as when his low-budget serial killer movie Halloween (1978) went on to gross $70 million and kickstart the American slasher genre. Sometimes they were met with critical and commercial failure, only to find an audience much later, as with The Thing (1982).Carpenter was rarely considered an auteur in his own time and never an Oscar favorite. He didnt fit alongside artier guys like David Cronenberg and David Lynch, he didnt see his movies as making big social statements (even when, like the anti-capitalist sci-fi comedy They Live, absolutely did make a social statement). Instead he saw himself as a follower of John Ford, a maverick who wants to make a good genre picture and nothing more.Which is, of course, why hes beloved by filmmakers such as Bong Joon Ho. Since his sophomore film, the 2003 neo-noir Memories of Murder, Director Bong was a critical and audience favorite. That popularity spread into the U.S. with his follow-up The Host (2006), setting off a successful run that led to Best Director and Best Picture wins at the Oscars for Parasite in 2020.Different as the immediate reception to the two directors work certainly is, they clearly have a lot in common. As witnessed most recently in Mickey 17, Bong draws from Carpenters effective blocking and camera movements. Carpenter builds dread in his movies with long, controlled camera movements and impeccably-composed shots. Crafting GenreWhen a tracking shot follows Laurie Strode and her friends down a suburban street in Halloween, when it moves with a dog through the halls of an Antarctic science station in The Thing, the viewer cannot help but be overwhelmed by the sense of controlled evil nearby. The mix of blue and red lights, with snow falling on a woman and an extraterrestrial in a human body in Starman (1984) leaves room for actors Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges to sell their romance. Carpenter takes time to watch as blustering American Jack Burton and his Chinese-American friends get ready for a showdown in Big Trouble in Little China (1986), using the suffocating space of an elevator to play up the awkward humor.Each of these moments serve their stories, going for expected beats instead of grand statements about the meaning of life. But each of them works precisely because of the way Carpenter makes outrageous ideas legible and effective.That quality is even more important for Bong, who often blends together various genres in his films. The Host deals with a giant monster lurking in Seouls Han River but it turns away from kaiju thrills to family drama, broad comedy, and political satire. Okja (2017) features wild heist sequences, a charming friendship between a small child and a giant pig, and Jake Gyllenhaal giving one of his most unhinged performances. Parasite depicts realistic class struggle but often feels like a slapstick comedy and even a ghost movie.Bong can blend together all of these tones thanks to the lesson he learned from Carpenter: that outrageous stories require solid filmmaking fundamentals. Mickey 17 may get whacky whenever Mickey (Robert Pattinson) deals with his clone or whenever Mark Ruffalo is on screen doing anything, really. Yet Bongs camera remains confident and in control, never letting the audience get lost in the craziness.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!Moreover both filmmakers have their muses. For Carpenter, its Kurt Russell, the former Disney star who grew into a square-jawed John Wayne with more than a little self-awareness. For Bong, its Song Kang-ho, whose expressive face and lack of ego allows him to stay consistent across each of the movies tonal and thematic shifts. Both of these guys bring out the best in their directors, giving the filmmakers confidence to keep pushing forward with their visions.Two Great WeirdosThe announcement of Carpenter and Director Bongs collaboration couldnt come at a better time. Bongs latest movie Mickey 17 seems destined to underperform, both with audiences and critics. And if theres one guy who gets how that feels, its Carpenter.Yet Bong still has juice from his Oscar win and Carpenters status as an all-time great is secured. Perhaps their combination will result in a masterpiece that everyone will love immediately. Both men will probably take the same cynical approach as their heroes Snake and Curtis, and say that their collaboration will result in a movie that takes even longer to be appreciated.

The next Apple Watch software update is on its way. watchOS 11.4 just debuted its RC version, meaning it should ship to all users soon, and now we know it will include a key new alarm feature for those who wear their Apple Watch to sleep.Watch alarms can now play sound and haptics in Silent ModewatchOS 11.4s Release Candidate notes mention the following feature:An option to allow Sleep Wake Up alarm to break through Silent ModeWhat does this mean in practice?It means you can now have your Apple Watch alarm make noise even if Silent Mode is turned on.Ive worn an Apple Watch for a full decade, and in that time Ive almost exclusively used the device in Silent Mode.Thats because I dont want my Watch dinging every time I get an alert. The subtle haptic feedback on my wrist is enough.But if you use Silent Mode, then before now your Watch could only wake you up using haptic feedback. There was no option for alarms with sound unless you turned Silent Mode off.In watchOS 11.4 thats changing thanks to this new feature.Now, with each alarm you set (including ones tied to your Sleep schedule), theres a new toggle: Break Through Silent Mode.Turn it on, and both sound and haptics will play if you wear your Apple Watch to bed.Leave it off, and youll only get hapticsjust like beforewhen Silent Mode is enabled.I appreciate that this is a per-alarm switch, since it lets you custom tailor certain alarms to pack a greater punch than others.For me, the haptic-only alarm is exactly what I want since it enables me to wake without disturbing my wife. But I can imagine plenty of users will enjoy having a new, more attention-grabbing wake up call from their Apple Watch.Is this Apple Watch alarm change a feature youll use? Let us know in the comments.Best Apple Watch accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

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Everyone's talking about recession indicators right now, which itself may be an augury of some kind. But if doom prophesying about the economy is your thing, why not hear what one of the guys who predicted the last major recession has to say?Danny Moses, who was made famous by Michael Lewis' 2010 book "The Big Short" and its star-studded 2015 movie adaptation for betting against mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crash, is now warning about the economic the fallout of Elon Musk torpedoing the federal government, again without the market seeing the writing on the wall."I think we are underestimating the impact to the economy of the cuts we're making at the federal government, and what that might mean [for] the knock-on effects into the economy," Moses said in an interview on CNBC's program "The Exchange." "I think we're hurting the revenue side of the equation."It's true that the market can be slow on the uptake. Stocks ironically soared after Donald Trump's election victory, even though on the campaign trail Trump clearly declared his intent to do everything that's sowing all this uncertainty now. To wit, look at the mass firing of government workers and the cutting of federal expenditures through the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, which claims to have saved taxpayers $115 billion so far. None of this should be surprising, in other words, but maybe the finance gurus thought Trump was just talking a big game.In any case, the thing about federal spending is that when it's not being used to maintain critical infrastructure, prop up the revenues of entire states, or grease the wheels of finance, it's also being put straight back into the economy. You'd think Musk would understand that better than anyone, as his companies like SpaceX have received over $38 billion in government contracts,loans, subsidies, and tax credits."It's not as simple as just, 'We think there's fraud, let's cut waste, let's cut expenses,'" Moses told Fortune. "And it's not just about the federal workers, and it's not just about the expenses out of those programs. It's about the contracts with the private sector."Given that Musk oversees DOGE, SpaceX isn't in much danger of losing that federal dough. The reality may be different, however, for enterprises not led by Trump's confidantes. Moses suggested that we'll see signs of a faltering economy in small businesses and "private contractors that are doing legitimate work services that are now being forced to make decisions on their business," he told Fortune.Moreover, Trump's back and forth on imposing costly tariffs on the US's key trading partners has only injected more uncertainty into an already anxious economic climate."I think we are being overly optimistic [as to] how this is going to play out," Moses told CNBC. "We're going to start to hear, when first quarter earnings are reported, that there is a market slowdown potentially, and a hit to consumer confidence."More on DOGE: Mothers and Children Are Already Dying Because of Elon Musk's CutsShare This Article

Earlier this month, YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober released a video titled "Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?" which showed a Tesla on Autopilot getting fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it.High frame-rate footage shows the vehicle plowing right through the styrofoam obstruction, an eyebrow-raising demonstration of the company relying exclusively on video feeds for its driver assistance software. That's unlike some of its competitors in the autonomous vehicle space, which use LIDAR and radar as well technology that can easily tell between the road and a wall that only looks like it.The controversial video kicked off a heated debate surrounding Tesla's driver assistance tech, with fanboys crying foul, arguing Rober should've used the company's more sophisticated and very expensive Full Self-Driving (FSD) software.But given a new attempt at a replication of the experiment, there are still plenty of reasons to be concerned about Tesla relying exclusively on cameras and perhaps a glimmer of hope for the EV maker, as well.Over the weekend, YouTuber Kyle Paul shared his own response video, showing that a Model Y with a previous generation HW3 computer will still plow through a wall painted like the road ahead even with the FSD feature turned on."See the wall, does not see the wall," Paul noted after slamming the brakes and slowly inching toward the wall, which was similarly painted to look like the horizon. "Starting to see its own shadow on the wall, and if I get really close, about touching it, it sees the wall.""With no doubt, the Model Y would have gone through the wall," he concluded. "I had to break full force because I saw that the camera, the visualization, was not seeing the wall."However, that's not the full story, as a Cybertruck with the latest-generation HW4 computer and camera system handily detected the same wall and came to a full stop."Sees the wall," Paul said as the truck, which was running last month's FSD version 13.2.8, came to a halt. "Stops.""At no point did I feel like it was going to hit the wall," he concluded.Given the mixed results, it's hard to draw any definitive conclusions. Besides, running into a Wile E. Coyote-style wall isn't exactly something Tesla drivers encounter on a day-to-day basis.But there are still potentially hundreds of thousands of vehicles still outfitted with the now out-of-date HW3 computer, which may suffer significantly from Tesla's decision to rely entirely on camera sensors.Musk has previously promised to provide a free upgrade to HW4 for those customers but whether he'll hold himself to that remains to be seen, given his reputation.The promise also highlights that Musk himself is worried that the vast majority of Tesla vehicles currently on the road won't be able to actually drive themselves after all.Paul also didn't replicate Rober's tests of having the Tesla drive through heavy simulated fog and rain which are arguably far more relevant conditions for drivers who live in the real world, rather than a Looney Tunes universe.And the Tesla did plow through a mannequin of a child in both tests, indicating the EV maker has a lot of work to do until it can fulfill Musk's decade-long promise of a safe, autonomous driving future.Share This Article

Mar 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Browser SecurityMicrosoft on Monday announced a new feature called inline data protection for its enterprise-focused Edge for Business web browser.The native data security control is designed to prevent employees from sharing sensitive company-related data into consumer generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) apps like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek. The list will be expanded over time to include other genAI, email, collaboration, and social media apps."With the new inline protection capability for Edge for Business, you can prevent data leakage across the various ways that users interact with sensitive data in the browser, including typing of text directly into a web application or generative AI prompt," the tech giant said.The Microsoft Purview browser data loss prevention (DLP) controls come as the company announced the General Availability of collaboration security for Microsoft Teams in an effort to tackle phishing attacks against users of the enterprise communication app.In recent months, threat actors such as Storm-1674 and Storm-1811 have leveraged Microsoft Teams as a conduit to trick unsuspecting users into downloading malicious software or granting them remote access for subsequent ransomware deployment.The latest set of features offers new controls that enable an organization's security team to dictate which tenants, domains, andusers can communicate with their employees, better protection against malicious links or attachments in real-time, and improved ways to report suspicious messages to admins."Suspicious files and URLs are automatically executed in a secure, isolated environment a sandbox to determine if they exhibit any malicious behavior," Microsoft said. "This process, known as real-time detonation, ensures that harmful content is identified and neutralized before end-users can access it."Coinciding with these announcements, Redmond said it's expanding Security Copilot with 11 new agentic solutions, five of which come from outside partners, to analyze data breaches, prioritize critical alerts, perform root cause analysis, and improve compliance.The Microsoft-developed Security Copilot agents, to be available for preview next month, will triage phishing alerts, data loss prevention and insider risk notifications, monitors for vulnerabilities and remediation, and curate threat intelligence based on an organization's threat exposure."The relentless pace and complexity of cyber attacks have surpassed human capacity and establishing AI agents is a necessity for modern security," Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president at Microsoft Security, said."The volume of these attacks overwhelms security teams relying on manual processes and fragmented defenses, making it difficult to both triage malicious messages promptly and leverage data-driven insights for broader cyber risk management.""The phishing triage agent in Security Copilot being unveiled today can handle routine phishing alerts and attacks, freeing up human defenders to focus on more complex threats and proactive security measures."Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Housing market experts say rates could go in either direction given so much economic uncertainty.