New changes to Hollow Knight: Silksong's Steam metadata suggests that the long-awaited game will arrive this year.

With CEO Andy Jassy pushing employees to build AI apps across the company, Amazon is testing new shopping and health assistants.

The resignationof United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Monday comes just two weeks after he announced plans to cut some 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the agency as part of the governments cost-cutting agenda. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has eyed privatizing the nations postal service. Trumps move to give commerce secretary Howard Lutnick authority over the independent agency could be a first step in that direction.DeJoy said in a statement that while the 250-year-old U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has established a path toward financial sustainability and instituted enormous beneficial change to what had been an adrift and moribund organization, more work remained.Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino will temporarily head the postal service while the USPS Board of Governors looks for a permanent successor, although the USPS said there is no established timeline for DeJoys replacement.Louis DeJoy [Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images]The $78 billion-a-year agency has struggled in recent years as more Americans are replacing paper transactions with online services. However, critics say the U.S. Postal Service is a lot more efficient than is being portrayed, and privatizing it could cause a host of problems nationwide, including interrupting or delaying the crucial delivery of prescription drugs and checks, and threatening guaranteed mail-in election ballots, which have played an increasingly important role in recent presidential elections.According to those critics, the Trump administrations meddling in the USPSs operations could make mail-in voting more difficult for the tens of millions of American voters who used it in the last election. Those most affected would be Americans living in rural areas who depend on the mail service. Trump has repeatedlysaidhed like to end the practice of mail-in voting.Taking over the Postal Service just kind of opens up a whole Pandoras box of mischief, said Barbara Smith Warner, executive director of National Vote at Home Institute, a nonprofit which works to increase voters access to and confidence in mail-in voting. This is a way that the federal government could put a really big thumb on the scale and impact every states ability to run their own elections.DeJoy, who headed the U.S. Postal Service since June 2020, has been a controversial figure over the past five years. The former businessman and Republican donor led the agency through the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, as well as two presidential elections that saw high turnout in mail-in ballots.Critics have said his efforts to modernize the postal service by consolidating deliveries ultimately backfired, slowing down the mail even further. He also raised prices: A first-class stamp on a standard envelope is currently $0.73,up from $0.55when DeJoy arrived at the agency, according to CNN.A survey by the Pew Research Centerlast July, found the post office has a 72% approval rating, making it one of the most popular government agencies.

A painting of Donald Trump hanging with other presidential portraits at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed that his was purposefully distorted, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.House Democrats said in a statement thatthe oil paintingwould be taken down at the request of Republican leaders in the Legislature. Colorado Republicans raised more than $10,000 through a GoFundMe account to commission the oil painting, which was unveiled in 2019.Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen, a Republican, said that he requested for Trumps portrait to be taken down and replaced by one that depicts his contemporary likeness.If the GOP wants to spend time and money on which portrait of Trump hangs in the Capitol, then thats up to them, the Democrats said.The portrait was installed alongside other paintings of U.S. presidents. Before the installation, aprankster placed a pictureof Russian President Vladimir Putin near the spot intended for Trump.Initially, people objected to artist Sarah Boardmans depiction of Trump as nonconfrontational and thoughtful in the portrait, according to an interview withColorado Times Recorderfrom the time.But in a Sunday night post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he would prefer no picture at all over the one that hangs in the Colorado Capitol. The Republican lauded a nearby portrait of former President Barack Obama also by Boardman saying he looks wonderful.Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the state Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before, Trump wrote.The portraits are not the purview of the Colorado governors office but the Colorado Building Advisory Committee. The ones up to and including President Jimmy Carter were donated as a collection. The others were donated by political parties or, more recently, paid for by outside fundraising.The Legislatures executive committee, made up of both Democratic and Republican leadership, signed a letter directing the removal of Trumps portrait. Lundeen, the Republican senator who requested it, noted that Grover Cleveland, whose presidential terms were separated like Trumps, had a portrait from his second term.Boardman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. In interviews from the time withThe Denver Post, Boardman said it was important that her depictions of both Obama and Trump looked apolitical.There will always be dissent, so pleasing one group will always inflame another. I consider a neutrally thoughtful, and nonconfrontational, portrait allows everyone to reach their own conclusions in their own time, Boardman told theColorado Times Recorderin 2019.Trumps Sunday night comments had prompted a steady stream of visitors to pose for photos with the painting before the announcement that it would be taken down.Aaron Howe, visiting from Wyoming on Monday, stood in front of Trumps portrait, looking down at photos of the president on his phone, then back up at the portrait.Honestly he looks a little chubby, said Howe of the portrait, but better than I could do.I dont know anything about the artist, said Howe, who voted for Trump. It could be taken one way or the other.Kaylee Williamson, an 18-year-old Trump supporter from Arkansas, got a photo with the portrait.I think it looks like him. I guess hes smoother than all the other ones, she said. I think its fine.Jesse Bedayn, Associated Press/Report for AmericaBedayn is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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Apple's iOS 18 brings a new and more convenient way to shut down your iPhone but it's no more obvious than the existing options. Whether you're packing the iPhone away or taking it to be repaired, here's everything you can do.Pressing and holding Volume Up and Power buttons on either side of the iPhone will bring up the shutdown screenThere's a significant difference between just putting an iPhone to sleep versus turning it off completely. The former is simple to do you just tap the side or sleep/wake button on the right-hand side of the iPhone to put it to sleep.Powering down the iPhone, by contrast, involves a short procedure to confirm that you want to switch off the device down completely. Beyond the different ways you can first initiate the shutdown, you must then always confirm it by swiping an on-screen slider from left to right. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Apple Savings is now available for Apple Card users. Here's how it compares to other high-yield savings accounts in March.Apple Savings requires Apple CardThe finance sector isn't new to Apple, with Apple Wallet, Apple Pay, Apple Card, Apple Pay Later, and now Apple Savings. Customers have multiple avenues to entrust vital financial processes to Apple.Apple Savings is a high-yield savings account provided by Goldman Sachs. It requires users to have an Apple Card and be over 18 years old. Otherwise, there are no minimum balances or fees associated with the account. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

MachineGames, Bethesda, and Microsoft have officially announced an April 17 launch for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on PS5, which means finer details on what to expect from the games release on Sonys console have also emerged.Taking to Twitter, instance, Bethesda shared details on the acclaimed action-adventure titles Collectors Edition. Interestingly enough, the image shared also reveals that the Collectors Edition will require an internet connection to download the game and additional content. This isnt a case of a physical release not including a disc either, because as Bethesdas tweet confirms, a game disc will indeed be included with the Collectors (and Premium) Edition.Indiana Jones and the Great Circleis available on Xbox Series X/S and PC. Read our review of the game through here, where we awarded it a score of 9/10, praising its exploration, its faithful adaptation of theIndiana JonesIP, its stealth, and more.Grab your #IndianaJones and the Great Circle Collectors Edition for PS5!US: https://t.co/mTrDhga2PsINT: https://t.co/ebvtQOiBNU(Not available in all regions.) pic.twitter.com/75KMlQT2sL Bethesda (@bethesda) March 24, 2025

Assassins CreedShadowshas matched its widespread acclaim with an impressive start in terms of player numbers, having pulled in over 2 million players in its first couple of days to reportedly become Ubisofts second-biggest launch of all time. The company will, of course, be releasing plenty more content for the already-massive action RPG in the time to come, but before that, its first patch has gone live.Title Update 1.0.1 is a pretty minor one, with its modest patch notes confirming that it fixes a couple of Photo Mode-related crashes (one each on PS5 and PC), while also making stabilization tweaks across the board. Check out the full patch notes below.As small as the patch may be, its download size doesnt necessarily reflect that, coming in at 8.88 GB on Xbox Series X/S, 7.03 GB on PC, and 9 GB on Mac. Meanwhile, the PS5s decompression tech allows the console to reduce the patch to a size of 1.41 GB.Assassins Creed Shadowsis available now. Read our review of the game through here.UPDATE NOTESStabilization Fixed some global issues[PS5] Fixed a Photo mode issue that could cause a crash when fetching photos to display on the world map.[PC] Fixed a Photo mode issue that could cause a crash when taking a photo.

Copilot AI agentsAfter Google and OpenAI offered up AI news on Tuesday, Microsoft has followed with announcements of its own, including details of two deep reasoning agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot that it claims are the first of their kind, dubbed Researcher and Analyst, as well as new capabilities for custom AI agents. Researcher relies on OpenAIs deep research AI model to pull off complex, multi-step research, along with access to third-party data via connectors to sources like Salesforce or ServiceNow so that business customers can derive insights from across their tools.Analyst is based on the o3-mini reasoning model from OpenAI, and Microsoft claims that with chain-of-thought reasoning, its capable of turning raw data into spreadsheets, running Python code that you can view while its running, and operate on the level of a skilled data scientist, pulling together reports like this one (pdf).Those tools are scheduled to start rolling out in April to Microsoft 365 Copilot license holders in an early access program, along with new autonomous agent capabilities that are starting to roll out now in Copilot Studio. Microsoft claims the new agent flows in Copilot are powerful enough to automate any task you can imagine with rule-based workflows that include AI actions. The LinkedIn announcement describes situations like an agent flow that directs feedback emails to the correct team, but well have to see it in action to find out how thats better than adding a checkbox or two, or how well its low code experience really works, and if it can deliver on the promises AI companies are making about agents.