Whether twiddling their thumbs during the decades since Commandos 3 or calmly hiding in a hedge waiting to knife a nosey Nazi in the neck on his next stroll past, if there’s one thing Commandos fans are known for it’s lurking patiently. Good things come to those who’ve waited, and Commandos: Origins fits that bill. Slow-paced, challenging, and consistently satisfying when all your plans come together, its brand of isometric stealth action is intact and has never looked better. I’ve sunk nearly 60 hours into it over the last week and a half just to see out the missions, and there are potentially dozens more hours available should I return to play through some of them again with the intention of leaving no stone unturned and no soldier unslain. The only major issue is the assortment of bugs I’ve had to become accustomed to in order to keep enjoying myself. Like a peskily placed German sniper, some of these I learnt how to avoid entirely, but there were others I just needed to find a way to neutralise.PlayFor those of you who skipped basic training, Commandos is a classic series of real-time tactics stealth ’em ups set during the Second World War that goes all the way back to the late ’90s. Picture a crew of elite but generally crabby commandos crawling around on their bellies behind enemy lines, driven by a whole lot of mouse clicking, and you’re most of the way there. For a modern comparison, it’s a lot like The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, only filmed exclusively from a drone (and without Guy Ritchie’s wit or Henry Cavill’s perfectly curled cookie duster). Or the BBC’s Rogue Heroes with 90% less swearing and 100% less AC/DC.However, while its cheesy yet otherwise stony-faced approach may lack the outright humour of those crackling British Special Forces capers, Commandos: Origins is arguably the best version of the series’ concept to date. It’s a familiar yet modern experience for grizzled veterans, and also an intuitive and approachable one for new players who are ready to test themselves against a steadily escalating difficulty curve.Where eagles stareLike any great stealth game, Origins is as much a game about tactics as it is a salvo of deadly puzzles to solve. It essentially boils down to analysing every upcoming encounter, inspecting each enemy soldier’s vision cone, and finding a way to dispatch them that won’t bring the whole German army down on your squad’s heads. A large part of my time with Origins has been spent simply staring at the screen, surveying my prey like an ambush predator. A large part of my time with Origins has been spent simply staring at the screen, surveying my prey like an ambush predator.“Each of the six commandos on your team has a set of unique tools and abilities. For the most part, Origins curates the characters available for each mission, tailoring the action for their skills. There are only two instances where all six soldiers will be on the same battlefield at once, which is kind of a shame because those are real highlights. That said, I probably would’ve played a huge amount of Origins exclusively using the Marine’s throwing knives and harpoon gun had I had the chance, so forcing me to expand my approach by sidelining him sometimes was probably wise and almost certainly kept things from becoming stale. Speaking of sidelining, I actually don’t miss the inventory management of the previous games, though I feel like I wouldn’t have removed the ability to pick up and use enemy weapons for the Green Beret in particular. The argument here is that Origins is more about thoughtful stealth at all times – and less about spraying lead from scavenged MP40s at anything with a swastika on it. Thoughtful stealth, luckily, is empowered by the coolest part of Origins: Command Mode. Riffing on similar modes in the late, great Mimimi’s Desperados 3 and Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, Command Mode allows you to freeze time indefinitely and queue up individual actions for each of your commandos. Back in real time, they’ll execute those simultaneously on your say so. Nailing the timing on a set of Command Mode instructions is powerfully satisfying, whether it’s simply two crawling commandos stabbing a distracted pair of soldiers from the side, or a more complicated and elaborately choreographed ballet of harpoons, blades, and bullets.Commandos: Origins ScreenshotsIt’s all quite a slow process to do well, but it’s a truly rewarding one when you figure out the solution to taking on what initially may seem like too many meticulously positioned soldiers to tackle. Maybe your first choice of target is impossible to kill quietly because he’s always in sight of one of his other comrades, and maybe that very squadmate is always in view of a third, and so on. But there’s fun in uncovering who should be the first domino to fall throat-first onto a Fairbairn–Sykes combat knife. Some enemies will leave their posts to investigate strange sounds, like the Sapper’s whistle or the Green Beret’s radio – or inspect the Driver’s burning packets of cigarettes. Some will only temporarily turn and face a distraction, giving you precious moments to slip by them. Experimenting with which routes and tools work best is a task that tapped into a compulsive part of my brain.There’s fun in uncovering who should be the first domino to fall throat-first onto a Fairbairn–Sykes combat knife.“The opportunities are always there; it’s just on us to find them – and the fact that they’re not telegraphed or signposted makes every victory feel like you’ve outfoxed the developers. At one point I spotted a tiny gap in the view cones of four soldiers on a small set of stairs in the water. It allowed me to not only get behind them to wipe them out, but also to bring three other squadmates via boat to the rear of my main objective. Was that there on purpose? Probably, but maybe not. Leaving it ambiguous as to whether you’ve gone about an encounter in the precise way Claymore Game Studios surreptitiously left ajar for us – or succeeded with an unpredictable sequence of moves the dev team perhaps never saw coming – is just good design. Either way, the encouragement to explore every corner of the maps for the best opportunities is thoroughly baked in.PlayIn large part, that’s because these levels are all exceedingly detailed dioramas, sprawling and dense, and every one feels like I’m playing a high-stakes game of toy soldiers on the kind of miniature map exhibits you might see tucked behind glass at a war museum. Missions take place all across Europe and North Africa, too, so the variety of backdrops is terrific – from snowy Scandinavia to lush, soggy fields and baking deserts. The huge environments are also rendered entirely in three dimensions and you can enter buildings seamlessly, and the fact that I felt the need to say that should give you an idea of how long it’s been since we’ve had a proper Commandos game. You can make fine camera rotations in any compass direction, so getting the right angle to spot a gap in security is easy. That said, scrolling around too fast sometimes introduces a bit of temporary choppiness, but it’s a short-lived gripe. It’s otherwise great looking overall.There is, unfortunately, some occasional clumsiness when navigating particularly complex, multi-storey structures. Over the course of the campaign I encountered a few enemies that appeared to be sharing a floor with me, but who were actually on a different level entirely and should’ve been hidden from view at that moment. I also had the misfortune of placing down a beartrap that became irretrievable because it wasn’t on the same platform I wanted to leave it, and being shot through a solid container that apparently wasn’t really there is never any fun. There were also occasional instances where my commands were being misinterpreted and my men were setting off to unintended areas and directly into enemy sight lines, due to an apparent disconnect between what floors are being displayed and what floor Origins thinks I’m clicking on. These aren’t major frustrations, though, and remedying them typically just required some minor zooming, or panning the camera slightly. That, or a quick reload to bring back the prematurely deceased.Saving dyin’ privatesIn the trial-and-error world of tactical games like Commandos, quick save is your friend – and Origins is no exception. The ability to pick up directly where you left off after doing something risky and/or stupid is what actually gives us the freedom to experiment with different approaches in the first place. Make no mistake, quick save well and truly saved my bacon (and quickly!) on many occasions – but, unfortunately, this essential feature also seems to provoke some of Origins’ most bothersome bugs.For instance, loading a save you made while one of your commandos was climbing a wire – or perched high on a climbable pole – appears to leave the poor bastard marooned on an invisible level above the map, fruitlessly crawling or moonwalking into oblivion. The solution, naturally, is to simply resolve to never save while one of your men is climbing anything. That wasn’t the end of my issues, though. After another reload I noticed my Marine was no longer in his boat, but walking on water back to the marker I’d placed. This bug eventually resolved itself, but one where my Sapper simply disappeared off the map and became unselectable did not. That kind of issue could’ve become game-breaking, but Origins – seemingly aware that it has a few technical landmines for you to step on – keeps a queue of several quick saves. For the most part, if something goes awry, there’s a strong chance you’ll have a slightly older save you can revert too. In this instance, though, I’d sadly filled all my saves without noticing my Sapper was no longer present. The only solution was restarting the mission entirely, which was over an hour lost.     One weird issue, and one I can’t tell whether it’s related to the quick saves or not, is the occasional instance of enemies falsely detecting one of your commandos in a bush they’re no longer hiding in – and getting locked in an alert state about it. They’ll subsequently circle it and blast it to hell to no avail. It wasn’t so bad because I was able to either skirt around it or totally exploit it by stabbing all the soldiers while they were busy slaughtering the unfortunate shrubbery, but it definitely wasn’t supposed to happen. I wouldn’t necessarily call the enemies smart overall, and it would’ve been nice if they displayed a little more of the initiative we see in other modern stealth games. Instead of callously ignoring dead bodies after an alert phase resets, for instance, they might want to drag their kaput companions off to a predefined location, à la Hitman. They make up for their dim bulbs by being extremely dangerous, though – and they’re just unpredictable enough to keep you on your toes when you think you’ve got their patterns figured out. They won’t inspect the nearest hiding places in the same order after a reload, for instance, so you’d better have a backup plan – or at least make sure nobody’s climbing a telephone pole when they come looking.

According to the latest Nielsen streaming report, Gunsmoke is one of the top 10 most-watched acquired series across all measured streaming services. Yes, the 70-year-old Western TV show adapted from a radio series about the residents of Dodge City, Kansas, just joined a ratings chart that includes beloved series like Family Guy and The White Lotus as well as ever-popular children’s shows like Bluey and SpongeBob SquarePants.  You may be tempted to write off Gunsmoke’s appearance as an anomaly fueled by the specificness of that category or perhaps Nielsen’s specific ways of measuring such data. However, a closer look reveals a more substantial story. Gunsmoke was watched for more measured minutes than shows like Severance, The Traitors, Zero Day, and Yellowjackets. People aren’t just rediscovering Gunsmoke; they’re tuning into it in numbers not seen since the series finally went off the air in 1975 after a remarkable 20-year run.  Why? Well…that’s a great question. And while it can be futile to try to understand why anything succeeds in the often odd world of streaming, the truth is that Gunsmoke’s resurgence has been telegraphed by trends that tell us quite a lot about the state of streaming shows and the people who watch them.  Gunsmoke Has Slowly Been Gaining a Streaming Audience For Quite Some Time It’s important to note that Gunsmoke’s sudden rise in popularity among streamers isn’t quite so sudden. According to the Nielsen reports, Gunsmoke garnered over 10 billion viewing minutes in 2024 across Peacock and Paramount+. Those numbers are even more impressive when you consider that Gunsmoke wasn’t even added to Peacock until December 2024. For that matter,  those figures seemingly do not account for services like Pluto TV and Philo where Gunsmoke is also available and, in the case of Pluto TV, almost always on.  In some ways, what we’re seeing with this report is simply what happens when an already popular legacy series becomes available on multiple streaming platforms. And while many production companies want their piece of the pie and use any exclusives they can find to encourage you to add their subscription service to your ever-escalating monthly costs, this is a pretty clear example of how individual series can benefit from being available on multiple platforms. It makes you wonder just how skewed metrics-driven media is and what kinds of projects we’re missing out on due to the perception that certain concepts aren’t as popular as they would be if they were simply more available. That said, you can imagine what Gunsmoke’s streaming numbers would look like if the show were available on Netflix? But for the moment, let’s focus on the streaming service that has quickly become Gunsmoke’s home in terms of these reports: Paramount+.  Paramount+ Is a Little More Popular Than You Might Think While Gunsmoke’s addition to the Peacock library seems to have helped put it over the top in terms of these rating reports, Paramount+ has long been the most reliable (measured) streaming source for the legacy show. You’re not alone if the mere mention of Paramount+ caused you to roll your eyes and recall just how flooded the streaming market has become. Paramount+ often ranks near the bottom of all streaming services due to its awful UI and bizarre content library. Few were surprised when Paramount+ recently posted a staggering $286M fourth quarter loss. But Paramount+ has a couple of things going for it that may have helped draw in a Gunsmoke-eager crowd in recent weeks and months. Notably, Paramount+ was recently one of the major streaming homes for the NCAA tournament: an event that reportedly drew massive viewership numbers across various providers. Streaming services have long touted the importance of incorporating more live programming (one of traditional TV’s major remaining draws), and this certainly appears to be a case of live events lifting all boats. Paramount+ is also available as part of the increasingly popular Walmart+ membership program. Even if you’re not willing to entertain the idea that there may be some crossover between the older heads of houses in many largely rural areas who may be interested in both a Walmart+ subscription as well as watching Gunsmoke, we again come back to the idea of availability being tied to appeal. The more excuses people have to subscribe to Paramount+, the more likely they are to find Gunsmoke.  So far as that goes, Paramount’s beleaguered streaming service does have one major draw in its library, and it just so happens to be Gunsmoke adjacent.  The Yellowstone Effect For quite some time, cord-cutters and younger viewers drastically underestimated the appeal and reach of Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount Network Western series, Yellowstone. And while critical opinions of that series remain split, nobody is denying that Yellowstone is one of the most broadly popular series in recent years, especially among viewers who do not typically gravitate towards the kind of prestige TV entertainment that often steals headlines. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! To be fair, even Paramount was seemingly surprised by Yellowstone’s surge in popularity. Former Paramount President and CEO Bob Bakish regretted letting Peacock acquire the streaming rights to Yellowstone before they knew just how popular the show would become in its later seasons. And while Yellowstone’s continued absence on Paramount+ remains a source of confusion and frustration for viewers and distributors, Paramount learned its lesson and decided to make Yellowstone’s spinoff prequel series (1883 and 1923) available exclusively through the streaming service.  If you love all things Yellowstone, as many do, 1883 and 1923 are some of the biggest reasons to splurge on a Paramount+ subscription. From there, it’s not difficult to imagine Yellowstone universe fans gravitating towards Gunsmoke. The two series may be separated by decades of stylistic influences, but they are both fairly pure examples of a Western genre that has been growing in prominence since the COVID-19 pandemic and Yellowstone’s ascension. Even Little House on the Prairie (a comparatively quaint 1970s Western series that focuses more on frontier life) has been experiencing a resurgence in streaming popularity alongside Gunsmoke. Indeed, Little House on the Prairie’s parallel popularity may be the biggest piece of this puzzle. While it is also a Western of a kind, it shares another quality with Gunsmoke that may be more important to understanding their recent streaming successes.  We’re Living In the Age of Comfort Watches Streaming services prioritize acquiring legacy shows due to the simple power of the familiar. And while Netflix, Disney, Paramount, and more hope that allowing you to watch old favorites like Friends, The Simpsons, and Star Trek will tempt you to watch the original offerings, the result is largely the same in the end. Your subscription fee clears every month even if you only watch The Office.  But the popularity of legacy series in the age of streaming is about more than falling back on the familiar rather than shuffling through aisles of infinite choices once more. Who among us in the last several years or so hasn’t found ourselves turning to comfort watches to help deal with a long day of managing the absolute everything of it all? It’s significantly more difficult to embrace something bleak, substantial, and emotionally/intellectually challenging after spending an entire day doing your best to process endless transmissions from a world filled with microphone-armed masochists cultivating what the sailor Laurence Millechamp once described as “a proper nursery for desperation.” What constitutes a comfort watch may vary from person to person, though many share a few key factors. They’re typically older by the very nature of them being familiar, they tend to be removed from the specifics of our current situation (and are often funny), and they usually represent the antithesis of modern media offerings in some way.  That last factor is proving to be increasingly important. While it’s easy enough to understand why series like Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, and The Big Bang Theory pop up on these rating reports as traditional comfort watches, wanting more than what streaming typically offers explains why NCIS still draws viewers or why Suits unexpectedly captured Gen Z’s attention. Such shows are pulled from a far different era of television that we are far removed stylistically, if not chronologically. People aren’t just looking for streaming alternatives and comfort watches; they’re looking for companion shows that help fill gaps created by trends in the modern media market.  You don’t need to know much about Gunsmoke to understand how it fits into those gaps. A 1950s Western where the bad guys wear black and justice is dispensed in under a half-hour across largely self-contained adventures checks a lot of boxes. It may be older than other established comfort watches and slightly outside of the legacy genre norms, but it just seems remarkably cozy. However, if that is how you perceive Gunsmoke, then you’re missing out on one of the biggest reasons why the show remains so popular.   Gunsmoke Is Still a Great Show While Gunsmoke is sometimes best remembered for remarkably remaining on the air for 20 years, those who know the show best often cite it as one of the most influential Westerns in any medium. Not all of the show’s 635 episodes were winners, but the series often exhibited remarkable creative consistency over that run. It wasn’t just what millions of homes tuned into because it was one of the only things on TV; it was a surprisingly complex series filled with characters navigating ambiguous scenarios with help from their often challenged moral compasses.  Yes, Marshal Matt Dillon often gets his man at the end of each episode, and everything works out for the relative best. But it’s the details between the show’s iconic opening and that moment that often matter most. Our heroes’ abilities to do the right thing only feel significant because it’s an ability that is constantly being challenged.  There is an eternal joy in watching people exhibit basic, simple morality as they overcome challenges in a series born from the classic, more professional performance and production sensibilities. It’s the same joy that draws some to shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and the aforementioned Little House on the Prairie. In some ways, the further we get from Gunsmoke only makes it easier to appreciate both the show’s influence on so much that followed and what an often wonderful antithesis it is to what modern prestige series navigating the post-antihero era have become.  Gunsmoke’s resurgence is undoubtedly rooted in the desire to see something a bit simpler and familiar in a time of complicated issues that often force us to navigate frustratingly new challenges. There is always a danger in romanticizing the past, and that danger probably feels especially pressing in the case of a 70-year-old TV show gaining popularity at a time when the perceived masculinity and often misremembered morality of both the Western genre and the ‘50s era of America are often weaponized to push dangerous agendas.  But sitting down to watch Gunsmoke (as many are currently doing) reveals something pleasantly different. It’s a professionally produced series about the enduring power of humanity that can be absorbed and enjoyed in what little free time many of us may be lucky to have. Its comfort comes from both its format, its quality, and the ways it convincingly pushes the fantasy of righteousness without sacrificing its fundamental storytelling.  Gunsmoke is far from perfect, but it still has so much to teach us about television as a storytelling medium and what keeps us coming back. Perhaps streaming providers will look a little harder at Gunsmoke’s resurgence and learn more from it than what we can observe on the surface level when greenlighting future projects. More likely than not, though, we’ll all just keep watching Gunsmoke. 

Microsoft has released security fixes to address a massive set of 126 flaws affecting its software products, including one vulnerability that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 126 vulnerabilities, 11 are rated Critical, 112 are rated Important, and two are rated Low in severity. Forty-nine of these vulnerabilities are classified as privilege escalation, 34 as remote code execution, 16 as information disclosure, and 14 as denial-of-service (DoS) bugs. The updates are aside from the 22 flaws the company patched in its Chromium-based Edge browser since the release of last month's Patch Tuesday update. The vulnerability that has been flagged as under active attack is an elevation of privilege (EoP) flaw impacting the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) Driver (CVE-2025-29824, CVSS score: 7.8) that stems from a use-after-free scenario, allowing an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. CVE-2025-29824 is the sixth EoP vulnerability to be discovered in the same component that has been exploited in the wild since 2022, the others being CVE-2022-24521, CVE-2022-37969, CVE-2023-23376, CVE-2023-28252, and CVE-2024-49138 (CVSS scores: 7.8). "From an attacker's perspective, post-compromise activity requires obtaining requisite privileges to conduct follow-on activity on a compromised system, such as lateral movement," Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, said. "Therefore, elevation of privilege bugs are typically popular in targeted attacks. However, elevation of privilege flaws in CLFS have become especially popular among ransomware operators over the years." Mike Walters, president and co-founder of Action1, said the vulnerability permits privilege escalation to the SYSTEM level, thereby giving an attacker the ability to install malicious software, modify system settings, tamper with security features, access sensitive data, and maintain persistent access. "What makes this vulnerability particularly concerning is that Microsoft has confirmed active exploitation in the wild, yet at this time, no patch has been released for Windows 10 32-bit or 64-bit systems," Ben McCarthy, lead cyber security engineer at Immersive, said. "The lack of a patch leaves a critical gap in defense for a wide portion of the Windows ecosystem." "Under certain memory manipulation conditions, a use-after-free can be triggered, which an attacker can exploit to execute code at the highest privilege level in Windows. Importantly, the attacker does not need administrative privileges to exploit the vulnerability – only local access is required." The active exploitation of the flaw, per Microsoft, has been linked to ransomware attacks against a small number of targets. The development has prompted the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring federal agencies to apply the fix by April 29, 2025. Some of the other notable vulnerabilities patched by Redmond this month include a security feature bypass (SFB) flaw affecting Windows Kerberos (CVE-2025-29809), as well as remote code execution flaws in Windows Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2025-27480, CVE-2025-27482), and Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CVE-2025-26663, CVE-2025-26670) Also of note are multiple Critical-severity remote code execution flaws in Microsoft Office and Excel (CVE-2025-29791, CVE-2025-27749, CVE-2025-27748, CVE-2025-27745, and CVE-2025-27752) that could be exploited by a bad actor using a specially crafted Excel document, resulting in full system control. Capping off the list of Critical flaws are two remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting Windows TCP/IP (CVE-2025-26686) and Windows Hyper-V (CVE-2025-27491) that could allow an attacker to execute code over a network under certain conditions. It's worth noting that several of the vulnerabilities are yet to receive patches for Windows 10. Microsoft said the updates would be "released as soon as possible, and when they are available, customers will be notified via a revision to this CVE information." Software Patches from Other Vendors In addition to Microsoft, security updates have also been released by other vendors over the past few weeks to rectify several vulnerabilities, including — Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.

Company DescriptionExperian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realize their financial goals and help them save time and money.We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more industry segments.We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.Job DescriptionAs the CRM Solutions Architect, you will focus on developing personalized, cross-channel solutions, integrating data, business rules, and ML models across touchpoints, and delivering a dynamic, relevant customer experience.You will report to the Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture.You'll have the opportunity to:Lead solution workshops and develop detailed business, functional, and technical requirements.Guide collaboration and understanding across teams, translating strategic vision into capability models and solution design approaches presentable to business and technical teams.Develop data models, data transformations, data structures, data flows, and process flows for communication and use within internal business and technical groups to support CRM marketing, audience, and taxonomy creation for on and off-property efforts.Design and develop data, process, and software solutions that enhance and integrate with the Experian Consumer Services (ECS) marketing and ad technology stack.Collaborate with developers, data engineers, and product and marketing teams for end-to-end solution design and technical implementation of:Personalized customer journeys, automated trigger messages, and marketing campaigns.Signal generation and tagging across the D2C platform.Data permissioning, opt-in/out compliance.Audiences and taxonomies.Initiatives which support the orchestration of audiences for 1st and 3rd party use-cases.Present solution designs, including implementation cost/effort and benefit estimates.Ensure data-driven decision-making and solution architecture are informed by analytics, KPIs, and measurable outcomes.Conduct build vs buy assessments, develop cost/benefit analysis, and present solution approach options.Design solutions to increase automation and performance of CRM activities that further the use of ML models/data-driven customer communications.Prototype and integrate tools into the existing Marketing Tech stack and lead the adoption of tools.Participate in an on-call rotation. Accommodate Pacific workday hours (with some flexibility provided).QualificationsYour background:5+ years of marketing technology and customer data solutions architecture experience.Expertise with enterprise customer data, ESP, Ad Tech, and personalization technology and solutions.Advanced expertise in customer journey development, campaign management, and marketing platform implementations.Knowledge of large-scale customer data and digital marketing technology domains.Advanced data development skills in SQL, Python, and API integrations.Experience with concept-to-launch solution design and execution of multi-channel digital marketing and CRM programs.Benefits/Perks:Great compensation package and bonus plan.Core benefits including full medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K.Flexible work environment, ability to work remotely, hybrid, or in-office.Flexible time off, including volunteer time off, vacation, sick, and 12-paid holidays.Additional InformationOur uniqueness is that we celebrate yours. Experian's culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what matters; DEI, work/life balance, development, authenticity, collaboration, wellness, reward & recognition, volunteering... the list goes on. Experian's people first approach is award-winning; World's Best Workplaces™ 2024 (Fortune Top 25), Great Place To Work™ in 24 countries, and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2024 to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site to understand why.Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is an important part of Experian's DNA and practices, and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, religion, colour, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.#LI-RemoteThis is a remote position.

Submitted by WA Contents ODA converts decaying parking structure into a public park and office building in Buenos Aires Argentina Architecture News - Apr 09, 2025 - 05:15   html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" New York-based architecture and interior design firm ODA has unveiled of its first large-scale mixed-use project in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The project, named OLA Palermo, was converted from a decaying parking structure into a public park and Class A office building, replacing the concrete shell with cafés, restaurants, retail, an open-air promenade, offices and a sheltered parking lot.OLA Palermo will serve as an iconic new civic space and a vital connection point for the city, reuniting areas that are currently separated by this land parcel, situated between the racecourse and the well-known park "El Rosedal de Palermo."BSD Investments was awarded a 15-year concession to develop the property known as Ámbito Gigena by the government of Buenos Aires City."We have an abandoned concrete infrastructure that does not speak at all with its surroundings nor is useful for the city and its inhabitants," explained the architect and urban planner Álvaro García Resta, secretary of Urban Development of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. For this reason, the goal is to transform the three-story building into a “multi purpose development."The adaptive reuse project takes advantage of its unique location at the edge of an active park to complete the park loop by extending the green path up along one side of the building to reach the landscaped roof and then ramping down on the other side to reconnect with the park. The rooftop extends the public park, featuring a commercial brewery and private terraces for office tenants. This design positions the project as a significant intersection of public and private sectors, unified by nature. The remarkable glass front reflects the sky and verdant environment, generating organic curves that soften the lines of the current parking structure."This project is a great example of a public-private partnership to create a truly unique typology that will benefit the city and its citizens for decades to come," said ODA founder Eran Chen. "These types of partnerships are the future. Itʼs ambitious and takes bravery and bold leadership on all fronts, but when this is completed we will have a park that will become an icon for the city, and quite possibly the coolest office building in the southern hemisphere," Chen added.Recycling 80 per cent of the original structure, this sustainable design creates a 160,000-square-foot (14,864 square meter) building that connects two neighborhoods that were previously separated. Gigena will feature over 40,000 square feet (3,716 square meters) of public terrace and open green areas, designed with pedestrian pathways and a parking facility for 250 cars. "The treatment given to these open air gardens is that of a wild landscape with native flora. But it wonʼt be a park made to contemplate, it will be a dynamic area, to stroll and explore," said García Resta."The healthiest city is that which has a balanced mixed use of its public space. Where only one thing happens and not many, the number of people making use of these shared spaces is restricted," Resta added. The project was completed in November 2024. The design team comprises ODA as the design architect, Aisenson studio as the executive architect, ODA and Inscape Landscape as landscape architects, BSD Investments, a well-known developer with projects in both Argentina and the United States, and Coinsa, a leading firm with a proven track record of over 7,000,000 square feet (65,000 square meters) of completed work in Argentina.ODA also designs the distinctive structures for Deer Valley East Village, the first ski village built from the ground up in North America in forty years, in Park City, Utah. In addition, the firm has unveiled design for Ombelle, a pair of sculptural residential towers in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida.All images © Alan Karchmer.> via ODA 

The scheme for client Manak Homes would redevelop a 769m site that was once home to the Lloyd Williamson school. It was submitted to Kensington & Chelsea earlier last month. The proposal involves demolishing existing buildings at 2-14 Telford Road and 246-248 Ladbroke Grove, around 500m north of Ladbroke Grove tube station, replacing them with a building with four, five and six-storey elements. The building provides a nursery on the ground floor with a courtyard play space, with 27 self-contained flats above, providing homes for 90 people in a mixture of one, two and three-bed units.Advertisement Both the flats and the nursery will have entrances on Telford Road, while bike storage and refuse would be at the rear of the site, next door to North Kensington Fire Station. Bell Phillips says the nursery will retain the site’s existing social and community use. On the scheme’s appearance, the practice says it has taken references from surrounding buildings, such as curved glazed brickwork referencing the rounded corner of the Eagle, an Edwardian pub next door. Recessed bays and finely detailed metalwork balustrades, meanwhile, reference details found in terraced housing on Ladbroke Grove. Biodiverse green roofs and planting will contribute to the biodiversity net gain and urban greening across the redevelopment. A timeline for the scheme has yet to be set out.Advertisement Project data Client Manak Homes Architect Bell Phillips Local authority Kensington & Chelsea Council Transport consultant TTP Consulting Fire consultant H+H Fire Daylight and sunlight consultant DPR Townscape consultant Iceni Arboricultural consultant Arbtech Engagement consultant Cascade Communications Acoustic consultant KPA Acoustics Source:Bell PhillipsBell Phillips Telford Road

Blizzard details full Diablo 4 roadmap for 2025, includes mouse and keyboard support for consoles Lilith and taketh. Image credit: Blizzard News by Victoria Kennedy News Reporter Published on April 9, 2025 Blizzard has shared a roadmap for Diablo 4, taking us through the rest of this year and teasing a bit of what's to come in 2026. This roadmap reiterates that another hellish expansion is on the way, but it won't be available until next year. Along with that new expansion, 2026 also promises players a new ranking system, leaderboards and a new something. I only say something here, because the rest of the roadmap's text has been engulfed by fire, but I am going to make an educated guess and say it will probably be a new class. But, before all of that, there is plenty of Diablo 4 chaos slated for 2025. Diablo 4 - Digital Foundry Tech Review - PS5 vs Xbox Series X/S vs PS4. Watch on YouTube Coming up next on the roadmap is the April to July season, which is known as Belial's Return. "Belial, Lord of Lies has returned to warp reality to his will. Daring wanderers can clash with Belial and two bosses from Vessel of Hatred as part of the updated Lair Boss system," reads the season's official blurb. There's also an "earnable feline pet" on the way in the coming months, as well as a "new IP collab" and some quality of life tweaks to lair bosses. Then between July and September, Diablo 4 players will be welcoming Sins of the Horadrim, which will return to Nightmare Dungeons. Players can expect new activities here, as well as interactions "that let you progress the dungeon’s intensity as you hunt down the barons of Hell" (sounds chill). During this time, Blizzard will also be introducing keyboard and mouse support for consoles as a permanent addition to the game, something the developer said has been a much requested feature. Between July and September, there will also be an earnable pet available, although the team did not specify what kind. Moving into the colder months of September to December, we then have Infernal Chaos, which will bring Infernal Horde Updates. As you may have surmised given that these months come with the header Infernal Chaos, this means things are going to get "more chaotic" for players, as the Diablo 4 team puts "new choices into your hands". There will also be a new variety of powers to earn here, known as chaos powers. Advanced options between Infernal Waves will also be making a showing during these months as well. Again, Blizzard has teased an earnable pet and a "new IP collab" for between September and December, but again has kept further details under wraps for now. Image credit: Blizzard Diablo 4 will celebrate its second anniversary this June. On its initial release back in 2023, we awarded Diablo 4 four out of five stars. "Like the Blizzard hits of old, Diablo 4 is a designer's game at heart, built on intricacy and depth. A sense of fearful overcompensation holds it back," reads Eurogamer's original Diablo 4 review. Since then, we have also been treated to a major expansion known as Vessel of Hatred. This expansion also earned itself four Eurogamer stars. "A polished, bewitching upgrade that sinks its claws into you - featuring perhaps the best character class in Diablo's history," reads Eurogamer's Vessel of Hatred review.

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Two months and counting!We're now about two months out from the Switch 2's release and it looks like there's already a line for the system's launch at the Nintendo New York store.As originally highlighted by GoNintendo, leading the charge is "super fan" and YouTuber known as 'ChickenDog' - who is documenting his entire wait over the next few months:Read the full article on nintendolife.com