Government cybersecurity teams face an overwhelming challenge of perpetually having too many priorities but too few resources to address them all. Instead of focusing on strategic threat mitigation, cybersecurity teams are spending their time deconflicting alerts, chasing false positives, and struggling with visibility gaps. This can lead to higher costs, inefficiencies, alert fatigue, and a dangerous lack of visibility into potential risks. Artificial intelligence has the power to help government cybersecurity teams overcome these challenges. AI can make cybersecurity processes more efficient across the entire agency, from providing remediation recommendations to automating compliance.  A great example of the benefits of AI for cybersecurity operations is user behavioral analytics (UBA), where the technology can help evaluate user traffic patterns to create a baseline of known behaviors and flag unexpected or suspicious behavior that may indicate compromise for the security team to investigate. In the area of identity and access management, automated entitlement reviews ensure users have the appropriate level of access based on their role, while AI-driven role mining strengthens security principles such as least privilege and separation of duties.  Related:Government cybersecurity teams must lean on AI to stay ahead of sophisticated adversaries and the ever-expanding attack surface. To successfully integrate AI into their workflow, these teams must understand how to best use the technology before, during, and after an incident.    Pre-Incident: Predicting and Preventing Attacks Government cybersecurity teams can leverage AI before an incident occurs to help accomplish one of their biggest goals -- becoming more predictive. While agencies have access to a lot of these tools now, AI can augment existing capabilities by providing the ideal level of unified visibility across the enterprise.  AI-enabled risk analysis should be used to identify which systems are potentially most vulnerable and where sensitive data is located. Automated penetration testing that uses AI and machine learning capabilities can then help teams identify vulnerabilities.  AI can also help cybersecurity teams determine the likelihood of a potential threat by correlating data, including real-world attack data, deep web chatter, and government alerts. AI can then provide teams with real-time risk scoring. Additionally, AI can right size the risk scoring for the organization by automating the recognition of mitigating factors and compensating controls.  Related:Once risks are established, these tools can offer prioritized recommendations and develop comprehensive response plans that consider factors humans often overlook, such as application interoperability and even personnel familiarity with tools and processes. This allows the AI to make prioritized recommendations for remediation while minimizing the potential for negative impact to the organization. Incident Response: Speed and Accuracy with AI When an incident does occur, AI should be used to support overwhelmed cybersecurity teams by creating more meaningful and accurate alerts. Once the alert goes out, automating actions like incident triage and system quarantine as much as possible can help decrease the mean time to resolution. This can occur before or after human review, depending on agencies’ operational requirements.   Cybersecurity teams can then leverage AI to tweak response plans based on environmental context and the specific threat. The machine learning solutions used to create these plans should be trained by humans to include simplified steps for faster containment, eradication, and recovery, as well as provide recommendations to lower the risk of re-occurrence.  Related:One of the biggest challenges government cybersecurity teams face during incident response is the high volume of data associated with each event. AI should be used to identify and correlate the most useful events across larger data sets, reducing the time cyber professionals need to start remediation. Generative AI simplifies investigations even further by translating analysis and answering questions in natural language, cross-correlating activity, and generating hypotheses to support informed decision-making.  To maximize AI for incident response, the technology must have access to all the data related to the event. This ensures the tools can successfully correlate threat activity that may not be apparent to the human eye -- such as events that took place days apart or on disparate parts of the network. However, this can create a challenge with existing security information and event management (SIEM) tools, which often require teams to cultivate data before ingesting to minimize false positives and reduce the cost associated with higher data volume. Cybersecurity teams should keep this in mind when developing their AI strategies for incident response.  Post-Incident: Learning and Adapting With AI Once an attack has been addressed, AI’s role doesn’t end. Post-event investigations are critical in understanding what happened during an attack and training the AI to better detect threats and prepare for the future.  AI should be used to generate an after-action report during the triage and remediation process to help inform agency leadership on next steps, including how to notify the public of the incident if needed, and better understand the cause of the event. Automated reports also help capture a more accurate representation of the event and save analysts’ time, allowing them to focus on more important tasks.  To preserve forensic evidence for potential legal investigations and avoid human error, cybersecurity teams should automate tasks such as data recovery and creation of hash calculations on information to show forensic proof of any digital evidence tampering. Cybersecurity teams should also use AI to help law enforcement identify and analyze digital evidence that can help identify the malicious actor(s). As cyber adversaries become more sophisticated in their attacks, AI is no longer just an advantage -- its potential capabilities are a necessity. The future of government cybersecurity relies on AI and human expertise working in tandem to stay ahead of threats and protect mission-critical systems.  

It is simple enough to say a movie is suspenseful, but how do you quantify how suspenseful it is? Here is one way. Ryan Coogler’s new film Sinners generates so much suspense — and then sustains it for so long — that at one particularly anxious point I heard a small snap from my seat.(Yes, I take notes during movies, like all extremely cool persons do.)So yeah, Sinners is pretty intense.And if that’s all Sinners was, that would already make it worth seeing. But this movie is way more than just an effective thriller. It’s the rare studio production that engages your intellect while it scares you senseless. And after the messy Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,The film’s trailers are careful not to reveal all of the movie’s shadings and themes. As a result, Sinners notSINNERSWarner Bros.loading...READ MORE: The Most Shocking Horror Movie Deaths EverCoogler’s longtime star Michael B. Jordan stars in the dual role of twins Smoke and Stack. (Their names are one of Sinners’ many allusions to fiery damnation, a recurring theme in this film about freedom and temptation in a dangerous world.) Returning home to rural Mississippi in 1932 after a stint in the Chicago underworld, the brothers plan to use a stockpile of cash to open a juke joint that caters to the area’s poor black farmers. The club’s opening night draws a large crowd, along with several of Smoke and Stack’s associates and former lovers ready to help the pair get their business off the ground.The attendees includes Wunmi Mosaku’s Annie, who shares a sad history with Smoke, and Hailee Steinfeld’s Annie, who had a furtive romance with Stack and whose recently deceased mother helped raise the twins from childhood. There’s also a local business owner couple (Yao and Li Jun Li) who provide the joint’s food, and a drunken old bluesman (a scene-stealing Delroy Lindo) lured to the bar by the promise of genuine Irish beer fresh from Prohibition-era Chicago.He’s there to provide the evening’s entertainment with the twins’ younger cousin Sammie (newcomer Miles Caton), a gifted blues guitarist who dreams of leaving Mississippi (and his reverend father’s church) for a career in music. Sammie has a rich, soulful voice, but, as Sinners’ opening voiceover warns, cultures throughout history have written legends about talents so great they attract the attention of evil forces. Sure enough, Sammie’s big performance coincides with the arrival of a mysterious Irish drifter (Jack O’Connell) with a smile so friendly it’s downright sinister.SINNERSWarner Bros.loading...While I will leave you to discover exactly what O’Connell’s character wants and why, it’s not a spoiler to say Sinners eventually takes on the contours of a survival horror film. But Sinners is in no rush to get to its violent climax. It patiently assembles its cast, leaving ample room to fully introduce and explore the psyches and backstories of its heroes (and even some of its villains). It follows Smoke and Stack as they launch their bar, and lets their interactions with business partners, family, and friends reveal their desires and dreams, along with the bleak realities of the Jim Crow-era South where they live.By the time the bloodshed finally begins, Coogler (who also wrote the film) has fleshed out these characters so thoroughly — and the actors have invested their roles with so much humanity — that it’s even more stressful watching their struggle to survive. The pressure in some of these sequences is almost unbearable. (I mean, I broke my notebook for crying out loud.)And while all of this is happening, Coogler is also telling a much larger and allegorical story about America and music and cultural appropriation and the myths we tell each other about the origins of brilliant artists. Somehow, all of this stuff fits together in one fairly economical film that’s also terrifying, sexy, and occasionally quite funny.Warner Bros.Warner Bros.loading...It’s a huge swing of a movie, and pretty darn close to a home run. My only complaint: After delaying its big confrontation for so long, Sinners’ inevitable confrontation between the survivors and monsters at the juke joint is a little abrupt and anticlimactic. Coogler does such a masterful job of prolonging that standoff that I didn’t want it to end; I would have happily sat and watched another hour of unbearable tension.Then again, leaving viewers wishing a movie was longer isn’t the worst sin in the world. And the way Coogler resolves Sinners’ central ideas within a traditional horror story framework is truly masterful. He plays the audience like a fiddle. Or a blues guitar.Additional Thoughts:- Post-credits scenes are often a waste of time for everyone involved, both on the screen and in the audience. The two in Sinners are worth staying for — the first one is essential to fully understanding Coogler’s ambitions. Don’t leave until you’ve at least seen that one.-I’m not the only person who has noted this, but it is so strange that in the span of about two months Warner Bros. has released three different films where big-name stars play twins or doubles: Mickey 17 with Robert Pattinson, The Alto Knights with Robert De Niro, and now Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan. Is the Warners market research division telling them people want more movies where A-listers play opposite themselves? For what it’s worth, Sinners is the best of the bunch, and certainly the best movie I’ve seen in 2025 so far.RATING: 9/1010 Horror Movies So Extreme They Made People Physically SickDon't watch these movies if you have a weak stomach!Gallery Credit: Emma Stefansky

Join the financial backbone of a fast-growing U.S. real estate company — as a full employee in your country.📌 The Role: Junior Accountant (Remote | Preferably South America)You’ll help run the financial heartbeat of a property management company that oversees 1,500+ homes. Your job is to make sure every invoice, payment, and financial entry is handled accurately, on time, and with care.🤩 Your “HELL YEAH” MomentYou’ve processed every transaction, payments are flowing, the ledgers are clean — and your team trusts you without question. You didn’t just follow the system. You improved it. That’s a hell yeah day.You’ll love this role if you enjoy:Entering vendor invoices and financial transactions with speed and accuracySupporting timely payments to owners, residents, and vendorsTracking down missing information and gently nudging teammatesKeeping files labeled and organized for easy audit accessTaking ownership of your workflow and offering ideas to improve itBeing part of a growing, values-driven team where your work matters💎 Traits of a High-Achiever We WantYou’re obsessed with accuracy and double-check your workYou’re organized, calm under pressure, and reliableYou ask questions early to get it right the first timeYou take pride in service and clear communicationYou want a long-term career where you can grow and be valuedYou thrive in a team that works hard, plays hard, and owns the outcome📋 Position DetailsPosition: Junior Accountant (Full-Time Employee)Location: Remote – Preferably Based in South AmericaHours: Full-time | Monday–Friday | U.S. Pacific Time Hours (8 AM – 5 PM PST)Employment Type: Full employee status in your home country (not a contractor)Monthly Compensation: $2,000–$2,200 USD/month (based on experience)Benefits Include:Full legal employment in your countryPaid national holidays and vacationAnnual performance-based bonusWellness allowance and education reimbursementLong-term growth and leadership developmenA supportive, respectful, and values-driven team✅ Bonus Points:Experience with property management bookkeeping (Propertyware) is a huge plusFamiliarity with Propertyware will move you to the top of the list🎯 Ready to Apply?Here’s your next step (all required):Take the DISC Assessment and save your resultsComplete our Team QuestionnaireRecord a 2–3 minute video introducing yourself in English (Tell us who you are, your accounting experience, and whether you’ve worked in property management or used Propertyware!)Email [email protected] with the info below:       Subject: Remote Junior Accountant        Include a copy of your resume/CV, the DISC results, link to your video (youtube/vimeo/loom) and let us           know you completed the team questionnaire. ✨ Final WordThis isn’t a gig. It’s a career.You’ll be a valued part of our mission — not just helping us grow, but growing with us.If you’re dependable, detail-driven, and ready to build something meaningful, we’d love to meet you.

A non-profit focused on addressing homelessness and reducing London councils’ spending on temporary accommodation is to close. Capital Letters, which is owned by a group of London councils, said its decision to cease operation at the end of this year had been taken “with a very heavy heart” after exhausting options for financing.  Source: Shutterstock Set up as a pan-London vehicle in 2019, Capital Letters initially received funding from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, and was focused on addressing the implications of the Homeless Reduction Act 2018. Capital Letters partners private landlords with member boroughs to lease homes for homeless families at Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates.  Since launching it has supplied almost 6,500 homes and says it had saved taxpayers an estimated £240m. However, the organisation’s “original success” was “stopped by rent inflation” in the capital, according to Sue Edmonds, Capital Letters chief executive. “The impact of the post-pandemic housing crisis both in the unprecedented rise in rental prices and changes in the financial markets has made accessing affordable capital to deliver more homes for London impossible,” she said. She said the organisation had relied on landlords letting properties at LHA rates, but that “escalating costs and opportunities to increase revenue” had resulted in rents inflating beyond this level. Properties with rents at LHA levels now make up around 1.6% of London rental stock when LHA was designed to cover the lowest 30%, according to Edmonds. “We have been actively pursuing funding options and new business models in order to continue to deliver our mission, but as an ethical not-for-profit organisation, the small margins we have been working with have been badly hit by uncertainty in the international markets and the cost of borrowing,” she added. Capital Letters introduced annual membership fees from April 2023, which led to several boroughs leaving the group, leaving it with 10 council members. Edmonds said the decision to close operations was taken “with a very heavy heart” and “in the absence of any alternative funding or income generating options” that would allow it to continue. Capital Letters current members are Brent, Camden, Croydon, Enfield, Hackney, Harrow, Havering, Lewisham, Merton and Waltham Forest councils. The decision comes amid mounting concern in the sector about the future of affordable housing delivery in London. Housing associations are also facing inflation, building safety costs and balance sheet capacity constraints. Building Design’s sister title Housing Today and the G15 group of London housing associations last month published a new report, State of the Capital,  recommending measures to boost affordable housing delivery in the capital. The report calls for ministers to consider introducing an amortising grant model under which associations receive a higher amount of grant per unit upfront. This would mean the housing association initially needs to borrow much less money privately to make up the development costs, meaning net rent could more easily cover the interest costs without worsening interest cover metrics. Over time, the association would pay back some or all of the grant interest-free to government. The advantage of this for the Treasury is that the grant paid back can be classified as an investment instead of as straightforward debt or expense to the taxpayer. The report also calls for affordable housing to be reclassified as national infrastructure, rent convergence to be re-introduced and for social landlords to have easier access to the Building Safety Fund. It calls for government to take a holistic view of funding and rent policy, implement a joint funding pot for grant to improve existing homes and calls for national policies to take into account regional costs and skills shortages. Housing Today and G15’s State of the Capital report Providing new social tenancies for the 323,800 households on London’s waiting lists would inject at least an additional £7.7bn a year into London and the UK’s economy. However, while social housing providers and ministers are both aware of the need for more affordable housing, both housing associations and the government have balance sheets constraints. This inaugural State of the Capital report, produced by Housing Today in partnership with G15, looks at several ideas that could be adopted to help the sector build much-needed affordable housing in London during these difficult times. The report is written by Carl Brown of Housing Today, in collaboration with the G15.     DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT TODAY     

Practice name KPK Studios Founded 2025Main people Brendan Kilpatrick, Manisha Patel, Spyros Katsaros Based London Where have you come from? We all met at PRP, which Brendan and Manisha joined in 1995 – less than a year after its London studio had been established. We went on to become senior partners, playing a central role in the growth of that studio and shaping the its direction over the following decades.Spyros joined 10 years later and was instrumental in helping to form a distinct team of urban designers within the practice, which he eventually led as director. Together, we collaborated on many of the practice’s most complex projects, combining architecture, urban design, new housing typologies, ways of living and community engagement to deliver socially responsive regeneration at scale.Advertisement Over two decades, we collaborated with nearly every major local authority, housing association, and private developer, shaping places through a blend of architecture, urban design, and community engagement. KPK Studios is the natural evolution of that long-standing partnership, built on shared values and complementary expertise, and driven by a commitment to design excellence, strategic visioning and socially responsive placemaking. What work do you have and what kind of projects are you looking for? We are working on a number of strategic visions, largely residential-based. We’re looking to grow our practice through established contacts – but contacts that match the ethos of our new practice. An example is a project in Kilkenny, which is a community-based regeneration project in one of the most beautiful towns in Ireland. We are working alongside an Irish practice that we have known for years, and the project is bringing us back to our roots: working closely with local people to deliver housing that is affordable and with support facilities that will enhance the lives of the community for generations to come. What are your ambitions? We see ourselves as a new brand of design studio with a fresh approach to solving problems derived from our track record. We are a start-up practice with a difference since we have amassed a century of experience within our sector. Our focus is regeneration, renewal and resilience. The practice can be viewed as a flying column of design, applying our collective creativity to unusual or everyday tasks with a fresh approach which gives immediate impact.  We will design for the future with a deep appreciation of the past, aware of the pitfalls to avoid and augmenting the good practice of things that have been done well.Advertisement ‘We will design with the future of family and the individual to the fore’ We want to create spatial urban environments which inspire, connect and facilitate continued sustainable growth in community cohesion, neighbourhood connectivity and workplace accessibility. In our masterplanning approach, and the architecture derived from it, context is key. Our concept of contextual reintegration is our driver for truly environmentally balanced regeneration to emerge from the design solutions we produce. We will design with the future of family and the individual to the fore. The health and wellbeing of our communities is founded on domestic resilience, on family integrity, on the quality of the landscaped spaces around buildings, and on intergenerational support. It is dependent on an inherent ability to live in a home that is affordable to rent or to buy, whether it is within social or private domains and gives choices to families striving to stay together or individuals to express themselves within their community or beyond. This is the basis from which stability of health and wellbeing form springboards to achievement and prosperity. We want to grow the practice to 10 or 20 people. We will be London-based but will have a national outreach. What are the biggest challenges facing you as a start-up and the profession generally? The profession is facing its biggest period of challenge in a generation, since the advent of design and build in the 1980s. The wave of regulation that has gradually emerged after the Grenfell tragedy has placed an increased regulatory burden, which requires a demonstrable ability in technical competence. This combines with self-inflicted instruments in the form of government policy in relation to the rental market and design standards, which are placing immense barriers on affordability and the delivery of new homes, either private or affordable. Everyone should be a lot busier designing new housing schemes, but there are simply not enough of them. The challenge for small practices is in meeting the technical competence required of the new regulatory regime while operating in an intensely competitive market. But being agile and efficient places us in a good position to deal with these challenges. We know that achieving this collaboration with the right experts, rather than the scale of a single practice, is fundamental. The Labour government will eventually release the bottleneck that exists in the UK, but this will probably not happen until 2026. Which scheme, completed in the last five years, has inspired you most? A scheme that inspires us is Chobham Manor – the first housing delivery site on the Olympic Park. It is a product of meaningful collaboration between several firms of architects. Source:Jack HobhouseChobham Manor by Haworth Tompkins It is a dense housing project but is cleverly designed to not be tall and to cater for a predominance of family homes. The masterplan has a strong landscape theme at its heart which defines its excellent spatial characteristics and contributes to its commercial success. It is also home to the first bespoke multigenerational typologies in the UK. It is a model for modern living and community creation at appropriate scale and diversity. Are you using any new design techniques, such as AI? Our limited start-up budget is keeping technology on a need-to-use basis for the time being, apart from AI, where we are using ChatGPT to help steer us through the technical and legal delicacies of opening a new business. Our experience in a larger practice of investigating AI puts us in a strong position to quickly navigate suitable techniques for design and presentation that do not take away from individual creativity or bespoke solutions. Ultimately, our approach is about harnessing AI’s potential responsibly. How are you marketing yourselves? The difference between our start-up and a young practice is that we’ve already established ourselves in the industry with clients, consultants and government bodies over a number of decades. Fundamental to us is the connection with people in our industry who have been very supportive, and continue to be. We’ve recently had a LinkedIn launch, which we consider to be a great marketing tool. Alongside, we are developing our website, giving lectures, contributing to research papers, cultivating relationships with the press and continuing our presence at industry conferences such as CIH Brighton and UK Reiif. We are taking the experience of a large-practice thinking on PR and maintaining the approach as a start-up. Contact details Manisha Patel: M.Patel@kpkstudios.uk Brendan Kilpatrick B.Kilpatrick@KPKstudio.uk Spyridon Katsaros S.Katsaros@kpkstudios.uk

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April 10, 20254 min readBiggest Brain Map Ever Shows Mouse Neurons in Stunning DetailNeuroscientists have created the largest and most detailed map of a mammal’s brain in a landmark achievementBy Miryam Naddaf & Nature magazine A rendering of more than 1,000 brain cells out of the those reconstructed from analysis of a cubic millimetre of brain tissue from a mouse. Allen InstituteResearchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a cubic millimetre of a mouse’s brain tissue. In a landmark achievement, the diagram also details the activity of individual neurons on a large scale―a neuroscience first.The high-resolution 3D map contains more than 200,000 brain cells, around 82,000 of which are neurons. It also includes more than 500 million of the neuronal connection points called synapses and more than 4 kilometres of neuronal wiring, all found in a tiny block of tissue in a brain region involved in vision. The only brain map of comparable scale is that of a cubic millimetre of human brain, which included 16,000 neurons and 150 million synapses. The new map also captured the activity of tens of thousands of neurons firing signals and interacting with each other to process visual information.This brain-activity map, combined with the wiring diagram, marks a milestone in connectomics, a field that aims to show how brains process and organize information. Behind the massive efforts are more than 150 researchers in the Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) project, who described their work in a package of eight papers published today in Nature and Nature Methods. The MICrONS project has made its resources available for the neuroscience community online, and other teams are already exploring them in different studies.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.“They managed to do something that we haven’t done as a neuroscience community in basically all of our history, which is to be able to map the activity of neurons onto the wiring on a very large population of neurons,” says Mariela Petkova, a neuroscientist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who is not involved with the project. “We have never seen it at this scale.”The data “are really stunningly beautiful,” says Forrest Collman, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, who co-authored the studies. “Looking at it really gives you an awe about the sense of complexity in the brain that is very much akin to looking up at the stars of night.”Mouse in a matrixTo create the breakthrough map, researchers first recorded the firing of almost 76,000 neurons in the visual cortex of a mouse as the animal watched various videos, including clips from The Matrix, for two hours. Then they sliced up a cubic millimetre of the mouse’s brain into thousands of tissue slices, each about one four-hundredth the width of a human hair.Rendering of a layer 5 Martinotti cell (grey) reconstructed from a large-scale electron microscopy dataset. The output synapses (bright spots) are color-coded by the target cell type. Red dots are synapses made onto excitatory layer 2/3 pyramidal cells and cyan dots are onto intra-telencephalic-projecting excitatory neurons in layer 5.Clare Gamlin/Allen InstituteThe scientists imaged each slice and assembled the images into a 3D map. Finally, they used artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms to annotate the neurons, their branching projections and their synapses. The team also matched the neurons in the map with their recordings of brain cells in action.Moritz Helmstaedter, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, says “the combination of function and structure at that scale” is unprecedented. It’s “a very impressive endeavour and success”.Fire together, wire togetherThe work yielded insights into the basic rules that shape neural circuits in the mouse brain. For example, the authors found that neurons in the cortex that respond to similar types of visual feature—such as certain shapes or directions of movement—often form more connections with one another, no matter how far apart they are, than they do with neurons that specialize in a different type of feature.The results add a new wrinkle to a long-held theory in neuroscience, says Collman—namely, that “neurons that fire together wire together.” Previous studies have tested this theory only in limited numbers of neurons and synapses. The current study shows that “there’s a diversity [to] how much this rule is applied across all the different components of cortex,” he adds.The MICrONS researchers hope that their data set can help to reveal various features and processes in the brain. “There are all sorts of cortical areas that we understand at different levels of detail and in different ways. And I think this is really only the beginning of relating structure and function,” says Clay Reid, a neurobiologist at the Allen Institute and a co-author of the MICrONS papers.Helmstaedter says researchers can use the wiring maps to study how the brain stores and recalls visual memories, such as “our recollection of the last birthday party or of our grandparents.” These are “the big open questions about the mammalian cortex that are still very fundamental,” he adds.The newly published map covers around 0.2% of the mouse’s brain, but the MICrONS team will be testing the technologies to map the animal’s entire brain, says Nuno Maçarico da Costa, a neuroanatomist at the Allen Institute and another co-author of the MICrONS papers.This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on April 9, 2025.

Nintendo already shipped over 1m Vietnam-made consoles to US this year, as Switch 2 launch threatened by tariffs While Trump's trade war with China continues. Image credit: Nintendo News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Published on April 10, 2025 Nintendo has directed the vast majority of its Switch 2 manufacturing output from Vietnam towards the US over the first two months of this year, as the threat of Trump's now-confirmed tariffs loomed. Figures published by Bloomberg show more than 1m Switch 2 consoles made in Vietnam reached US shores in January and February. Data obtained from customs records also reveals how Nintendo sent 100 percent of all Switch 2 consoles made in Vietnam to the US in January, after only a fraction of the country's output were sent there during the last few months of 2024. Eurogamer goes hands-on with Switch 2's Mario Kart World.Watch on YouTube Vietnam production makes up around a third of Nintendo's Switch 2 output, Bloomberg states, though the larger share still comes from China. As of today, Thursday 10th April, the US has backed down from tariffs that threatened a swathe of countries across the globe for at least 90 days. But US president Trump has simultaneously doubled down on his trade war against China - which at the time of writing will now be subject to tariffs of 145 percent. Trump was not quiet about the possibility of tarrifs, and had talked up his idea of a grand announcement this month on what he dubbed 'Liberation Day'. The suggestion here is that Nintendo pushed to get as many Vietnamese-made Switch 2 consoles into the US ahead of tariffs landing, expecting Chinese production to be hit hard. Earlier this week, David Cole - founder of games industry marketing and research firm DFC Intelligence - told Eurogamer his firm expected Nintendo to stick with its $450 launch pricing for Switch 2, despite temporarily pausing pre-orders in the US and Canada. "We are expecting Nintendo to stick with the $450 price point," Cole told Eurogamer, "and we believe that price point was reached with the threat of tariffs already looming." Bloomberg's report states similar. "If the tariffs stay at 10 percent, Nintendo probably keeps pricing at $450 and just takes the hit on margin," Bernstein analyst Robin Zhu told the outlet. "At 46 percent Vietnam tariffs [Trump's initial plan for the country, now put on pause], I expected them to raise by $50 to $100." Earlier this month, US trade group the Entertainment Software Association said the Trump administration's tariffs will "have a real and detrimental impact" on the video games industry as a whole.

You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here Have you ever played Helldivers 2 and thought, “Damn, this game is great, but it would be heaps better if that Bile Titan had some honking natties?” No? Good. But someone has, and now we’re going to tell you about it. While PC players bring smut to InZoi, a life simulator, we genuinely didn’t expect Helldivers 2 to receive its own slew of smut. Nevertheless, it most certainly has. Thank you, WIRED. Helldivers 2 NSFW mods are more prominent than you think Let’s go back to those honking natties. After the internet thought the Withers Big Naturals mod for Baldur’s Gate 3 was sweet, the Bile Boobies mod by CursedLibertine does exactly what you expect it to do. With this mod installed, the terrifying Bile Titans now have huge chesticles complete with nipples. Another mod, titled GoonDivers, takes things even deeper. This mod adds breasts to a bunch of HD2 enemies, not just the Bile Titan. With this mod installed, every race will have boobs, even the robotic Automatons. “Unleash Chaos in Helldivers 2 with the Ultimate Gooning Mod,” reads the mod’s description. “Ready to throw strategy out the window and dive into pure, unadulterated chaos? The Helldivers 2 Gooning Mod is here to turn your missions into a wild ride of absurdity, sexy, and explosive mayhem! Embrace the Goon Life.” Of course, the horrifying enemies of Helldivers 2 aren’t the only things affected by the ever-present lust of gamers. For players who want to make their playable character more… bodacious, I guess, there’s a mod for that. The Helldivers 2 Muscle Mommy mod by Abdomera takes the normal female Diver body type and exaggerates it with the thickest hips you’ve ever seen, giant boobs and a rear that could crush a skull. There’s even another mod that makes it so you, once again, see nip. What a shock. At this point, every PC game that can be modded will be modded in this way. Arrowhead’s shooter isn’t any different. Although, I’d much rather play with all the awesome Halo mods instead. Related Topics Subscribe to our newsletters! By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime. Share

This year marks 10 years of the Depot, and the gallery is celebrating with a labyrinthian show of silver furniture from past and present. The metal has a major presence all around Milan again this year—and this show really crystallizes that, showing pieces by newcomers like Studioutte alongside icons like Maria Pergay. New crocheted bronze furniture by Allegra Hicks and an incredible vintage selection by Gabriella Crespi were also on view.—HMCanyon Road by Ralph Lauren HomeRalph Lauren occupied a Palazzo at this year’s Milan Design Week to showcase their homewares. Ralph Lauren Home’s Canyon Road collection hits close to home for me—a born-and-raised Arizonan—with its heavy American West influence. Saddle leather, rustic oak, and pewter details complete the vibe. The brand collaborated with seventh-generation Navajo weavers Tyler and Naomi Glasses for the textiles and decorative accessories in the collection, giving designers plenty of layering options.—MOLoewe’s expressive teapotsLoewe is always a stand out among the fashion brands for me. We previewed the Spanish luxury brand’s artisan-reimagined teacups in the April issue, but it was so special to see them all completed and IRL at Palazzo Citterio. I’ll be interested to see how Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez continue this conversation around craft when they take the helm.—HMWelcome home, The RowThe Row debuted their first-ever home pieces in a collection of blankets and bedding. No surprise: They’re incredibly chic—and the softest things I’ve ever touched. (The fibers come from Kashmir Valley goats that live atop the hills.) Presented in the Row’s Milan offices at Palazzo Belgioios, the cashmere layers were draped over gracile clothing racks by Julian Schnabel in the monastic setting. —MOMaterial discovery at AlcovaTitled “Under the Volcano," the Ranieri installation is intended to be a multisensory experience of art, design, and technology within the SNIA Factory, a former industrial plant and recent addition to the Alcova venues. Photo: Alberto Strada