Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.The RoleAs the Product Expert, you will be part of the Product organization focused on Veeva CRM, bringing the voice of the customer to influence the product roadmap. Product Experts are a lead voice in our online communities, customer meetings, in-person events, and creating resources for both internal and external teams to realize the value of the innovation within our products. This is a great opportunity for someone who is knowledgeable and passionate about Veeva CRM and is excited about working closely with customers to help make them successful. Note: This is not a QA Engineering role.What You'll DoBe the product evangelist and provide subject matter expertise for Veeva CRMStay up to date with the latest features, capabilities, and roadmap directionShare product information and best practices and educate customers on Veeva CRM through customer meetings and online communitiesEngage with customer stakeholders to share our product vision and roadmapCollect, dig into, and prioritize customer feedback and product gaps, and provide this input into release planning and roadmap directionCollaborate with the wider Product team to deliver product communication, such as release notes content, feature education, demo recordings, and online and in-person community meetingsProvide support to all areas in the organization, including Services, Strategy, Sales & Product SupportRequirementsA must-have is 3+ years experience administrating and/or implementing Veeva CRMAbility to understand and communicate technical requirements, preferences, and limitations to both business and technical audiencesExperience interacting with customers and internal teams, both in-person and remoteStrong analytical and communication skills; written, verbal, and formal presentationSelf-directed team player with a positive attitudeWillingness to travel up to 10%Nice to HaveCreating materials for technical & non-technical audiencesExperience with video editing softwareExperience performing software demonstrationsExperience managing an online communityPerks & BenefitsMedical, dental, vision, and basic life insuranceFlexible PTO and company paid holidaysRetirement programs1% charitable giving programCompensationBase pay: $55,000 - $225,000The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.#LI-RemoteUSVeeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].

The winning team selected for the estimated £45,000 contract will advance existing RIBA Stage 2+ plans to upgrade the busy Half Penny Steps bridge and pocket park. The project – planned to complete in 2027 – aims to transform the under-utilised public open space on the borough’s border with Kensington & Chelsea into a ‘vibrant and lush canalside terrace.’ Key aims include introducing new planting, feature lighting, amphitheatre-style seating and a community mooring point. The search for a design team comes six months after DK-CM completed a concept report looking at options for renewing several sites across the North Paddington Canalside area.Advertisement According to the brief: ‘WCC [is] looking to appoint a high quality, creative and capable team that can work to tight deadlines and collaboratively with ourselves and the wider team to deliver this unique opportunity. ‘The lead consultant is expected to be an expert in landscape design for this project. The team are expected to draw together the wealth of existing work into a holistic and coherent RIBA Stage 3 design. ‘The consultant will be expected to develop designs with a sound awareness of feasibility and budget. The successful consultant will need to demonstrate that they have access to a multi-disciplinary skill set either in house or by bringing together specialist subconsultants and/or delivery partners.’ The latest commission comes just three months after Allies and Morrison won a competition held by Westminster City Council and the Crown Estate to overhaul the public realm on London’s Regent Street and the surrounding areas. Earlier this year Hugh Broughton completed an upgrade of WCs at Victoria Embankment, part of a wider programme covering eight public conveniences across the City of Westminster.Advertisement Bids for the latest commission will be evaluated 70 per cent on quality and 30 per cent on price. Applicants must hold employer’s liability insurance of £5 million, public liability insurance of £5 million and professional indemnity insurance of £2 million. Competition details Project title BT199 - Half Penny Steps Landscape Commission Client Contract value £280,000 First round deadline 5pm, 25 April 2025 Restrictions Tbc More information https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/014279-2025

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OpinionApril 14, 20255 min readReplacing Federal Workers with Chatbots Would Be a Dystopian NightmareThe Trump administration sees an AI-driven federal workforce as more efficient. Instead, with chatbots unable to carry out critical tasks, it would be a diabolical messBy Asmelash Teka Hadgu & Timnit Gebru Moor Studio/Getty ImagesImagine calling the Social Security Administration and asking, “Where is my April payment?” only to have a chatbot respond, “Canceling all future payments.” Your check has just fallen victim to “hallucination,” a phenomenon in which an automatic speech recognition system outputs text that bears little or no relation to the input.Hallucinations are one of the many issues that plague so-called generative artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, xAI’s Grok, Anthropic’s Claude or Meta’s Llama. These are design flaws, problems in the architecture of these systems, that make them problematic. Yet these are the same types of generative AI tools that the DOGE and the Trump administration want to use to replace, in one official’s words, “the human workforce with machines.”This is terrifying. There is no “one weird trick” that removes experts and creates miracle machines that can do everything that humans can do, but better. The prospect of replacing federal workers who handle critical tasks—ones that could result in life-and-death scenarios for hundreds of millions of people—with automated systems that can’t even perform basic speech-to-text transcription without making up large swaths of text, is catastrophic. If these automated systems can’t even reliably parrot back the exact information that is given to them, then their outputs will be riddled with errors, leading to inappropriate and even dangerous actions. Automated systems cannot be trusted to make decisions the way that federal workers—actual people—can.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.Historically, “hallucination” hasn’t been a major issue in speech recognition. That is, although earlier systems could take specific phrases and respond with transcription errors in specific phrases or misspell words, they didn’t produce large chunks of fluent and grammatically correct texts that weren’t uttered in the corresponding audio inputs. But researchers have shown that recent speech recognition systems like OpenAI’s Whisper can produce entirely fabricated transcriptions. Whisper is a model that has been integrated into some versions of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s famous chatbot.For example, researchers from four universities analyzed short snippets of audio transcribed by Whisper, and found completely fabricated sentences, with some transcripts inventing the races of the people being spoken about, and others even attributing murder to them. In one case a recording that said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella” was transcribed with additions including: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece.... I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.” In another example, “two other girls and one lady” was transcribed as “two other girls and one lady, um, which were Black.”In the age of unbridled AI hype, with the likes of Elon Musk claiming to build a “maximally truth-seeking AI,” how did we come to have less reliable speech recognition systems than we did before? The answer is that while researchers working to improve speech recognition systems used their contextual knowledge to create models uniquely appropriate for performing that specific task, companies like OpenAI and xAI are claimingaccording to OpenAI, “tackling complex problems in science, coding, math, and similar fields.” To do this, these companies use model architectures that they believe can be used for many different tasks and train these models on vast amounts of noisy, uncurated data, instead of using system architectures and training and evaluation datasets that best fit a specific task at hand. A tool that supposedly does everything won’t be able to do it well.The current dominant method of building tools like ChatGPT or Grok, which are advertised along the lines of “one model for everything,” uses some variation of large language models (LLMs), which are trained to predict the most likely sequences of words. Whisper simultaneously maps the input speech to text and predicts what immediately comes next, a “token” as output. A token is a basic unit of text, such as a word, number, punctuation mark or word segment, used to analyze textual data. So giving the system two disparate jobs to do, speech transcription and next-token prediction, in conjunction with the large messy datasets used to train it, makes it more likely that hallucinations will happen.Like many of OpenAI’s projects, Whisper’s development was influenced by an outlook that its former chief scientist has summarized as “If you have a big dataset and you train a very big neural network,” it will work better. But arguably, Whisper doesn’t work better. Given that its decoder is tasked with both transcription and token prediction, without precise alignment between audio and text during training, the model can prioritize generating fluent text over accurately transcribing the input. And unlike misspellings or other mistakes, large swaths of coherent text don’t give the reader clues that the transcriptions could be inaccurate, potentially leading users to use them in high-stakes scenarios without ever finding their failures. Until it’s too late.OpenAI researchers have claimed that Whisper approaches human “accuracy and robustness,” a statement that is demonstrably false. Most humans don’t transcribe speech by making up large swaths of text that never existed in the speech they heard. In the past, those working on automatic speech recognition trained their systems using carefully curated data consisting of speech-text pairs where the text accurately represents the speech. Conversely, OpenAI’s attempt to use a “general” model architecture rather than one tailored for speech transcription—sidestepping the time and resources it takes to curate data and adequately compensate data workers and creators—results in a dangerously unreliable speech recognition system.If the current one-model-for-everything paradigm has failed in the context of English language speech transcription that most English speakers can perfectly perform without further education, how will we fare if the U.S. DOGE Service succeeds in replacing expert federal workers with generative AI systems? Unlike the generative AI systems that federal workers have been told to use to perform tasks ranging from creating talking points to writing code, automatic speech recognition tools are constrained to the much more well-defined setting of transcribing speech.We cannot afford to replace the critical tasks of federal workers with models that completely make stuff up. There is no substitute for the expertise of federal workers handling sensitive information and working on life-critical sectors ranging from health care to immigration. Thu, we need to promptly challenge, including incourts if appropriate, DOGE’s push to replace “the human workforce with machines,” before this action brings immense harm to Americans.This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American

BioWare's Mass Effect and Dragon Age teams "didn't get along", former dev claims "May as well have been two separate studios." Image credit: BioWare News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Published on April 14, 2025 BioWare suffered from friction between its Dragon Age and Mass Effect teams, a former developer has claimed. Writing on social media, Dragon Age creator and former lead writer David Gaider has discussed his experiences at the studio prior to his departure in 2016, and said that staff working on the studio's two biggest franchises "didn't get along". This was something Gaider said he experienced personally when he moved across to join the main Mass Effect team as they worked on the ill-fated Anthem, after completing work on the original Mass Effect trilogy. "For a long time it was basically two teams under one roof: the Dragon Age team and the Mass Effect team," Gaider wrote. "Run differently, very different cultures, may as well have been two separate studios. And they didn't get along. "The company was aware of the friction and attempts to fix it had been ongoing for years, mainly by shuffling staff between the teams more often. Yet this didn't really solve things, and I had no idea until I got to the [Anthem] team. The team didn't want me there. At all." Gaider says he had been specifically asked by BioWare management to write a science fantasy story for Anthem, after the project had initially been concepted as a "hard sci-fi setting" akin to Aliens. And while Gaider says he was just following orders, his new colleagues were seemingly unaware of why he was writing something they thought was "too Dragon Age". "I kept getting feedback about how it was 'too Dragon Age' and how everything I wrote or planned was 'too Dragon Age'... the implication being that *anything* like Dragon Age was bad," Gaider continued. "And yet this was a team where I was required to accept and act on all feedback, so I ended up iterating CONSTANTLY." "I won't go into detail about the problems except to say it became clear this was a team that didn't want to make an RPG. Were very anti-RPG, in fact. Yet they wanted me to wave my magic writing wand and create a BioWare quality story without giving me any of the tools I'd need to actually do that." Ultimately, Gaider departed BioWare after 17 years following a failed attempt to bargain for a creative director position on another project after Anthem, and some "blunter words" on the likelihood of him having success outside the company if he did quit. "I had no idea where I was going to go or what I was going to do, but I wanted OUT," Gaider concluded. Since departing BioWare, Gaider has gone on to developer Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical at new outfit Summerfall Studios, which launched to a generally positive response in 2023. The studio's next project will be a demonic deckbuilder called Malys. BioWare continued work on Anthem for several years, though the project ultimately launched as a critical and commercial failure. The studio subsequently released the well-received Mass Effect: Legendary Edition in 2021, followed by Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which garnered positive reviews but lacklustre sales. A newly-slimmed down BioWare is now working solely on the next Mass Effect, first announced back in December 2020.

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 Marvel Rivals Season 2, released on April 11, 2025, features a brilliant celebration of mutant culture on the bright Krakoa map. This season adds a powerful hero who has already shaken up the game. Emma Frost, the telepathic Vanguard, dominates in two forms: psychic human for ranged control and diamond-skinned melee for frontline brawling. Her adaptability makes her a popular choice for strategic team competitions. Ultron, the malevolent Strategist, is also poised to join the lineup in May, deploying drones to heal allies or harm enemies. These additions raise the total number of playable characters to 38, each of which adds to the game’s fast-paced 6v6 chaos over destructible maps. However, rumors of what’s coming are stealing the show. Datamines and in-game teases point to an exciting array of unannounced heroes, ranging from classic X-Men to surprising wildcards, ready to join the fight. Every upcoming hero in Marvel Rivals Several leaks online have already revealed the upcoming characters that are found in files and may soon arrive in the game in future seasons. While the next hero, Ultron, is already set to make his debut in Season 2.5 on May 30, players are also excited about a bunch of leaked heroes, including your favorite X-Men. More X-Men heroes are leaked in Marvel Rivals. Image by RivalsAssembled. Here are all the heroes leaked so far that will soon be released in Marvel Rivals: Ultron Beast Gambit Nightcrawler Rogue Jubilee Deadpool The Hood Hit Monkey Angela More heroes have been leaked before and were found in the files, but Marvel Rivals players keep updating their in-game data with each patch. There are some top hitters as well who have been leaked with their abilities before. Here’s who they are: Professor X: Leaked as a Strategist with abilities like “Mind Projection” and “Potential Stimulation,” hinted at by Cerebro’s presence in the Hellfire Gala event. Likely headlining Season 3. Jean Grey (Phoenix): Datamined as a Duelist with Phoenix Force powers, including a silencing skill and a burning ultimate. Voice lines suggest she’s close to release. Blade: Expected as a Duelist with melee katana attacks and a shotgun. Freed in Season 1’s story, he’s a strong candidate for Season 3. Daredevil: Recently leaked via a passive ability in game files, but details are scarce. The role and release timeline remain unclear. Marvel Rivals Platform(s): macOS, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X Genre(s): Fighting, Shooter Related Topics Marvel Rivals Subscribe to our newsletters! By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime. Share

If a designer has barely a month after signing onto a project to begin finalizing its fixtures, finishes, and fittings, she better hope she finds herself fully dialed into her clients’ aesthetic aspirations from the get-go. Lucky for London’s Tiffany Duggan, of Studio Duggan, that proved just the case with a creative, art-collecting couple whose four-story Victorian row house she recently completed in Notting Hill.“They’ve got great taste, great style,” says Duggan of the homeowners, parents to three children. What they didn’t have, however, was time to spare: Their new home was well into its top-to-bottom renovation—with the build team, Pembridge Developments, more than ready for final design decisions—when Duggan joined the project. And that’s why it proved a very good thing, indeed: “We were really well aligned from a style perspective and what we both liked,” the designer explains. “That made the process quicker.”Like many spaces in the house, the living room combines rich pink with paler green tones. Here, Edward Bulmer’s Celadon paint color adorns the walls, while a sofa from Duggan’s Trove lifestyle and home collection wears a Pollack red-pink velvet, and the fireplace fender a Schumacher ikat in similar hues. The clients brought with them the graphic cut-pile wool carpet as well as the art collection, which here includes a woodcut by Tom Hammick over an antique mantel from Lassco. To the right hangs a family portrait. Their simpatico sensibilities extended from a shared love of color to a mutual belief that any interior benefits from a mix of old and new. The clients wanted the decor to feel collected, “very much like it had been growing over time,” the designer continues, explaining this was relatively easy to achieve because the homeowners already had collections of antique and vintage pieces plus extensive art holdings. Perhaps the most important aspect of the alignment between Duggan and her clients? “They wanted to do something fun and interesting,” she says.So that’s exactly what Duggan did, beginning, of all places, with the children’s bathroom on the top floor, for which she paired zellige tiles in a soft lilac hue with a sink, tub, and toilet from the Water Monopoly, all in a buttery yellow. “We wouldn’t normally start with the bathroom,” Duggan admits, “but since we were tight on time, we focused on things we had to for the build.”

Pro-Palestine protesters in front of Meta headquarters on November 3, 2023. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images.A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News. The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023. Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history.Government requests for takedowns generally focus on posts made by citizens inside that government’s borders, Meta insiders said. What makes Israel’s campaign unique is its success in censoring speech in many countries outside of Israel. What’s more, Israel's censorship project will echo well into the future, insiders said, as the AI program Meta is currently training how to moderate content will base future decisions on the successful takedown of content critical of Israel’s genocide.To support Drop Site’s investigations, become a free or paid subscriber.The data, compiled and provided to Drop Site News by whistleblowers, reveal the internal mechanics of Meta’s “Integrity Organization”—an organization within Meta dedicated to ensuring the safety and authenticity on its platforms. Takedown requests (TDRs) allow individuals, organizations, and government officials to request the removal of content that allegedly violates Meta’s policies. The documents indicate that the vast majority of Israel’s requests—95%—fall under Meta’s “terrorism” or “violence and incitement” categories. And Israel’s requests have overwhelmingly targeted users from Arab and Muslim-majority nations in a massive effort to silence criticism of Israel.Multiple independent sources inside Meta confirmed the authenticity of the information provided by the whistleblowers. The data also show that Meta removed over 90,000 posts to comply with TDRs submitted by the Israeli government in an average of 30 seconds. Meta also significantly expanded automated takedowns since October 7, resulting in an estimated 38.8 million additional posts being “actioned upon” across Facebook and Instagram since late 2023. “Actioned upon” in Facebook terms means that a post was either removed, banned, or suppressed.Number of posts reported by the Israeli government over time, by country of post origin. Obtained by Drop Site News.Number of posts actioned upon by Meta over time, by country of post origin. Obtained by Drop Site News. Takedown RequestsAll of the Israeli government’s TDRs post-October 7th contain the exact same complaint text, according to the leaked information, regardless of the substance of the underlying content being challenged. Sources said that not a single Israeli TDR describes the exact nature of the content being reported, even though the requests link to an average of 15 different pieces of content. Instead, the reports simply state, in addition to a description of the October 7th attacks, that:This is an urgent request regarding videos posted on Facebook which contain inciting content. The file attached to this request contains link [sic] to content which violated articles 24(a) and 24(b) of the Israeli Counter-Terrorism Act (2016), which prohibits incitement to terrorism praise for acts of terrorism and identification or support of terror organizations. Moreover, several of the links violate article 2(4) of the Privacy Protection Act (1982), which prohibits publishing images in circumstances that could humiliate the person depicted, as they contain images of the killed, injured, and kidnapped. Additionally, to our understanding, the content in the attached report violates Facebook’s community standards.Meta's content enforcement system processes user-submitted reports through different pathways, depending on who is reporting it. Regular users can report posts via the platform’s built-in reporting function, triggering a review. Reported posts are typically first labeled as violating or non-violating by machine-learning models, though sometimes human moderators review them as well. If the AI assigns a high confidence score indicating a violation, the post is removed automatically. If the confidence score is low, human moderators review the post before deciding whether to take action.Governments and organizations, on the other hand, have privileged channels to trigger content review. Reports submitted through these channels receive higher priority and are almost always reviewed by human moderators rather than AI. Once reviewed by humans, the reviews are fed back into Meta’s AI system to help it better assess similar content in the future. While everyday users can also file TDRs, they are rarely acted upon. Government-submitted TDRs are far more likely to result in content removal.Meta has overwhelmingly complied with Israel’s requests, making an exception for the government account by taking down posts without human reviews, according to the whistleblowers, while still feeding that data back into Meta’s AI. A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report investigating Meta’s moderation of pro-Palestine content post-October 7th found that, of 1,050 posts HRW documented as taken-down or suppressed on Facebook or Instagram, 1,049 involved peaceful content in support of Palestine, while just one post was content in support of Israel.A source within Meta’s Integrity Organization confirmed that internal reviews of their automated moderation found that pro-Palestinian content that did not violate Meta’s policies was frequently removed. In other cases, pro-Palestinian content that should have been simply removed was given a “strike,” which indicates a more serious offense. Should a single account receive too many strikes on content that it publishes, the entire account can be removed from Meta platforms.When concerns about overenforcement against pro-Palestinian content were raised inside the Integrity Organization, the source said, leadership responded by saying that they preferred to overenforce against potentially violating content, rather than underenforce and risk leaving violating content live on Meta platforms.Remove, Strike, SuspendWithin Meta, several key leadership positions are filled by figures with personal connections to the Israeli government. The Integrity Organization is run by Guy Rosen, a former Israeli military official who served in the Israeli military’s signals intelligence unit, Unit 8200. Rosen was the founder of Onavo, a web analytics and VPN firm that then-Facebook acquired in October 2013. (Previous reporting has revealed that, prior to acquiring the company, Facebook used data Onavo collected from their VPN users to monitor the performance of competitors—part of the anti-competitive behavior alleged by the Federal Trade Commission under the Biden administration in its suit against Meta.)Rosen’s Integrity Organization works synergistically with Meta’s Policy Organization, according to employees. The Policy Organization sets the rules, and the Integrity Organization enforces them—but the two feed one another, they said. “Policy changes are often driven by data from the integrity org,” explained one Meta employee. As of this year, Joel Kaplan replaced Nick Clegg as the head of the Policy Organization. Kaplan is a former Bush administration official who has worked with Israeli officials in the past on fighting “online incitement.”Meta’s Director of Public Policy for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, Jordana Cutler, has also intervened to investigate pro-Palestine content. Cutler is a former senior Israeli government official and advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Cutler has reportedly used her role to flag pro-Palestine content. According to internal communications reviewed by Drop Site, as recently as March, Cutler actively instructed employees of the company to search for and review content mentioning Ghassan Kanafani, an Arab novelist considered to be a pioneer of Palestinian literature. Immediately prior to joining Meta as a senior policymaker, she spent nearly three years as Chief of Staff at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C—and nearly five years serving as deputy to one of Netanyahu’s senior advisors, before becoming Netanyahu’s advisor on Diaspora Affairs.According to internal information reviewed by Drop Site, Cutler has continued to demand the review of content related to Kanafani under Meta’s policy “Glorification, Support or Representation” of individuals or organizations “that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on our platforms.” Kanafani, who was killed in a 1972 car bombing orchestrated by the Mossad, served as a spokesperson for the left-wing Palestinian nationalist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The PFLP was designated as a terrorist group over a quarter century after he was killed, which, according to Meta’s guidelines and Cutler’s efforts, serves as a basis to flag his content for removal, strikes, and possible suspension.Global ScopeThe leaked documents reveal that Israel’s takedown requests have overwhelmingly targeted users from Arab and Muslim-majority nations, with the top 12 countries affected being: Egypt (21.1%), Jordan (16.6%), Palestine (15.6%), Algeria (8.2%), Yemen (7.5%), Tunisia (3.3%), Morocco (2.9%), Saudi Arabia (2.7%), Lebanon (2.6%), Iraq (2.6%), Syria (2%), Turkey (1.5%). In total, users from over 60 countries have reported censorship of content related to Palestine, according to Human Rights Watch—with posts being removed, accounts suspended, and visibility reduced through shadow banning.Notably, only 1.3% of Israel’s takedown requests target Israeli users, making Israel an outlier among governments that typically focus their censorship efforts on their own citizens. For example, 63% of Malaysia’s takedown requests target Malaysian content, and 95% of Brazil’s requests target Brazilian content. Israel, however, has turned its censorship efforts outward, focusing on silencing critics and narratives that challenge its policies, particularly in the context of the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the West Bank.Despite Meta’s awareness of Israel’s aggressive censorship tactics for at least seven years, according to Meta whistleblowers, the company has failed to curb the abuse. 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Gore-and Champion By Azura, forget that rumoured Oblivion Remake, someone's created a Doom-style Tamrihell filled with killer Adoring Fans I assume in lore terms this is a realm Sheogorath put together just to make sure the Hero of Kvatch went full Shivering Isles NPC. Image credit: Bethesda/Sloth_Johnson News by Mark Warren Senior Staff Writer Published on April 14, 2025 As we all continue to wait for any news on the heavily-rumoured Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake, a fan has taken matters into their own hands and created a Doom-style boomer shooter version of the game about a bunch of potato-faced empire-lovers shutting some spooky doors. Yep, stop staring at Bethesda's socials for five minutes, this is worth exposing youself to missing a sudden official remake announcement for five minutes. Seriously, you can chill out, I'm sure the studio will send us all Adoring Fan singing telegrams to make sure none of us miss it, assuming it exists. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Right, here we go. Reddit user Sloth_Johnson has shared a clip of them playing an Oblivion-themed boomer shooter they've created using the Easy FPS Editor - a tool that's designed to help you create your own old school FPS. Think Doom or classic Wolfenstein, but with whatever coat of paint you want slapped over it to create an end result similar to the Doom art gallery experience we all got a kick out of at the start of this year. Rather than looking at paintings, Sloth_Johnson's creation lets the player romp through a dungeon done up to look a bit like the interiors of the Imperial City's stone buildings, cutting down hostile Adoring Fan sprites that keep yelling 'By Azura', because of course they do. Oblivion Remake - Official Footage by u/Sloth_Johnson in oblivion To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Once those little fellas and a pretty terrifying shotgun-wielding Imperial guard who naturally roars about you having violated the law have been cut down, you find Emperor Patrick Stewart in the final room and he gives you that speech about having had a wet dream about you. Except in this case, Sloth_Johnson just cuts him down before he barely gets a word out. Hang on a minute, was the Hero of Kvatch a Mythic Dawn agent all along? Regardless, I've now got some sad news about this cool thing that even has its own renderings of Oblivion's wonderful soundtrack. You'll probably never be able to play it yourself. "Don't think I can ever release this sadly, with all of the Bethesda assets and whatnot," its creator has written in a Reddit thread about it. Oof. Insert that Simpsons clip where Lionel Hutz imagines a world without lawyers here. Even if you never get to play this Oblivion boomer shooter, you should definitely get to play another cool fan-made Elder Scrolls Oblivion thing soon, with massive mod Skyblivion on course for release this year regardless of whether Bethesda drops its own official remake soon.

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube807k The Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on experience is already in full swing, giving those lucky enough to attend the chance to play through a handful of new games coming to the system. As you might expect, Mario Kart World is one such title and, while seeing what the racer has to offer, fans are already uncovering some of its secrets (thanks for the heads up, VGC). For example, those who watched the game's reveal trailer with an eagle eye might have seen Birdo drive into the back of a huge truck and seemingly take command of it for a section of the course, but did you know that there are other vehicles in the world where a similar process can happen? We didn't! While checking out the above footage from YouTube animator GetMadz (via his second channel GettingMadz), we saw just that. When exploring the world in Free Roam mode, Bowser drives his kart into a large nearby hovercraft, Thunderbird 4-style, and then whips it around the open seas. In the background, we can hear someone explain that the larger crafts can be used to take out racers around you, with "something similar" cropping up in the city-based circuits — referring to the aforementioned trucks, we imagine. We can only assume that these big vehicles will be a way to clear the track around you while speeding through a grand prix, adding some mech-like protection to hairier sequences. But who knows, perhaps there's a different tactical edge to these vehicles that we haven't seen yet. All eyes on Thursday's Direct, we suppose. And that wasn't the only secret that the hands-on experience had to share. VGC's Andy Robinson took to BlueSky with footage of a new boost, caused by holding your hop for a second or two. Not sure if anyone noticed this before, but you can now hold your hop in Mario Kart World for a boost— Andy Robinson (@andyrobinson.bsky.social) 2025-04-11T10:40:58.136Z Gosh, there's going to be so much to learn when this one arrives with Switch 2 on 5th June. You can find our full hands-on impressions of the upcoming racer in the below feature. The World Wide Road Our predictions for Switch 2's biggest launch game What do you make of these new features? Is there anything else that you're excited to see in Mario Kart World? Let us know in the comments. [source x.com, via videogameschronicle.com] Related Games See Also Share:2 2 Jim came to Nintendo Life in 2022 and, despite his insistence that The Minish Cap is the best Zelda game and his unwavering love for the Star Wars prequels (yes, really), he has continued to write news and features on the site ever since. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment... Related Articles It's Official, Switch 2 Joy-Con Will Not Feature Hall Effect Sticks Controllers have been designed from the ground up Upgrade Pack Price For Zelda: BOTW And TOTK Has Been Confirmed A pleasant surprise! Nintendo Confirms US Price For 'Switch 2 Welcome Tour' Quick, act surprised! Where To Pre-Order Nintendo Switch 2 Where to buy Switch 2 consoles, accessories & games UK Switch 2 Fans, Don't Bother Going To GAME Stores For Your Pre-Order You won't get one