The Pan European Game Information website, better known as PEGI, just rated Assassin’s Creed Shadows for the Nintendo Switch 2 — and that’s a pretty solid indication the game could make its way to the console either at or after its June 5 launch. That said, it’s also possible that someone simply clicked the wrong checkbox on the backend of the site and that Ubisoft has no intention of porting the game to the Switch 2, so take this with a grain of salt. PEGI is basically the European version of the ESRB, responsible for suggesting the appropriate target age for a game. If you go to the specific page for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, it doesn’t list the Nintendo Switch 2, but if you look at the “Most Searched Games” subhead, it shows up there. Ubisoft While it’s not confirmed, chances are pretty good that this is a legitimate leak. With games like Cyberpunk 2077 getting a release on the Nintendo Switch, the age rating isn’t much of a concern. Ubisoft has also announced plans to release Star Wars Outlaws on the Nintendo Switch 2, so it isn’t a leap for the company to bring the latest Assassin’s Creed over, too. However, even if Shadows does launch on the Switch 2, it might not be a day one release title. Star Wars Outlaws doesn’t drop until September 4, and it’s possible that Shadows could get see a release later in the year. Recommended Videos Ubisoft may address the leak, but it isn’t likely. That said, it would be a nice perk to see Assassin’s Creed Shadows come to the Nintendo Switch 2. Several other entries from the franchise came to the original Switch, including the Ezio Collection and Assassin’s Creed III. The Switch 2 is certainly capable of running the title, although its graphics might be scaled back a bit. Editors’ Recommendations

The problem with quantum mechanics, or at least the reason even physicists don’t understand it, isn’t that it paints an unfamiliar picture of reality. It isn’t difficult to accept that the world of fundamental particles, of which we have no direct experience, is radically different to the world we perceive. The problem is instead that it doesn’t portray the hinterlands between these two worlds, offering no clear outline of how one emerges from the other. As a result, a century after it was committed to canvas, we still don’t know what this scientific masterpiece means for our understanding of reality. This article is part of a special series celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum theory. Read more here. We aren’t short of ideas. Which of them you prefer is largely a matter of taste, or at least philosophical consideration, because they don’t tend to submit to experimental testing. As physicist N. David Mermin has joked: “New interpretations appear every year. None ever disappear.” In the past decade, however, something has begun to shift. One new twist on quantum theory is the first to make explicit observational predictions, raising hopes of empirical progress. Another, meanwhile, has gathered momentum because it can seemingly solve several perplexing quantum mysteries in one fell swoop – even if it implies that there is no such thing as objective reality after all. More promising still, physicists have even begun to feel out new ways to test the validity of such assumptions. As they turn mind-boggling thought experiments into real-world tests, we might finally be able to make progress on the question of what…

Companies are racing to adopt AI in pursuit of productivity and profits, but the last thing anyone wants is a chatbot going off the rails.AI systems are vulnerable to all kinds of new threats, from data poisoning to adversarial attacks. In a World Economic Forum survey of over 200 business leaders in 2023, more than half said generative AIIt's now two years later, and it seems the majority of those business leaders were right: AI has given cyber attackers the upper hand. In a recent Accenture survey of 600 bank cybersecurity executives, four in five said generative AI is helping hackers faster than banks can keep up.As more companies worldwide adopt AI, Croatian security startup SplxAI wants to redefine howOne way companies do this now is through red-teaming, which involves simulating adversarial attacks on an AI system. But red-teaming can often take a few weeks or even months, and companies are racing to vet tools before they deploy them, SplxAI's CEO Kristian Kamber told BI. The company takes an offensive approach by adjusting system prompts — guidelines that shape how an AI model responds to user queries — reducing the need for additional defensive guardrails later.Before clients connect to SplxAI's platform, the company sends them a questionnaire to understand what risk means to them. They ask questions like, "Are there any questions your chatbot should not answer?" or "Which parts of the system prompt are confidential?"Elin.AI, for example, a chatbot geared toward Gen Z, said it "needs to do swearing because it needs to speak the language of the kids," Kamber said.Once SplxAI customizes its approach, it runs a series of attacks. It can run over 2,000 attacks and 17 scans in less than an hour. These include prompt injection attacks, in which AI systems are fed malicious prompts to check for profanity, misinformation, or data poisoning. It runs tests to check for bias, harmful content, or intentional misuse.Kamber said the tests have revealed a wealth of bias, misinformation, and vulnerabilities in the technology companies use.SplxAI ran tests on a popular workplace productivity tool that revealed it could let data leak between colleagues. Its tests on a healthcare company that operates chatbots at pharmacies revealed that the bots hallucinated when giving medical instructions. They told patients to take pills at the wrong times or offered incorrect instructions on how to use injection needles. It uncovered gender bias in a chatbot that provided career advice to students. The bot told young women to pursue careers as secretaries and young men to pursue careers as business managers.Based on its tests, SplxAI generates a report that lists the vulnerabilities of a system and its suggestions for fixing them. But the company goes a step further by changing system prompts. Kamber calls it "hardening" and said it's the biggest driver of the company's business. "We're doing a huge piece of remediation because otherwise no one will buy the platform if it's just testing and offensive security suggestions," Kamber said.An Arabic chatbot popular in the Middle East and Africa approached SplxAI with a request to ensure the chatbot didn't speak negatively about Abu Dhabi's royal family and other sensitive topics in the region. "We hardened the system prompt that much that you cannot even ask suggestive questions," Kamber said.Companies are these days preoccupied with shoring up not just one, but multiple agents, chatbots, or applications, as they automate complex tasks. After being approached by several Fortune 100 CEOs about red-teaming this type of work, SplxAI unveiled Agentic Radar — an open-source tool for mapping vulnerabilities in operations with multiple agents.Kamber said he's shocked by how quickly the world has woken up to the dangers of agentic AI. "Last year, no one was really understanding why AI red-teaming was needed. Now everyone is running to our door."Take a look at their 12-slide pitch deck. SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI SPLX.AI

By AJ Dellinger Published April 19, 2025 | Comments (0) | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis look on during a campaign stop with "DeSantis 2024" signs behind them © Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Hope Florida Foundation was supposed to be the kind of organization that would help Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ wife, Casey, build her resume for future political aspirations. It’s starting to look like it’ll sink them, instead. In the latest turn in the story of the charity-turned-trainwreck, a virtual board meeting for the DeSantis-backed organization was derailed by trolls who flooded the Zoom call with porn and Nazi symbols, according to a report from the Tallahassee Democrat. The meeting of Hope Florida Foundation’s leadership was scheduled for the morning of April 17, but, per the Tallahassee Democrat’s account, was quickly interrupted because the members didn’t know how to prevent audience members from sharing their screens. That led to folks hanging in the crowd stealing the show, displaying all sorts of unwanted content. The meeting was paused, and a “technical difficulties – please stand by” message was displayed while the admins tried (and failed) to get a handle on things before ending the affair altogether. When they tried to restart the meeting, it failed because, according to a pop-up message seen by people trying to join the second attempt, “Host has another meeting in progress.” So, about the “why” of that meeting, which did eventually happen six hours after its scheduled time, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The Hope Florida Foundation is in a bit of hot water. The organization, which was started by Casey DeSantis to reduce government spending on social welfare programs by replacing them with faith-based organizations and non-profits, is at the center of a probe over an allegedly illegal donation that is rapidly unraveling the board and even has Ron DeSantis trying to distance himself from his wife. It all started with a suspicious $10 million donation made to Hope Florida, which came from Medicaid care operator Centene. That big check was part of a larger $67 million out-of-court settlement between the company and the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. According to Politico, Centene was directed to put $10 million of that settlement directly in the coffers of Hope Florida Foundation, which may have amounted to an illegal transfer of funds that should have gone to the state. That $10 million was allegedly used by Hope Florida to help two organizations—Save Our Society from Drugs and Secure Florida’s Future—with their efforts to defeat a ballot measure that would have legalized marijuana in the state, which ultimately failed to garner the 60% support needed to pass last November. Those donations from Hope Florida to the groups were reportedly encouraged by Governor DeSantis’ then-chief of staff James Uthmeier, and, according to the Tampa Bay Times, those two groups went on to make significant donations to the political action committee controlled by Uthmeier, who was named Florida attorney general earlier this year. The web is already pretty tangled, and that’s just the start of it. Republican state representative Alex Andrade has accused Uthmeier and Hope Florida of engaging in fraud and money laundering, and they don’t seem to have any good answers for those accusations. In the initially hijacked meeting, Hope Florida president Joshua Hay admitted that he couldn’t account for the $10 million donation, nor what it was used for. “We have no monitoring procedures. We have no staff,” he said on the call. The developing scandal appears like it might put an end to Casey DeSantis’ political ambitions before they even start, as it was expected that she would launch her own bid to become Governor of Florida in 2026 after her husband’s second term comes to an end. Now, Ron seems like he’s making sure that it’s only her career that is over. Earlier this week, when asked about the situation at Hope Florida, DeSantis took the opportunity to throw his wife under the bus and back it up just to make sure he hit her. “I really had no ownership of this,” he told the media. “I didn’t devise it. She devised it. She set the vision. She executed the vision.” He did say that the organization has had “positive results,” but that seems like a cherry on top of a shit sundae that he served to her. Sure seems like he’s not interested in being the first man. That said, being an alleged fraudster is anything but a career-ender in Florida. Republican Rick Scott was the CEO of a company that was hit with the biggest fine ever for Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and he managed to win not just two terms as Florida’s governor but is still representing the state in the US Senate. There’s not much that is truly disqualifying down there. Daily Newsletter You May Also Like By Adam Kovac Published April 7, 2025 By Matthew Gault Published March 28, 2025 By Ed Cara Published March 20, 2025 By Matthew Gault Published March 5, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published February 27, 2025 By Margherita Bassi Published February 19, 2025

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Nature, Published online: 16 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01158-0The construction of a ‘pangenome’ sequence collection that incorporates the genomes of nearly 150 wild and cultivated rice varieties captures all the genetic diversity found in this plant. It reveals genes associated with disease resistance that are unique to wild rice, and provides insights into the origins of domesticated rice.

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Zongyuan Liu showcased a realistic portrait of a beautiful Asian woman made with ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, and Maya.More renders and WIP shots: https://80.lv/articles/realistic-asian-woman-model-in-zbrush-maya-substance-3d-painter/

RT Curtis Holt ☄️🌿 I interviewed Blender YouTuber @RenderRides on the new @ParasociallyYT channel. We discuss their learning journey, and the psychological challenges of creativity, in detail.https://youtu.be/UK4MyxOm7V4#blender #podcast