Archigram, the revolutionary architectural collective that reshaped the discipline in the 1960s and 70s, is back with Archigram 10, 50 years after their last issue. Published by Circa Press and edited by founding member Peter Cook, the new edition features contributions from original members Dennis Crompton, David Greene, and Michael Webb, alongside architects and critics from across generations and continents, including Hitoshi Abe, Odile Decq, and Thom Mayne.Known for their neo-futurist, Pop Art-inspired visions of architecture, Archigram continues to challenge conventional thinking, now exploring digital influences and natural inspirations. Archigram 10 is supported by ABB and packed with the group's signature imaginative drawings, rekindling their enduring spirit of experimentation and innovation.

2020 looter slasherGodfallmay not be anyones favourite game by any means, but the widely criticized action RPGs developer seems to have met an unfortunate fate. As per a report published by PlayStation Lifestyle, California-based studio Counterplay Games has shut down.The report cites a LinkedIn post by a developer working at NetEase-owned studio Jackalyptic Games, which was allegedly working on an unknown project in collaboration with Counterplay Games. As per the post in question, Counterplay Games had been working on the project over the last six months, but was recently disbanded.Over the past six months or so our project at Jackalyptic has been supercharged by the world-class devs at Counterplay Games, the post reads. Its impossible to overstate their impact. From the very first day they put their shoulders to the wheel like it was their baby. Unfortunately we were unable to continue our partnership into the new year and CPG was disbanded.Godfallwas Counterplay Games debut (and only) title, releasing in 2020 for PS5 and PC, before also releasing for PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One over the following years. As per the studios website, it had a team of over 140 employees. Counterplay Games itself has yet to provide any official communication on its closure. Job listings in 2022 suggested the developer had started working on its next project, a AAA co-op action fantasy shooter.

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For over a decade, you couldnt easily fly a DJI drone over restricted areas in the United States. DJIs software would automatically stop you from flying over runways, power plants, public emergencies like wildfires, and the White House.But confusingly, amidst the greatest US outpouring of drone distrust in years, and an incident of a DJI drone operator hindering LA wildfire fighting efforts, DJI is getting rid of its strong geofence. DJI will no longer enforce No-Fly Zones, instead only offering a dismissible warning meaning only common sense, empathy, and the fear of getting caught by authorities will prevent people from flying where they shouldnt.In a blog post, DJI characterizes this as placing control back in the hands of the drone operators. DJI suggests that technologies like Remote ID, which publicly broadcasts the location of a drone and their operator during flight, are providing authorities with the tools needed to enforce existing rules, DJI global policy head Adam Welsh tells The Verge.But it turns out the DJI drone that damaged a Super Scooper airplane fighting the Los Angeles wildfires was a sub-250-gram model that may not require Remote ID to operate, and the FBI expects it will have to work backwards through investigative means to figure out who flew it there. DJI voluntarily created its geofencing feature, so it makes a certain degree of sense that the company would get rid of it now that the US government no longer seems to appreciate its help, is blocking some of its drone imports, calls DJI a Chinese Military Company, and has started the countdown clock on a de facto import ban. The FAA does not require geofencing from drone manufacturers, FAA spokesperson Ian Gregor confirms to The Verge. But former DJI head of global policy, Brendan Schulman, doesnt seem to think this is a move for the better. Here are a few choice phrases hes posted to X:This is a remarkable shift in drone safety strategy with a potentially enormous impact, especially among drone pilots who are less aware of airspace restrictions and high-risk areas.There was substantial evidence over the years that automatic drone geofencing, implemented using a risk-based approach, contributed significantly to aviation safety.Interesting timing: Ten years almost to the day after a DJI drone infamously crash-lands on the White House lawn, DJI has removed the built-in geofencing feature that automatically impedes such an incident, replacing it with warnings that the user can choose to ignore.Here are the questions we sent DJI, and the companys answers:1) Can you confirm thatDJIno longer prevents its drones from taking off / flying into any locations whatsoever in the United States, including but not limited to military installations, over public emergency areas like wildfires, and critical government buildings like the White House?Yes, this GEO update applies to all locations in the U.S and aligns with the FAAs Remote ID objectives. With this update, priorDJIgeofencing datasets have been replaced to display official FAA data. Areas previously defined as Restricted Zones (also known as No-Fly Zones) will be displayed as Enhanced Warning Zones, aligning with the FAAs designated areas.2) If it still does prevent drones from taking off / flying into some locations, which locations are those?Not applicable.3) DidDJImake this decision in consultation with or by direction of the US government or any specific government bodies, agencies, or representatives? If so, which? If not, why not?This GEO update aligns with the principle advanced by aviation regulators around the globe including the FAA that the operator is responsible for complying with rules.4) DidDJIrun any risk analysis studies beforehand and if so, did it see a likelihood of abuse? What likelihood did it see? If not, why not?The geofencing system that was in place prior was a voluntary safety measure introduced byDJIover 10 years ago when mass-produced small drones were a new entrant to the airspace, and regulators needed time to establish rules for their safe use. Since then, the FAA has introduced Remote ID requirements, which means that drones flown in the U.S. must broadcast the equivalent of a license plate for drones. This requirement went into effect in early 2024, providing authorities with the tools needed to enforce existing rules.This update has been in development for some time, following similar changes successfully implemented in the E.U. last year, which showed no evidence of increased risk, says Welsh. However, last years changes reportedly kept mandatory no-fly zones around UK airports. Here in the United States, Welsh seems to suggest its apps wont go that far. To be clear: DJI flight apps will continue to voluntarily generate warnings if pilots attempt to fly into restricted airspace as designated by the FAA, provided that pilots keep their flight apps up to date, he tells The Verge.

Biometric authentication has emerged as a promising solution to enhance security by offering a more robust defense against cyber threats. However, hackers can increasingly develop sophisticated methods to bypass traditional security measures as technology advances. This includes forging common protections such as easily guessed PINs, passwords, or even misplacing physical keys, which were once considered reliable safeguards.Despite being widely employed, traditional security techniques like passwords, PINs, and keys have built-in drawbacks, such as vulnerability to hacking, loss, or theft. This highlights the need for more user-friendly, safe authentication methods that adjust to changing cybersecurity threats.Although biometric systems have become more popular as substitutes, conventional unimodal systems are susceptible to spoofing. To increase security, multimodal biometric systems integrate characteristics like iris and ECG or ear and iris, making duplication more challenging. These devices are useful in combinations like palm and finger veins, increase accuracy, reduce spoofing, and are resistant to noise.Multimodal biometric systems provide benefits but can have drawbacks, such as more complexity, higher processing demands, and possible privacy issues. The development of authentication systems continues to face the difficulty of finding a balance between security, usability, and privacy as cybersecurity threats evolve.To address the abovementioned issues, new research published in BioMed Research International describes a novel methodology combining feature-level and decision-level fusion to improve detection accuracy. The method consists of several key stages: preprocessing to improve data quality, segmentation and feature extraction for ECG and iris signals, a feature fusion module to combine and refine features, and decision-level fusion with a score-level model to assess the similarity between ECG and iris inputs.The suggested methodology presents a multimodal authentication technique that enhances accuracy by utilizing iris and ECG data. The procedure uses feature extraction, fusion, and classification models to identify and categorize patterns. The extraction and analysis of biometric features are the main objectives of the separate phases that comprise the authentication process.Iris Feature Extraction: Data is captured under controlled lighting conditions to ensure accuracy. The iris is segmented by approximating its center and identifying inner and outer boundaries. Circular edge detection via convolution helps find these boundaries, allowing for cropping and segmentation. A combination of Gabor filtering and Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is applied for robust feature extraction, providing scale- and rotation-invariant descriptors.ECG Feature Extraction: Wavelet transform extracts features from ECG signals, followed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction. Peak detection identifies key features such as R, S, and T waves. The Symlet 8 wavelet function is applied due to its symmetry, with a 2-level decomposition process to analyze the ECG signals high- and low-frequency components.Ensemble Classifier: The final stage involves an ensemble classifier, where decision trees are trained using the extracted multimodal features. Predictions from individual trees are combined through majority voting to make the final classification decision. This process enhances the systems robustness and learning patterns from ECG and iris data for accurate authentication.To evaluate this method, the research team conducted experiments using biometric data from 45 users, split into 70% for training and 30% for validation. The experiments assessed individual and combined biometric modalities, focusing on ECG and iris data.Results showed that the proposed ensemble classifier outperformed standard methods, achieving superior accuracy (95.65%), sensitivity (96.2%), and precision (96.55%) for multimodal scenarios. The comparative analysis highlighted its effectiveness over random forest, decision tree, and bagged ensemble classifiers, with the combined multimodal approach yielding the highest performance.In conclusion, the proposed multimodal biometric authentication system demonstrates a significant advancement in cybersecurity by addressing the vulnerabilities of traditional unimodal and password-based security methods. By integrating ECG and iris data with innovative feature-level and decision-level fusion techniques, the system achieves enhanced accuracy, robustness, and resistance to spoofing. The experiments highlight the superiority of the ensemble classifier, which consistently outperforms traditional methods, providing reliable authentication while maintaining usability.Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our65k+ ML SubReddit.(Promoted) Mahmoud Ghorbel+ postsMahmoud is a PhD researcher in machine learning. He also holds abachelor's degree in physical science and a master's degree intelecommunications and networking systems. His current areas ofresearch concern computer vision, stock market prediction and deeplearning. 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Jan 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananPatch Tuesday / Zero-DayMicrosoft kicked off 2025 with a new set of patches for a total of 161 security vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, including three zero-days that have been actively exploited in attacks.Of the 161 flaws, 11 are rated Critical, and 149 are rated Important in severity. One other flaw, a non-Microsoft CVE related to a Windows Secure Boot bypass (CVE-2024-7344), has not been assigned any severity. According to the Zero Day Initiative, the update marks the largest number of CVEs addressed in a single month since at least 2017.The fixes are in addition to seven vulnerabilities the Windows maker addressed in its Chromium-based Edge browser since the release of December 2024 Patch Tuesday updates.Prominent among the patches released by Microsoft is a trio of flaws in Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP (CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, and CVE-2025-21335, CVSS scores: 7.8) that the company said has come under active exploitation in the wild -"An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges," the company said in an advisory for the three vulnerabilities.As is customary, it's currently not known how these shortcomings are being exploited, and in what context. Microsoft also makes no mention of the identity of the threat actors weaponizing them or the scale of the attacks.But given that they are privilege escalation bugs, they are very likely used as part of post-compromise activity, where an attacker has already gained access to a target system by some other means, Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, pointed out."The Virtualization Service Provider (VSP) resides in the root partition of a Hyper-V instance, and provides synthetic device support to child partitions over the Virtual Machine Bus (VMBus): it's the foundation of how Hyper-V allows the child partition to trick itself into thinking that it's a real computer," Rapid7's Lead Software Engineer, Adam Barnett, told The Hacker News."Given that the entire thing is a security boundary, it's perhaps surprising that no Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP vulnerabilities have been acknowledged by Microsoft until today, but it won't be at all shocking if more now emerge."The exploitation of Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP has also resulted in the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring federal agencies to apply the fixes by February 4, 2025.Separately, Redmond has warned that five of the bugs are publicly known -CVE-2025-21186, CVE-2025-21366, CVE-2025-21395 (CVSS scores: 7.8) - Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityCVE-2025-21275 (CVSS score: 7.8) - Windows App Package Installer Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityCVE-2025-21308 (CVSS score: 6.5) - Windows Themes Spoofing VulnerabilityIt's worth noting that CVE-2025-21308, which could lead to improper disclosure of an NTLM hash, was previously flagged by 0patch as a bypass for CVE-2024-38030. Micropatches for the vulnerability were released in October 2024.All the three Microsoft Access issues, on the other hand, have been credited to Unpatched.ai, an AI-guided vulnerability discovery platform. Action1 also noted that while the flaws are categorized as remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, exploitation requires an attacker to convince the user to open a specially crafted file.The update is also notable for closing out five Critical severity flaws -CVE-2025-21294 (CVSS score: 8.1) - Microsoft Digest Authentication Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityCVE-2025-21295 (CVSS score: 8.1) - SPNEGO Extended Negotiation (NEGOEX) Security Mechanism Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityCVE-2025-21298 (CVSS score: 9.8) - Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityCVE-2025-21307 (CVSS score: 9.8) - Windows Reliable Multicast Transport Driver (RMCAST) Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityCVE-2025-21311 (CVSS score: 9.8) - Windows NTLM V1 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability"In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted email to the victim," Microsoft said in its bulletin for CVE-2025-21298."Exploitation of the vulnerability might involve either a victim opening a specially crafted email with an affected version of Microsoft Outlook software, or a victim's Outlook application displaying a preview of a specially crafted email . This could result in the attacker executing remote code on the victim's machine."To safeguard against the flaw, it's recommended that users read email messages in plain text format. It's also advising the use of Microsoft Outlook to reduce the risk of users opening RTF Files from unknown or untrusted sources."The CVE-2025-21295 vulnerability in the SPNEGO Extended Negotiation (NEGOEX) security mechanism allows unauthenticated attackers to run malicious code remotely on affected systems without user interaction," Saeed Abbasi, manager of vulnerability research at Qualys Threat Research Unit, said."Despite a high attack complexity (AC:H), successful exploitation can fully compromise enterprise infrastructure by undermining a core security mechanism layer, leading to potential data breaches. Because no valid credentials are required, the risk of widespread impact is significant, highlighting the need for immediate patches and vigilant mitigation."As for CVE-2025-21294, Microsoft said a bad actor could successfully exploit this vulnerability by connecting to a system which requires digest authentication, triggering a race condition to create a use-after-free scenario, and then leveraging it to execute arbitrary code."Microsoft Digest is the application responsible for performing initial authentication when a server receives the first challenge response from a client," Ben Hopkins, cybersecurity engineer at Immersive Labs, said. "The server works by checking that the client has not already been authenticated. CVE-2025-21294 involves exploitation of this process for attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE)."Among the list of vulnerabilities that have been tagged as more likely to be exploited is an information disclosure flaw affecting Windows BitLocker (CVE-2025-21210, CVSS score: 4.2) that could allow for the recovery of hibernation images in plaintext assuming an attacker is able to gain physical access to the victim machine's hard disk."Hibernation images are used when a laptop goes to sleep and contains the contents that were stored in RAM at the moment the device powered down," Kev Breen, senior director of threat research at Immersive Labs, said."This presents a significant potential impact as RAM can contain sensitive data (such as passwords, credentials, and PII) that may have been in open documents or browser sessions and can all be recovered with free tools from hibernation files."Software Patches from Other VendorsBesides Microsoft, security updates have also been released by other vendors over the past few weeks to rectify several vulnerabilities, including Found this article interesting? 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Looking forthe most recentMini Crossword answer?Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands and Connections puzzles.Today's Mini Crossword wasn't terribly hard, but it had one of those double clues that I hate, where they tell you, for example, that 7-Across is an "adjective paired with 3-Down in a simile." That's great, New York Times puzzlemakers, if only I already knew what 3-Down was. WHICH I DON'T. So I leave blanks, and I go back and forth, and eventually it all fills in. Need some answers and hints? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times' games collection. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Strands answers, you can visitCNET's NYT puzzle hints page.Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini CrosswordLet's get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for Jan. 15, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNETMini across clues and answers1A clue: Food that many an N.Y.C. tourist grabs for breakfastAnswer: BAGEL6A clue: Got out of bedAnswer: AROSE7A clue: Adjective paired with 3-Down in a simileAnswer: LOOSE8A clue: EffortlessnessAnswer: EASE9A clue: Tyrannosaurus ___Answer: REXMini down clues and answers1D clue: Makeshift seat in a barnyard, maybeAnswer: BALE2D clue: Very loud, like a stadium crowdAnswer: AROAR3D clue: Bird whose name rhymes with 7-AcrossAnswer: GOOSE4D clue: Fictional Vermont college on Netflix's "The Sex Lives of College Girls"Answer: ESSEX5D clue: Author HarperAnswer: LEEHow to play more Mini CrosswordsThe New York Times Games section offers a large number of online games, but only some of them are free for all to play. You can play the current day's Mini Crossword for free, but you'll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.

How do you get better at social games like The Traitors?And why this year's finale has been given a new gameplay twist.Image credit: BBC / Studio Lambert / Eurogamer Feature by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Published on Jan. 15, 2025 This article is intended for viewers up to date with The Traitors UK, though does not reveal the identities of any players who have left the game.Three years into the UK version of The Traitors, it can sometimes feel like the show's Faithful have learned nothing. Seemingly-obvious Traitors are still going under the radar, while innocent Faithful are being banished for innocuous reasons. Shouldn't repeated play of social games - or the ability to view others playing them in previous years, at least - be starting to prompt a more strategic response?Well yes and no - and this year's series has indeed seen some Faithful using knowledge of the format to their advantage. But in a constantly-changing meta and under high pressure, progress is slow.Last year, I spoke with The Traitors UK season one contestant Ivan Brett - author of several gaming books and host of the It's Just A Game podcast - for his thoughts on whether a knowledge of game design can give you an edge in social game scenarios. This year, I wanted to check back in and find out if this season's flock of Faithful could really have been doing anything different. Can you really get better at social games through practice? And how does the new finale twist change the game?To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Nine video games that tried (and will hopefully fail) to predict 2025.Watch on YouTube"People are getting more knowledgeable about the game, more familiar with the twists and players are shifting with the meta," Brett says as I speak to him via video call. "You saw quite quickly when shields were given out in episode four, players understood that they could spread their protection [by keeping who holds them a secret] to make the Traitors work a bit harder to murder. There's an ability to protect more people, and potentially trap a Traitor too. That's been done a few times, and it would be genius if it hadn't been done already, but we want to see players playing at an optimal level with the resources provided. This just makes it more interesting when people start to come up with new strategies.""Nobody is going to kill the person they have a rivalry with. In fact, it's really good to leave that person in."Still, there are moments where players aren't thinking strategically, Brett acknowledges, pointing to the recurring discussions where players are implicated in the murder of someone with whom they "had beef". "No Traitor who's seen the show is going to try and do a murder that pins it on themselves," Brett says. It's too obvious a move, too easily traced back to the perpetrator, and wastes the opportunity to murder someone more unexpected - something which then also throws Faithful off the scent. "Nobody is going to kill the person they have a rivalry with," he continues. "In fact, it's really good to leave that person in the show, as seen in season one, with Wilf leaving Maddie in."But while players are becoming familiar with those kinds of ideas, people will not get better at reading social cues, Brett believes. "That's never going to change," he says. "Social reads are just flawed, and people are not going to become better at hunting Traitors, because what you're using is just the clues within the show." So, how can you play better? It's difficult, Brett says, as social games like The Traitors don't offer a strong persistent rulebook of what's "best"."You can play optimally, but the only way to even measure how well a game is played is against the meta game at that current point," Brett says, "and that will change every year based on what was successful last year. You only have to look at the pre-show interviews to see that absolutely everyone tried to model themselves on [last year's winner] Harry, which means that whatever Harry did, they'll try and do. Except for those who are smart enough to say, 'whatever Harry does, I won't do'. That's the shifting meta. No matter what the predominant thing is, the best play is in some way determined by what's come before, either sticking to it or changing from it, diverting from it."Despite twists, familiarity of the format can help at least with knowing the kinds of things to mentally prepare for. I wondered, in episode one, how many of the players volunteering to leave the train really believed they were quitting the show, having seen two players depart in season one only to return later on."The ability to predict the kind of twists that come means people are not shocked by it or affected by it emotionally as we were in season one.""An understanding and even the ability to predict the kind of twists that will come means people are not shocked by it or affected by it as emotionally as we were in season one," Brett acknowledges, "and are instead able to process it in a more analytical sense and go, 'Well, how do I benefit from this? How do I extract the most value from this situation?' That is happening in this series for some players."This year it's been fascinating to see players wrestle with the reality that The Traitors is, at its heart, a selfish game - as so many social games are - even if each episode sees the cast work together for the common goal of adding more money to the ultimate prize fund. Tasks this year have included more elements for personal gain - shields to protect from murder, but also the need to sacrifice money or other players' ability to get shields in order to benefit. And then there was the clown task, where players struggled with the concept of being lied to by their fellow contestants."Dan was the first to say 'I'm acting selfishly, I'm really sorry that I had to do this, but in the end it's not a team game,'" Brett notes. "We all figured out it wasn't a team game [in season one], but it took a bit of time for some people. The fact Dan first says that back in episode three and is confident enough that he won't get banished just for being selfish, shows a development in the strategy and in the overall understanding of the game." Up to a point, anyway."I like it because British reality TV is miles behind other countries - Australia, New Zealand, America most notably - in allowing this kind of villainy to be celebrated," Brett muses. "The Traitors has, whether you like it or not, brought the British public's understanding of what's permissible as a heroic action forward. Before, on Big Brother, anything strategic was treated as villainy. America has 47 series of Survivor, a much more strategic version of Big Brother. The formats generally work in the same way, but you're always constantly trying to outdo each other and out-think each other and use subterfuge and villainy in that way. And that's great." The Traitors UK's season three cast. | Image credit: BBC / Studio LambertSpeaking of which, one big twist to The Traitors' format this year will take place in its finale, where producers have decided to make a big strategic change. Now, anyone who leaves in the last episode will not declare to other players whether they were a Traitor or Faithful, so remaining players can no longer factor that information into their decision on whether to continue voting players off, or to end the game and risk a Traitor still being present.The only real drama in a finale is - are there one or two Traitors left?"The prevailing outcome is that you keep banishing players until you've got what you believe to be your last Traitor out," Brett says. "Going into the final episode, you know there still has to be either one or two Traitors left, unless you've done really badly. But even if you've done well, it will still be one or two because when Traitors do get down to one they're forced to recruit by ultimatum. So the only real drama in a finale is - are there one or two Traitors left? And therefore players can keep banishing until they've got two people left, leading to the reveal simply being whether only one or both of those players have won. And they've done this before."Around the world, more than a dozen seasons of The Traitors format have aired. Here in the UK, you can watch multiple editions of The Traitors US and Australia on iPlayer. So while we're technically just in our third iteration of the show, a chunk of the UK audience will have already seen half a dozen different endgames play out. And the number of endgames this format has is limited, without changes."If [endgames] become a pattern they become boring, and it is so important to stick the landing of each series that they can't take that risk - more than any other show," Brett says. "No one remembers the ending of Love Island, or even the final week of Big Brother. It's almost always irrelevant. The Traitors always puts a lot of pressure on the players still, but you've got to keep making it interesting for viewers at home."So, how will this year's finale play out? Unfortunately, in Brett's opinion, the change tips the scales further towards a Traitors victory. "By removing any verification that you've got rid of them, Faithful will never have a good enough reason to end the game," he says. "I can't see how this benefits the Faithfuls in any way. Let's say a power group of three or four get to the end and trust each other, and choose to win the game. If there's a Traitor in that group, that Traitor will win. Or it could lead to Faithfuls saying 'Well, now that we're not finding out if a Traitor is there or not, in order to make the numbers better, we'll just keep on banishing until there's two of us'." That doesn't lead to good TV either, he adds, as it will come without any players revealing others as Traitors."I can't see how this benefits the Faithfuls in any way.""Some of the best moments are those reveals," Brett says, "and so this is a twist that comes at the expense of taking away some of those brilliant unboxings. It's not an unboxing for viewers, because we already know the players' roles. But it's more about watching the players respond." Instead, it's likely we'll see different kinds of reveal moments - ones we haven't seen before - such as a Faithful wrestle over whether to end the game without that knowledge of having already caught several. "If we can watch that happening live, that's really interesting," Brett says. "I'm excited to see it, I just think it probably spells a lot of Traitor wins until something else changes to balance it."There are ways still to balance things further, he believes, such as ending the Traitors' ability to recruit sooner. But this opens up the possibility of players ridding the game of all Traitors before the finale begins - leading to a truly weird endgame full of paranoia where all remaining players are already Faithful. "Again, you can't have that too many times either," Brett says. But the future remains unwritten, and next year's meta will only be decided after this year's finale airs. Who knows - maybe next year's crop will have it all sussed?

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Contributor Erika Owen found these sheets perfect for staying cool during a New York City heatwave and loved the deep design of the fitted sheet pocket and how easy it was to get it over her mattress and mattress topper.Bed Covers:Brooklinen Down Alternative ComforterMade with a 100% cotton sateen shell, this hypoallergenic comforter is treated with ultrafresh antimicrobials and comes in several different weights to accommodate the hot sleeper as well as the shopper who always goes in for all-season sleep products. Our social media manager Rebecca Grambone opted for the all-season down comforter and found it to be hotel quality and breathable but cozy. If youre like me and always on the hunt for the perfect mix of cool and comfort with their sleep setup, definitely give this a try! she says.Brooklinen Classic Percale Duvet CoverAD PRO senior editor Mel Studach likens this percale duvet cover to a crisp cotton button-down shirt. Its soft and sophisticated in a matte finish, plus lightweight and breathable. And while she admits shes not particularly picky when it comes to duvet cover material, percale, linen, and sateen each have their perfect setting, she says, adding that this duvet cover has tipped the scales for me! I love how crisp and smooth the percale isin both appearance and touch. She also loved that retying the duvet was simple with help from the covers Long and Short interior tags.Brooklinen Washed Linen Duvet CoverThis linen duvet cover is made from 100% European flax linen and is Oeko-Tex certified for chemical safety. Zo Sessums, senior digital design editor and self-professed hot sleeper, opted for this duvet cover in a limited-edition blush pink The pink gives my room a bright pop, and the wrinkled nature of the linen makes the duvet not look too precious, she says. Also a pet owner, Sessums recommends this duvet cover for those who dont want to wash a whole comforter or quilt on the regular.Brooklinen Linen QuiltMaybe youve tried linen sheets, but a linen quilt is an even bigger upgrade. Social media manager Rebecca Grambone says it perfectly: If you happen to be on the lookout for your favorite coastal grandma button-down linen top in the quilt form, the Brooklinen Linen Quilt in White Diamond is for you. Coming in sizes from full to Cali king, this 100% linen quilt is lightweight, super cooling, and breathable.Brooklinen Alpaca Windowpane Throw BlanketOur associate commerce director Lori Keong calls soft alpaca the most luxurious sweater material (no disrespect to cashmere). This pick from Brooklinen is an alpaca throw she found luxurious and high-quality, especially for its price point. Its supersoft texture plus warmth combat even the coldest winter days, Keong adds.Pillows:Brooklinen Down PillowContributor Jacqueline Wladis gives this pillow a 15 out of 10: Its like putting your head on a very firm cloud that supports your neck. Made from a combo of down clusters and feather filling with a 100% cotton sateen shell, this pillow marries firmness with plushness, so youre subsumed in feather, but comfortably resting atop them. Theyre not so firm that you feel like youre sleeping on a brick, but they cradle your head and provide nice back support if youre working from your bed, Wladis says.Towels:Brooklinen Classic Turkish Cotton Bath TowelsThese 100% Turkish cotton towels come in nearly every palatable neutral you could imagine. Oeko-Tex certified, they also come in three varieties: classic, super plush, and organic ribbed. Digital features editor Katherine McLaughlin opted for the classic and found them quick-drying and luxurious, noting that it really feels and looks like a towel you might find in a hotel.On Our Wishlist:Brooklinen Dreamweave Waffle Bed BlanketThis blanket is a true chameleonperfect for a light layer on a summer evening or for extra coverage between yourself and the duvet when its freezing. The waffle texture is an easy favorite for its softness and flexibility, made of 100% Turkish cotton.Brooklinen Classic Percale Core Sheet SetIf youre feeling overwhelmed by optionswhich fabrics, which shades, how hot, crisp, softhead for this percale core sheet set. Its 100% cotton and Oeko-Tex certified so you know youre not sleeping in questionable chemicals; this sheet set hits all the marks without complicating the message.

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