Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2, titled Lawless, debuted on February 21, 2025, throwing players to a crime-fueled island full of heists and high-stakes action. This season delivers a diverse selection of quests meant to enhance XP and unlock Battle Pass rewards, appealing to both experienced and new players.The seasons missions range from breaking into vaults in new POIs like Crime City to completing thermite-fueled tasks. They include Story, Weekly, Daily, Kickstart, and Expertise quests. Players can raid armored trucks, trade katanas for explosives, and explore a map packed with Black Market hideouts while pursuing fabled riches and medallions. The Battle Pass, which includes Mortal Kombats Sub-Zero and the eccentric Big Dill, keeps the prizes coming as players progress through various missions such as damaging vault weak points or collecting outlaw items.Recommended VideosAmong this amazing diversity, excitement grows for the Cowboy Bebop collab, which promises to boost the seasons anime flair. This crossover adds Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine skins to the Item Shop, as well as new quests based on the bounty-hunting theme. These Cowboy Bebop quests, which run until March 18, provide XP toward Bonus Goals and unlock two free cosmeticsideal for those looking to jam in this lawless realm.RelatedEpic GamesFaye Valentine Quests and how to complete themQuestHow to CompleteRewardJam for 5 seconds at a Named Location (5)Play an instrument at any named POI by opening the Jam Track from your emote wheel.10,000 XPHire a character (1)Hire any Specialist NPC on the island. Head over to the mini-map and spot characters with a plus sign over them.10,000 XPCollect Bars from eliminated players (100)Head over to a location near any Vault on the island to sabotage and eliminate an enemy to steal their gold.10,000 XPEliminate grunts with SMGs (10)Eliminate guards inside a building with a Vault. Locate the vault POIs with the sign on the map.10,000 XPEliminate a player holding a Medallion (1)Locate a medallion player with yellow circle on the mini-map and eliminate them.10,000 XPSpike Spiegel Quests and how to complete themQuestHow to CompleteRewardDamage players with melee weapons (50)Locate a player holding a Kneecapper and deal 50 damage to them using any weapon.10,000 XPPurchase an item from a Black Market (1)Locate a Black Market on the map with a building with a Dill Bit sign on them and purchase an item from one of the cases.10,000 XPEat food (5)Consume any fruit or vegetable to gain health or shields.10,000 XPDamage players with pistols (500)Deal 500 damage to enemy players using the Suppressed Pistol.10,000 XPHeadshot players with pistols (5)Hit 5 headshots on enemies using the Suppressed Pistol10,000 XPFree Cowboy Bebop cosmetic bonus rewardsThere are two bonus cosmetic rewards you can claim while completing Fortnite Cowboy Bebop quests. Here are all the rewards and how can you claim them:Cowboy Bebop Wrap Gain 3 account levelsCowboy Bebop Legends Loading Screen Gain 5 account levelsYou can also gain multiple levels quickly as you complete the Cowboy Bebop quests in Battle Royale or Zero Build lobbies in Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2. If youre looking for more in Fortnite, check out everything new added to the new season.Editors Recommendations

Elon Musk says he's not a Nazi following backlash to a gesture he made last month.Musk said to Joe Rogan that you can't be called a Nazi if you're not actively committing genocide."What is actually bad about Nazis it wasn't their fashion or their mannerisms, it was the war and genocide," he said.Elon Musk says he's not a Nazi and that the online hate he's been receiving is "pretty stressful."In a three-hour episode of Joe Rogan's podcast on Friday, Rogan and Musk discussed a recent incident that fueled accusations that the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO made a Nazi gesture.While speaking to the crowd at President Donald Trump's inauguration celebration in January, Musk made a gesture that caused many to question whether it was intended to be a fascist salute.For example, the former vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Michel Friedman, told a German outlet that Musk's action was a disgrace and, in his opinion, very clearly a "Heil Hitler" salute, The Guardian reported. US Rep. Jerry Nadler also condemned the gesture in a post on X, several Jewish organizations spoke out against it, and Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Musk to clarify his intentions. Meanwhile, The Anti-Defamation League argued in a post on X that it was "awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute." Social media sites including Musk-owned X have since been swarmed with users accusing the billionaire of condoning Nazism.In response to the controversy, Musk wrote on X at the time, "Don't say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gring your enemies! His pronouns would've been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming," turning the names of prominent Nazis into puns, followed by a crying-laughing emoji.On Friday, Musk told Rogan that the persistent criticisms are "ridiculous," and that the gesture was not a Nazi salute, joking, "Now I can never point at things diagonally.""Hopefully people realize I'm not a Nazi. Just to be clear, I'm not a Nazi," Musk said, laughing.Musk then argued that if you're not committing genocide, then you can't be called a Nazi."What's relevant about Nazis is like, are you invading Poland? And if you're not invading Poland, maybe you're not" a Nazi, he said. "You have to be committing genocide and starting wars. ""What is actually bad about Nazis it wasn't their fashion or their mannerisms, it was the war and genocide," he added.At another point in the episode, Rogan asked the billionaire how he personally deals with hate and attacks against him."It's pretty stressful," Musk answered, taking a much more serious tone. "They actually want to kill me. They say so online. There's like Reddit forums where they don't just want to kill me, they want to desecrate my corpse."It's not just Musk's arm gestures that have led critics to debate whether he supports Nazi ideologies. The frontman of the White House DOGE office has also supported Germany's far-right political party, the Alternative for Germany party, which is fiercely nationalistic and anti-immigration.Leaders of the AfD party have repurposed Nazi slogans, urged Germany to stop apologizing for its past crimes, and said the Nazis are just a "speck of bird poop" in Germany's long, successful history.Musk did not respond to BI's request for comment.

The Trump Administration's OPM emailed federal workers again requesting a list of accomplishments.The latest email tells employees to expect to complete a productivity summary weekly going forward.Federal workers who shared the email with BI said the doubling down is "nuts" and "infuriating."Federal workers across agencies are once again getting emails asking them to detail what they did this past week.The second email, received by federal employees Friday night, promises weekly check-ins going forward."Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager," the email, reviewed by Business Insider, reads. "Going forward, please complete the above task each week by Mondays at 11:59pmET."Federal workers from agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs received the email from the Office of Personnel Management around 9 p.m. ET Friday night.Representatives for the White House and the Office of Personnel Management did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider."Nuts. They did it again," one Department of Education employee told Business Insider upon receiving the email.Federal workers who have spoken to Business Insider have expressed frustration over the emails from OPM, which circumvent each office's chain of command and are sent during late or weekend hours.The heads of various agencies have offered differing guidance regarding how their employees should respond, with at least eight offices, including the Department of Defense and the State Department, previously telling workers they don't have to respond to DOGE's emails.On Monday, Musk said that employees who had not yet responded to the email would be given "another chance," but "failure to respond a second time will result in termination."Less than half of the federal workforce responded to the first email, the White House said Tuesday.The productivity-tracking emails, first sent on the afternoon of February 22 from an HR account in the Office of Personnel Management, followed President Donald Trump's request that Musk "get more aggressive" with DOGE's budget cuts and layoffs. The emails are among the latest of the office's sweeping initiatives that have resulted in mass firings, funding pauses, and work stoppages in departments and agencies across the federal government.Musk had teased that the emails would be coming in a post on X, writing: "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation," but the emails received by employees have not detailed any potential consequences for failing to reply by the deadline. The email sent Friday night also made no mention of those consequences.The email has two key differences from the one sent last weekend: It makes clear the request for accomplishments will be ongoing, and stipulates that employees working with sensitive information do not need to respond with specific tasks."If all of your activities are classified or sensitive, please write 'All of my activities are sensitive,'" the Friday email reads.One nurse who works with the Department of Veterans Affairs told Business Insider said the emails are "infuriating," adding that they'd responded to the last one after installing a read receipt tracker on their emails. Their initial response still hasn't even been opened, they said."They're such cowards," the nurse said. "Nobody has the guts to sign their name to this, and we're expected to respond to some faceless entity like we're shouting into a void. It's not coming from my supervisor or anyone in my actual chain of command, just another generic 'HR' email with no accountability."Other federal employees who previously spoke to Business Insider said they were considering quitting rather than dealing with the emails and conflicting guidance about how to respond to them.The Department of Education employee said they are looking for a new job, but have been struggling to find work since so many federal employees are recently out of work in the area where they live. As a single parent with dual citizenship, the Department of Education employee said they are considering moving abroad with their children.Earlier Friday, Department of Education employees received a buyout offer "in advance of a very significant Reduction in Force," according to an email reviewed by Business Insider. Employees who have worked at the department for at least 3 years were offered $25,000 in addition to any retirement funds they are eligible for. Interested employees have until 11:59pm ET on March 3 to accept the offer.And on Thursday, a memo seen by Business Insider was sent to employees in the Social Security Administration offering voluntary early retirements as part of a "restructuring that will include significant workforce reductions."President Donald Trump's administration officially announced its plan for federal staff reductions in a Wednesday memo, telling agencies to prepare to cut staff and reorganize their departments by March 13.The Department of Education employee said they would "probably not" take the buyout offer, adding that "it's crazy to give people just the weekend to think it over.""I don't trust anything these people do," the Department of Education employee told BI.Have a tip? Contact Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert via email at ktangalakislippert@businessinsider.com or Signal at byktl.50. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely.

March sees the return of Assassin's Creed with new entry Shadows, WWE 2K25, and a huge new co-op release with Split Fiction here's everything coming for consoles and PCTech06:00, 01 Mar 2025Split Fiction will have sci-fi and fantasy levelsFebruary was absolutely packed, and despite being a short month it gave us Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Civilization VII and Monster Hunter Wilds.With March, however, there's no slowing down gamers can expect the long-awaited return of Assassin's Creed, WWE 2K25, Two Point Museum and new first-person title Atomfall.Between Samurai, Suplexes and, uh, a radioactive northern England, it's a varied bunch. Add in the follow-up to It Takes Two with Split Fiction and you've got an incredible month ahead whether you're on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch or PC. Here's everything coming this month, including the release dates.Seeing all of this in motion will bring a smile to anyone's face(Image: Two Point Studios/SEGA)The third instalment in the management sim series, Two Point Museum is just as funny as its predecessors, and the new Expedition system lets players send their staff across the world in search of new artefacts to display.As we said in our review, "Far from a stuffy school trip, Two Point Museum is a little familiar but that also adds to its cosiness. Its the kind of game that has you preparing for just one more expedition before its 4 AM and you need to get to bed, and I love it for that."Split Fiction gets better the more we see of itRelease date: March 6Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X and S, PCSplit Fiction is the follow-up (at least in execution) to It Takes Two, the co-op adventure that stole our hearts back in 2021. This time, players play as Mio and Zoe, two struggling writers trapped in a machine that brings their stories to life.With Mio a sci-fi author and Zoe focused on fantasy, that means there's even more licence to produce wild new gameplay mechanics, like wielding lightsabers or riding dragons. Expect Split Fiction to be the perfect co-op adventure.Suikoden 1 and 2 are back(Image: Konami )Release date: March 6Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X and S, PCLooking to play an iconic RPG series that you may have missed? This bundle has both Suikoden 1 and 2 included, with all backgrounds upgraded to HD and effects enhanced, auto save, fast forward and more.It has the potential to be the definitive version of two RPGs that are highly regarded as offering incredible stories, and also launches on March 6.Entrances now have adjustable camera angles(Image: 2K)This year, WWE 2K25 focuses on The Bloodline, one of the most impressive factions in WWE history, while also offering the return of chain wrestling, new Underground matches, and more.MyGM is also getting a four-player online mode, while there are over 300 Superstars on the Roster. For more, be sure to check out our preview.Assassin's Creed Shadows can play like a classic, stealth-focused AC title if you preferAssassin's Creed is back, and while the game has been riding a wave of 'controversy', our preview proved that you should shut out of the noise and settle in for what could be one of the series' best entries yet.The game features two protagonists with different play styles, with Yasuke focused on strength and swordplay and ninja-like Naoe able to slip into areas undetected, and finally takes the series to Japan after years of fan requests.Atomfall is a very British adventure(Image: Rebellion Developments)Atomfall is a new survival game set in an alternate history Britain where the north of England has become a radioactive quarantine zone. Players need to manage their resources and craft weapons, while also keeping an eye on their heart rate.Interestingly, the game can be completed by killing every single enemy in the game or none of them, which sounds like a fun challenge.Article continues belowWhich of these games will you be checking out in March? Let us know!For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters.

Nature, Published online: 26 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08624-9A study reports that the structural maturation of the matrix domain of the Gag protein of HIV-1 is induced by the proteolytic release and binding of the spacer peptide SP2.

Nature, Published online: 26 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08544-0Climate models suggest that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is unlikely to collapse this century, owing to stabilization from wind-driven upwelling in the Southern Ocean.

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