Insomniac revealed a new performance mode in Marvel’s Wolverine for the PlayStation 5 base model.
Insomniac, a Sony-owned company, told IGN that 60 frames per second with ray-tracing was the default setting on the base PS5. This is a first.
Jess Reiner Reed, senior project director, said: “We knew from the beginning that we would make it 60 frames per second, and work on PS5 base in performance mode.” We’ve been able achieve that. “The game is super smooth.”
Mike Fitzgerald, Insomniac’s head of technology, said: “We have always had these performance and fidelity modes. And then, at the last moment, we get performance mode, with ray-tracing, which is good …’. So, for this game, from the beginning, we decided, “You know what?” We’re sure we can deliver this game now. It will be 60 frames per seconds with ray-tracing, just like the PS5. This is what we’re building the game on. It’s our default mode. “It’s crucial for the presentation.”
The 60 frames per second with default ray-tracing on the base PS5 will be well received by players. This is especially true when you consider how combat heavy Marvel’s Wolverine can get. This responsiveness will help you to smash enemies and nail combos.
Insomniac also pushed boundaries in Marvel’s Wolverine when it came to performance graphics, but this was a different experience compared with the Spider-Man titles the developer is best known for.
Fitzgerald stated that “Spider-Man is a title that’s very city-based and urban.” We invest heavily in technology so that we can represent this. Marvel’s Wolverine then takes us out of the city. In Madripoor, we spend time in Canada’s wilderness and a city with a completely different feel. We invested a great deal of money in the technology that goes into the foliage, and jungles where you begin the game. The foliage reacts to the wind, characters and environment around it.
Logan’s an extremely destructive character. We wanted you to feel that the aftermath of a battle was not like defeating The Hand, and walking away from this beautiful market. Most of the props are physically realistic and destructible. This technology was a huge investment. “So market tables, stalls, and other objects are splintering as you fight.”
Insomniac has given us a lot more information about Marvel’s Wolverine in our extensive interview. Don’t miss our preview of the September release.
Wesley is the Director of News for IGN. You can find him at Twitter @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

Flock Safety announced a revamp of its privacy and safety measures on Thursday, amid escalating consumer complaints and reports about law enforcement abuse.
The company has announced new reforms in response to public criticism of its growing network of automatic license plate readers. These include enhanced privacy protections and strengthened control of local law enforcement agencies.
Flock will reduce its data storage period from 30 to 7 days. Prior to this, the data from any of Flock’s 119,000 cameras was deleted at the end of a 30-day period. The company has announced that the data on Flock’s servers will be available for only one week.
Flock has said that 90 percent of searches are conducted using their product within one week, which is in line with the priorities set by law enforcement.
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Flock has announced a new feature called “Evidence Mode” that allows agencies to keep data longer depending on the state and local policies.
The company has announced that agencies will have the option to choose which criminal offences they wish to share with other localities.
The company explained that “City A, for example, could let City B search their cameras to look for stolen vehicles or violent crimes while blocking searches that are related to immigration enforcement.”
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Privacy advocates and citizens who are concerned about Flock’s long-term storage of data have criticized the app.
Many, including Knox County Mayor Glen Jacobs of Tennessee, have asked for a nationwide moratorium to be placed on Flock’s camera deployment.
Civil liberties activists, like the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU), also have made significant criticisms.
ACLU stated in a statement on Thursday that Flock reforms were “a thinly-veiled attempt at PR to combat communities’ real privacy concerns about its mass surveillance system, with mostly hollow security promises rather than an honest effort to address these.”
Reports of the police using technology to track romantic partners have contributed to the backlash. Flock’s most recent reforms are also aimed at preventing abuses of their technologies.
Recently released Audit Assistance framework flags anomalous search behaviors. Flock reported that the feature had been optional and only a third agencies used it. The company now says that “Flock will make it standard across all law enforcement customers.” The user will be locked out of the system in real-time if the system detects unusual activity. This is done until the administrator has reviewed the search results. Flock has taken steps to address technology misuse more aggressively.
Flock also requires a specific reason for each search.
The company will introduce an optional requirement for case codes in July 2025. According to the company, this new reform will make the case code compulsory for search, but there is an exception for “genuine emergency” situations such as missing child.
Flock explained to FOX Business that “a search without reason is one that shouldn’t have happened in the first instance.”
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NEW YORK, NY (AP) – President Donald Trump has been sued by a federal judge to prevent him from profiting off a paid service offered at his Truth Social firm, which offers early and exclusive access to Trump’s posts about U.S. foreign policy.
In the lawsuit, it is alleged that the service providing paying customers with sneak peeks at his posts on U.S. war policy and tariffs as well as other topics violates the Constitution. It also claims official announcements must be available for everyone to see simultaneously. Wall Street firms are being charged up to $100,000 per month for the new subscription service launched earlier in this month. This allows them to get access first before other Wall Street firms.
Seth Stern is the chief of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Intercept are plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
Truth Social, the parent company of Trump Media & Technology said that selling access to fast traders was common practice in the industry and the plaintiffs were just trying to quiet the president.
In a press release, it used the acronym of the fast access service to say that “Information about President Trump is distributed by numerous platforms and news sources, many which offer subscription APIs.” Now, the left-wing activists want to use our courts in an unfair way to try and censor Trump again. This will harm shareholders.
Early access comes at a time when Trump Media, whose stock is publicly traded, has lost hundreds of millions each quarter. Its share price dropped from $62 to below $10 shortly after it went public in 2012.
Plaintiffs claim that the service is in violation of two sections of the Constitution: the First Amendment rights to equal access of members of the public and press to the president’s remarks, and the Fifth Amendment prohibiting unreasonable requirements for receiving government benefits.
In the lawsuit, Trump Media is asked to stop offering a new service called Truth API that offers milliseconds quicker access.
Trump Media benefits from an agreement with Trump, which gives Truth Social exclusive six-hour access to Trump’s posts before they can be distributed elsewhere. Plaintiffs also appeared to be aiming at this, as they asked the court to prevent him from posting “official government information exclusively” to his site.
Trump Media is owned by a trust that owns more than 40 percent of the company’s shares.
Ethics watchdogs criticised Trump’s post on Truth Social even before the API service launched earlier this month. They said it was a brazen attempt by Trump to make money off his presidency. This is similar to many other ventures that generate income, such as those related to cryptocurrency. The president’s annual financial report, which is required by law, showed that he earned more than $1 billion from crypto-related businesses that are regulated by his administration.
Since he won a second term, Trump has made several moves. His digital finance firm, World Liberty Financial received a $500-million investment from an entity tied to the United Arab Emirates government and sold special Trump memorabilia coins worth hundreds of millions to fans, and to those who may be seeking federal favors, such as a millionaire battling a federal suit that was eventually paused and settled.
The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, names the President’s deputy chief of Staff Daniel Scavino as well as his executive assistant Natalie J. Harp.

In their first public comments on the incident, executives of the cybersecurity company said that the Trump administration declined to extend a contract with a firm they hired to inspect voting equipment in Puerto Rico because the firm did not echo false allegations made by administration officials about voter fraud.
According to documents and executives of the cybersecurity company, after hearing the firm found no evidence for vote-tampering by the liberal billionaire George Soros. Allies of Donald Trump sabotaged the work of the cybersecurity firm with the government by falsely claiming that it was funded by George Soros.
One group of Trump supporters “near the White House” was “dissatisfied,” because “I wasn’t willing to name-and shame me at that time and say that 2020 turned out to be a landslide victory for Trump.” Jason Wareham said at this month’s DEF CON cyber security conference in Las Vegas that “nobody knew.”
Mojave Research did not have any prior experience testing voting systems. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence approached them to test a specific machine made by Liberty Vote (formerly Dominion Voting Systems) that the agency acquired from Puerto Rico in the spring of the year 2025. ODNI contracted the company to examine a voting machine manufactured by Liberty Vote, formerly Dominion Voting Systems that it had acquired from Puerto Rico. According to Wareham, Mojave completed the project in Wareham’s Reston basement within six weeks.
Wareham stated that Mojave had submitted a detailed report to ODNI on its findings in July 2025. However, it is yet to be published. Manbir Gulati, Mojave’s chief technology officer, described in depth the findings at DEF CON’s “Voting Village” symposium.
Gulati stated that “we found numerous and unacceptable weaknesses but that we could not prove that these weaknesses had been exploited actively or that the votes of voters were altered.”
Wareham and his team’s findings — or lack thereof — would serve as a Rorschach Test for Trump Administration officials who are focused on elections. This is a cautionary story about how officials with Trump’s ears rejected a firm that claimed to want to offer unbiased analysis of election security. Trump’s administration is revisiting the results of the 2020 elections. This has now extended to Arizona where records from an audit have been obtained by the FBI that confirm Joe Biden as the winner of Arizona.
According to Wareham, after the firm made it clear what they had discovered, several figures associated with Trump started to doubt the integrity of Mojave.
Wareham is a Republican who submitted to the Trump Administration a statement in September, under penalty of perjury, to deny the idea that his firm was “some sort of deep-plant meant to suppress the truth about compromised elections or electoral systems.” The declaration states.
CNN has reviewed Wareham’s complete declaration that was submitted to ODNI. Reuters previously covered Wareham’s declaration, and Mojave Research’s tensions over Kurt Olsen. Olsen has contested the results of 2020 repeatedly and has served as an advisor to Trump’s efforts to undermine trust in the election. This document sheds some light on the aggressive efforts of a group of Trump supporters to support Trump’s claims about voter fraud.
Wareham sent his financial statement and declaration to ODNI in order to show that he wasn’t affiliated with Soros. Soros has been the target of many antisemitic conspiracies about hidden levers of influence. Wareham claimed to have received, the following month, an email from CNN stating that ODNI issued a “stop work order” for this contract.
In the declaration, Olsen is accused of repeatedly inserting himself in a probe into voting equipment initiated last year by ODNI as part of a program called Director’s Initiatives Group.
Olsen did not have any experience with election law before the 2020 elections, but his attempts to contest the results in court gained him a place in Trump’s orbit and a line directly to Trump. Olsen, along with his co-counsel were fined $2,000 by the Arizona Supreme Court for making false statements about the Arizona 2022 gubernatorial elections in an unsuccessful attempt to reverse that outcome.
Wareham declares that “During most of these interactions and meetings Mr. Olsen informed me he had spoken with the President about election topics and sometimes seemed to imply that he talked on this topic for him.” Olsen was not a White House special employee until October 2025. However, Wareham said to CNN that Olsen regularly attended ODNI meeting on election security before.
Tulsi Gabrield, the then Director of National Intelligence, was in Fulton County in Georgia in January when the FBI seized documents related to 2020 elections. Gabbard’s appearance, which Gabbard said Trump had requested, alarming election officials of both parties. Olsen wrote the criminal referral that was sent to the Justice Department, which led to the FBI’s seizure.
Wareham’s declaration highlights Olsen’s alleged activities in the months leading up to the FBI seizure of the Georgia property. The document states that discussions involving Olsen, and those in his circle were hindered by “rampant conjecture” and statements made without evidence or documentation.
Wareham stated in his statement, “I have lost track of the many times that I’ve heard Maricopa County described as a crime-scene.” Maricopa County, Arizona’s biggest county, has been the focus of Trump’s allies false claims about the theft of the 2020 elections.
The declaration states that “in total, we received very little material that supports anything Mr. Olsen said, or would enable us to perform a primary forensic investigation of enough quality to allow the Director of National Intelligence to rely on the conclusions that were reached.”
Olsen is now a Justice Department worker, but he did not reply to numerous requests for comments, and neither did the ODNI. Justice Department did not have any comment, other than to state that Olsen joined the department in June. Questions were referred to the ODNI by The White House.
Liberty Vote stated that they would not be commenting on Mojave’s findings as it has not read the report Mojave sent to ODNI. However, it added that “they are committed to advancing the advancement of the future for secure American elections.”
According to Gulati & Wareham, ODNI officials have accepted Mojave’s findings. Mojave executives claim that the division within the administration and the delays in releasing the Mojave Report have undermined efforts to correct the software bugs found on voting machines.
Gulati continued, “We encountered a number of rival factions in the government – people who wanted the boogeyman to be there and were willing to do whatever it took to find him and people who genuinely cared about [the issue] [of security during elections].” There was a large faction who said, “Mojave does not know what it is doing.” “They’re dumb and can’t even find any evidence of compromise.”
After the 2020 elections, cyber security research on election systems became a dangerous exercise because conspiracy theorists tend to link software bugs with fraud.
Gulati admitted that he struggled to decide whether or not to collaborate with the government, given the possibility of his research being weaponized.
Gulati explained that just because their motives weren’t right, it doesn’t mean the idea to look into election security was wrong, or that something should not be prioritised. He added that he’d rather share his expertise in security than remain silent. There have been many calls for increased election security, both from the left and right. This is what should happen.

Democratic officials and civil right advocates criticized the plan of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide officers with gloves that emit painful electric shocks. They called it cruel and unnecessary.
The Associated Press revealed that ICE planned to spend $10-20 million on “conductive distraction devices and de-escalation tools” to equip officers and agents.
G.L.O.V.E. stands for Generated low output voltage emitter. These devices are just normal gloves, until an officer pushes the button that activates its electrical mode. The voltage must be directly applied to the skin of a person to cause pain. This is to get them to comply. They do not burn the skin or leave contact marks like Tasers.
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The purchase size suggests that ICE intends to provide the device to all or most of its officers. Local departments have used the gloves more in jails rather than on streets where ICE has increasingly used force in order to remove people from vehicles and face protests.
Letitia J. James, New York’s Attorney General said: “We are outraged” at a press conference on Wednesday. She warned that ICE agents who mishandle gloves in New York could face civil and criminal consequences.
The Department of Homeland Security (ICE’s parent organization) issued a press release that didn’t mention or explain the specific product, nor why it was chosen.
The statement stated that “ICE constantly assesses the needs of its officers on the ground to make sure they have all the equipment and tools necessary to arrest criminal illegal aliens and safely remove them from the country.” Every decision made by ICE is carefully considered and reviewed in order to make sure that the technology it uses is compliant with applicable laws and policies.
A lawsuit alleges that shocks caused by gloves led to a man’s death
The devices may be marketed as safe and non-lethal, but a lawsuit pending alleges that a man aged 43 died in 2024, after being shocked by the Taser and 27 times using the gloves in a Richmond, Kentucky jail. Two of the gloves shocks each lasted for 45 seconds and 99 second — much longer than the 15-second manufacturer recommended limit.
According to court documents, the Madison County Detention Center’s investigation found that “These actions did not only cause unnecessary pain, but they also increased the risk of severe health complications.”
A review by the Associated Press found that two more lawsuits were filed alleging injury from these gloves. These included a heart patient who had been shocked during a Las Vegas Trade Show and a defendant, who claimed he’d been laughed at for being unnecessarily stunned in court. The two cases were dismissed.
Several Democrats, such as Maxwell Frost, Delia Ramirez and Pramila Jayapal in Congress said that ICE didn’t need another weapon on social media.
Jayapal, writing on X: “This will not make anyone any safer. In fact it gives ICE yet another dangerous weapon to target both citizens and immigrants.”
Professor of law and former ICE official, a former leader of the ICE, is concerned that gloves may be mistreated
Manufacturer warns that the device should not be used on certain populations, which ICE agents regularly encounter, such as the elderly, children under five, women who are pregnant, and severely disabled people. In the device’s manual, it is also stated that this should not be done in response to defiance verbal or physical, nor for punishment or torture.
In an interview with MS NOW on Wednesday, John Sandweg, former acting director of ICE said that it was too easy to misuse this tool against a group who did not pose a danger.
Taser’s maker recently discontinued its drive-stun function, which was a similar tool for pain compliance that some officers had misused.
Michael Mannheimer is a professor of law at Northern Kentucky University and has published articles on police force use, as well as issues in federal law-enforcement operations. He agreed that the gloves raise concerns about officers’ using excessive force.
One concern that I have would be if ICE Agents had this immediately at their disposal, would they overuse it? “Will they use it before using less force, which could also be effective and appropriate to achieve compliance?” He said.
In a DHS data base, it was stated that the no-bid contract for the purchase of gloves would be available as soon as this Friday. The contract will last until March 31st 2027. Compliant Technologies LLC’s founder, who manufactures these gloves, refused to comment.
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Claudia Lauer, Associated Press journalist, contributed to the report.