Sony is turning two popular game franchises into major motion pictures. During its CES 2025 keynote on Monday night, Sony announced that Helldivers and Horizon Zero Dawn are being turned into movies.
The Horizon film is being produced by Columbia Pictures and PlayStation Productions. Columbia Pictures is the studio that produced 2022’s Uncharted movie. PlayStation Productions is also handling the development of the Helldivers movie.
No other details about the movies were revealed at the time of the announcement.
Horizon Zero Dawn first launched in 2017 for PlayStation 4. The game was scheduled to get a series on Netflix before it was ultimately canceled. Now it moves to a live-action movie.
Helldivers, on the other hand, rose to unexpected prominence with the release of Helldivers 2 in February 2024. The game became the fastest-selling PlayStation game of all time, selling over 12 million copies in just 12 weeks.
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Temple Beth Zion was once running with only a dozen or so active members until Rabbi Moshe Waldoks walked through the doors.
Temple Beth Zion was once running with only a dozen or so active members until Rabbi Moshe Waldoks walked through the doors.
Temple Beth Zion was once running with only a dozen or so active members until Rabbi Moshe Waldoks walked through the doors.
Moshe Waldoks, a humorous rabbi and performer, revitalized Temple Beth Zion with his unconventional style. Known for incorporating humor into serious matters, Waldoks proves that joy and laughter can be crucial to spirituality. He became a rabbi at 47 and notably performed one-man shows blending comedy and faith.
His show, “You Can Live If They Let You,” was a recent success, and Waldoks has consistently embraced varied roles, including humorist, scholar, playwright and rabbi. His career demonstrates a willingness to explore diverse possibilities, emphasizing adaptability, education and luck as pathways to fulfillment.
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On January 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,” HIPAA Security Rule to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of Electronic Protected Health Information (the “Proposed Rule”).1
The Proposed Rule aims to strengthen cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health information (ePHI), including pursuant to a March 1, 2023, directive from President Biden.2 Specifically, OCR is revising the HIPAA Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information (the “Security Rule”) to address the following:
With respect to all ePHI, the Proposed Rule removes the distinction between “required” and “addressable” implementation specifications for all types of enumerated safeguards under the Security Rule and makes all implementation specifications required with specific, very limited exceptions. The Proposed Rule also includes changes to—and the addition of new—definitions used in the Security Rule, bringing such definitions in line with current cybersecurity risk and control environments (e.g., multi-factor authentication). The Proposed Rule includes sweeping changes with increased specificity to the standards and implementation specifications to both Administrative and Technical Safeguard requirements. Administrative Safeguards
Under the proposed changes, Regulated Entities would be required to implement and document, in writing, their implementation of the administrative safeguards required by the Security Rule.
In place of the existing standard for security management process, Regulated Entities would be required to develop a technology asset inventory and a network map that illustrates the movement of ePHI into, through, and out of the Regulated Entity’s electronic information system(s). As an example, OCR has proposed a Regulated Entity’s network map must include the technology assets used by its business associates, including offshore business associates, regardless of the physical location of such assets, even though such assets are not part of the Regulated Entity’s own electronic information system.
With respect to the risk analysis (sometimes referred to as an enterprise security risk assessment) standard, OCR proposes eight specific implementation specifications that Regulated Entities would be required to perform and document, and to review, verify and update on an ongoing and at least every 12-month basis:
Other proposed changes to the administrative safeguard requirements include that a Regulated Entity must: Technical Safeguards
Generally, OCR retains the requirements for technical safeguards and proposes additions and modifications to the existing standards and implementation specifications. Under the Proposed Rule, Regulated Entities would need to: Physical Safeguards
Generally, OCR retains the four standards that comprise the Security Rule’s physical safeguards and proposes several modifications to address OCR’s expectations regarding implementation specifications, memorializing policies and procedures in writing, documenting the implementation of, reviewing, and modifying such policies and procedures and clarifying the scope of the electronic information systems and their components that Regulated Entities are expected to consider when establishing their policies and procedures. Business Associate Agreements
To address the increased risk of security incidents and deficiencies in protections, OCR proposes an implementation specification that would require a business associate agreement to include a provision for a business associate to report to the covered entity (and subcontractors to notify business associates) activation of its contingency plan (maintained in compliance with 45 CFR 164.308(a)(13)) without unreasonable delay, but no later than 24 hours after activation. The Proposed Rule does not require reporting on the cause of the contingency plan activation; rather, reporting is required solely on the fact that the contingency plan was activated. Additionally, this proposed requirement would not alter the business associate’s breach reporting obligations under the Breach Notification Rule. Documentation Requirements
While 45 C.F.R. § 164.316 currently addresses policies and procedures and documentation, the section does not require or include standards to govern how Regulated Entities must implement, maintain and document the implementation of all security measures. OCR believes this to be a deficiency and therefore proposes the following requirements for Regulated Entities:
The Proposed Rule requires group health plans to include certain requirements in their plan documents for their group health plan sponsors to:
Public comments on the Proposed Rule are due 60 days after publication of the Proposed Rule in the Federal Register, which is March 7, 2025.
[1] See Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Security Rule to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of Electronic Protected Health Information, 90 Fed. Reg. 898 (Jan. 6, 2025), available athttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-06/pdf/2024-30983.pdf.
[2] See https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf. More Upcoming Events
Google DeepMind announced Monday (Jan. 6) that it is creating a new team to work on “massive” generative models that would “simulate the world.” These models represent the next stage of advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in decision-making, planning and creativity. World models are computational frameworks that help AI systems understand and simulate the real or virtual world. They are key to helping teach AI systems to navigate an environment and have widespread applications in robotics, gaming and autonomous systems. For example, autonomous vehicles use these world models to simulate traffic and road conditions. They can also train generalist AI robots in different environments. A common problem is the lack of rich, diverse and safe training environments for so-called embodied AI. DeepMind’s job posting on Monday said that scaling AI models is also important to the tech’s evolution. “We believe scaling pretraining on video and multimodal data is on the critical path to artificial general intelligence. World models will power numerous domains, such as visual reasoning and simulation, planning for embodied agents, and real-time interactive entertainment,” the job posting said. PYMNTS reached out to Google but has yet to receive a reply. Tim Brooks, who left OpenAI in October to join Google DeepMind, will lead the team. At OpenAI, Brooks co-led the development of Sora, its video generation model that went viral upon unveiling because of its sophistication. According to joblistings for the team, the new hires will “collaborate with and build on” the work from Gemini, Google’s flagship large multimodal model, Veo (video generation model), and Genie (world model) teams. Google DeepMind’s focus on world models comes as AI startup World Labs said it raised $230 million when it came out of stealth last September. The startup is developing large world models. Led by Stanford AI pioneer Fei Fei Li, the startup is funded by AI pioneer and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt as well as Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, NVentures and others. Google DeepMind has already developed several world models, including Genie and Genie 2. Genie 2 can turn text and image into 3D worlds that react according to a user’s actions in this environment. (Genie created only 2D worlds). Genie 2 is a powerful AI model that learns from a large video dataset and uses a process that compresses video frames into simpler, meaningful representations through an autoencoder. These compressed frames are then analyzed by a transformer model that predicts how the video should progress, step-by-step, using a method similar to how text-generating models like ChatGPT work. Trained on a large-scale video dataset, Genie 2 can display object interactions, complex character animation, physics (such as gravity and splashing water effects) and behavior modeling of other agents. The world it creates can last up to a minute, with most in the 10- to 20-second range. Google DeepMind’s expanded focus on world models will further sharpen its AI systems’ capabilities as it competes with OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon in serving enterprises. The latest innovation adds to its already rich array of innovations, one of which most recently led to Nobel Prize nods for CEO Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper: AlphaFold2. It is an AI model that predicted the nature of all known proteins, solving a 50-year biochemistry challenge. In a paper published in October, Google DeepMind researchers said they trained a large language model called the Habermas Machine to serve as an AI mediator that helped small U.K. groups find common ground on controversial issues such as Brexit or immigration. It did so by writing a “group statement” that captured their shared viewpoints. We’re always on the lookout for opportunities to partner with innovators and disruptors.
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