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  • Hollow Knight Silksong First Patch Notes Nerf Early Game Bosses and Rewards You Generously

    Hollow Knight Silksong First Patch Notes Nerf Early Game Bosses and Rewards You Generously

    Hollow Knight: Silksong was finally released last week, after years of anticipation, immersing players as the agile Hornet in the silk-shrouded kingdom of Pharloom. However, the thrill has worn off for many, with frustration mounting over the sequel’s increased difficulty, which includes frequent double-mask damage from even early bosses.

    Worse yet, launch issues have exacerbated the misery as cloakless respawns following Slab escape deaths, soft-locks in quick-mapping, and cutscene errors show up for PC users. Mods nerfing damage have increased, but many players are still waiting for official relief.

    In response to the outcry, Team Cherry has quickly released its first post-launch patch, version 1.0.28470, which is now accessible on Steam and GOG betas, with a full rollout expected next week across all platforms. The update focuses on bug fixes and minor early-game tweaks to alleviate the pain without sacrificing the challenge.

    Hollow Knight Silksong v1.0.28470 Full Patch Notes

    Team Cherry released the patch notes for Hollow Knight Silksong on Steam, and here’s a full list of every change coming to the game. PC players can access this version right now via the public-beta branch on Steam or GOG.

    • Fixed situation where players could remain cloakless after Slab escape sequence.
    • Fixed wish Infestation Operation often not being completable during the late game.
    • Fixed wish Beast in the Bells not being completable when Bell Beast is summoned at the Bilewater Bellway during the late game.
    • Fixed getting stuck floating after down-bouncing on certain projectiles.
    • Fixed courier deliveries sometimes being inaccessible in Act 3.
    • Fixed craft bind behaving incorrectly when in memories.
    • Fixed Lace tool deflect soft-lock at start of battle in Deep Docks.
    • Fixed Silk Snippers in Chapel of the Reaper sometimes getting stuck out of bounds.
    • Fixed Claw Mirrors leaving Hornet inverted if taking damage during a specific moment while binding.
    • Fixed Snitch Pick not giving rosaries and shell shards as intended.
    • Removed float override input (down + jump, after player has Faydown Cloak).
    • Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.
    • Reduction in damage from Sandcarvers.
    • Slight increase in pea pod collider scale.
    • Slight reduction in mid-game Bellway and Bell Bench prices.
    • Slight increase in rosary rewards from relics and psalm cylinders.
    • Increase in rosary rewards for courier deliveries.
    • Various additional fixes and tweaks.

    All fixes will apply retroactively, so players who’ve hit a significant bug that prevents progress may want to switch over to public-beta to receive the fix. Further fixes are already being worked on for a second patch. If you have an issue and you don’t see the solution in the list above, the devs may be working on it.

    Additional details and temporary solutions for some of the more critical bugs mentioned above are available at the official help site.

    What do you think about these changes? Let us know in the comments below!

    Rishabh Sabarwal

    Rishabh Sabarwal is a Senior Gaming Writer at Beebom and an experienced video game journalist with over 7 years of experience covering everything from hit AAA titles to the ever-evolving world of live service games. He’s interviewed industry heavyweights, written for global publications, and now leads Gaming coverage at Beebom. When he’s not chasing patch notes or breaking news, you’ll find him deep in single-player adventures, building LEGO masterpieces, or hanging out with his dogs.


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  • Vattenfall InCharge: Celebrating a milestone on World EV Day

    Vattenfall InCharge: Celebrating a milestone on World EV Day

    Today, on World EV Day, we proudly celebrate a major achievement in the journey towards fossil freedom. Today in Vattenfall’s E-mobility markets, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands, electric driving is growing rapidly. Numbers show that in these countries, of all cars 7- 13 per cent are electrical.

    Vattenfall InCharge celebrates a milestone on this day, 1,000 MW of charging capacity across approximately 75,000 charging points managed through our systems at our e-mobility markets making electric driving accessible, efficient, and sustainable. This capacity reflects our commitment and goal, to help society break free from its dependency on fossil fuels. 

    Fabian Hagmann, head of E-mobility Vattenfall:

    “On World EV Day we’re marking a practical milestone: Vattenfall InCharge now manages around 75,000 charge points with about 1,000 MW of charging capacity and gives drivers access to around half a million charge points through roaming”. 

    What makes this milestone even more meaningful is that our electric vehicle charging network is powered by fossil-free energy. Every charge contributes to a cleaner environment and a more sustainable transport system.

    To put this into perspective:

    We’ve reached 1,000 MW of charging capacity in northern Europe. That’s equivalent to:  

    – the electricity produced by 285 onshore wind turbines of 3,5 MW each,  

    – if fully utilized for one hour, this capacity could deliver 1,000 MWh of electricity — 
    enough to charge 20,000 electric cars with 50 kWh batteries, which is enough to drive around the world 166 times.

    But it is not stopping here. The number of electric vehicles on the road is growing rapidly, and so is our infrastructure. With every new charging point, we’re helping to accelerate the transition to fossil-free living.

    “Scale only matters if it is smart and reliable, so we’re investing with partners in public fast charging, workplaces and homes, and in digital services that shift charging to the hours when power is cleaner and cheaper. That’s how e-mobility becomes the easy choice for everyone”, says Fabian Hagmann.

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  • News | RTX’s Collins Aerospace delivers first NavHub™-200M units to Europe

    News | RTX’s Collins Aerospace delivers first NavHub™-200M units to Europe

    Advanced assured positioning, navigation and timing solution now hardened with M-code and expanded protection against jamming

    ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has delivered the first six units of its NavHub™-200M to a European customer. The NavHub-200M is a mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (APNT) receiver designed to significantly enhance resistance against jamming and spoofing threats. The latest version features military code, or M-code, a type of encrypted signal used in military GPS systems for increased integrity and security.

    NavHub-200M is the first non-International Traffic in Arms vehicular navigation system compatible with M-code receiver technology available for the international market. The receiver is designed to seamlessly interface with key vehicle sensors, including inertial measurement units and odometers, to mitigate electronic and navigation warfare threats.

    “NavHub-200M brings critical M-code receiver technology to ground forces, enhancing their defense against jamming and spoofing threats,” said Sandy Brown, vice president and general manager of Resilient Navigation Solutions at Collins Aerospace. “The protection from electronic attack is crucial for operational success.”

    To date, Collins Aerospace has delivered over 10,000 navigation systems worldwide, reinforcing its commitment to providing cutting-edge navigation solutions.

    NavHub-200M is manufactured at Collins’ Heidelberg, Germany facility.

    About Collins Aerospace 
    Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in integrated and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Our 80,000 employees are dedicated to delivering future-focused technologies to advance sustainable and connected aviation, passenger safety and comfort, mission success, space exploration, and more. 

    About RTX
    RTX is the world’s largest aerospace and defense company. With more than 185,000 global employees, we push the limits of technology and science to redefine how we connect and protect our world. Through industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon – we are advancing aviation, engineering integrated defense systems for operational success, and developing next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing to help global customers address their most critical challenges. The company, with 2024 sales of more than $80 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

    For questions or to schedule an interview, please contact [email protected].

    SOURCE Raytheon

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  • WCH Tokyo 25 preview: men's pole vault – worldathletics.org

    1. WCH Tokyo 25 preview: men’s pole vault  worldathletics.org
    2. Tokyo 2025: Will Mondo go for another golden world record?  European Athletics
    3. It’s a bird, it’s a plane – no, it’s Armand Duplantis  The Straits Times
    4. ‘I could lose’ – Duplantis insists winning world title isn’t guaranteed  BBC
    5. It’s a bird, it’s a plane – no, it’s Mondo Duplantis  CNA

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  • The Best Red Carpet Looks From the Toronto International Film Festival 2025

    The Best Red Carpet Looks From the Toronto International Film Festival 2025

    The Venice Film Festival hadn’t even finished yet before the stars jetted across the Atlantic for the Toronto International Film Festival 2025. So far, the glitzy event has already seen the likes of Angelina Jolie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Paul Mescal and British Vogue’s September cover star Michaela Coel grace the red carpet, with buzzy new releases including Hamnet, Couture, Sacrifice and The Christophers all premiering in the Canadian city.

    The fashion on the red carpet hasn’t disappointed either, with Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor and Lakeith Stanfield all wearing Jonathan Anderson’s new creations for Dior, while Kirsten Dunst and Maue Apatow have been dressed in Alessandro Michele’s romantic designs for Valentino.

    Below, see all the best looks from the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival red carpet.

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  • ‘House Of The Dragon’ Star Olivia Cooke On Sex Scene Boundaries

    ‘House Of The Dragon’ Star Olivia Cooke On Sex Scene Boundaries

    Olivia Cooke, the British actress who stars as Alicent Hightower in HBO‘s Game of Thrones spin-off series House of the Dragon, has lamented women being shamed for setting boundaries in sex scenes.

    In an interview with The i Paper, Cooke said actresses “often get labelled ‘difficult’ or ‘a bitch’ for speaking up” when they are uncomfortable with intimate performances.

    Cooke, who is promoting Robin Wright’s upcoming Amazon Prime Video series The Girlfriend, said the industry had changed for the better now that intimacy coordinators have become commonplace on set.

    “It’s amazing to me that people had to just fudge their way through those scenes before those people existed,” the Ready Player One star said.

    Cooke said good intimacy coordinators become a “voice” for women who are hesitant about filming requests, particularly when actresses are “just starting out and don’t have the vocabulary to say what they’re not comfortable with.”

    She added that “showing intimacy, passion is an integral part of reflecting the human experience” and that the scenes can be filmed without actors feeling like “a chunk of yourself has been taken.”

    The Girlfriend premieres on September 10. It follows Laura (Wright), a woman who seemingly has it all: a glittering career, a loving husband, and a precious son, Daniel. Her life begins to unravel when Daniel brings home Cherry (Cooke), a girlfriend who changes everything.

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  • Sheila Jordan obituary | Jazz

    Sheila Jordan obituary | Jazz

    As a girl growing up in Detroit, the jazz singer Sheila Jordan, who has died aged 96, heard a Charlie Parker record on a jukebox and knew then that his jazz pathway was one that she wanted to follow.

    “Four notes! I heard Bird [Parker] and he’s been my hero ever since,” she said. Indeed she later married Duke Jordan, then a pianist with Parker, immersing herself in African American bebop culture and remaining true to her first inspiration throughout a long if uneven vocal career.

    Not quite Piaf-size but certainly diminutive, Jordan overcame many obstacles: a small if expressive voice, racial bigotry, a troubled marriage, her own alcohol and cocaine abuse, and the need to provide for her daughter Tracey, born in 1955, once Duke, a heroin addict, had walked out. “He left but I kept my daughter,” she said.

    There was also the realisation that her unorthodox vocal style was an acquired taste. Nevertheless, she found wide-ranging acceptance in Europe. She was made a National Endowment for the Arts jazz master in 2012 at the age of 84, and her discography burgeoned in the latter half of her career, as did her teaching assignments in the US and overseas.

    According to the New York Times, she was born Sheila Jeanette Dawson in Detroit, the daughter of Margaret (nee Hull) and Donald Dawson, then both 21 years old and working for General Motors. However, in an interview with Sally Placksin, author of the book Jazzwomen, Jordan stated that her mother was only 16 at the time of her birth and married Jordan’s father the same night.

    What is not in dispute is her father’s almost immediate disappearance from her life, and her mother gradually losing herself to alcohol. The three-year-old Sheila was sent to live with her maternal grandparents, Walter and Irene Hull, in Summerhill, Pennsylvania, a dirt-poor hamlet in coal-mining country. They too were alcoholics: “It was a struggle just living; we ate whatever my grandfather, who was part-Native American, caught when he went hunting – deer, squirrel, porcupine,” she told the writer Leonard Feather.

    Jordan rehearsing with Harvie S in Manhattan in the 1980s. Photograph: Ira Berger/Alamy

    Given these straitened circumstances, the child’s only consolation was to sing, which she did assiduously, on the radio, in church or at school. Reclaimed by her mother, she moved back to Detroit in 1942, and fell in with jazz-minded friends. Hearing Parker’s Now’s the Time in 1945 sealed her fate: with two other Bird “fanatics”, she formed a vocal trio, Skeeter, Mitch and Jean, with Skeeter Spight and Leroi Mitchell, which specialised in putting words to Parker’s recorded solos. Parker came through Detroit to perform, but Sheila and her friends were too young to enter the club so he left a rear door open to allow them to hear the music. The first time she sat in with him and sang, he told her she had “million-dollar ears”, paying tribute to the accuracy of her pitch.

    Constantly hassled by Detroit’s police in this racially tense city and frequently hauled into the cells for consorting with black friends, Sheila left the trio and in 1950 made for New York, working as a secretary by day and picking up singing gigs as “Jeannie Dawson” by night; Charles Mingus suggested she study music with the innovative pianist and thinker Lennie Tristano.

    Sheila married Duke Jordan in 1952, but they performed together only occasionally. The British bassist Peter Ind, then working in New York, recalled “their rented loft at West 18th Street, where they often had all-night jam sessions”. All too soon, though, Duke was gone (the couple divorced in 1962) and she continued balancing typing jobs with club gigs, until in 1958, her regular spots at Page Three in Greenwich Village began to attract critical attention, not least from the influential composer-pianist George Russell, who included her on his album The Outer View, recorded in 1962.

    Jordan in the 1960s. Photograph: Tom Copi/Getty Images

    Russell then recommended her to Blue Note Records and her debut album, Portrait of Sheila, the first on the label by a singer, recorded with just guitar, bass and drums, appeared a year later, earning rave reviews, and winning her the 1963 DownBeat Critics Poll and their Talent Deserving Wider Recognition category a further nine times.

    After appearing with Russell’s sextet at the Newport jazz festival in 1964, she made brief trips to Europe, also touring with the radical trombonist Roswell Rudd and working regularly with the pianist Steve Kuhn, and increasingly often with the bassists Harvie S or Cameron Brown.

    The advertising agency job she had held since 1966 came to an end in 1987: laid off with a year’s severance pay, she “figured it was time to sing full-time”. This she did, working constantly, often in Europe, and building an extensive portfolio of recordings – the latest, Portrait, was released this year.

    Jordan lived to improvise, taking chances, often interpolating instant spoken narratives into her performances, or scatting, before moving on to a ballad, the emotion laden with what she called “the pain of life”. Frequently in the UK, she appeared at Ronnie Scott’s with the pianist Brian Kellock in 2006, having played earlier at the club in 2001 with the pianist Nick Weldon, among many other local appearances.

    A biography, Jazz Child – A Portrait of Sheila Jordan, by Ellen Johnson, was published in 2014.

    Consistently creative and game to the end, she was tended in her final illness by Tracey, a music publicist, who survives her, as does a half-sister, Jaquelynn.

    Sheila Jeanette Jordan, jazz singer, born 18 November 1928; died 11 August 2025

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  • Asia Cup: Indian T20I skipper Suryakumar excited for UAE challenge

    Asia Cup: Indian T20I skipper Suryakumar excited for UAE challenge

    Dubai [UAE], September 9 (ANI): Ahead of his side’s Asia Cup opener against the UAE, Indian skipper Suryakumar Yadav expressed his excitement to play against them and spoke on his team using part-time bowlers like Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh and himself, who are all primarily known for their batting prowess.

    Team India, the current T20 World Cup champions, will take another step in sealing their T20I supremacy as they kickstart their Asia Cup campaign against the UAE at Dubai on Wednesday. As per ESPNCricinfo, the UAE has played India only once in T20Is, losing by nine wickets in the 2016 edition of the Asia Cup. They are also winless against India in three ODIs, last playing this format against them in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup. India is on a hot streak since the start of last year’s T20 World Cup which they won, winning 24 matches and losing just three.

    UAE have played India only once in T20Is, losing by nine wickets in the 2016 Asia Cup. They have also lost each of their three ODIs against India, the last of those in the 2015 World Cup.

    India holds a 24-3 win-loss record in T20Is since the start of the last T20 World Cup.

    Speaking ahead of the tournament in the presser, Surya expressed the excitement to play UAE, who failed to win any match in their recent tri-nation series against Pakistan and Afghanistan, but still produced some close games and genuine moments of fight.

    “They (UAE) have an exciting brand of cricket. Recently they played a series and came very, very, very close to all the teams. We are very excited to play them,” said Suryakumar.

    The Indian T20I skipper also said that while India does not want to reach that extent where they have to use part-time bowlers, it is always great to have options.

    “We do not want to get to that extent. It is always good when a top-order, middle order batter gives you an extra over, it is always good for a captain. We might need anyone on a given day. If the surface is slow and we have a spinner, it is always good to have someone roll over their arm for over two,” he added.

    Team India squad for Asia Cup: Surya Kumar Yadav (C), Shubman Gill (VC), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson (WK), Harshit Rana, Rinku Singh

    Reserve players: Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Yashasvi Jaiswal. (ANI)

    (This content is sourced from a syndicated feed and is published as received. The Tribune assumes no responsibility or liability for its accuracy, completeness, or content.)


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  • Women’s Rugby World Cup: Competition director defends one-sided games

    Women’s Rugby World Cup: Competition director defends one-sided games

    Nolan said there will be plans announced next week in order to give more opportunities to minnows between tournaments.

    “If we expect teams to turn up only every four years we will not see change,” she said.

    “We have seen where opportunities exist, teams can make changes and improvements quickly.”

    South Africa, the lowest-ranked side remaining at number 12 in the world, face perennial champions New Zealand in the quarter-finals.

    England, the top-ranked team and tournament favourites, face a Scotland side wracked by contract disputes and an uncertain future.

    “Even at stadiums where we have seen teams scoring their 10th or 11th try, no-one is leaving,” Nolan said. “No-one ever says there are too many tries.

    “Avid fans might want more arm wrestles, but I want a bit of everything.”

    More than 245,000 fans attended the group games.

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  • Hollow Knight Silksong Gets Patch to Make Game Easier—All Nerfs Explained

    Hollow Knight Silksong Gets Patch to Make Game Easier—All Nerfs Explained

    Team Cherry has announced that Hollow Knight Silksong will get its first patch. The new update will balance the game’s brutal difficulty in a handful of substantial ways. Here is everything in the Silksong patch, including boss nerfs and feature changes.

    Hollow Knight Silksong Nerfs Difficulty With Patch

    Screenshot: Team Cherry

    While Hollow Knight Silksong has been a massive success critically and financially, the game has already stirred debate in the gaming community for being too difficult. Team Cherry took the feedback to heart and quickly announced the game’s first patch.

    In a surprise update to fans, the indie developer revealed they are making some substantial changes to the game’s difficulty with a post-launch patch that is dropping soon.

    The Hollow Knight Silksong patch 1.0.28470 will be released sometime between September 16 and 18. In the patch notes, a series of difficulty nerfs was listed.

    “We are implementing a slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter. Reduction in damage from Sandcarvers.”

    Given how much trouble the Moorwing bosses in particular were giving some players, this is a pretty big deal!

    Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Announced
    Screenshot: Team Cherry

    For players who thought the game’s economy was also brutal, that’s getting fixed as well.

    “There will also be a slight reduction in mid-game Bellway and Bell Bench prices. A slight increase in rosary rewards from relics and psalm cylinders, as well as an increase in rosary rewards for courier deliveries.”

    While this doesn’t outright balance the game’s economy, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

    All Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Notes (1.0.28470)

    Hollow Knight Silksong Combat
    Screenshot: Team Cherry

    It wasn’t just difficulty nerfs that Team Cherry addressed, as the Hollow Knight Silksong patch 1.0.28470 added a handful of fixes to the game as well. One of the big ones was a float override issue after unlocking the Faydown Cloak.

    For your convenience, here are the full Hollow Knight Silksong patch notes below:

    • Fixed situation where players could remain cloakless after Slab escape sequence.
    • Fixed wish Infestation Operation often not being completable during the late game.
    • Fixed wish Beast in the Bells not being completable when Bell Beast is summoned at the Bilewater Bellway during the late game.
    • Fixed getting stuck floating after down-bouncing on certain projectiles.
    • Fixed courier deliveries sometimes being inaccessible in Act 3.
    • Fixed craft bind behaving incorrectly when in memories.
    • Fixed Lace tool deflect soft-lock at start of battle in Deep Docks.
    • Fixed Silk Snippers in Chapel of the Reaper sometimes getting stuck out of bounds.
    • Fixed Claw Mirrors leaving Hornet inverted if taking damage during a specific moment while binding.
    • Fixed Snitch Pick not giving rosaries and shell shards as intended.

    Hollow Knight Silksong Nerfs

    • Removed float override input (down + jump, after player has Faydown Cloak).
    • Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.
    • Reduction in damage from Sandcarvers.
    • A Slight increase in pea pod collider scale.
    • Slight reduction in mid-game Bellway and Bell Bench prices.
    • Slight increase in rosary rewards from relics and psalm cylinders.
    • Increase in rosary rewards for courier deliveries.
    • Various additional fixes and tweaks.
    Hollow Knight Silksong Boss Fight
    Screenshot: Team Cherry

    As far as the Hollow Knight Silksong 1.0.28470 release date, PC players can actually get access to it right now. If you are on Steam or GOG, just select the public-beta version of the game in your client to unlock it. For console players, Team Cherry has only said “sometime mid next week,” which would be around Tuesday, September 16, 2025.

    Team Cherry also revealed that a second Hollow Knight Silksong patch is currently being worked on. However, the studio didn’t give more details on when we can expect that update, or whether it will include more difficulty balancing.

    Still, the indie developer is already working quickly to support the game consistently following its massive launch this month on PC and consoles.


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