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Partnership offers fans new ways to experience the iconic Super Hero’s release on the big screen through digital and in-person activations

Samsung Electronics today announced a global partnership with Warner Bros. and DC Studios to celebrate the latest “Superman” film with a series of fan activations, Superman-themed video content and limited-edition digital artworks from DC Comics via Samsung Art Store.

“Samsung is committed to creating a richer and more meaningful entertainment experience,” said Hun Lee, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “Through collaborations with leading creative studios and artists, we continue to help people engage more deeply with the stories and character they love, whether in the theater or at home.”

“Superman,” the first film in DC Studios’ new cinematic universe, written, directed and produced by James Gunn, hits theaters worldwide starting July 9. To mark the release, Samsung is launching a global campaign with the tagline “It’s not just big. It’s super big,” spotlighting a range of campaign video content celebrating the original Super Hero and bringing the excitement of the film to audiences across digital platforms, retail locations and public spaces.

In London, the campaign will come to life through a series of Daily Planet-themed newsstand kiosks, appearing at high-traffic locations such as The Shard and Kings Cross Station.

Fans can also pick up limited-edition Superman-themed items, receive exclusive gifts and take part in a global social media challenge by sharing their event photos or videos for a chance to win super prizes, including a 98” Samsung TV.

Interactive activations will appear at major malls across Asia — including Malaysia, Vietnam and Korea — where fans can explore Superman-themed photo booths, immersive pop-up displays and hands-on product experiences.

Additionally, Samsung Art Store, the leading digital art platform on Samsung Art TVs, is featuring a limited-time 10-piece Superman digital art collection from DC Comics free to users from July 1 through August 31. Available on The Frame as well as 2025 QLED and Neo QLED models,¹ the collection brings Superman’s heroic legacy into the home and gives fans a whole new way to enjoy Superman-inspired art.

Samsung’s Super Big TV lineup includes 98” 100” 115” Class options across Neo QLED and Crystal UHD models.² With expansive screens, stunning picture quality and AI-powered enhancements that deliver smoother images and deeper contrast, Samsung aims to deliver a grander home entertainment experience.

For more information, visit www.samsung.com.

About Superman
DC Studios presents a Troll Court Entertainment/The Safran Company Production, A James Gunn Film, Superman, which will be in theaters and IMAX^® July 9 2025, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

¹ Samsung Art TV includes MICRO LED, The Frame, The Frame Pro, Neo QLED 8K, Neo QLED and QLED models starting from Q7F and above.
² Product availability vary by region.

Aston Martin has history in adding an ‘S’ to mark the most bombastic versions of the Vantage, only… they’ve rarely been this bombastic. Because this new Aston Martin Vantage S is a more powerful version of a car that already came stuffed with power.

Incredibly, this ‘baby’ Aston Martin Vantage S – an entry-level Aston, for goodness’ sake – now develops a whopping 671bhp finely-tuned Anglo-German horsies, up from the not-at-all-regular car’s 656bhp.

Six hundred and seventy one! That sound you hear is the Ferrari Amalfi having a meltdown. Not least because there’s 590lb ft of torque on offer to melt the S’s phat rears.

Aston hasn’t specified exactly how it has extracted an additional fifteen horsepowers from the AMG-sourced 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, but that unit’s got a good set of lungs on it. So unbelievably, it’s actually a very modest increase.

Aston reckons 671bhp arrives at 6,000rpm, while that unchanged torque figure is available between 3k-6k. It’s made a few tweaks across the board as you’d expect, including slight alterations to the throttle map, pedal weight and launch control.

So it’s now a full 0.1s quicker than before – 0-60mph taking just 3.3s (0-62mph in 3.4s). The 0-124mph dash is done in 10.1s, while top speed remains the same 202mph. Basically, it’s a bit faster.

And pointier. The Bilstein ‘DTX’ adaptive dampers have been tweaked to offer what Aston claims is “increased front-end feel and response”, while the rear spring aid stiffness has been lowered “to balance compression and rebound for improved low-speed ride quality”. Basically, they’ve backed it off so you don’t bounce all over the high street.

There’s a 10 per cent reduction in the eight-speed gearbox mount’s stiffness, the rear subframes are now mounted directly to the bonded aluminium body as opposed to via rubber bushes, and camber, toe and caster settings have all been “finessed”. And lo: it’s pointier.

Naturally an ‘S’ requires additional visual cues, so this new one gets a set of centrally mounted bonnet blades, lots of ‘S’ badging, and a full-width rear spoiler offering an additional 44kg of rear downforce when on a closed road at 202mph. The underbody’s been treated to ‘updates’ too, to allow a full 111kg of downforce at the S’s vmax.

Aston’s slotted special 21in alloys and bronzed brake calipers onto this Vantage S, filled it with Alcantara and leather and carbon fibre inlays, embroidered ‘S’ and Aston’s wings logos inside, and provided the option of a red or silver anodised finish to the rotary drive control. Other options are available, but none include turning up outside a Ferrari showroom and donuting ‘671bhp’ into the car park. Yours from around £170k.

For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.

July’s software flaw fix package includes 130 patches with none exploited and only one earning a CVSS score of over nine – CVE-2025-47981. This critical issue comes with a 9.8 score and breaks Microsoft’s Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) security protocols with a heap-based buffer overflow that would allow remote code execution.

Of the other nine new critical issues, four are in Office, which last month had a major patching update and gets more this month. In July’s fixes, four flaws allow for remote code execution in the Office bundle. In all, Office gets 16 patches this week, but those four should be on the list of first to fix.

• CVE-2025-49695 – An ugly use-after-free issue that is thankfully limited to a user with local access.
• CVE-2025-49696 – Another locally exploitable issue that has a nasty twist.
• CVE-2025-49697 – A nasty buffer overflow issue that earns a CVSS 8.4 rating.
• CVE-2025-49702 – This type confusion requires a user being tricked into opening a malicious file, but that’s not too hard.

CVE-2025-49696 is particularly worrisome, since it can be exploited via the Preview Pane in Office, meaning no serious user action is required. It allows the combination of an out-of-bounds read and heap-based buffer overflow for an attack that requires no authentication to carry off.

If you’re running an AMD processor, there are a couple of fixes that should also be on the priority list, since Redmond has highlighted them in the roundup. The early EPYC and Ryzen chips are all listed as needing an update, but the chances of exploitation are less likely. Microsoft also included a previously exploited flaw in the Chromium engine, CVE-2025-6554, that was released earlier this month.

One of the other critical bugs is in SQL, the most serious of three patched in Microsoft’s database platform. CVE-2025-49717 allows remote code execution using a buffer overflow, but Redmond rates it as less likely for exploitation since exploitation would take a complex attack, albeit with no user interaction required.

There were 16 additional flaws fixed in Windows Routing and Remote Access Service, all considered at low risk of exploitation, but which still need to be patched. There are also five fixes for Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption system, four of them listed by Redmond as more likely to be exploited, which if used improperly could be used to harvest data without the usual security checks.

And the best of the rest

As ever, Adobe has been piggybacking off Microsoft’s patching session with a bundle of patches, the most serious of which are for ColdFusion, and Experience Manager Forms. These two applications need to be updated as a priority, Adobe said.

The former includes 13 patches, five of them ranked as critical, including a CVSS 9.3 issue that would allow data examination by an attacker. In the case of Experience Manager Forms, there’s just a single flaw to be fixed, but it’s a CVSS 9.8 that would allow code to be executed on a target system. Experience Manager Screens also picks up a couple of important patches.

As for the rest of Adobe’s offerings, unusually there were no patches for either Reader or Photoshop this month. However, FrameMaker got 15 patches (13 of them critical) and Illustrator got ten patches today, including seven criticals.

Elsewhere, there were six critical flaws to get fixed in InDesign, and three criticals for InCopy, all with a CVSS 7.8 score. There are also three patches for Substance 3D Viewer, including a single critical fix. After Effects picks up a couple of important updates, as does Dimension, and there’s a singleton apiece for Audition, Substance 3D Stager, and Connect.

In another unusual instance this month, Google released no Android security updates. That might be explained by the fact that Android Version 16 was released last month and contains a lot of fixes – although non-Pixel users are going to have to wait until OEMs catch up.

SAP was happy to fill the gap in admins’ lives, however, with 27 new security updates, and four updated ones. The most serious, scoring a perfect 10 on the CVSS ranking, is a grab-bag of issues with SAP Supplier Relationship Management (Live Auction Cockpit), and there’s a CVSS 9.9 issue with Code Injection vulnerability in SAP S/4HANA and SAP SCM that needs a patch. These are two of the six critical fixes SAP issued. ®