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Prime Video wouldn’t be one of the best streaming services around if it didn’t have a new original movie topping the streaming charts. Luckily for them (and us), July’s big release is a slam dunk that’s become its number one most-watched movie this week… and an absolutely stupid one at that.

Don’t be fooled, though. In this context, stupid is the best compliment I could give. New action movie Heads of State is streaming on Prime Video now, and you’d be a fool to miss this explosive riot. Indeed, not every critic agrees with its 67% Rotten Tomatoes score, with Empire Magazine calling it “a really good, dumb comedy”.

Once again, we’re spoiled for choice with everything new on Prime Video in July 2025. Heads of State isn’t the only new title that’s got everyone’s tongues wagging: we can also sing along to Cynthia Erivo’s infamous vocal riff in Wicked, and get stuck into more insatiable teen drama in The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3.

Let’s set the scene. Idris Elba is in the position of power he’s always deserved to have, playing British Prime Minister Sam Clarke. His natural rival is US President Will Derringer (John Cena), and they’re not shy of making their hatred of one another incredibly public. But when an Air Force One plane is shot down over enemy territory, they’ve got no choice but to work together.

On paper, Heads of State is a new movie that should be written off as a total failure, filed away in the same cheap and mediocre cabinet as Another Simple Favor and G20. But third time’s the charm here, with Elba and Cena’s natural chemistry giving us the throwback to the pinnacle of great 2000s action we didn’t know we needed.

There’s nothing to take seriously in Heads of State – everything you see is stupidly bonkers. But in a world where we don’t have enough time to laugh or let our guard down, Prime Video’s new movie is a welcome reprieve. Watching two action heroes running around with guns trying to save the world is enough to take our minds off anything, especially given how well it’s all put together.

Clearly, Amazon has spared no expense with this release. Where something like G20 suffered from its visuals, Heads of State has the glossy Hollywood look we’ve come to expect from big-budget studios. At the same time, it’s not lost its own sense of identity, standing out from Amazon’s other action features with its own signature sense of humor, light-heartedness and lack of fear. Being dumb is fun, people!

Everybody involved in Heads of State is clearly letting their hair down and having a blast, so why shouldn’t we? A good time at the movies doesn’t have to be baked in serious subject matter, transformational perspectives or unique visuals we’ve never seen before. Sometimes, the best approach is to take a simple, fun concept and do it well, and you’re not going to regret carving out time to watch Elba and Cena do exactly that.

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• Developer Virtuos believes it would be easy to port an Xbox Series S game that runs at 60FPS to the Nintendo Switch 2
• Eoin O’Grady, technical director at Virtuos' subsidiary Black Shamrock says the GPU capabilities of both consoles are "comparable overall"
• However, CPU-wise, the Switch 2 is closer to the PlayStation 4

Port studio Virtuos believes that it would be easy to bring an Xbox Series S game to the Nintendo Switch 2, considering their technical similarities.

In an interview with Wccftech, Alex Heise, director of business development at Virtuos North America, and Eoin O’Grady, technical director at Virtuos' subsidiary Black Shamrock, discussed Nintendo's new hardware and its technical capabilities.

According to O'Grady, both consoles' GPUs are similar in power despite the Switch 2 performing lower than the Xbox Series S and offering Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), but believes it would still be an easy task to port a Series S game that performs at 60fps to the latest console.

"GPU-wise, the Switch 2 performs slightly below the Series S; this difference is more noticeable in handheld mode," O'Grady said. "However, the Series S does not support technologies like DLSS, which the Switch 2 does. This makes the GPU capabilities of the two consoles comparable overall.

The technical director noted, however, that CPU-wise, there is a "clearer distinction between the two consoles," and the Switch 2 is closer to the PlayStation 4 in that respect since it has a slightly more powerful CPU.

"Since most games tend to be more GPU-bound than CPU-bound when well optimized, the impact of this difference largely depends on the specific game and its target frame rate," O'Grady explained.

"Any game shipping at 60fps on the Series S should easily port to the Switch 2. Likewise, a 30fps Series S game that’s GPU-bound should also port well. Games with complex physics, animations, or other CPU-intensive elements might incur additional challenges in reaching 30 or 60fps or require extra optimization during porting."

Cyberpunk 2077, which can only hit 60fps on Xbox Series S but not consistently on the PS4, just received an official Switch 2 port. However, this version doesn't offer 60fps the same way the Series S does, and instead features two modes to choose from while docked, including a 40fps performance mode and a 30fps quality mode.

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• Atomic Stealer, or AMOS, is no longer just a pure infostealer, experts warn
• The tool now comes with a backdoor and a persistence mechanism
• A new variant was seen circulating in the wild

Atomic Stealer (AMOS), one of the most dangerous infostealer malware threats on the macOS ecosystem, just got a significant upgrade that makes it even more dangerous, experts have warned.

A new version of the malware was spotted sporting a backdoor that not only allows persistent access and survives reboots, but also grants the attackers the ability to deploy any other malware on the compromised device, as well.

The news comes courtesy of MacPaw’s cybersecurity arm, Moonlock, who were tipped off by an independent researcher with the alias g0njxa., who noted the backdoored version of Atomic macOS Stealer now has the potential to gain full access to thousands of Mac devices worldwide.

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AMOS has been around for years, establishing itself as the go-to stealer malware used in many major hacking campaigns. Until now, it was capable of extracting a wide range of data, including browser-stored passwords and keychains, autofill data, cryptocurrency wallet information, system data, and different files. It was also able to bypass macOS protections, tricking Gatekeeper and other macOS security features.

It was sold as MaaS (malware-as-a-service) on underground forums, and often distributed via fake apps and malicious websites.

We last heard of AMOS in early June 2025, when Russian threat actors used the popular ClickFix method to deploy it against their targets. At the time, security researchers from CloudSek reported multiple websites spoofing Spectrum, a US-based telecommunications provider, to deliver the malware.

In early January, software developer Ryan Chenkie spotted a malicious campaign on Google, promoting a fake version of Homebrew, an open source package manager for macOS and Linux that was, in fact, AMOS.

"AMOS malware campaigns have already reached over 120 countries, with the United States, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Canada among the most affected," the researchers warned.

Via BleepingComputer

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