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Donald Petersen, Ford chairman and CEO from 1985 to 1990, worked at Ford for over four decades and is rightly seen as a bright spot during a difficult time. The mass market audience knows his work best through the Taurus, which was introduced on his watch. But it's the way he saved the Mustang that earned him praise in our pages in the mid-'80s. Former Ford chairman and CEO Donald E. Petersen dedicated more than 40 years to the automaker, and his career is being remembered with high praise as the industry hears the news that he has died this week at his home in Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit. He was 97. Petersen was also warmly regarded during much of his time at Ford. He was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1992. This followed a double honor from the organization in 1987 when he won the Industry Leader of the Year Award and a Distinguished Service Citation Award. According to the AHoF, Peterson was also named a "Most Valuable Person of 1988" by USA Today and"CEO of the Year" by Chief Executive magazine the following year. When Petersen, a mechanical engineer, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, the voters cited his "outstanding leadership in the development of high-quality, smaller, lighter, more fuel-efficient, and more socially acceptable automobiles." Some of that success came from the 1985 introduction of the Taurus, which was partly a response to higher-quality vehicles from Japanese competitors Toyota and Honda. The AHoF said Petersen's leadership got Ford designers to "create vehicles they would be proud to park in their own driveways” to challenge the growth of Japanese vehicle sales in the U.S. The resulting Taurus (and Mercury Sable) became bestsellers in the 1980s. The official accolades are likely less important to muscle-car history buffs than Petersen's role in killing off the mid-1980s plan for a reborn Mustang without a V-8, which Ford had intended to put on a front-wheel-drive platform. Petersen, Ford's president during that time, responded to a deluge of hate mail criticizing the idea—much of it rumored to be addressed to him as "Dear Asshole"—by smartly canceling that plan. The engineering work would become the Ford Probe, in collaboration with Mazda. When we reviewed the 1985 Mustang, we credited Peterson with being "eager to make year-by-year installments toward the mechanical perfection of the Mus­tang" and commented: "Perseverance pays off. In this case, per­severance is spelled Donald Petersen." No, the 1985 Mustang didn't achieve that ideal state, but Peterson was responsible for getting it closer than it would have been otherwise. Ford also introduced its well-known “Quality is Job One” slogan during Petersen’s tenure as CEO. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60626538/don-petersen-former-ford-ceo-obituary/

Six suspected spies have been arrested in Germany this month alone, in what has become a torrent of allegations of Russian and Chinese espionage. For the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party it has proved especially embarrassing, because their top two candidates for the European elections in June have been caught in the crosshairs. An aide to MEP Maximilian Krah, who heads the party's list, has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Jian G is accused of being an "employee of a Chinese secret service". Prosecutors have also begun preliminary investigations into the politician himself over alleged payments from pro-Russian and Chinese sources. Mr Krah denies any wrongdoing. Days earlier, Petr Bystron, the second name on the AfD list, denied allegations that he received cash from the Voice of Europe website, alleged by European intelligence to have been a front for Russian intelligence. But the allegations go well beyond the AfD. Two German nationals of Russian origin have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to sabotage Germany's military aid to Ukraine while three Germans have been detained for allegedly planning to pass on advanced engine designs to Chinese intelligence. "It is really unusual to have detentions of three networks [allegedly] engaged in some sort of espionage for Russia and China coming almost at the same time," said Noura Chalati, a research fellow at the Leibniz Centre for the Modern Orient. In all three espionage cases, the efforts of Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency are believed to have been crucial. "Our security authorities… have massively strengthened their counter-espionage efforts," Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said. The arrests came hard on the heels of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's return from wide-ranging talks with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing. 'Arrest always a political decision' Andrei Soldatov, an expert on the Russian security services, believes the case of the Russian-German pair could reflect a desire by the Kremlin escalate attacks on aid to Ukraine. "It is just a completely new level of escalation," Mr Soldatov told the BBC. "These people [allegedly] collected information to help organise sabotage operations against military facilities on German soil." Meanwhile, Roderich Kiesewetter, a former German Army officer who is now an opposition MP, alleged China was seeking to gain access to advanced research that could be useful for military or other purposes. "China sees opportunities to exploit Germany's openness to access our knowledge and technology," he told the BBC. Even so, Andrei Soldatov believes Berlin is putting down a marker. "An arrest is always a political decision," he says. "Counter-intelligence agencies in all countries prefer not to arrest people because it's better to follow them and monitor their activities in order to learn more about their networks and their activities. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68903479

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Like many at PC Gamer, I've been enjoying a healthy amount of Helldiving the last two months. Whether I'm shoulders-deep in pulped bug biomass or cowering beneath a storm of automaton energy bolts, Helldivers 2 has been a refreshing surprise. I expected Helldivers 2 to be good, but not "unforeseeable appeal that knocks out back-end servers and leaves players in a weeks-long login purgatory" good—similar to how I couldn't imagine Baldur's Gate 3 consuming the entire gaming consciousness for the tail end of last year.While Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 might look like sudden jackpot successes, they're testaments to what can be achieved through continued, devoted iteration. They're the products of development teams honing their collective craft across a decade or more. Arrowhead and Larian are studios who had the willingness—and all-too-rare freedom—to gamble on chasing a singular creative vision until the bet finally paid off, even if that sometimes meant risking bankruptcy. Developing the next surprise blockbuster is an easier problem to tackle if, like Arrowhead, you've basically been refining the same game since Obama was president. Helldivers 2 was a surprise to me, but it wouldn't have been if I'd remembered that my history with Arrowhead games goes back more than a decade. Even though I'd played and loved it back in 2011, it took a casual mention from my editor to realize that, oh shit, these are the Magicka folks! As I rotated the two very different-looking games in my mind, cubelike, their similarities crystallized. In hindsight, Magicka's DNA is visibly threaded across everything Arrowhead's made. Mid-combat key combos to combine elemental magic would evolve into the ordinance input sequences in Helldivers, producing the same slapstick carnage. Magicka's farcical fantasy was a premonition of the Helldivers sci-fi satire. And when Arrowhead drifted from the Magicka model, it was still improving its art of gratuitous multiplayer action in the firefights of Showdown Effect and co-op dungeon crawling in Gauntlet. Helldivers 2 isn't an anomaly. It's the product of 13 years spent honing the craft of creating jolly, gratuitous meat grinders where you punch in frantic button combinations to turn your foes and friends gleefully into mulch. The camera angle changed and now it's orbital strikes instead of elemental spells, but Arrowhead's been chipping away at the same block. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-wild-successes-of-helldivers-2-and-baldurs-gate-3-send-a-clear-message-let-devs-cook/

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