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Archives for October 2024

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Henry Cavill is suiting up for Amazon’s live-action Voltron movie.

It still doesn’t really feel like it has been long enough since Netflix’s Voltron: Legendary Defender series ended for Amazon to be producing its own live-action take on the 80s sci-fi franchise. But the Rawson Marshall Thurber-directed project has just added Henry Cavill to its cast, which makes it seem that much more likely we’ll be seeing it in theaters soon enough.

“The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare” New York Premiere
Photo by Cindy Ord/WireImage
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Has anyone ever been more online than Ryan Salame?

Here’s his LinkedIn update about prison!

A LinkedIn post saying “I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Inmate at FCI Cumberland!” with a graphic of people celebrating
Congratulations, Ryan!
Nathan Edwards
Nathan Edwards
Arc now works on Windows on Arm.

The Windows build of the Arc browser finally supports Arm64 processors. I’ve gotten so used to Arc that I really felt its absence on the Surface Pro. But no longer! Now all I have to do is reinstall twenty extensions and I’m back in business. (Tab and bookmark syncing work fine; extension sync doesn’t seem to.)

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
AMD’s AI chips are coming for Nvidia — but how quickly?

AMD says the MI325X, shipping Q4, will beat Nvidia’s H200. But Nvidia seems a step ahead; it’ll ship “several billion dollars” of its next-gen Blackwell B200 GPU in Q4, too. AMD says its Blackwell competitor, the MI355X, won’t arrive till 2H 2025.

AMD isn’t talking price, but told us it’ll undercut Nvidia when it comes to total cost of ownership.

A slide showing the MI325X may beat the Nvidia H200.
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Tap through our gallery for info about the upcoming MI355X, too.
Images: AMD
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple will have more immersive videos to check out soon.

If you’ve already watched Submerged on your Vision Pro, there will be additional Immersive Video content over the course of this year, and you can see the list of what’s coming on 9to5Mac.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
DirecTV is launching a FAST channel platform.

The free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platform, with the very bad name “MyFree DirecTV,” will be available on November 15th. According to the platform’s website, it will feature shows like Duck Dynasty, Storage Wars, Ice Road Truckers, and more.

Correction: MyFree DirecTV is a FAST platform, not one channel.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Hot new Verge and Ikea collab just dropped.

Ikea, let me know if you need an updated Windows 11 screenshot. I got you.

Gaby Del Valle
Gaby Del Valle
AI-generated text probably won’t help you go viral.

OpenAI disrupted more than 20 foreign influence operations over the past year, according to its quarterly threat report. But there’s no “evidence of this leaning to meaningful breakthroughs in their ability to create substantially new malware or build viral audiences,” the report says.

AI has let foreign actors “more quickly and convincingly tailor synthetic content.” But so far, it isn’t reaching much of an audience.