AMD released a white paper expanding on its earlier performance claims for the upcoming EPYC 'Venice' server CPUs, reiterating that a 96-core Venice chip is about 20% faster per-core than Nvidia's 88-core Vera on SPEC CPU 2026's Integer Rate test. The paper also details throughput results showing the 256-core EPYC 9996 outperforming Intel's Xeon 6980P by 2.37x and Vera by 2.24x, plus a 78% generational gain over the prior 192-core EPYC 9965.
A new four-hour documentary by Alex Gibney, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, includes interviews with Elon Musk's first wife Justine Musk, who says he referred to the mothers of his children as interchangeable "breeders." She also described incidents of gaslighting, including Musk misremembering who was holding their infant son when he died of SIDS, and recalled him calling himself "the alpha" at their wedding. Musk has publicly dismissed the film as a "hit piece."
Lucasfilm announced that the original 1977 Star Wars will debut on IMAX 70mm on February 19, 2027, marking its 50th anniversary, using a newly restored print of the unaltered original cut rather than the digitally remastered version. The upcoming film Star Wars: Starfighter will follow on IMAX screens starting May 28, 2027, exactly 50 years after the franchise's first theatrical release.
Documentarian Alex Gibney's new film 'Musk' debuted at the Venice Film Festival, offering an extensive, unflinching look at Elon Musk's business practices and personal controversies. Reports indicate Musk attempted to suppress the film, including allegedly offering ex-partner Ashley St. Clair $40 million to stay silent about her role in it. St. Clair, one of four women connected to the documentary, publicly disclosed the alleged offer to journalists at the festival.
The boxwood maze designed by Randoll Coate in tribute to Jorge Luis Borges, first planted on the Venetian island in 2011, has been fully restored with funding from PwC Italia. The hedges, arranged to spell Borges' surname and evoke symbols like a question mark and a cane, form the shape of an open book within a steel frame at the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
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