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Sebastian Gibbs Returns To Netflix As Director Original Series
Sebastian Gibbs is returning to Netflix as Director of Original Series, where he will oversee intellectual property and major franchise programming. The appointment matters because it marks an uncommon return to a streaming employer and reverses a recent pattern of Netflix executives moving to Amazon MGM Studios. Gibbs starts on 17 August and will report…
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Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
French startup Kog is developing software intended to make existing data-centre GPUs run AI inference much faster, arguing that better low-level optimisation can reduce a major cost and speed bottleneck without requiring specialised chips. Its early demonstration attracted significant business interest, particularly from companies using AI for professional software engineering and prompt-based app or game…
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Rangers and the paradox of a painful exit that boosts their trophy chances
Rangers’ poor start under new manager Derek McInnes has prompted sharp criticism after they failed to win any of their first four matches, including elimination from the main European competition by Jagiellonia Bialystok. The article argues that early setbacks do not necessarily define a manager’s tenure at Ibrox, citing past Rangers leaders who recovered from…
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Garth Brooks Adds Washington D.C. Dates to “Blame It All On My Roots” Tour
Garth Brooks has added two Washington D.C. concerts to his 2026 “Blame It All On My Roots” arena tour, scheduled for 18 and 19 September at Capital One Arena. The dates extend a tour designed to revisit venues associated with Brooks’s rise and will feature his Drum Pod stage in an in-the-round configuration. Tickets go…
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Matt Mercer’s 6-Part Critical Role Campaign Was a Perfect Dystopian Tragedy
Critical Role’s six-part Daggerheart miniseries, Age of Umbra: Sallowlands, is presented as a bleak but emotionally resonant dystopian tragedy. The party journeys towards a newly risen city in the ruined Halcyon Domain, hoping it can offer survival, belonging and redemption despite the cursed landscape and constant threat of death. Its importance lies in how it…
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‘To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer’ says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes
PC Gamer reports on Razer’s $90 Artisan Keycap, a decorative keyboard key shaped like a coiled snake and marketed as a collectible for dedicated fans. The article criticises the product’s promotional language, particularly its framing of ownership as a sign of allegiance to a “Cult of Razer”, arguing that the messaging is excessively grandiose for…
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How ‘Walter Boys’ Star Noah LaLonde Went From Hockey Player to Heartthrob
Noah LaLonde, star of Netflix’s My Life With the Walter Boys, has described his move from competitive childhood hockey in Michigan to acting and his unexpected status as a screen heartthrob. He said watching films and television helped him understand himself as his interests shifted away from hockey, leading him to pursue acting and eventually…
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49ers quarterback hospitalized after struggling to breathe in first game in nearly 2 years
San Francisco 49ers third-string quarterback Kurtis Rourke was taken to hospital after suffering a rib injury and struggling to breathe during the team’s first pre-season game against the Tennessee Titans. The incident overshadowed what had initially been a promising return to the field for Rourke, who had not played in nearly two years. Rourke, a…
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Directors reject HBO’s Harry Potter series over Rowling’s trans views
Directors Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron said they declined approaches to direct HBO’s forthcoming Harry Potter television series because of J.K. Rowling’s views on trans rights, which they regard as transphobic. Their comments underline continuing criticism of the adaptation within parts of the television industry, even as HBO continues to assemble its cast and proceed…