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The Archive
Reviews
Clooney and Burstyn Take the Lions
George Clooney and Ellen Burstyn get lifetime achievement Golden Lions at the 83rd Venice film festival, running 2 to 12 September 2026.
Upcoming
RTX Spark Ships in October
NVIDIA said at IFA that RTX Spark N1X PCs ship in October 2026, starting with 18-core laptops with up to 32 GB. Acer, ASUS, Dell and HP are on board.
Upcoming
TIFF Opens the Tenth
The Toronto International Film Festival runs 10 to 20 September, with Australian titles including Tenzing, Prima Facie and Kick On.
Reviews
What Love Builds at Venice
Russell Crowe's documentary What Love Builds, about his band Indoor Garden Party, screens at Venice. It's a 99-minute concert film and confession.
Computing
ASML and TSMC push for 12-inch photomasks for High NA EUV
ASML and TSMC want chipmakers to switch to 12-inch photomasks for High NA EUV machines, with pilot lines by 2031 and production readiness in 2033.
AI / LLM
OpenAI says it hit its AI research intern goal
OpenAI says it's hit its AI research intern goal. Its chief scientist warned no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at top speed for long.
Computing
LUMI-AI Signed in Kajaani
EuroHPC has signed with Bull to build LUMI-AI at CSC in Kajaani, Finland, on AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs. It's due in the second half of 2027.
Australia
Marles Said Force Posture Grows
Defence Minister Richard Marles says the US military presence in Australia will grow, after talks with Pete Hegseth. More detail is due in coming months.
How-to
Mount Starlink for a Caravan
Mounting Starlink on a caravan starts with the app's obstruction scan, then a choice between a portable tripod and a sealed roof mount.
Christian
Pope Leo XIV meets France's bishops at Lourdes
Pope Leo XIV meets France's bishops at the Lourdes shrine on Sunday 27 September, the Marian stop between Paris and Metz on his trip to France.
Computing
AMD's Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 runs big AI models locally
AMD's Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 chips take up to 192 GB of unified memory to run big AI models locally. HP and Lenovo systems are due in Q3 2026.