The ‘Great NVIDIA Price Gouge of 2025’ could be nearing an end as Amazon starts selling 50-series GPUs for close to MSRP

Image credit: NVIDIA NVIDIA’s 50-series GPUs had a strange old rollout. From missing cores to marked-up prices, there’s also some disappointment about the push to use AI to push things further, rather than good, old-fashioned power. Whatever your thoughts, they’re here to stay, and it seems they’re now getting closerContinue Reading

The Empty Provocations of “Eddington”

Books & the Arts / August 21, 2025 The Empty Provocations of “Eddington” Ari Aster’s farcical western is billed as a send-up of the puerile politics of the Covid years. In reality, it’s a film that seems to have no politics at all. (Courtesy of A24) In the dusky lightContinue Reading