11 November 2023

THE VERG E: Streaming Uodates Today + yesterday

 

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WIPER CITY.

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WES DAVIS
I can’t emphasize this enough, but nothing was greater than McDonald’s in the ‘80s.

There’s plenty to criticize about the company, but tell that to 7-year-old me, climbing up into that hamburger cop’s head.

Anyway, here are some behind-the-scenes pictures from the Loki McDonald’s episode. While we’re at it, here’s the McDonald’s scene from Mac and Me. And an AI-upscaled Mac Tonight commercial.


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Superman Legacy is still on time.

Not every comic book movie is getting a studio delay following the end of the actors strike. James Gunn posted on Threads today that Superman Legacy will still reboot the DC extended universe on its original planned date of July 11th, 2025.

If you need your Zac Snyder-era DCEU fix, much of it will shamble on next month on Netflix.


The Screen Actors Guild’s strike-ending deal has entered its final step

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Watch the Vergecast crew talk Humane and ChatGPT — and what it’s like to go Full Dex.

Because Nilay doesn’t usually have enough stuff to fiddle with during the Vergecast recordings, you know what I mean? There was a ton of news this week, from the AI Pin to the Steam Deck to custom GPTs. But that’s all just the sideshow to the grand (or not so grand) finale of Nilay’s experiments with Samsung Dex. Is it the end of the road, or the beginning of the future? You be the judge.


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Blue Beetle will start streaming on Max next week.

I missed this in theaters, but I’m excited to catch up on it when it debuts on November 17th, as Warner Bros. Discovery announced yesterday.

Maybe the movie is a decade late, as Charles said in his review. But as a person who’s always fallen more on the DC side of the fence, this bit from his review’s opening paragraph has me looking forward to finally seeing it, anyway:

Blue Beetle feels like the end result of a creative team thoughtfully executing a plan to replicate certain elements of what’s made rival studio Marvel’s films so successful — and not just Warner Bros. clumsily trying to play catch-up.


Blue Beetle is the kitschy sort of superhero throwback DC should have been making years ago

CHARLES PULLIAM-MOORE


All the biggest news from Netflix Geeked Week 2023

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Devil May Cry, Stranger Things, and 3 Body Problem are all showing out at Netflix’s Geeked 2023 showcase.

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WES DAVIS
Yep, that sounds about right.

Business Insider assigned two journalists the task of scrolling 500 TikTok videos each to tally up the number of ads they saw.

Both reported that around 30 percent of the content was sponsored. Insider notes that’s similar to broadcast TV’s roughly 28 percent.

TikTok’s been testing an ad-free tier for five bucks a month, so at least there’s that.


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Free pizza coupons are a risky business when the internet is involved.

Domino’s apparently flew too close to the sun this week when the internet figured out, via the always-reliable Wario64 and others, that its free pizza codes were infinitely reusable.

Read all about the chaos in Kotaku’s story.


Chaos At Domino’s After Free Pizza Glitch Goes Viral

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Apple’s midrange ‘Pro’ M3 chip isn’t looking like a huge upgrade

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ANDREW WEBSTER
A marvelous weekend for entertainment.

Leading the way this week is The Marvels, which, it turns out, is actually quite fun. Dream Scenario is also in theaters (it was one of our favorites from TIFF this year) this weekend, while David Fincher’s The Killer is now streaming on Netflix.

Elsewhere, Loki just wrapped up its second season on Disney Plus, The Invincible brings a hard sci-fi adventure to next-gen consoles and PC, Apple Arcade hit Air Twister is finally on PC and console, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s huge wave of new tracks is now complete.


A woman in a form-fitting superhero costume standing in a bedroom whose walls are plastered with drawings of her.

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Is the Cybertruck’s wiper actually multiple wipers in a row? An investigation

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Sony’s comfy LinkBuds S earbuds are at their lowest price for a limited time

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Of course Dbrand’s first novelty keycaps include a ‘fuck off’ key

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SpaceX hypes up its next Starship flight test while ignoring a report about workplace injuries.

The FAA still hasn’t cleared SpaceX to attempt another Starship orbital launch from its Boca Chica, TX, site after the first one caused significant damage to the pad and surrounding environment. SpaceX’s website and this teaser trailer indicate it’s ready to try again as soon as November 17th.

Those are also popping up on the same day as a report from Reuters documenting 600 injuries to SpaceX workers since 2014.

The records included reports of more than 100 workers suffering cuts or lacerations, 29 with broken bones or dislocations, 17 whose hands or fingers were “crushed,” and nine with head injuries, including one skull fracture, four concussions and one traumatic brain injury.

Musk himself at times appeared cavalier about safety on visits to SpaceX sites: Four employees said he sometimes played with a novelty flamethrower and discouraged workers from wearing safety yellow because he dislikes bright colors.



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Apple reportedly cut a deal to get cleaner Amazon pages

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Ad-free Instagram and Facebook is here — and it’s expensive

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Naughty Dog is losing another executive.

The Last of Us developer announced head of technology Christian Gyrling is leaving the company after 17 years. In addition to layoffs, Naughty Dog has seen quite a few executive departures, with co-president Evan Wells and narrative designer Josh Scherr leaving earlier this year.


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The first trailer of Netflix’s live-action Yu Yu Hakusho is missing one crucial thing

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Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable

It’s a gadget designed for talking to large-language model AIs instead of typing into apps.

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The Witcher continues on Netflix with the Sirens of the Deep animated movie

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Maine says MOVEit hackers accessed the information of 1.3 million people.

The state government disclosed the breach in a notice posted to its website, stating that social security numbers, birthdates, and driver’s license numbers “may have been involved” in the incident:

On May 31, 2023, the State of Maine became aware of a software vulnerability in MOVEit, a third-party file transfer tool owned by Progress Software and used by thousands of entities worldwide to send and receive data. The software vulnerability was exploited by a group of cybercriminals and allowed them to access and download files belonging to certain agencies in the State of Maine between May 28, 2023, and May 29, 2023.

It adds that anyone who wants to know whether their data was affected by the breach can contact Maine’s dedicated call center.


Maine govt notifies 1.3 million people of MOVEit data breach

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Apple’s Space Black aluminum took ‘a lot of R&D for the sake of aesthetics.’

iFixit did some digging on the new MacBook Pro and found that Apple’s anodization and dying process must have taken “a huge amount of effort, and trial and error,” according to metallurgist David Niebuhr.

Under a microscope, Space Black had higher peaks and lower valleys from an etching process than Space Gray. It still shows light fingerprints, but iFixit gives Apple an “A-for-effort.”


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Ever wonder why Smash Bros. stopped including those neat character cutscenes?

Well, it’s apparently because the clips kept getting leaked, Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai says in a video posted to his YouTube channel. The cutscenes, which Sakurai stopped including after SSB Brawl for the Wii, appear when you complete adventure mode.

“We put a lot of money and effort into making them, but before the game even came out, people were posting them online,” Sakurai said. “This meant they really weren’t much of a reward, so I decided to stop making movies that cut in during gameplay.”


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