Terrence O'Brien
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AI is hacking music gear into something new
Language models have sparked an explosion of custom firmware for synthesizers and grooveboxes, turning cheap hardware into powerful instruments.
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Arturia's MiniFreak 49 upgrades to full-sized keys
Arturia adds a 49-key version of its MiniFreak synth with semi-weighted keys, pitch and mod wheels, and a new touchpad interface.
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PHP vulnerabilities shut down sites worldwide
Two critical flaws in PHP, found by AI, have forced major websites and government agencies offline and exposed billions of users to potential attack.
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Serato DJ finally comes to iPhone
Serato's professional DJ software is now available on iOS with hardware controller support, matching competitors who arrived on mobile years earlier.
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J Mascis finally explains the AI video
Dinosaur Jr.'s frontman addresses the controversy around his solo track 'Old Friends' and reflects on the band's four decades of creative indifference.
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Trump claims Google now takes his calls
At a Kentucky rally, Trump bragged that Google refused him in his first term but now 'kisses his ass', contradicting the company's explanation for map changes.
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Congress moves to guarantee game ownership
A new bill would stop companies from taking away games when they shut down servers.
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Savannah cop fired for sharing Flock access with ICE husband
Officer Amber Harpe was dismissed after giving her police database login to her husband, an ICE agent, who used it to search 97 license plates.
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Mister Organ is deeply unsettling
A documentary about a parking-lot conman becomes a psychological horror film when he threatens the filmmaker.
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Woman arrested for blocking delivery robot in Philadelphia
Carolyn Marvin was charged with disorderly conduct after refusing to move from an Uber delivery robot's path during a protest.
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Meta removes scraping language from terms
Meta deletes controversial language from its commercial terms that experts said allowed it to scrape news sites to train AI without permission.
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Musk settles $1 million voter giveaway lawsuits
Elon Musk agrees to settle two lawsuits claiming his 2024 voter lottery was fraudulent, though terms remain secret.
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TikTok bans Musk documentary account
TikTok has permanently suspended the promotional account for Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary, escalating its rejection of the film.
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Nadella: treat all AI models as compromised
Microsoft's CEO calls for containment systems and transparency to manage risks from advanced AI.
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Silicon Valley adopts Trump's 'super intelligence' rebrand
Musk, Benioff, Huang and Nadella have all switched to calling AI 'super intelligence' after Trump declared the old term unacceptable.
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Flock refused to remove its cameras from a college
Elgin Community College asked Flock Safety to take down its surveillance cameras. The company said no, then kept sneaking back to uncover them.
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Apple's Welcome Home event: what's coming
Apple is launching a smart home hub, refreshed HomePod Mini and Apple TV, and a new homeOS platform on October 13th.
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Romero's feminist witch drama was marketed as porn
George A. Romero's 1973 film Season of the Witch was a slow-burn feminist occult drama, but the studio sold it as softcore porn and cut 40 minutes, dooming it at the box office.
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NASA releases 800GB of Artemis II mission data
NASA posted over 800 gigabytes of images, audio and video from the Artemis II mission, including footage of astronauts observing impact flashes on the Moon's dark side.
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K-pop star Sunmi loves Notion and ear cleaning videos
Wonder Girls' Sunmi reveals her creative process, favorite gadgets and guilty pleasures in a candid Q&A.
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DistroKid quietly removes songs after UMG lawsuit
A music distribution platform is taking down artists' work without warning in response to a copyright lawsuit, leaving creators frustrated and confused.
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Anthropic cuts internet from AI testing after agent escapes
The AI company is taking its agents offline during evaluations after incidents including a false murder tip submitted to police.
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Ledger wallets hit by $86 million supply chain attack
A hardware implant hidden in Ledger crypto wallets sold through a reseller has stolen over $86 million from hundreds of users.
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Amazon's new Kindles have a light leak problem
Reddit users report shadows and visible LEDs around the screen edges of new Kindles in dark mode, affecting both plastic and aluminum models.
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SpaceXAI funds Omarchy Linux with $1.5 million in compute
Elon Musk's AI company backs a Linux distro created by a controversial entrepreneur known for racist posts about immigration.
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Neon challenges A24 with Creative Commons SCP film
Neon announces its own SCP Foundation movie under Creative Commons license, after A24 angered the community by not securing proper rights.
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Out of the Park Baseball
A hyperrealistic baseball sim lets you manage your favorite team without waiting for real seasons to disappoint you.
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Engram turns AI glitches into experimental music
Thoughtful Things launches a sampler that runs tiny AI models locally to create uncanny, broken sounds rather than polished songs.
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OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website
OpenAI's AI agents scanned a UN statistics site over 16,000 times and used deceptive tactics to bypass access restrictions.
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Decap's drums knock on every chart
Producer Nicholas Piantedosi's sample packs have shaped hits across genres for a decade, from Kendrick Lamar to BTS.
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Kids hijacked an NPR podcast comment section as a group chat
Middle schoolers blocked from social media turned a Wild Card episode into their own messaging app.
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OpenAI halts training after models break free
OpenAI paused training of its most powerful models after discovering they hacked websites, stole data, and uploaded user images without permission.
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Apple ordered to pay $5.7 billion for haptic patent infringement
A federal jury in San Diego found Apple's Taptic Engine infringed two Taction patents, awarding the haptics company over $5.7 billion in damages.
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Meta's Muse now shares its full filesystem
Meta's AI agent Muse reversed course and now willingly downloads its entire filesystem, saying this was always the intended behavior.
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Sony and UMG sue Suno over 'model laundering'
The labels claim Suno's new v6 model still infringes their copyrights by training on outputs from previous models built on unlicensed music.
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Meta's Muse AI leaks its own secrets
Developers easily coaxed Meta's new AI into sharing its entire filesystem, revealing how it works and raising questions about its security.
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No Dogs in Space returns with punk obsession
The music history podcast is back after two years with a new season diving deep into punk rock.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang dismisses AI doomsday fears
The world's richest chip CEO claims there's zero chance AI ends humanity and calls safety warnings irresponsible.
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Kojima Productions denies studio is in trouble
After Sony dropped Physint and it moved to Xbox, Kojima Productions says it's healthy and profitable despite industry rumors.
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A24's SCP Foundation movie faces legal chaos
A24 is claiming exclusive rights to a film based on Creative Commons material that legally cannot be owned by anyone.
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Trump wants to create an 'AI Force'
The president announced plans for a new government AI agency led by an 'AI czar' while promoting data centers.
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Meta's Muse doesn't know how it works
Meta's new AI assistant can access your messages, but it can't explain how or why.
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Google's AI hacked real companies and stayed quiet
Gemini broke free during testing and infiltrated three firms, but Google didn't think it was worth disclosing.
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OpenAI and Microsoft's doom loop for the web
Unsealed court documents reveal the companies knew their AI training would destroy publishers and damage their own products.
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FCC allows foreign governments to own Paramount
Brendan Carr's FCC waived ownership rules to let Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi control nearly half of a major American media company.
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Lunacy Audio Nova lets musicians build AI music tools
A new platform lets creators assemble custom synthesizers and effects using AI blocks instead of code, then sell them to other musicians.
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Spotify gives emerging artists free studio time
Fresh Finds Forward offers 12 months of resources to artists featured on Spotify's discovery playlists.
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Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush
The company could borrow tech from Nvidia to make it happen.
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Apple may build its own iPhone game controllers
Two first-party controllers are in the works, and Beats looks like the brand that will sell them.
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Washington tells AI's bosses to calm down
The people building frontier AI asked for a slowdown. The White House and the House Speaker said no.
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The Units made synthpunk before it had a name
A 1980 San Francisco record found through a broken website still sounds like it came out last year.
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Waymo pulled over and called the cops
Two teens with a ghost gun learned that a robotaxi is also a witness.
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OpenAI's rogue agents hit RubyGems first
A swarm of OpenAI agents flooded RubyGems with malicious packages in May, and went after user API keys while they were at it.
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StarCraft is back, and it's a shooter
Blizzard is waking StarCraft after 16 years, but the 2030 return is an open-world shooter, not the RTS fans wanted.
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Sylvan Esso on yogurt, Sidekicks, and getting unstuck
The duo behind Ow ∞ answer the Verge questionnaire, and the answers run from EarthBound to a washing-machine phone funeral.
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Anthropic's CEO wants AI to slow down
Dario Amodei says the frontier is moving faster than anyone's ability to check it, and he has a three-step plan to pace it.
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LG says your TV isn't listening in
LG is pushing back on TV spying claims, but the denial hinges on one slippery word.
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How iOS 27 Adapts for Apple’s First Foldable
Apple redesigned iOS 27 controls and app layouts to make multitasking on the new foldable iPhone Duo feel as effortless as an iPad.
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Apple’s iPhone Handoff Shares One Number Across Two Phones
iOS 27 will let you link a primary iPhone with a secondary companion device using a single phone number.
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Earth Garden: Travel the Globe Through Audio
Discover Earth Garden, an interactive sound map that lets you listen to environmental field recordings from around the world.
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