Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots
A North Carolina musician was sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting more than $10 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and...
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a...
Read moreAdvantest confirms personal information stolen in ransomware attack
Advantest Corporation is notifying affected individuals that a ransomware attack earlier this year exposed their personally identifiable data. [...]
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“After an all-time low, we’ve started to return to growth” – Asha Sharma touts Xbox turnaround after drastic restructuring and many hundreds of layoffs
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has reportedly told the company that Xbox has "started to return to growth" following wide-ranging restructuring that has reorganised the gaming division...
Read moreApple and LG, The House For Everyone Else, Agent Standards and Amazon
Apple is taking a smarter approach to the home than I expected, leaning into integration (with partners); then, what Amazon should do about agents.
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A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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Xbox restates plans for next-gen Project Helix to be a “family of devices”, stressing “many players will be on the go”
Microsoft has reportedly reiterated its plan to have multiple Xboxes - of some description - for the next and 10th generation of consoles. The suggestion being...
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DSPi firmware turns Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 into a USB sound card with an onboard DSP engine
DSPi is a full-featured audio DSP firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico 2, and other Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 boards, which turns them into a USB...
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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Article: Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go
The article describes a custom implementation that provides a session-level ordering on top of Apache Kafka partitions, supporting strict message ordering across 1000s of independent channels....
Read moreCloudflare Offers $25K to Developers Building Git for AI Agents
Cloudflare launches a competition to build the next Git platform for AI agents using Workers and Artifacts. Enroll and win $25k in Cloudflare credits! The post...
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Xbox denies reports it’s acquired exclusive GTA 6 game-streaming rights, deflating hopes of playing it on PC
Xbox has denied reports suggesting it obtained exclusive game-streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto 6. The initial suggestion came from a report on The Verge, which...
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