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Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and…

Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

Researchers propose Multi-Stream LLMs, a new architecture that enables language models to simultaneously process…

Forget ‘TechnoKing’: Elon Musk will really be king at SpaceX

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of…

Law enforcement shuts down VPN service used by two dozen ransomware gangs

First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks.

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

Kagi is a paid, ad-free search engine that significantly reduces visual clutter compared to free alternatives, making it…

Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to…

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

A blogger migrated their 10-year-old blog from an unsupported Ubuntu 16.04 VPS on Digital Ocean to FreeBSD on a Hetzner…

Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes

Zillow asked for a preliminary injunction as real estate industry fight heats up.

Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]

BBEdit 16

BBEdit 16 has been released with over 100 new features and improvements, including significant performance enhancements,…

Trump Halts AI Order Over Fears It Could Hurt US Edge Over China

Trump said he delayed the order because parts of the proposal risked slowing the U.S.

Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

# Summary Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle Police Department since 2009,…

Convective Capital raises an $85 million fund to build disaster resilience

After launching to invest in fire tech, Convective is broadening its mandate to disaster resilience.

Nvidia Beats, Stock Dumps—BofA Says Buy the Dip

Record $81.6 billion in revenue for Nvidia—and yet the stock fell.

Trump delays AI security executive order: ‘I don’t want to get in the way of that leading’

President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of…

US Government Makes $2 Billion Bet on Quantum Computing as Threat to Bitcoin Grows

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ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Distributed Systems/Platform Engineers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225852 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access

More than 340 local news outlets, including sites owned by major newspaper chains like McClatchy, Advance Local, and…

Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

Hi HN! We're Haakam, Michael, and Adi from AgentMail- a ycs25 company. We give AI agents their own email inboxes.

Wes mckinney releases multiple bangers

Wes McKinney, creator of pandas and Apache Arrow, has released multiple developer tools designed for the "agentic era,"…

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

Spotify is launching a new feature called "Reserved" this summer that will set aside concert tickets for premium…

Mathematicians stunned by AI's biggest breakthrough in mathematics yet

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have…

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

Hey HN, We're Gus and Carlos from Runtime (https://runtm.com).

This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in a almost half century

Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True…

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

This webpage documents a Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices, featuring an extensive collection of vintage calculators…

Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool

Spotify is releasing new audiobook plans later this year

Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets

Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan