Hans Zimmer says his music is “not original”: “My music is a subtotal of everything I’ve heard all my life”Hans Zimmer, the legendary composer behind some of the most iconic film scores of all time, has claimed that his music is “not original”.
In a new, wide-ranging interview with Rick Beato, the multiple Academy Award and Grammy-winning composer reflects on his artistic process, influences, and the creative philosophies that shape much of his work.
Asked to pick one of his scores whereby the music and visuals are “married perfectly”, Zimmer points to the track The Journey to the Line from the 1998 Terrence Malick war film The Thin Red Line as one that works “really well”.

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“You’re going to think I’m crazy but that’s okay,” Zimmer begins. “I wrote this piece – it’s really simple: we put it up against the picture and it’s sort of a jungle scene and suddenly we saw the sun shining through the leaves. And we’d never seen that before and so we turned the music off and we watched the scene again and we didn’t see the sun.”
“So now we got really excited like little boys and it was Sunday so there’s nobody around so we went out and there’s a cleaner. We get the cleaner in and we go ‘let us show you something’ and he saw it too.”
“I’ve never been able to repeat this, you know. It’s sort of really worked,” he adds. “I mean it turned the visual into something slightly different.”
The track, now known as the “forbidden cue”, has since become one of Hans Zimmer’s most widely used compositions, with directors using it as a temp track in everything from animated films to urban crime dramas and even baseball movies.
“It seemed to fit everything and I heard versions of it as well over the years which weren’t entirely my versions.”
When asked if he feels flattered by how often his work was repurposed, Zimmer simply replies, “Yeah, just go knock yourself out.”
“My music is not original. My music is a subtotal of everything I’ve heard all my life,” he explains. “My mum took me to my first opera when I was two and a half, and my dad was a jazz fiend.”
Watch the full interview below:

And head to Rick Beato’s YouTube channel for more.
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Aphex Twin drops 191-track playlist as part of new collab with streetwear brand SupremeElectronic legend Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin has dropped a 191-track playlist for American streetwear brand Supreme as part of a new collaboration.
The playlist, titled Aphex Twin: [mostly mellow] for Supreme, was unveiled last week and showcases a diverse selection of chilled, low-tempo tracks.

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Featuring an eclectic mix of artists, the playlist includes legendary names such as Brian Eno, Herbie Handcock, Tangerine Dream, Marvin Gaye, Ragga Twins, Joe Meek, Kraftwerk, Run-DMC and Klaus Schulze.
Among the curated tracks is Aphex Twin’s very own XMAS_EVET1N, a somewhat obscure 2014 track that later appeared on his 2015 Warp album MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96.
“Supreme has worked with Aphex Twin on a new collection for Spring 2025,” the brand announced on Instagram. “The collection features original album artwork as well as music video artwork by Chris Cunningham. The collection consists of a GORE-TEX Hooded Jacket, Alpha Industries Cargo Jacket, Sweater, Shirt, Thermal, Football Jersey, Hooded Sweatshirt, Alpha Industries Cargo Pant, Short, two T-Shirts, 6-Panel, Mechanix Work Gloves, Mantis Coin Knife and four Skateboards – three sold as a set and one sold individually.”

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This latest project follows Aphex Twin’s surprise release of Music From The Merch Desk (2016-2023) last December — a compilation album featuring 38 tracks previously sold as one-off vinyl pressings at his live shows.
The album marks the first full digital release of these tracks, many of which became highly sought-after collectibles, with some fetching over £1,000 on platforms such as Discogs.
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Four suspects charged in home invasion of streamer AmouranthFour suspects were charged in connection with the home invasion of online streamer Amouranth, whose real name is Kaitlyn Siragusa. The streamer says she was held at gunpoint by several individuals demanding that she hand over the private keys to her crypto.According to Fox 26, the suspects include Dylan Nesho Campbell, Bryan Anthony Salazar Guerrero and two additional suspects between the ages of 16-17.Campbell and Guerrero were each charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, as was the 17-year-old suspect.Siragusa reported that several armed individuals entered her home late at night on March 2, beat her, and held her at gunpoint, demanding her cryptocurrency.Source: AmouranthLuckily, her husband was on speakerphone, which the gunmen took in an attempt to access a crypto app. The husband, having been alerted to the situation, grabbed a handgun while attempting to gauge where the armed men were in the home.The online streamer led the assailants around the home and convinced them to start looking for a cold storage device.As the armed robbers were looking for the device, Siragusa ran upstairs to her husband, who was also watching the situation unfold on the home's network of cameras.Once she was safely upstairs, her husband fired off three rounds at assailants, likely shooting one in the process before the home invaders retreated and law enforcement arrived at the scene.Siragusa’s husband later revealed that he was the one posting from her account as the incident unfolded. Source: AmouranthThe streamer previously disclosed that she held roughly 211 Bitcoin, worth over $20 million in November 2024, to online followers — making her a target for armed robbery.Related: UK authorizes charges against NCA officer for alleged Bitcoin theftCrypto kidnappings and extortion on the rise The incident is merely the latest in a string of kidnappings and armed robberies aimed at crypto holders.In January 2025, a UK court sentenced seven gang members for the kidnapping and extortion of a crypto investor, who was repeatedly assaulted and coerced into handing over funds over several months.During that same month, reports emerged that Ledger co-founder David Balland was kidnapped in France and held for a crypto ransom before being rescued by law enforcement.Magazine: Scam AI ‘kidnappings’, $20K robot chef, Ackman’s AI plagiarism war: AI Eye

Apple reportedly considered building the iPhone 17 Air without portsAfter reporting in January that Apple is adding an “Air” option to its iPhone lineup, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is offering more details about the upcoming slimmer iPhone. The iPhone 17 Air will launch this fall, Gurman says — and like the MacBook Air, it will be thinner than standard models, while combining high-end and low-end […]
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Blue Ghost Watches Lunar Eclipse from the Lunar SurfaceFirefly’s Blue Ghost lander’s first look at the solar eclipse as it began to emerge from its Mare Crisium landing site on March 14 at 5:30 AM UTC. (Credit: Firefly Aerospace)
After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from the surface of the Moon. This entire experience was detailed on the Blue Ghost Mission 1 live blog. As the company notes, this is the first time that a commercial entity has been able to observe this phenomenon.
During this event, the Earth gradually moved in front of the Sun, as observed from the lunar surface. During this time, the Blue Ghost lander had to rely on its batteries as it was capturing the solar eclipse with a wide-angle camera on its top deck.
Unlike the Blood Moon seen from the Earth, there was no such cool effect observed from the Lunar surface. The Sun simply vanished, leaving a narrow ring of light around the Earth. The reason for the Blood Moon becomes obvious, however, as the refracting of the sunlight through Earth’s atmosphere changes the normal white-ish light to shift to an ominous red.
The entire sequence of images captured can be observed in the video embedded on the live blog and below, giving a truly unique view of something that few humans (and robots) have so far been able to observe.

You can make your own lunar eclipse. Or, make your own solar eclipse, at least once a day.

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Kaito AI and founder Yu Hu's X social media accounts hackedKaito AI, an artificial intelligence-powered platform that aggregates crypto data to provide market analysis for users, and its founder Yu Hu, were the victims of an X social media hack on March 15.In several now-deleted posts, hackers claimed that the Kaito wallets were compromised and advised users that their funds were not safe.According to DeFi Warhol, the hackers opened up a short position on KAITO tokens before posting the messages in the hopes that users would sell or pull their funds, which would have crashed the price and created profits for the threat actors.The price of the KAITO token dips, presumably due to a short position. Source: CoinMarketCapThe Kaito AI team regained access to the accounts and reassured users that Kaito token wallets were not compromised in the social media exploit."We had high-standard security measures in place to prevent [the hack] — so it seems to be similar or the same as other recent Twitter account hacks," the Kaito AI team added.This recent exploit is the latest in a growing list of social media hacks, social engineering scams, and cybersecurity incidents plaguing the crypto industry.Source: Kaito AIRelated: Kaito AI token defies influencer selling pressure with 50% price rallyVigilance is key: some of the latest scams and exploits to impact cryptoPump.fun's X account was hacked on Feb. 26 by a threat actor promoting several fake tokens, including a fraudulent governance token for the fair launch platform called "Pump."According to onchain sleuth ZackXBT, the Pump.fun incident was directly connected to the Jupiter DAO account hack and the DogWifCoin X account compromise.On March 7, The Alberta Securities Commission, a Canadian financial regulator, warned the public that malicious actors were using fake news articles and fake endorsements featuring the likeness of Canadian politicians to promote a crypto scam.The scam, known as CanCap, played on fears of a trade war between Canada and the US to lure unsuspecting victims into investing in the project, which the scammers claimed had the support of Canadian leader Justin Trudeau.An example of a Lazarus social engineering scam where the hackers pretend to be venture capitalists experiencing audio-visual issues. Source: Nick BaxCrypto executives are also sounding the alarm on a new scam from the state-sponsored Lazarus hacker group, where the hackers pose as venture capitalists in a Zoom meeting.Once the target is in the meeting room, the hackers would claim they were experiencing audio-visual issues and redirect the victim to a malicious chat room where the user is encouraged to download a patch.The patch contains malicious software designed to steal crypto private keys and other sensitive information from the victim's computer.Magazine: Lazarus Group’s favorite exploit revealed — Crypto hacks analysis

You Too Can Do the Franck-Hertz ExperimentWe talk about quantum states — that is, something can be at one of several discrete values but not in between. For example, a binary digit can be a 1 or a 0, but not 0.3 or 0.5. Atoms have quantum states, but how do we know that? That’s what the Franck-Hertz experiment demonstrates, and [stoppi] shows you how to replicate that famous experiment yourself.
You might need to translate the web page if your German isn’t up to speed, but there’s also a video you can watch below. The basic idea is simple. A gas-filled tube sees a large voltage across the cathode and grid. A smaller voltage connects to the grid and anode. If you increase the grid voltage, you might expect the anode current to increase linearly. However, that doesn’t happen. Instead, you’ll observe dips in the anode current.
When electrons reach a certain energy they excite the gas in the tube. This robs them of the energy they need to overcome the grid/anode voltage, which explains the dips. As the energy increases, the current will again start to rise until it manages to excite the gas to the next quantum level, at which point another dip will occur.
Why not build a whole lab? Quantum stuff, at a certain level, is weird, but this experiment seems understandable enough.

Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud. Ars Technica reports that on Friday, Amazon sent an email to customers who have “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo smart speakers and […]
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