‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his artThe ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to "stop hiring humans."

iPod Nano Gets Three MonitorsTriple monitor workstations are pretty common these days, particularly for those wishing to maximise screen space for greater productivity. [Will It Work?] has put together a sillier take on this concept, however, hooking the diminutive iPod Nano up to three monitors instead.
The 6th-generation iPod nano brought forth a new form factor – it’s the postage stamp-sized one that you could clip to your workout gear. It’s not typically what you’d call a productivity device, but there is a way to get more out of it. The trick is to grab a 30-pin Keyboard Dock, which allows access to the composite video signal from the iPod. It was originally designed for the iPad, but it works with the iPad nano too with a 30-pin spacer adapter – just don’t expect the keys to do anything. This setup also allows access to the 3.5mm four-pole jack, which handles audio input and output. With a bunch of additional cables and adapters, the iPod was able to be hooked up to three screens, a set of Apple Pro speakers, and three Sharp LCD monitors.
What can you do with this setup? Fundamentally, not a whole lot. You can’t use the keyboard with the iPod Nano, so you’re limited to interacting with the tiny touchscreen. There also aren’t exactly a lot of apps to run on the platform, either. You can basically listen to music, watch a slide show, or record voice memos, while looking at the iPod’s display spread identically across three TVs. Still, it’s a fun joke build, because at a glance it genuinely looks like you’ve set up a triple-monitor workstation running off a tiny iPod from over a decade ago.
If you want to blow the mind of your next podcast guest, consider recording your next episode on this rig. Alternatively, explore some of the other hacks we’ve seen for the platform. Video after the break.

Amy Allen, Sony Music Publishing ,’Die With a Smile’ among big winners at 2026 ASCAP Pop Music Awards"We are honored to be named ASCAP's Pop Publisher of the Year," said Katie Welle, Sony Music Publishing President, Head of A&R.
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Bitcoin preps highest weekly close since January as BTC price nears $79KBitcoin canceled out the week's earlier losses to tease the highest BTC price weekly candle close since the end of January near $79,000.

Dezert Audio releases PolyFreq, a free analog modeled synth plugin
Dezert Audio has released PolyFreq, a free analog modeled synthesizer plugin for macOS and Windows. You may recognize Dezert Audio from Freq-2, the premium Kontakt instrument we covered previously, built from recordings taken from Dez Wright’s personal collection of over 20 analog synths. PolyFreq is a different kind of release. It’s a synthesis engine rather [...]
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Triceratops | decap Bless You 2It's Moldbreaker, but slightly different. I bought this new light version of Moldbreaker, and it sounds pretty good, but this *sshole keeps sneezing over my damn knobs! And his seismic sneezes are f*ucking up my whole sound. Read about it and demo here on my website Read More

Get Plugin Alliance Black Box Analog Design HG-2 for $30 (76% OFF until May 31)
Brainworx and Black Box Analog Design’s HG-2 tube saturation plugin is currently 76% off at Plugin Boutique. The regular price is $125, and the deal brings it down to $30 until May 31. HG-2 is the official emulation of Black Box Analog Design’s hardware tube processor. It’s a unit that retails for around $3,000 (yikes!) [...]
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Melbourne Instruments’ Nina gains Braids engine Melbourne Instruments have just released a free firmware update that brings the engine behind Mutable Instruments’ Braids Eurorack module to their desktop polysynth. 

AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for OscarsBad news for Tilly Norwood.

MousePlugins Mastino 60Mastino 60 is a hard-knee VCA-style compressor designed for fast, punchy dynamic control on drums, bass, buses, and mix sources that benefit from firm gain reduction. The plugin focuses on direct compression behavior, clear metering, and a practical modern workflow. It includes threshold and compression controls, output gain, stereo linking, a sidechain filter, parallel mix control, and fixed low-latency processing. Mastino 60 was developed with measurement-guided tuning and listening tests, with the goal of capturing the feel of classic fast VCA compression while keeping the interface simple, responsive, and suitable for everyday mixing. It is available for Linux and Windows in CLAP and VST3 formats. Read More

Pushing as Many Pixels as Possible to a CRT: Interlaced 4KSome people love CRTs to a degree that the uninitiated may find obsessive. We all have our thing, and for [Found Tech], it’s absolutely pointing particle accelerators at his face to play video games. He likes modern games, with modern resolutions– none of this 1080p nonsense. Today’s gamers demand 4K! Can a CRT keep up? The answer is a resounding “No, but actually, yes!”
[Found Tech] has an IBM P275 monitor, which is one of the last generation of CRTs.  Officially, the resolution maxes out at 1920 dots by 1440 lines. While one might (inaccurately) call that UHD output “2K”, you certainly cannot claim it is 4K. So, what’s the secret? Interlacing. Yes, interlacing, like old analog TV signals.
Apparently, in spite of what the manual says, getting the screen to absorb the 2880×2160 interlaced signal wasn’t the hard part, but generating it was. NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards are absolutely unable to create an interlaced signal, but Intel integrated GPUs are– if you get the right combo of chip and old driver. Sadly, the video doesn’t list exactly what he used. Of course an iGPU isn’t going to give you a very good gaming experience at this high resolution, so [Found Tech] has his games do their rendering on the discrete card before piping that over to the iGPU for display on the CRT.
Technically, you still can’t call the 2880×2160 picture “4K”, as that trademark refers to 2160p at 16:9, and this is both interlaced and 4:3. Still, close enough. In spite of the artifacting that turned us all against interlaced signals back in the day, this apparently has [Found Tech]’s eyes fooled– he says it’s as good as 2160p on his OLED, plus the extra magic that comes with glowing phosphors.
It certainly looks great in a recording, but the monitor in the recording isn’t displayed at a high enough resolution to say for sure if it’s 4K. Still, if you’re into CRT gaming, maybe give this high-res interlacing a try. If you still don’t get what’s so great about CRTs, check here, and remember it could be worse– at least we’re not going on about Plasma TVs.

Warm Audio launch the Reamper Aiming to bridge the gap between guitar rigs and studio setups, the Reamper delivers a multi-purpose tool that’s capable of carrying out re‑amping, placing guitar pedals into a DAW signal chain and capturing a signal from pushed valve amps at studio-friendly volumes.

Ewan Bristow’s UZU spectral phaser is FREE for 7 days (regularly $17)
Ewan Bristow has officially hit 10k followers on Twitter/X, and as promised, his UZU frequency domain phaser is now free. The plugin normally sells for $17, and you can grab it from the developer’s website for free. We covered the initiative back in October 2025, when Ewan announced that UZU would be made free for [...]
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CPU Productions Groove DetectiveGroove Detective: The only search engine for drum loops based on patterns and 'sounds like'. As producers' and musicians' collections of audio loops used in music productions of all stripes grow steadily year by year, so does the accompanying problem of finding exactly what you need, when you need it. Even though individual collections may be sensibly organized into styles, tempo and so on, there is no agreed-upon system for doing this and rarely does a user take the time and effort to consolidate all these disparate libraries. The result is that the collection is spread over a large number of folders, making it exceedingly difficult and time consuming to audition potential candidates when it matters the most: at the moment of inspiration and creation. Groove Detective solves this problem in a musical way. By analyzing all the loops the user has and consolidating all the data in a single searchable database, it no longer matters where the loop is stored. The information in the database allows the user to search for loops based on the pattern of drum hits in the loop itself, not on how it is named or in which folder it resides. The search pattern can be made as narrowly specific or as widely fuzzy as one wishes, depending on the need of the moment. There is also an option of including a "sounds like" dimension to a search. For example, if one is looking for loops that have a particular snare drum sound, one needs only provide that sound to the search engine and the degree to which the sound should match. In the result browser one can further refine the search by filtering on tempo, 'pitched-ness', file type, sample rate and so on. Once a choice has been made, the loop can simply be dragged into a track in the DAW production software (if it is so enabled), without ever having to enter any file open or import dialog. This technology is based on decades of research in audio analysis and Music Information Retrieval (MIR) systems and utilizes an advanced expert system. Read More

Three Bitcoin data points suggest a rally to $80K is imminentBitcoin chases $80,000 as rising spot volumes and futures open interest suggest the market has shifted back in the bulls’ favor.