Bots are flooding Deezer: Nearly a third of music uploaded daily is fully AI-generated, platform revealsDeezer has revealed that nearly a third of music uploaded to its platform is now fully AI-generated – a staggering rise from just 10 percent at the start of the year.
The French streaming service, which rolled out a new AI detection tool in January, says it is now receiving over 30,000 fully AI-generated tracks every day. In June, Deezer also became the first major platform to explicitly tag synthetic music, as the flood of artificially generated content shows no sign of slowing.

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According to Deezer, about 70% of plays for these AI songs have been detected as fraudulent and are part of a wave of bot-driven uploads designed to siphon royalties from the platform’s revenue pool.
“Following a massive increase during the year, AI music now makes up a significant part of the daily track delivery to music streaming and we want to lead the way in minimising any negative impact for artists and fans alike,” says Deezer CEO Alexis Lanternier.
Lanternier adds that Deezer has taken steps to quarantine the influx: removing fully AI-generated tracks from algorithmic recommendations, excluding them from editorial playlists, and tightening its fraud-detection systems.
“This way we ensure the impact on the royalty pool remains minimal, while providing a transparent user experience. And most importantly, we continue to fight fraudulent activity, which is the main driver behind uploading fully AI generated content.”
The surge has been dramatic. AI-generated content made up around 10% of uploads in January, jumped to 18% in April, and now stands at a record-breaking 28%.
While Deezer insists the platform isn’t being overrun just yet, the trend raises an uneasy question for the industry: if bots are already gaming streaming services at scale, what happens when AI tools become even faster, cheaper, and harder to detect?
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Retro x86 with 486TangTang FPGA boards are affordable, and [nand2mario] has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while. Looks like it finally worked out, as there is an early version of the ao486 design on a Tang FPGA board using a Gowin device. That core’s available on the MiSTer platform, which emulates games using an Altera Cyclone device.
Of course, porting something substantial between FPGA architectures is not trivial. In addition, [nand2mario] made some changes. The original core uses DDR3 memory, but for the Tang and the 486, SDRAM makes more sense. The only problem is that the Tang’s SDRAM is 16 bits wide, which would imply you need two cycles per 32-bit access. To mitigate this, the memory system runs at twice the main clock frequency. Of course, that’s kind of double data rate, but not in the same way as DDR memory.

The MiSTer uses an ARM processor’s high-speed channel to link to the FPGA for disk access. The Tang board lacks a high-speed interface for this, so the disk storage is now on an SD card that the FPGA directly accesses. In addition, the first 128K of the SD card stores configuration settings that the FPGA now reads from that on boot up.
One of the most interesting things about the development was the use of Verilator to simulate the entire system, including things like the VGA card. It was possible to simulate booting to a DOS prompt, although it was slower than being on actual hardware, as you might expect. But, this lets you poke at the entire state of the system in a way that would be difficult on the actual hardware.
Want to give it a try? The Tang boards are cheap. (We have one on a shelf waiting for a future post.) Or, you could go the simulation route.
MiSTer has really put FPGAs on a lot of people’s radar. If you prefer the C64, that’s available on a Tang board, too.

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Send Images to Your Terminal With Rich Pixels[darrenburns]’ Rich Pixels is a library for sending colorful images to a terminal. Give it an image, and it’ll dump it to your terminal in full color. While it also supports ASCII art, the cool part is how it makes it so easy to display an arbitrary image — a pixel-art rendition of it, anyway — in a terminal window.
How it does this is by cleverly representing two lines of pixels in the source image with a single terminal row of characters. Each vertical pixel pair is represented by a single Unicode ▄ (U+2584 “lower half block”) character. The trick is to set the background color of the half-block to the upper pixel’s RGB value, and the foreground color of the half-block to the lower pixel’s RGB. By doing this, a single half block character represents two vertically-stacked pixels. The only gotcha is that Rich Pixels doesn’t resize the source image; if one’s source image is 600 pixels wide, one’s terminal is going to receive 600 U+2584 characters per line to render the Rich Pixels version.
[Simon WIllison] took things a step further and made show_image.py, which works the same except it resizes the source image to fit one’s terminal first. This makes it much more flexible and intuitive.
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KV331 Audio SynthMaster 3 PlayerSynthMaster 3 Player is a stripped down version of SynthMaster 3 tailored towards users who prefer tweaking existing presets over designing sounds from scratch. It comes with all the factory presets of KV331 Audio's SynthMaster One, SynthMaster 2 and SynthMaster 3 software synthesizers. Features Rich Content Library: SynthMaster 3 Player comes with 4400 factory presets designed by a world class team of sound designers: Arksun, Aiyn Zahev, Bluffmunkey, Brian Transeau, BigTone, Cipryan Bot, Davide Puxeddu, Demis Hellen, Electronisounds, Francis Preve, Gercek Dorman, Insigna, Howard Smith, Kevin Schroeder, Kurt Ader, Mirko Ruta, NatLife, New Loops, Nori Ubukata, Rob Lee, Selcuk Ergen, Xenos Soundworks, XTD, Ufuk Kevser, Venus Theory, Vandalism, Vorpalsound and Yuli Yolo. Multi-layer Architecture: Each SynthMaster 3 Player instance can have up to 16 layers. Users can add new layers by loading existing presets into layers through the preset browser. Limited Editing: Although users can not edit layer modules and modulation sources, they can edit all other layer parts such as keyboard zones, velocity zones, voicing, unison, arpeggiator, sequencer and insert FX. Multiple Layer Views: SynthMaster 3 Player provides 2 different views to edit layer parameters: Track View: This view is used for editing keyboard zones, velocity zones, voicing, unison, arpeggiator and sequencer parameters of multiple layers. Mix View: This view is used for editing insert FX and FX send parameters of multiple layers. Preset Previews: Presets in SynthMaster 3 Player have built-in previews. Users can listen to the preview of a preset by moving the mouse over the Play icon that is displayed next to the preset name on the presets list. In-App Shop: Multiple products are displayed on the Shop page, with their individual price and sale details. Free Player There is a free version of SynthMaster 3 Player that comes with 500 factory presets. It can be downloaded from KV331 Audio web site. Audio Demos Audio demos of SynthMaster 3 factory presets can be listened to on KV331 Audio's SoundCloud page https://soundcloud.com/kv331synthmaster/sets/synthmaster-3-player Read More

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Signing Stories: WarmduscherDate Signed: June 2024Label: Strap OriginalsBand Members: Craig Higgins (“Clams Baker Jr.”), vocals; Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft (“Mr. Salt Fingers Lovecraft”), bass guitar; Adam J. Hamer (“Quicksand”), guitar; Quinn Whalley (“The Witherer”), keyboards and electronics; Marley Mackey (“Three Piece AKA The Worm”), keyboards and electronics; Bleu Ottis (“Bleucifer”), drumsType of Music: Post-Punk/AlternativeBooking: Tom Konitzer, Anniversary GroupManagement: Karey Fisher, WestPublicity: Pamela Nashel, pam@sirenscallpr.com A&R: Peter Doherty and Jai StanleyWeb: warmduscher.co.uk Taking their name from a light-hearted German pejorative, Warmduscher is a serious post-punk and alternative outfit that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Born out of the South London club scene, this sextet of rockers and multi-genre enthusiasts, have been gradually building a solid reputation since 2014.Formed from the bones of respected underground bands such as Black Daniel and Fat White Family, this progressive ensemble is rolling out their fifth release on the Strap Originals label, with Too Cold to Hold. The album continues their eclectic mix of rock, funk, house and hip-hop music, with provocative and socially satirizing tunes like “Fashion Week” and “Staying Alive.”“It started from anything goes into what it is now,” says Higgins, who prefers his nickname Clams. “Regardless of anything else, when we get together we find it pretty easy to write stuff. And 10 years later, we find we have more time to devote to our music, as it’s not just a side project anymore. It’s allowed everyone to buckle down and push ourselves and progress.”Over the course of their previous four albums, Warmduscher has achieved a modicum of success. But it hasn’t been without some label turbulence and bumps in the road. For this current deal, manager Karey Fisher was instrumental in bringing the band and Strap Originals to the signing table.“We didn’t know what to do and the band morale was low,” explains Clams. “But we met with Strap and laid everything out. And they told us everything we wanted to hear. They’ve been amazing and made us a priority at their label. They gave us complete artistic freedom and have been completely supportive of everything we’ve done.”The new album Too Cold to Hold is available globally on all platforms and is already gaining traction on playlists like BBC 6. A U.S. tour, with select European dates, is also underway for 2025.The post Signing Stories: Warmduscher first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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