“We’re moving beyond hierarchical executive structures”: Uli Behringer on Behringer restructuringBehringer CEO and founder Uli Behringer has announced a major restructuring at parent company Music Tribe, replacing the traditional C-suite with an AI-supported, data-driven leadership model.
Explaining the decision in a recent LinkedIn post, Behringer writes: “The traditional and siloed C-suite model has served its time. But in today’s world of rapid change and continuous innovation, it’s no longer the most effective way to lead and often becomes a liability.”

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At the core of this restructuring is the replacement of “hierarchical executive structures” with a more “agile, data-driven model” — one powered by business and data analysts, and supported by neural AI platforms like Claude, Manus AI, and others. These tools, Behringer says, are already enhancing human decision-making by surfacing insights, spotting patterns, and driving real-time action.
For Behringer, the reasons for the shift are clear: They include faster, smarter decisions as analysts working directly with real-time data can act quickly, reducing bottlenecks.
“Decisions are best made by those closest to the product, the customer, and the challenge,” the founder explains. “In a world that’s constantly evolving, agility beats formality. We’re building a leadership model that can adapt and learn at every level.”
According to Uli, Music Tribe is currently piloting Manus AI across its operations, with early results described as “promising”. He says the move is part of the company’s broader commitment to Industry 5.0 — a vision where human creativity works alongside advanced technology to shape more responsive, personalised and empowering organisations.
“We’re not just tweaking the org chart. We’re rethinking what leadership can and should look like,” Behringer continues. “Fewer layers. More collaboration. Smarter decisions.”
Behringer’s latest announcement also reflects the brand’s long-standing interest in accessibility, a value that also underpin its product strategy. Earlier this month, Uli told Sweetwater that one of his goals is to make the firm’s already budget-friendly products even more affordable, especially for young people.
“As you know, we have synthezisers starting at $49. My goal is to make synthesizers for $9.90 so we can make these accessible to kids in poor countries,” he said.
Whether through groundbreaking organisational change or ultra-affordable gear, time will tell.
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Toontrack release Modern Pop Piano EKX Modern Pop Piano EKX captures the sound of a Grotrian-Steinweg upright, and includes a collection of sounds that have been resampled through an array of outboard processors. 

Final debuts the DX6000 in all-new headphones seriesFinal Audio has unveiled the DX6000, the first entry in its all-new DX headphones series.
Crafted “entirely from the ground up”, the brand’s latest open-back headphones employ proprietary driver technology to deliver a speaker-like listening experience that’s both highly transparent and emotionally expressive.

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To start, at the heart of the DX6000 is a newly developed large-diameter dynamic driver featuring an ultra-lightweight magnesium dome diaphragm. Magnesium, chosen for its rigidity and neutral acoustic properties, allows the DX6000 to achieve “remarkably low distortion and a fast transient response”, says Final.
As for the diaphragm, it is housed within a monolithic injection-moulded structure using a proprietary adhesive-free silicone foam surround. This unique construction removes unnecessary weight and delivers perfect piston motion, resulting in a dynamic soundstage with natural spatial separation, rich lows, and detailed reproduction across the frequency range.
To complement the diaphragm design, engineers developed a free-air wired aluminium coil, made with trace element doping for enhanced conductivity. By eliminating traditional bonding points and soldering connections, signal purity is maintained and reverse resonance is dramatically reduced.
Image: Final
In addition, the DX6000’s internal acoustic networks features a crossover-less design, mimicking the linearity of a well-designed speaker, offering accurate high-frequency response without harshness. The headphones’ fully open housing structure, where the front and rear enclosures are seamlessly connected, meanwhile, results in a deep, uncoloured bass with remarkable presence.
Each DX6000 is also manufactured and manually acoustically matched at Final’s dedicated production line in Japan, ensuring exceptional quality control. Despite its complex engineering, the headphones remain light on the head, weighing just 363g (excluding cable). The open-back architecture and thoughtful weight distribution also make them ideal for long sessions.
Included is a 3-meter OFC balanced XLR cable, designed for high-resolution, low-noise signal delivery in reference listening setups.
Priced at $1,999/£1,899/€1,999, the Final DX6000 will be available to purchase from 28 April 2025 at selected retailers.
Learn more at Final Audio.
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AEA launch the AEA 1029 compressor AEA are well-known for their ribbons mics and preamps, and now their product range includes a high-quality stereo VCA compressor.

Shure’s MV7i USB mic might be your go-to audio interface for mobile recording$349 / £329, shure.com
Shure’s MV family of USB microphones continues to expand with the addition of the MV7i, sharing much of the technology of the MV7+ but adding a second input with plenty of gain to essentially turn the mic into a standalone audio interface.
The idea is that you can add a second microphone or source via the combination XLR and jack input with phantom power and use it as a single or dual channel interface down a single connection, removing the need for additional cabling. That potentially makes it the perfect mobile solution for podcast or other simpler audio tracking uses like a singer/guitarist. But how well does it work in practice?

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The mic is sturdy with a high-quality metal case and comes on a yoke mount with screws on either side to enable it to be angled or fixed securely. You don’t get a stand for it, but the mount has a thread that can be attached either to a desk or a boom stand, depending on how you plan to use it. A foam pop shield is included, as is a USB-C cable of reasonable length, which both powers the mic and carries audio signals.
No drivers are required but you will need to download the MOTIV Mix app for macOS, PC or iOS, as this is the way you control the different settings inside the mic. There are no on-body controls except for the colour LED touch strip, which can be tapped to mute or unmute the signal. On the rear of the body are the USB-C port, the combo XLR/jack input and a 3.5 mm headphone output for monitoring.
The first thing the MOTIV Mix app will ask you to do is set up the routing for recording, the way the mic outputs audio. The first option is Mixdown, where inputs 1 and 2 are summed as a mono stream, say for live streaming. Then there’s Multitrack, which separates inputs 1 and 2 as individual mono streams, and finally Stereo which keeps input 2 as stereo while sending input 1 to both left and right, perhaps for recording voiceover over stereo content.
Image: Press
In terms of hardware, the mic has a directional, cardioid polar pattern and a dynamic transducer and a frequency response of 50 Hz to 16 kHz – not the widest range going, but sufficient for voice recording. Anyone wanting to capture every nuance of an acoustic guitar, for example, may want to connect a more sensitive mic to the other input – but we’ll get to that. The unit’s analogue-to-digital converter runs at up to 24-bit/48kHz and a slightly lower 16-bit/44.1kHz for iOS devices.
The onboard digital signal processing (DSP) powers a bunch of useful recording effects and tools that help you to capture respectable recordings in the kinds of less-than-perfect environments you may find yourself working in while on the move. All of these are configurable in the app. First up is Auto Level Mode with SmartGate, which monitors signal and auto-adjusts gain based on distance, volume and room dynamics. It can also prevent overlapping dialogue when two inputs are in use. It’s effective in real-world use, and though you will set levels manually in the app, the auto features help to mitigate variations in volume and potential movement during recording. The company’s Voice Isolation Technology helps the system separate out voices from other noise.
Denoiser is another process that can run in real-time, identifying and reducing persistent ambient noise like air conditioning, and a digital popper stopper can be activated in addition to the physical windshield. Then there are three types of variable digital reverb which tend towards sounding swampy so would need to be used sparingly, and an effects strip with tone, gain, EQ, compression and a limiter. All these are also available for the combo input channel and will be applied when a signal is detected from that input. There are broad presets for speech, singing or instruments, and global setups can be stored in the app too for easy switching between different uses.
SmartGate feature in the MOTIV Mix app. Image: MusicTech
This is a lot of processing inside such a small unit and, until now, would usually have required a larger housing — even compact audio interfaces with this much DSP don’t manage to also incorporate a full microphone. The MV7i can also supply 48v phantom power and +60dB of gain to its physical input and doesn’t get noticeably warm while doing so.
Monitoring is zero-latency with optional reverb applied both to the recording and foldback, and in tests, the recordings captured are excellent. The ability to add processing to the sound onboard – EQ, compression, limiting and a degree of gating – rather than in a DAW — cuts the chances of latency appearing. Plus, it means your sound is pre-processed by the time it hits the hard drive or is streamed online. Of course, you can omit these if you want to add effects post-recording, but there is an option to have a ‘comfort’ reverb in headphones, but not record it. Adding a second source via the combo input is simple, with the streams appearing to your DAW based on how you’ve set up the routing.
The MOTIV Mix app is capable of recording a high-quality stereo file from several inputs, including your computer (though at a fixed setting), which is fine for podcasting or recording live material, though for more flexible mixing, you’d capture separate streams in a DAW or similar package.
Image: Press
Shure suggests that this is a unique device, but it’s not dissimilar to IK’s iRig Stream Mic Pro (around £149) in some respects, which also has a high-quality USB-powered mic (with switchable polar pattern) and operates as a more limited audio interface than the MV7i. It lacks the DSP and internal effects as well as the powered combo input, so it’s more restricted, but it does have more on-body controls if that’s something you prefer.
The MV7i is a dependable and well-built mic that performs to a high standard and will suit streamers, podcasters and those needing to record a couple of sources without carrying lots of gear. The DSP features like auto gain and denoiser are genuinely useful, while the directionality of the mic means it excels at the task of voice pickup.
If your needs are more modest, the MV7+ at around £269 offers many of the same features just without the second input. The MV7i is arguably a little on the pricey side but there’s really nothing around that does what it does quite this well.

Key features

USB-C mic with up to 24-bit, 48 kHz recording
Second combo mix/line/instrument input
MOTIV Mix desktop and iOS software
Onboard effects and DSP
Zero-latency monitoring
Auto gain, denoiser and pop stopper
LED touch panel for muting and level feedback (with a Split option to reveal a
meter for each input)
3.5 mm headphone output
Phantom power to XLR
Flexible routing modes

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Audeze’s LCD-S20 headphones are the most affordable in its LCD series – and pack in its ground-breaking SLAM technologyAudeze has unveiled the most affordable instalment in its LCD series of headphones to date. The LCD-S20 Closed-Back headphones channel the company’s high-end audio quality and SLAM spatial imaging into a much more affordable package, costing just $499.
First introduced for the company’s CRBN2 headphones, Audeze’s SLAM technology – Symmetric Linear Acoustic Modulator – improves the way air pressure is distributed across each diaphragm using precisely-tuned acoustic channels to boost certain frequencies. CRBN2s cost $5,995 – and the LCD-S20 loads in the same technology for much less.

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The LCD-S20s also boast magnetic ear pads, allowing users to swap out and replace them with ease. As well as offering rich acoustics, the ear cups have reliable noise-cancellation, meaning your listening wont be disturbed by external noise or microphone bleed.
There’s also a detachable single-sided cable, meaning you can switch your wire to either earcup and avoid getting tangled up in the studio.
The headphones also boast the same design as Audeze’s Maxwell line, with a spring-steel headband, forged aluminium and glass-infused nylon components. There’s also the same 90mm planar magnetic drivers, which includes Audeze’s Fluxor magnets, Fazor waveguides, and Uniforce voice coils.
 
Credit: Audeze
“With the LCD-S20, we’re bringing Audeze’s renowned studio-quality sound to a broader audience without compromising on innovation or performance,” Audeze CEO, Sankar Thiagasamudram, explains. “The integration of our SLAM technology is a leap forward in both audio fidelity and user experience.”
“LCD-S20 is not just an entry point into the Audeze family; it’s a testament to our commitment to making world-class audio accessible to everyone, from budding musicians to seasoned audiophiles,” he adds.
The headphones have also already received praise from audio engineer Marc Urselli. The three time Grammy-Winner has insisted that the LCD-S20s “a game-changer for tracking headphones in the studio”.
LCD-S20 headphones are available now for $499.

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Best free plugins 2025: 14 free drum machines that’ll help you make beats fasterPhysical drum machines are brilliantly tactile and can give you punchy percussion sounds that aren’t always immediately available in your DAW. However, there are plenty of plugins that can get you in the groove and shake up your workflow with functions that most hardware is simply not capable of achieving. We love the charm of hardware, but sometimes it’s best to build interesting beats in the box and experiment with the power of software.

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What’s even better is there is a range of drum machine plugins out there that are free to download, with many compatible on both macOS and Windows. We’ve collated some of the most impressive drum machine plugins that come at no cost at all and are far more fun than lining up samples in your DAW’s arrangement window.
The best freeware drum machines at a glance:

Native Instruments Beats Collection
BPB Cassette Drums
99 Sounds Drum Machine
606 Koncept
Synsonic BD-909
AudioSpillage MiniSpillage
Beat Factory Drums
Drum Pro
MeldaProduction MDrummer Small
Manda Audio MT Power Drum Kit 2
Jamstix 4 Free
Speedrum Lite
Triaz Player
BFD Player

Native Instruments Beats Collection
Image: Native Instruments
NI’s Beats Collection is part of Native Instruments’ free Komplete Start plugin suite. It offers 288 pre-made Grooves across 90 kits for fast rhythmic patterns. You can play your own rhythms with a keyboard or pads, export Groove patterns with MIDI drag and drop, and customise drum sounds with studio-grade effects like chorus and reverb.
Features:

288 pre-made Grooves across 90 kits
Customisable drum sounds with studio-grade effects
Dedicated parameters for tweaking built-in effects
Grooves page for pattern playback adjustment

Find out more at Native Instruments.
BPB Cassette Drums

The BPB Cassette Drums plugin bundle includes three digital drum machines, using sounds sampled from BPB’s Cassette 606, Cassette 808 and Cassette 909 drum sample packs. You get Roland TR-606, TR-808 and TR-909 replicas that sound pretty convincing. Not bad, considering you’re not paying a dime for them.
Each of these lovely-looking and easy-to-use plugins have three modes, effectively giving you nine separate drum machines to play with. The clean original sounds of each drum machine are available, while the Warm and Hot modes give you saturated recordings and have been re-sampled from an audio cassette deck, giving each engine a slightly different feel.
Features:

Compatibility: VST/AU, 32-bit, 64-bit, PC/macOS
Number of voices: 7
Clean, Warm and Hot kits
Release and volume knobs
Options to route drums to individual outputs
On-screen keyboard

Find out more at BedroomProducersBlog.com.
99 Sounds Drum Machine

The simply named Drum Machine by 99Sounds is a nifty little thing used, in the developer’s video tutorial, to make bright, energetic EDM beats. But, of course, it can be used to build drum patterns for any genre and style, so long as you spend the time getting to know it.
It boasts 12 kits with the ability to include eight drum sounds per kit, with each sound being sourced from the 99Sounds Drum Samples library. Users can pan each drum sound, or the whole pattern, to their preference. There is also a low-pass filter and a high-pass filter, giving you options to tweak your sound within the plugin.
Features:

Compatibility: 64-bit VSTi/AUi Host, macOS & PC
Number of voices: 8
12 drum kits
Low filter & high filter
Multiple outputs

606 Koncept

Sample Science’s 606 Koncept plugin is a free 606 emulation with its unique own processing capabilities.
You can pitch sounds down or up using the plugin’s intriguing pitch control feature, change the decay of each track, and set the individual levels and panning. There are multiple LFO options including the depth and rate of filters. You can add glide, reverb and set the cutoff of your drum sequence, and, on top of all that, users are able to add vinyl, tape and sub sound layers to provide a layer of texture over everything.
Features:

Compatibility: 64-bit VSTi/VST3/AUi Host, PC & Mac
Number of voices: 7, each with polyphonic, monophonic and legato modes
Vinyl, tape-hiss & sub sound
Multi-pitch sum mixers
LFO & room reverb effects
Amplitude range controls

Find out more at Sample Science. 
Synsonic BD-909

You didn’t think we could possibly do a freeware drum-machine round-up without including at least one TR emulation, did you? This is (obviously) a 909 emulator, but only the actual kick drum from that machine. Okay, that’s not a lot, you might think, but the 909 kick has backed tens of thousands of dance tracks and there are plenty of controls to shape it into just any incarnation of that sound you can imagine. There are 16 presets, too, if you think you need them.
Features:

Compatibility: macOS and PC, 32/64-bit
Multiple tweaking controls: pitch, accent, decay, tune decay, attack, hold, tune depth, noise decay, distort
Distortion effect
MIDI control
Factory presets

Find out more at Synsonic.
AudioSpillage MiniSpillage

A returning drum favourite and must inclusion is MiniSpillage, a synth/drum plugin. It’s still macOS only, we’re afraid, but an essential download for that platform. It’s a cut-down version of AudioSpillage’s DrumSpillage with three drum pads for kick, hat and hollow drum. It comes with several kits and synth features – LFO, filter, modulation and distortion – to stretch those kit sounds far and wide. It’s been around for aeons, but several updates keep this as one of the best macOS drum/synth freebies.
Features:

Compatibility: macOS (AU), 64-bit
LFO, filter, modulation & distortion
12 exclusive drum models
Classic analogue, physical modelling and FM synthesis

Find out more at Audio Spillage.
Beat Factory Drums

Some of our free drum plugins do dance music, some rock – and Beat Factory Drums is designed to fill in the gaps, since it’s aimed primarily for hip-hop, dubstep and more. It features 10 kits, limited but essential sonic tweaks and hands-on MPC pads. It sounds great and is very well worth the 50MB download, which gives you the kick sounds and a plugin that runs on any system, old or new.
Features:

Compatibility: macOS & Windows/ 32/64-bit
10 drum kits
120 drum hits included

Find out more at Beat Skillz.
Drum Pro

Make no mistake, Drum Pro is unashamedly a shell drum machine to add paid-for kits later, but it does come with 20 kits sampled from nine drum machines (from Roland, Boss, Novation and more) so you get a very decent start, without paying a thing. You get MPC-style pads and basic mixing and while it won’t quite cover all your drumming needs as developers Studio Linked claims from the off – but will with their paid-for packs – it still delivers a great variety of beats, for free.
Features:

Number of voices: 12
Compatibility: macOS and PC, 32/64-bit
Attack, decay, sustain & release
Global ADSR/ reverb

Find out more at Studio Linked.
MeldaProduction MDrummer Small

Melda doesn’t seem to be shouting about MDrummer Small as much as it once did, but you can still download it from the download/archive part of the company’s website. It’s well worth it, featuring hundreds of drum sets, components, multisamples, rhythms and loops and some of the features from the larger, paid-for MDrummer. So it might be worth downloading fast before it (possibly) disappears.
Features:

Compatibility: macOS and Windows
30 drumsets
500MB of samples
400 drumset components
AI engine loads new editable loops (2,500 available)

Find out more at Melda Production.
Manda Audio MT Power Drum Kit 2

It was all getting a little bit too electronic around here, so how about a piece of freeware to rock your world? This will still shake your cones like any TR drum machine, though, because MT Power Drum Kit 2 is all about power sounds, albeit from a pop, rock or metal perspective. You get plenty of kit sounds and groove, fill and rhythm MIDI files to get you up and running. It’s a great real and acoustic option if your world is to machine led.
Features:

Compatibility: macOS and Windows
32/64-bit
Number of voices: 13
1000s of assorted rhythms
In-built compresser
Easy-to-use Composer tool
DAW-like track dashboard
MIDI capability

Find out more at Power Drum Kit.
Jamstix 4 Free
Jamstix 4 Free. Image: Press
This lite version of Rayzoon’s drum modelling instrument has no restrictions that will slow you down – just a smaller content set than the paid version. In VST and AAX formats for Windows only, it has 8 drummers and 21 style models as well as 200 acoustic drum samples. Focusing on the feel and style of a real drummer, it provides 3D models of real drums that sound great when programmed by MIDI or played by hand.
Features:

VST for Windows
Onboard sequencer
Onboard FX
200 drum samples
Can be upgraded to the full version with all content

Find out more at Rayzoon. 
Speedrum Lite
Speedrum Lite. Image: Press
This cool MPC-style sampler instrument comes for macOS, Windows and Linux. Designed to be quick and easy to use with a fast workflow, it provides 16 MPC-style pads onto which you can drag and drop samples, plus swap samples between pads.
There are a couple of filters and mono or poly voice modes, and flexible pad behaviours, including cut and cancel for more advanced performance styles. Edit waveforms inside the plugin and route each pad to one of 16 outputs if required.
Speedrum Lite has support for all major audio formats so you don’t even have to convert files first – just get making beats and loops! Also check out Transperc by the same developer, a transient shaper that pairs well with the instrument.
Features:

16 MPC-style pads
Supports multiple audio file formats
Onboard sample waveform editing
Cut and choke groups for pads
Multiple audio output routing

Find out more at Apisonic Audio. 
Triaz Player
Triaz Player. Image: Press
Triaz Player by Wave Alchemy is a surprisingly fully-featured free version of Triaz, a sample player plugin for macOS and PC. It comes with 4,000 samples and 200 presets and lets you tweak sounds with filters, envelopes, LFOs and other effects. You can import expansion packs, and though some features of the full instrument are disabled in this free version, you are able to export beats by dragging and dropping audio stems, mixes, one-shots or MIDI right into your DAW. While the full version offers more content, this free one has a ton of cool stuff to get you started.
Features:

4,000 samples
200 presets
Mac or PC plugin
Sound tweaking
Drag and drop from plugin to DAW

Find out more at Wave Alchemy. 
BFD Player
BFD Player. Image: Press
BFD is a legendary “real” drum plugin, and the Player version is completely free! With a slick interface based on the paid version, it runs as a plugin or in standalone mode, and the developers have provided a mixture of professional drum kits sorted into separate elements and grooves to get you up and running, making beats in no time. It also supports expansions, should you want to grow your sound set in future.
Though you can play it manually, BFD Player encourages you to use any of the 340 bundled grooves across the different kits to make a backbone for your tracks. Then, use the built-in mixer to tweak your sound, even routing the drum sounds out individually for more processing with your favourite effects plugins.
Features

Plugin or standalone for Mac and PC
340 bundled grooves
Expandable with new packs
Built-in mixer
Kits split by drum element

Find out more at BFD. 
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Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance workOne of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir, leading a company executive to offer an extensive defense of Palantir’s work. The back-and-forth came after federal filings showed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s […]

milliForth-6502, a Forth for the 6502 CPUForth is popular on small computers because it is simple to implement, yet quite powerful. But what happens when you really need to shrink it? Well, if your target is the 6502, there’s milliForth-6502.
This is a port of milliForth, which is a fork of sectorforth. The sectorforth project set the standard, implementing a Forth so small it could fit in a 512-byte boot sector. The milliForth project took sectorforth and made it even smaller, weighing in at only 336 bytes. However, both milliForth and sectorforth are for the x86 architecture. With milliForth-6502, [Alvaro G. S. Barcellos] wanted to see how small he could make a 6502 implementation.

So how big is the milliForth-6502 binary? Our tests indicate: 1,110 bytes. It won’t quite fit in a boot sector, but it’s pretty small!
Most of the code for milliForth-6502 is assembly code in sector-6502.s. This code is compiled using tools from the cc65 project. To run the code lib6502 is used for 6502 emulation.
Emulation is all well and good as far as it goes, especially for development and testing, but we’d love to see this code running on a real 6502. Even better would be a 6502 built from scratch! If you get this code running we’d love to hear how it went!

OCTO8R Xpression 2Second "Xpression" presets pack is dedicated to expose the sonic character of DS Audio Thorn. 55 Presets include: Arps - 9. Basses - 10. Leads - 10. Pads - 10. Plucks - 11. Seq - 5. MOST of presets are "morphable" by Modwheel and are marked by "MW" in the name. Demo: https://youtu.be/N9h-J-f2wcg Read More

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Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy3The leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they are investigating how 23andMe’s bankruptcy might affect customers’ data. Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bilirakis, and Gary Palmer (all Republicans) sent a letter Thursday to the genetic testing company’s interim CEO Joe Selsavage asking a number of questions about how 23andMe will handle customer […]

They Hacked a Nuclear Power Plant! Whoops! Don’t Make a Sound!What do you do with an unused nuclear reactor project? In Washington, one of them was hacked to remove sound, all in the name of science.
In 1977, a little way outside of Seattle, Washington Nuclear Projects 3 and 5 (WNP-3 and WNP-5) were started as part of Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS, pronounced “whoops”). They ran over budget, and in the 80s they were mothballed even though WNP-3 was nearly complete.

In 2010 when [Ron] and [Bonnie Sauro] were starting their new acoustical lab, NWAA Labs, they thought they wanted to build in a mountain, but what they found was an auxiliary reactor building. The structure was attached to a defunct nuclear power facility. With concrete and rebar walls five feet thick, it was the ideal site for their acoustical experiments and tests.
There are strict facility requirements from standards bodies such as American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for acoustical labs which help ensure that different labs achieve comparable results. For example, you need stable temperature, humidity, and reverberation. The temperature within the facility is a stable 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 degrees Celsius) regardless of the temperature outside.
Companies use acoustical labs to inform their designs and ensure that they meet acoustic standards or requirements, particularly those related to noise emissions. Over the last fifteen years, NWAA Labs has tested carpet samples, noise-cancelling headphones, sound-dampening construction materials, noisy washing machines, and even an airplane’s crew cabin!
If there was any question about whether [Ron Sauro] qualifies as a hacker, this quote removes all doubt: “I’m a carpenter, a plumber, a welder, I can fix a car,” he says. “Anything that needs to be done, I can do. Because I have to.”
Maybe we should send a wearable cone of silence to [Ron] for a complete test. If you’ve ever hacked a nuclear power plant, do let us know in the comments!

Independent Musician News: Touring, Merch. Samples & ViewsLast week, our tips, strategies and independent musician news covered the cost of touring, how to create band merch, copyright protocol for covers, view counts, Spotify royalties and more...
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