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Is Apple planning to ‘sherlock’ Arc?With the release of iOS 18 later this year, Apple may again borrow ideas third-party apps. This time it's Arc that could be among those affected.
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Pixel Graphics From an HD44780, By Cutting Wires[Felipe Tavares] wasn’t satisfied with the boring default fonts on an HD44780-based display. And while you can play some clever tricks with user-defined characters, if you want to treat the display as an array of pixels, you’ve got to get out your scalpel and cut up a data line.
The hack builds on work from [MisterHW] who documented the bits going from the common display driver to the display, and suggested that by cutting the data line and sending your own bits, you could send arbitrary graphics. The trick was to make sure that they’re in sync with the display, though, which means reading the frame sync line in user code.
This done, it looks like [Felipe] has it working! If you can read Rust for the ESP32, he has even provided us with a working demo of the code that makes it work.
We can’t help but wonder if it’s not possible to go even lower-level and omit the HD44780 entirely. Has anyone tried driving one of these little LCD displays directly from a microcontroller, essentially implementing the HD44780 yourself?
Any way you slice it, this is a cool hack, and it opens up the doors to DOOM, or as [MisterHW] suggests, Bad Apple on these little displays . If you do it, we want to see it.
If your needs aren’t so exotic, the classic HD44780 display is a piece of cake to get working, and an invaluable tool in anyone’s toolbox.

The DoJ is suing to break up Live Nation. What exactly does the lawsuit aim to achieve – and could the concert giant win?The DoJ has its work cut out for it, if it wants to see Live Nation and Ticketmaster broken up
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Sony Music in talks to acquire Queen catalog in potential $1bn deal (report)Potential deal would become one of the biggest single-artist music catalog sales in history
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Ticketmaster Hacked: Personal info of 560M users is for saleOn Tuesday, the notorious ShinyHunters hacking group claimed to have breached Live Nation-Ticketmaster and stolen the personal data of 560 million users, including payment details. As of Wednesday, Live Nation-Ticketmaster. Continue reading
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PinkPantheress: “No song needs to be longer than 2 minutes 30 seconds”Generally, pop songs have always been shorter in length than their counterparts in more musically complex genres, like prog metal, or jazz, for example.
And British pop sensation and producer PinkPantheress is leaning fully into shorter tracks; four of her top five tracks on Spotify are under two minutes in length, and the other is just two minutes and 11 seconds.

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And in a new interview with ABC News for its Prime Playlist segment, she asserts that no songs need to be “longer than two-minutes-30”.
“I was able to experiment, and making short songs was just a result of me experimenting,” the 23-year-old Bath-born singer explains. “A song doesn’t need to be longer than two-minutes-30, in my opinion.”
She continues: “We don’t need to repeat a verse. We don’t need to have a bridge. You don’t need it. We don’t need a long outro.”

PinkPantheress’s comments will no doubt ruffle some feathers, but they also speak volumes in terms of the generation from which she hails. The star – whose real name is Victoria Beverley Walker – can attribute much of her early success to TikTok, the video-sharing platform where short, attention-grabbing videos are the name of the game.
In the early days of her career, after enjoying little success posting songs to SoundCloud, she began sharing videos on the ByteDance-owned platform, including a 10-second snippet of her track Just a Waste, which went viral.

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She has since enjoyed massive success as a musician, racking up hundreds of millions of plays on streaming platforms, releasing two studio albums – To Hell With It (2021) and Heaven Knows (2023) – and even being named Billboard’s Producer of the Year earlier in 2024.
PinkPantheress is set to head out on tour in the US in July. For tickets and full list of dates, head to her official website.
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Fab Factory Studios expand North Hollywood facility Fab Factory Studios have announced the addition of a newly remodelled state-of-the-art live room at their North Hollywood location

Printing a Replacement Case for the ThinkPad 701cEven among ThinkPads, which are nearly universally loved by hardware hackers and Linux tinkerers alike, the 701c is a particularly rare and desirable machine. Best known for it’s “butterfly” slide out keyboard, the IBM-designed subnotebook from the mid-1990s has gained a following all its own, with active efforts to repair and restore any surviving specimens still out in the wild.
[polymatt] has already taken on a number of 701c restoration projects, but the recent release of a 3D printable case for the vintage laptop is arguably the most impressive to date. After spending an untold number of hours with an original case and a pair of calipers, the final design has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license — in other words, you’re free to print one to spruce up your 701c, but don’t run off a stack of them and start trying to move them on Etsy.

Originally, [polymatt] just wanted to 3D print a replacement for the laptop’s display bezel. But as often happens with these sort of projects, things just sort of started rolling and pretty soon the whole case was modeled. As you might imagine, the printed case has some slight differences between the original. For example, the printed version is designed to use heat set inserts. There’s also certain components, such as the hinges, which need to be sourced from an original case.
The most obvious use of these files is to perform repairs — if a piece of your 701c case has broken, you might be able to use one of these files to create a replacement. But it also offers some fascinating possibilities for future modifications. If you were planning on replacing the internals of the 701c with something more modern, these files would make an excellent starting point to create a customized case to better fit more modern components.
Whatever you end up doing with these files, don’t be shy — let us know.

Today is the Last Day to comment on MLC RedesignationThe MLC's sometimes controversial first five years are almost up, and the US Copyright Office is asking for public comment by today, May 29th.....
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“It was like a beam came out of heaven and dropped this beautiful song”: Vocalist Dan Tyminski reflects on Avicii’s Hey Brother as it hits 1 billion streamsAvicii’s Hey Brother has become his fifth track to hit one billion streams on Spotify, prompting Dan Tyminski, the bluegrass musician whose vocals appear on the track, to weigh in on the Swedish DJ’s legacy.
Hey Brother is the third track on Avicii’s debut album True, which also features the likes of Wake Me Up and Addicted to You. Wake Me Up hit two billion streams on Spotify in August last year.

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Tyminski recalls the wholesome moment between him and his then-19-year-old daughter when she found out he’d received the offer to sing on the now-classic EDM song.
“I remember it so well. I grew up in kind of a bluegrass bubble. I listened to one style of music and that was pretty much it,” he says. “And I remember one day my assistant called me and said we had an offer to sing a song on someone’s record.”
He continues: “At the time my daughter was 19, and she listened to every type of music. I knew that she would know who it was. So I texted her and said, ‘Have you heard of Avicii?’ And she responded immediately, she said: ‘Swedish DJ. He’s a genius. He’s my favourite artist. Why?’
“So I said, ‘Well, I think he wants me to sing a song on his next record.’ And I see the bubbles come up, she’s texting, and one word: ‘Bullshit’. She doesn’t believe me.
“Anyway, she freaked out so hard, she said – and I’ll never forget this – she literally said, ‘If you don’t do this, I’m out.’”
Tyminski goes on to say that he quickly “fell in love” with the song and its subject matter, adding: “[It’s] by far the most listened to piece of music that I will ever have. I don’t think I will ever have the opportunity to record something that’s reached farther into the corners of the Earth than Hey Brother.
“It was like a beam came out of heaven and dropped this beautiful, amazing song.”

Six years on from his tragic death in 2018, a new documentary exploring the life of Avicii – titled I’m Tim – is set to premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
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How to run an effective music PR campaign on a shoestring budgetBelieve it or not it's still possible to have a successful release when you're tight on funds. These expert tips cover crafting your unique story, leveraging social media, and building crucial industry connections.....
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“I have an entire army of people that need their pay cheque”: Docuseries executively produced by Eminem explores the internet’s impact on the music businessA two-part docuseries on the impact of technology on the music industry is set to land this June. Both Eminem and LeBron James served as executive producers, among Maverick Carter, Paul Rosenberg and Steve Stoute.
The series, called How Music Got Free, will land on Paramount+ on 11 June in the US and Canada, and the following day in the UK, Australia, Latin America, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy, as per The Hollywood Reporter.

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The documentary first premiered at SXSW earlier this year, and “details the fascinating, and often funny, inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music during the late-’90s and early-2000s”.
The trailer’s description continues, “File sharing technology, combined with the insatiable demand for new music, created both the means and the motive for millions of young people to participate in outright theft – and be celebrated for it.
“From New York City, to Los Angeles, to the small factory town of Shelby, North Carolina, the two-part series features the quirky genius of the heretofore-unknown ‘pirates,’ the drama of the FBI investigations and convictions, and the frontline accounts of music’s biggest artists and executives.”
The series is narrated by rapper and producer Method Man, and features interviews with Eminem, 50 Cent, Timbaland, Jimmy Iovine, Rocsi Diaz, Rhymefest, Steve Stoute and more. You can check out the trailer below, in which Eminem hilariously reveals he originally “thought Yahoo was a person”.

“As a filmmaker, I wanted to challenge the narrow lens of who we regard as tech innovators,” series director Alexandria Stapleton says. “How Music Got Free is a story that proves brilliant minds can be found in unlikely places, like the rural, forgotten factory town of Shelby, North Carolina.”
Stream How Music Got Free via Paramount+ from 11 June.
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Dulcet Voice from The Crow Hill Company Dot Allison Dulcet Voice captures the unique, instrument-like vocal style, combining a range of recorded articulations with a collection of sound-design tools and effects.