Nomad Factory announce Analog Mastering Tools V2 The latest version of Nomad Factory's AMT suite promise to set a new standard in mixing and mastering software. 

Storage locker hunters uncover Kanye West gear in epic haul – featuring AKG mics, Yeezys, an Ensoniq sampler and moreA group of storage locker hunters have recently struck gold after uncovering a massive collection of Kanye West gear on their latest haul.
The team, known as Locker Blocker, unboxed the contents of their latest storage locker purchase in a ‘live’ opening video on TikTok last week. The excitement kicked off with the reveal of a flight case labelled with the name “Kanye West” and the word “Grammys”.

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Among the most notable finds are some pretty pricey AKG C414 microphones, custom in-ear monitors, an actual Ensoniq ASR-10 sampling keyboard (Yes, we’re serious) with the name ‘Tarik’ written on it and what looks to be stage costumes from a Hollywood Bowl performance.
There are also stacks of manilla envelopes containing supposedly never-before-seen Yeezy sketches and designs, and a pair of Yeezy Season 6 boots to top things off.
The video has since gone viral, even catching the attention of producer Mike Dean, who has worked closely with West on many of his albums. Dean expressed curiosity in the comments, asking if any of his cases were among the items, to which Locker Blocker confirmed there were not.

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While the team has not disclosed their plans for the items or their estimated value, the find undoubtedly holds significant cultural and monetary worth — as many users in the comment section have pointed out.
“They’ve literally hit the Kanye West jackpot,” wrote one fan.
In other news, Kanye West and the estate of Donna Summer recently reached a settlement over a copyright dispute after the rapper was accused of using an uncleared sample of her 1977 hit I Feel Love on his Vultures 1 album.
The Donna Summer estate said West had gone ahead with using the sample despite them explicitly declining him permission previously.
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High and Mighty
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KingPollo
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Why Scott Painter is selling a beach house to start a new vehicle software companyAutonomy founder Scott Painter is spinning out a new company called Autonomy Data Services, or ADS, he tells TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. 
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If You Give A Dev A Tricked Out Xbox, They’ll Patch Halo 2[Ryan Miceli] had spent a few years poring over and reverse-engineering Halo 2 when a friend asked for a favor. His friend created an improved Xbox with significant overclocks, RAM upgrades, BIOS hacks, and a processor swap. The goal was simple: patch the hardcoded maximum resolution from 480p to 720p and maybe even 1080p. With double the CPU clock speed but only a 15% overclock on the GPU, [Ryan] got to work.
Step one was to increase the size of the DirectX framebuffers. Increasing the output resolution introduced severe graphical glitches and rendering bugs. The game reuses the framebuffers multiple times as memory views, and each view encodes a header at the top with helpful information like width, height, and tiling. After patching that, [Ryan] had something more legible, but some models weren’t loading (particularly the water in the title screen). The answer was the texture accumulation layer. The Xbox has a hardware limitation of only sampling four textures per shader pass, which means you need a buffer the size of the render resolution to accumulate the textures if you want to sample more than four textures. Trying to boot the game resulted in an out-of-memory crash. The Xbox [Ryan] was working on had been upgraded with an additional 64MB of RAM, but the memory allocator in Halo 2 wasn’t taking advantage of it. Yet.
To see where the memory was going, [Ryan] wrote a new tool called XboxImageGrabber to show where memory was allocated and by whom. Most games make a few substantial initial allocations from the native allocator, then toss it over to a custom allocator tuned for their game. However, the extra 64MB of RAM was in dev consoles and meant as debug RAM, which meant the GPU couldn’t properly access it. Additionally, between the lower 64MB and upper is the Xbox kernel. Now, it became an exercise of patching the allocator to work with two blobs of memory instead of one contiguous one. It also moved runtime data into the upper 64MB while keeping video allocations in the lower. Ultimately, [Ryan] found it easier to patch the kernel to allow memory allocations the GPU could use in the upper 64MB of memory. Running the game at 720p resulted in only a semi-playable framerate, dropping to 10fps in a few scenes.
After some initial tests, [Ryan] concluded that it wasn’t the GPU or the CPU that was the bottleneck but the swap chain. Halo 2 turns VSync on by default, meaning it has to wait until a blank period before swapping between its two framebuffers. A simple tweak is to add a third frame buffer. The average FPS jumped 10%, and the GPU became the next bottleneck to tweak. With a light GPU overclock, the game was getting very close to 30fps. Luckily for [Ryan], no BIOS tweak was needed as the GPU clock hardware can be mapped and tweaked as an MMIO. After reverse engineering, a debugging feature to visual cache evictions, [Ryan] tuned the texture and geometry cache to minimize pop-ins that the original game was infamous for.
Overall, it’s an incredible hack with months of hard work behind it. The code for the patch is on Github, and there’s a video after the break comparing the patched and unpatched games. If you still need more Halo in your life, why not make yourself a realistic battle rifle from the game?

Moonbounce MusicThere’s something inspiring about echos. Who among us hasn’t called out or clapped hands in a large space just to hear the sound reflected back? Radio takes this to a whole new level. You can bounce signals from buildings, aircraft, the ionisphere, or even the Moon itself. Humans have been bouncing radio waves from the moon for decades. It’s been used at war, and in peacetime. But [Hainbach] might be the first to use it for music.
Earth Moon Earth or EME communication is quite popular with amateur radio operators. With the right equipment, you can bounce a signal off the moon and hear the echo around 2.5 seconds later. The echo isn’t quite normal though. The moon and the earth are both rotating and moving in relation to each other. This causes Doppler shifts. At higher frequencies, even the craters and surface features of the moon can be heard in the echo.
[Hainbach] spent some time at a learning moonbounce at a large radiotelescope,  He wanted to share this strange audio effect with the world. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have the large microwave dish required for this. The next best thing was to create an application which emulates the sound of a moon bounce. To this end, [Hainbach] created a Moon Echo, an audio plugin that emulates a moonbounce.
Moon Echo was created using sounds from a soprano signer and a double bass. [Hainbach] had to be careful not to be too musical, as ham operators are not allowed to broadcast music. This meant all the tests had to be broken into short non-musical clips. Rolling all this empirical data into a model took quite a bit of work, but the end result is worth it.
If you’d like to learn how to moonbounce yourself, check this article out.

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Drake just dropped 100GB of unreleased content – and it gives you a peek into the sound of Abbey Road StudiosDrake has once again surprised the music world with his latest content drop, offering fans a glimpse into his creative process at the legendary Abbey Road Studios via 100GB of unreleased content.
This treasure trove, available on the newly launched website 100gigs.org, includes unreleased tracks, demos, and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage. It also marks the first major release from the Canadian rapper following his ongoing feud with Kendrick Lamar.
The pair have been trading diss tracks for the last couple of months, with Drake only featuring on tracks like Snowd4y’s Wag Gwan Delilah and Gordo’s Sideways during this period.

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With the new drop, fans now have an epic 100GB worth of fresh material to explore. Among the highlights of Drake’s latest release are three brand-new songs: It’s Up, featuring the dynamic duo of Young Thug and 21 Savage, Housekeeping Knows, a collaboration with Bitch From Da Souf rapper Latto, and a new Drake track titled Blue Green Red.
Beyond the music, fans can also dive into intimate studio sessions from the iconic Abbey Road Studios as well as from Barbados, alongside a variety of never-before-seen video content. In a moment that epitomises the behind-the-scenes chaos of music production, we see Drake’s producer, Noah “40” Shebib, working on tracks at Abbey Road before he accidentally knocks out the power for the audio interface running Pro Tools.
In short, it’s a lot of footage for a lot of stuff. Drake and his label OVO Sound have also shared screenshots of the site via their socials, inviting fans to dig away at the media dump.
Check out the new tracks via Drake’s new “plottttwistttttt” Instagram account below.

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IBM’s new ‘Lightweight Engine’ could be a game changer for fintechJP Morgan just rolled out ChatGPT to 60,000 employees, demonstrating the demand for generative AI in the financial services sector.

The tech world mourns Susan WojcickiSusan Wojcicki, a longtime Googler who spent nearly a decade as the CEO of YouTube, passed away Friday after a two-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer. Wojcicki, who was 56, famously rented the garage of her Menlo Park home to Larry Page and Sergey Brin as they were starting Google. She then became one […]
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3D Printed Jet Engine Goes TurboPrinting a model jet engine is quite an accomplishment. But it wasn’t enough for [linus3d]. He wanted to redesign it to have a turbojet, an afterburner, and a variable exhaust nozzle. You can see how it all goes together in the video below.
This took months of work and it shows. This probably won’t make a good rainy-day weekend project. You do need a few ball bearings and some M2 hardware, but it is mostly 3D printed.

True turbojets are most often found on military planes. They are loud, don’t perform well at low speeds, and are generally not very efficient. A variation, the turbofan, is what you usually find on passenger jets. They are quieter and work better at low speeds, but have more parts and, thus, more maintenance.
Unlike a true turbojet, turbofan engines have a cold section and a hot section. The bypass ratio refers to how much air flows through the cold path relative to the amount flowing through the hot path. This cold air provides additional thrust, making the turbofan engine more efficient, especially at lower speeds. The reduced demand on the hot air thrust also reduces the amount of noise.
Plastic isn’t going to cut it for a real jet engine, although you can 3D print some parts of one. Bonus hacker cred if you build your jet engine by hand.

Be your own DJ with QN8066 and an Arduino LibraryThe QN8066 is a fun little FM transmitter chip. It covers the full FM broadcast band and has built-in DSP. You would find this sort of part in car cell phone adapters before every vehicle included Bluetooth or an AUX port.  [Ricardo] has created an Arduino library to bring the QN8066 to the masses.
The chip is rather easy to use – control is handled with a common I2C interface. All the complex parts – Phase Locked Loop (PLL), RF front end, power management, and audio processing are all hidden inside. [Ricardo’s] library makes it even easier to use. One of the awesome features of the 8066 is the fact that it handles Radio Data System (RDS). RDS is the subcarrier datastream that allows FM stations to inject information like song title and artist into the signal. The data is then displayed on your radio screen.
You can find the source to [Ricardo’s] library on GitHub. Using it is as simple as picking it up from the Arduino IDE.
If you are looking for an RDS-enabled radio to test out your QN8066 design, you wouldn’t do too bad with this Gameboy cartridge receiver.
Click through the break for a video from [Ricardo] explaining his QN8066 design.

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