Live Nation and Crew Nation pledge $1M for Los Angeles wildfire reliefThe initiative offers grants of up to $5,000 for musicians, live music crew, and live music industry workers affected by the fires
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Novation and Klevgrand announce merger and new software collab launching this MarchNAMM 2025: British musical equipment manufacturer Novation and Stockholm-based music software company Klevgrand have announced their merger, launching at NAMM 2025.
The two brands share a long history of collaboration, with nearly every Novation controller since 2018 shipping with Klevgrand software instruments and effects in the box.

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Now, they’re joining forces to “explore new ways of delivering the best end-to-end music making experience” – starting with exciting new software designed specifically for Novation controller users.
Set to launch in March 2025, their first software collab aims to help Novation users create and play with amazing sounds faster than they ever have before. But that isn’t all. Throughout the year, the newly merged team plans to deliver a range of unique offers, activations and more for its customers.
For those attending the upcoming NAMM show, you’re invited to an informal meet-and-greet at the Novation booth (Hall A, 10810) on Thursday, 23 January, from 2:30pm-4:30pm. There, the team will be showcasing a beta version of its first software collaboration and chatting about the future of this exciting partnership over coffee.
Attendees will also have the chance to experience one-on-one demos of Novation’s latest Launchkey MK4 controller, guided by a team of expert product specialists at the booth.
In our review of the MK4, we rated the MIDI controller an 8/10, praising the tactile feel of its semi-weighted keyboard as well as its tight DAW integration with major apps (Ableton Live especially).
In other news, NAMM CEO John Mlynczak has confirmed that this year’s NAMM show will proceed as planned despite the recent Los Angeles wildfires, with the team ready to offer “additional accommodations” where required.
Set to take place on 21–25 January in Anaheim, California, NAMM 2025 sees the return of several major names in music and tech, including Behringer, Fender, Marshall, Gibson and more.
Keep up to date with NAMM news and more on MusicTech.
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Dillo Turns 25, and Releases a New VersionThe chances are overwhelming, that you are reading this article on a web browser powered by some form of the Blink or WebKit browser engines as used by Google, Apple, and many open source projects, or perhaps the Gecko engine as used by Firefox. At the top end of the web browser world there are now depressingly few maintained browser engines — we think to the detriment of web standards evolution.
Moving away from the big players though, there are several small browser projects which eschew bells and whistles for speed and compactness, and we’re pleased to see that one of the perennial players has released a new version as it passes its quarter century.
Dillo describes itself as ” a fast and small graphical web browser”, and it provides a basic window on the web with a tiny download and the ability to run on very low-end hardware. Without JavaScript and other luxuries it sometimes doesn’t render a site as you’d see it in Chrome or Firefox, but we’re guessing many users would relish some escape from the web’s cycle-sucking garbage. The new version 3.2.0 brings bug fixes, as well as math formula rendering, and navigation improvements.
The special thing about Dillo is that this is a project which came back from the dead. We reported last year how a developer resurrected it after a previous release back in 2015, and it seems that for now at least it has a healthy future. So put it on your retro PC, your original Raspberry Pi, or your Atari if you have one, and try it on your modern desktop if you need reminding just how fast web browsing can be.
This isn’t the only interesting browser project on the block, we’re also keeping an eye on Ladybird, which is aiming for those big players rather than simplicity like Dillo.
Thanks [Feinfinger] for the tip.

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Bambu Connect’s Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key ExtractedHot on the heels of Bambu Lab’s announcement that it would be locking down all network access to its X1-series 3D printers with new firmware, the X.509 certificate and private key from the Bambu Connect application have now been extracted by [hWuxH]. This application was intended to be the sole way for third-party software to send print jobs to Bambu Lab hardware as we previously reported.
The Bambu Connect app is a fairly low-effort Electron-based affair, with some attempt at obfuscation and encryption, but not enough to keep prying eyes out. The de-obfuscated main.js file can be found here, with the certificate and private key clearly visible. These are used to encrypt HTTP traffic with the printer, and is the sole thing standing in the way of tools like OrcaSlicer talking with authentication-enabled Bambu Lab printers.
As for what will be the next steps by Bambu Lab, it’s now clear that security through obfuscation is not going to be very effective here. While playing whack-a-mole with (paying) users who are only interested in using their hardware in the way that they want is certainly an option, this might be a wake-up call for the company that being more forthcoming with their userbase would be in anyone’s best interest.
We await Bambu Lab’s response with bated breath.

Compact Keystand by RockNRoller RockNRoller have announced the launch of a new two-tier keyboard stand that can be broken down quickly and neatly packed into an included carrying case.

TikTok is restoring service: What to do now!On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the law that will ban TikTok as of this Sunday January 19 and President-elect Trump said he wouldn't decide what to do until after he took office. With at least a temporary shutdown is likely, learn how to save TikTok content and followers.
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TikTok goes offline for 170m+ US users, as divest-or-ban law takes effectGoogle and Apple have also removed TikTok from their app stores to comply with the law.
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Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTokWith a TikTok ban looming in the United States, Perplexity AI is the latest bidder hoping to give the video app a new corporate home. CNBC first reported on Perplexity’s interest. A source with knowledge of the offer confirmed to TechCrunch that Perplexity (whose CEO Aravind Srinivas is pictured above) has submitted a bid to […]
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Investigating USB-to-Ethernet Dongles With “Malware” ClaimsRecently a video surfaced from someone claiming that certain USB-to-Ethernet dongles contained ‘malware’ among other big claims. Basically these dongles were said to be designed by China (and Russia) to spy on users and so on, but how much of this is actually grounded in reality? When [lcamtuf] dove into the topic, what he found was not so much a smoking gun, but rather a curious relic from the era when drivers-on-CD were being phased out.
The item that the video went bananas about was namely an additional SPI Flash chip on the PCB alongside the USB 2.0 – Ethernet IC, with many conspiracy theories being floated as to what it would be used for. After some digging, [lcamtuf] found that the IC used in these dongles (SR9900) is by a company called CoreChips Shenzhen, with a strong suggestions that it is a clone of the (2013-era) Realtek RTL8152B.
Both chips have an external SPI Flash option, which is used with the USB side to present a ‘virtual CD drive’ to the user when the dongle is plugged in. This was borne out with the SR9900 Windows system mass production tool that [lcamtuf] obtained a copy of. Included with the flashing tool is a 168 kB ISO image (containing the SR9900 driver package) which happily fits on the 512 kB Flash chip.
Although it’s always possible for chips and firmware to contain backdoors and malware, in this particular case it would appear to be that it’s merely a cruel reminder that 2013 is now already vanishing into the realm of ‘retro computing’ as us old fogies cling to our driver installation floppies and CDs.