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Serena Williams is back.
First, by teaming up with rising Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko for a straight-sets win over the No. 3 seeds in women’s doubles at the Queen’s grass-court tournament in London,
Williams sent a message to the tennis world that it may be in for an interesting summer.
Then she sent an even bigger message, by accepting a wild card into the singles at Wimbledon, which she has won seven times.
Williams’ comeback comes just under one year after she d…

Serena Williams and the coming reckoning with GLP-1s and performance enhancement
GLP-1s are not prohibited; the way they work means they might never be. Anti-doping authorities are still monitoring how athletes use them.

Music To Midnight
Relax after a long day and listen to the best in Jazz. Interviews with musicians, singers and producers of Jazz music from around the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/music-to-midnight/

BOK BOK - "Misfit" (1980)
Heard this song earlier. First time in decades. It's always a weird feeling to all of a sudden recall a very old memory through song.
This is Buzzcocks bassist Steve Garvey and Fall drummer Karl Burns. This is pretty much their only release. It's ok.
#music #UK

Things that ended up not being fixed in the final release of #macOS 27 Golden Gate:
- can't drag & drop windows into the bar in mission control to fullscreen them, this still worked even in the first beta of macOS 27 and then was suddenly gone
- weird lack of contrast at the bottom of the new traffic lights in light mode (dark mode looks fine)

Just when I thought this band couldn't get any nerdier, they release a PowerPoint music video about Kotlin development. #nanowarofsteel

Apple rolls out child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apples-new-child-safety-features-now-avail…

Apple’s new child safety features now available
Apple’s new suite of tools that help parents create safer digital experiences for their kids is now available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more.

The IFPI says music companies and distributors agreed on new rules to combat the use of AI-generated music to defraud streaming services and divert royalties (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1f17709-7fc8-4afc-8ac9-38cd923f0064

MazzikaAI: A knowledge-based performance-to-prompt compiler for real-time Arabic maqam accompaniment with a streaming text-to-music model
Jiaxin Du, Boulbaba Abdeljaouad, Yong Zhuang, Haoyu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10360 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10360 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10360
arXiv:2608.10360v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Arabic maqam music microtonal, modal, and built on ornamented call and response is among the traditions most underserved by generative music models, whose training frameworks remain predominantly Western and equaltempered. Real time accompaniment sharpens this gap: an AI partner must listen, adapt dynamically, and respect idiomatic microtonal structures. Streaming text to music models provide strong generative capabilities but lack precise control interfaces. We present MazzikaAI, a knowledge based system that uses natural language as the actuator of a realtime control loop. By compiling live MIDI, gesture, and inferred harmony into continuously updated text prompts, MazzikaAI steers an unmodified streaming generator, Google Lyria RealTime, without requiring model finetuning. The system embeds expert knowledge of six core maqamat, characteristic ornaments, and ensemble dynamics, maintaining realtime responsiveness with subsecond keytoaudibleupdate latency. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that dynamic prompt compilation reliably grounds generation in microtonal scales, significantly increasing offgrid quartertone content over baseline generation. Beyond its core implementation, MazzikaAI illustrates how deterministic knowledgebased rules can effectively bridge expert, nonWestern musical traditions and unfinetuned foundation models. This architecture establishes a scalable paradigm for realtime humanAI cocreation, offering a generalizable blueprint for interactive accompaniment, adaptive music education, and culturally inclusive generative audio across diverse global idioms.
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The IFPI says music companies and distributors agreed on new rules to combat the use of AI-generated music to defraud streaming services and divert royalties (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1f17709-7fc8-4afc-8ac9-38cd923f0064

Apple rolls out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/994756/apple-ios-27-launch-iphone-siri-ai-update

Apple releases iOS 27 with Siri AI overhaul
watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 also debut today.