Universal Music Group partners with music creation platform Splice to build "advanced commercial AI tools" for musical artists (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu
Making music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/17/making-music-with-midi-just-got-a-real-boost-in-windows-11/
“My friend, we are completely aligned on Syria. We can do great things in Iran. I don’t understand what you are doing in Greenland”
– Macron to Trump in private message
My friend, we should be fucking over Brown people together like we always do, I don’t understand why you are trying to fuck over white people.
Nearly 60% of Ukrainians see Zelensky as responsible for his associate's role in major corruption scandal, poll shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/nearly-of-ukrainians-see-zelensky.html
Sure it's on linkedin, but I think this will resonate with everyone building internal tooling #tech #softwaredevelopment
Classic 80s party track
#music
Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-listen…
A look at Track Star, a YouTube music quiz show that has become a stop on the celebrity promo trail and has started creating documentary-style music features (Jessica M. Goldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/music/track-star-youtub…
The SSU struck a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/the-ssu-struck-a-russian.html