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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

Universal Music Group and Splice Ink AI Partnership
The new pact is the latest AI music development for the world's largest music company after settling a lawsuit with Udio in October.

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.

Trump shares private message from Macron offering G7 meeting in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday offered to host a G7 summit in Paris in a private text message to US President Donald Trump, adding that he could invite “the Russians” on the sidelines. The US president then posted the message, which was authenticated on Tuesday morning by the French president's entourage, on his Truth Social platform.

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

The difference internal tooling makes
“The impact is harder to see.” This is what a fellow product manager once told me when I shared that I work on internal tooling.

Classic 80s party track
#music

A Love Bizarre
Sheila E. · Romance 1600 · Song · 1985

Fascinating. #beatbox
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7Lx-Gjvpn/?igsh=YWhqbzdvN2EzeXZ0

Songs That Should Not Work on Instagram: "Beatboxing is the art of creating music and rhythm using only your mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. It’s often used to imitate drum sounds, basslines, and other musical effects — all without instruments. Skilled beatboxers can layer sounds to mimic a full band, producing beats, melodies, and even sound effects at the same time. Beatboxing started as part of hip-hop culture in the 1980s, with artists using it to keep rhythm for rap performances. Over time, it’s evolved into its own global art form, blending music, creativity, and vocal control into one impressive performance skill."
13K likes, 200 comments - songsthatshouldnotwork on November 11, 2025: "Beatboxing is the art of creating music and rhythm using only your mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. It’s often used to imitate drum sounds, basslines, and other musical effects — all without instruments. Skilled beatboxers can layer sounds to mimic a full band, producing beats, melodies, and even sound effects at the same time. Beatboxing started as part of hip-hop culture in the 1980s, with artists using it to keep rh…

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…

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

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…

How Track Star Became a YouTube and TikTok Music Phenomenon
“Track Star” is the YouTube series that brings out the music lover in celebrities and civilians alike.

The SSU struck a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/the-ssu-struck-a-russian.html