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Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/857404/spotify-listening-activity-mobile

Spotify is finally bringing your friends’ Listening Activity to mobile
Spotify is adding Listening Activity and Request to Jam to its mobile app.

social_location: Location-based social networks
Two location-based online social networks, where nodes are accounts and edges are declared friendships. Networks includes checkins by these users.
This network has 196591 nodes and 1900654 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Spatial
https://networks.skewed.…

Another year, another @… Year in Music! 🥳
#ListenBrainz #YearInMusic #MusicBrainz

Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/04/feeling-chirpy-how-listening-to-birdsong-can-boost-your-wellbeing

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews - Real-world testing! - https://www.earth.org.uk/LED-lighting.html

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews
Real-world testing!

macOS 26: Lag und anderer Ärger mit Menüleistenwerkzeug Bartender 6
Mit Tools können User Ordnung in die Icons in der macOS-Menüleistung bringen. Die App Bartender 6 macht seit Monaten Probleme unter macOS 26.

Advertising Surveillance Enables Government Surveillance
We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives.
You're right to be disturbed.
Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples' locations, new reporting has confirmed.
A new report gives us direct evidence that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has used location data taken …

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

"Disable your mobile advertising ID (see instructions for iPhone/Android). Apple and Google assign unique advertising IDs to each of their phones. Location data brokers use these advertising IDs to stitch together the information they collect about you from different apps."
https://www.…

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

UMG reports Q4 revenue up 4.8% YoY to €3.61B and paid listening up 2.4% YoY to €1.26B; UMG says it is not moving ahead with a US listing at this time (Dylan Smith/Digital Music News)
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/05/universal-music-stock-q4-2025/

Universal Music Reports Mixed Q4 '25 Financials, Halts U.S. Listing
Universal Music has reported mixed financials for Q4 2025 and moved to shelve its U.S. listing amid share-price uncertainty.

Sharing some of my favourite ListenBrainz / MusicBrainz findings over the last few months. ✨
*ICYMI:*
*#ListenBrainz is a free and open source service that can keep track of your music listens across different apps, platforms, and players, similar to last.fm.*
*#MusicBrainz is the u…