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Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.

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Technology May 21, 2026

Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12460 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227923 Points: 13 # ...

Technology May 21, 2026

Philips’ new display has a screen on both sides

Its name might be dull and uninspired, but the Philips 24B2D5300 Business Monitor brings a novel feature I've never seen...

Technology May 21, 2026

Forget ‘TechnoKing’: Elon Musk will really be king at SpaceX

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of ...

Technology May 21, 2026

Law enforcement shuts down VPN service used by two dozen ransomware gangs

First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks. But Europol said it was able to notify the service...

Technology May 21, 2026

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

Article URL: https://veroniiiica.com/using-kagi-search-with-low-vision/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 21, 2026

JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away

The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres. ...

Technology May 21, 2026

Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to l...

Technology May 21, 2026

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

Article URL: https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/ Comments URL...

Technology May 21, 2026

One of Meta’s big legal reckonings just ended in a settlement

After back-to-back losses in trials grappling with its impact on teens' mental health, Meta just settled what was suppos...

Technology May 21, 2026

Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes

Zillow asked for a preliminary injunction as real estate industry fight heats up. ...

Technology May 21, 2026

Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]

Article URL: https://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Streaming-Summit-Netflix.pdf Comments URL: ...

Technology May 21, 2026

Mustard Made Storage Lockers Are on a Rare Sale Through May 31

We love this brand’s stylish storage lockers, and there's a big sale on eight colors through the end of the month.

Technology May 21, 2026

BBEdit 16

Article URL: https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit16.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 21, 2026

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

Article URL: https://www.thek6project.co.uk/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226703 Points: 8 # Co...

Technology May 21, 2026

Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

Article URL: https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://n...

Technology May 21, 2026

Bungie gives up on Destiny

Bungie is moving on from Destiny 2. The studio announced Thursday that it's releasing the last major update for the game...

Technology May 21, 2026

Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE

The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address emplo...

Technology May 21, 2026

Convective Capital raises an $85 million fund to build disaster resilience

After launching to invest in fire tech, Convective is broadening its mandate to disaster resilience.

Technology May 21, 2026

Trump delays AI security executive order: ‘I don’t want to get in the way of that leading’

President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of A...

Technology May 21, 2026

Sonos’s pint-sized Roam 2 speaker is 25 percent off for Memorial Day

If your summer plans involve spending any time outdoors, whether on the trail or at a pool party, a good portable Blueto...

Technology May 21, 2026

Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid

Article URL: https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/ Comments UR...

Technology May 21, 2026

ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Distributed Systems/Platform Engineers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225852 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Technology May 21, 2026

The Endless AI guitar pedal has potential

I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of...

Technology May 21, 2026

Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis

Uber is putting its own autonomous vehicles back on the road as part of its new AV Lab project to collect data for its d...

Technology May 21, 2026

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access

Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-than-340-local-news-outlets-are-limiting-the-internet-archives-acce...

Technology May 21, 2026

This mechanical bird drops dead when your home’s air quality worsens

The original Birdie debuted in 2022 with a morbid-but-fun design - an air-quality monitor with a literal canary in a coa...

Technology May 21, 2026

Top Gun turns 40

Tony Scott's 1986 blockbuster and the 2022 sequel are the best recruitment tools the US Navy co...

Technology May 21, 2026

Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

Hi HN! We're Haakam, Michael, and Adi from AgentMail- a ycs25 company. We give AI agents their own email inboxes. Recen...

Technology May 21, 2026

London Mayor Blocks Palantir

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palant...