Random music news for Friday, July 12, 2024
Can AI help us translate dog barks? Possibly. Do I have music news from July 12, 2024? Absolutely.
- A breach involving TEN BILLION passwords? Great. Just great.
- If you’ve been following the news of the Ticketmaster data breach, there’s a new report on what happened with Snowflake, their cloud provider. Here is the investigative report.
- Billy McFarland, the convicted Fyre Festival scammer, is working with Donald Trump because of course.
- Speaking of fraud, a new estimate says that streaming fraud costs the music industry US$2 billion a year.
- Is music getting worse? Or is it a manner of genre getting worse? Discuss.
- This is AI voice clone is so real that it’s “dangerous.” Again, great. Just great.
- TikTok’s new AI chatbot is interesting.
- Shazam and Ticketmaster have teamed up in an interesting and possibly useful way.
- The Rolling Stones are looking for a “life-giving stranger” after a show in Boston.
- Noel Gallagher: Still pissed at Dave Grohl
- This Bob Dylan set is one of the biggest box sets I’ve seen in a long time.
- Stevie Nick, the Barbie doll.
- It’s cool to see a radio station celebrate 100 years of broadcasting–like this one.
- Here’s a list of every iconic concert for every year since 1960.
- And this is fascinating: A statistical analysis of how music has changed since the 1950s. (Via Peter)
BONUS: A little moshing, anyone?
AI to translate a dog’s bark? This just in from the Westie Boyz: “Hey Dad, don’t worry ’bout what we say – watch our tails and ears! That’ll tell you everything U need to know. Now, where are the treats?