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Universal Music's German division might finally get answers from the EU's highest court about whether Cloudflare can be blamed when pirates use its infrastructure. A German federal court kicked the question upstairs after years of legal fighting over a dead piracy site called DDL-Music that used...

Universal Music Group UK dropped Pause, which basically lets people grab single frames from music videos and turn them into prints. The platform scans through videos and locks each frame after someone buys it to keep things exclusive. Prices run anywhere from 65 quid for basic A3 size up to 495...

ASCAP grabbed Marc Zelanko as their new Chief of Staff after the exec spent over 20 years grinding through senior positions at Paramount Global. Elizabeth Matthews brought him on to help squeeze more cash and better efficiency for the performance rights org that reps around 1.1 million music...

TikTok brought on Ziad Ojakli as its new head of public policy for the Americas after Michael Beckerman bounced from the position he had held for over five years. Ojakli has experience working at Ford, SoftBank and Boeing, plus time in the George W. Bush administration. ByteDance CEO Shou Zi...

StubHub got slapped with a class action lawsuit after investor Daniel Salabaj accused the company of hiding cash flow problems before its IPO. The ticketing platform raised around $758 million when it went public but allegedly left out key details about operational changes that tanked its...

Amuse just hit 50,000 automated royalty advances through its Fast Forward platform and pushed out $10 million total to independent musicians since the service started. The Swedish company runs calculations across streaming data to figure out how much artists can grab upfront instead of waiting...

Epic Games dropped a trailer showing off Yuki's Revenge, which is basically an unreleased Kill Bill chapter that Tarantino never put out back when the movies dropped over 20 years ago. The short film hits Fortnite as part of a collab and also gets a limited theater run at select locations across...

Qualcomm dropped the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and it shares the same TSMC 3nm process as the Elite Gen 5 flagship but apparently gets cooked in gaming benchmarks. A tipster on Weibo says the regular Gen 5 has way less cache on the performance cores compared to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and that...

Blizzard just locked down the release window for World of Warcraft: Midnight and the eleventh expansion drops early next year. The game launches for subscribers looking to continue the Worldsoul Saga storyline that writer Chris Metzen cooked up after he came back to the company. Players get...

CD Projekt RED just dropped their quarterly earnings and confirmed Cyberpunk 2077 has moved 35 million units since launch. The studio managed to add 5 million sales over the past year despite the game being nearly five years old at this point. The company has 447 devs grinding on Witcher 4...

Noctua just dropped some good news for anyone sitting on LGA 1700 or LGA 1851 gear. Their coolers will work straight out of the box with the next LGA 1954 socket when Nova Lake chips arrive. No adapter brackets or extra mounting hardware needed whatsoever. The cooler maker put out an FAQ saying...

Microsoft brought Xbox Cloud Gaming to India and the platform just hit 29 countries total after adding the fastest-growing gaming market on the planet with over 500 million players. The company bumped up server capacity in Argentina and Brazil after seeing wild growth down there and said...

Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan jumped in to back the company after TSMC filed a lawsuit over their hiring Dr Wei-Jen Lo away from the Taiwan chipmaker. The exec worked at Intel for 18 years before bouncing to TSMC and is heading back to Team Blue despite accusations that he might leak trade secrets about...

Splash Damage just told everyone at the studio they might be out of a job after kicking off companywide consultation talks that could hit the entire staff. The veteran support studio got bought by some mystery private equity crew back in September after breaking away from Tencent, but things...

America basically turned into a chip manufacturing magnet with Taiwan and South Korea dumping massive cash into US fabs. TSMC leads the pack by setting up shop in Arizona to crank out everything from 4nm chips right up to their planned 1.6nm process, while Samsung got its Taylor facility back on...

PlayStation decided to throw in two extra games for PS Plus Essential subscribers next month as a holiday bonus. The lineup hits five total titles instead of the usual three and covers everything from fresh 2025 releases like Killing Floor 3 and Synduality Echo of Ada to solid 2024 stuff like...

Samsung locked down a deal with Nota AI that lets the Exynos 2500 chip handle on-device AI way better through compression tech. The partnership created something called Exynos AI Studio that helps advanced AI models run without needing cloud servers by squeezing more out of the hardware. The...

Grasshopper Manufacture dropped word that their next direct stream is going down and will focus entirely on Romeo Is A Dead Man updates. The broadcast hits their YouTube channel and promises some fresh gameplay footage alongside development peeks that nobody has seen yet. Korea already rated...

TSMC plans to drop around $49 billion on four facilities that will pump out 1.4nm chips by late 2028. Japan's Rapidus wants to beat them to the punch by getting their own 1.4nm plant running a year earlier in Hokkaido while also plotting research into 1nm tech down the line. The Japanese...

Apple teamed up with ISSEY MIYAKE to drop the iPhone Pocket and people lost their minds over what basically amounts to a fancy phone sleeve. The short strap version runs $150 while the long strap hits $230, which apparently was enough to get the knockoff machine fired up over on Alibaba. Clones...