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DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit

Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG. The label filed a lawsuit in September claiming that DistroKid has created an “AI-slop pipeline.” Artists are saying that…

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Microsoft Foundry MAI-Image-2.6 Setup: 13 Steps [2026]

Microsoft spent the past two years reselling other companies’ image models inside Azure. That changed on October 7, 2026, when Microsoft AI pushed its own MAI-Image-2.6 model into public preview inside Microsoft Foundry, the renamed and consolidated home for Azure AI Foundry’s model catalog. The company calls it “our strongest image model yet,” and it…

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Game Hardware Sales Hit 13-Year Low as DRAM Soars [2026]

Video game hardware sales in the United States have dropped to their lowest level in 13 years, according to Circana data cited by Yahoo Finance on October 9, 2026. The culprit is not a lack of demand for new consoles, it is the price of the consoles themselves, which has climbed sharply as a global…

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