This transparent CD player puts the inner workings on full display like a work of art — it's the perfect showpiece for physical media fans

Syitren's new CD player is equal parts music player and live art display, and it looks like it came straight from an art gallery. [...]

Versant Media Group raised its full-year outlook as digital brands offset pay TV slide

The cable network spinoff from Comcast beat Wall Street estimates on earnings per share and revenue in the second quarter [...]

LTX-2.5 can generate a 10-second AI video from an image in just 6.8 seconds on Nvidia superchips — and it's open weights

LTX, the open world model company spun out of Lightricks, today released LTX-2.5, the newest version of its open-weights video and "world" model and it arrives natively integrated into Comfy [...]

This 9-in-1 USB dock with a Blu-ray drive just smashed its Kickstarter goal by 300x—as backers succumb to dongle fatigue and physical media nostalgia

The BluHub is a USB 3 hub with an integrated BD/DVD/CD writer — and despite its early Kickstarter success, some are warning of red flags. [...]

Trump Media's paid data feed is gaining customers, CEO tells CNBC

Interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the service, which costs up to $100,000 per month, has grown from more than 10 customers two weeks ago [...]

TerraMaster's 4-star 4-bay F4-425 Pro NAS is an all-in-one media and business hub — and it's dropped to $680 at Amazon

The NAS device features Intel N350 8-core CPU, 16GB DDR5 RAM, 4 SATA bays plus M.2 NVMe slots, and dual 5GbE LAN, suitable for work storage and Plex backups. [...]

Meta killed its Muse Image AI feature three days after launch. Hollywood had had enough.

Meta has pulled its Muse Image AI feature from Instagram and the Meta AI app just three days after launch, saying the tool “missed the mark” on user privacy. The model, the first image generator [...]

The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him

Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The commo [...]

Apple starts testing China’s state-backed memory chips, and Washington is watching

Apple has begun testing memory chips from China’s state-backed CXMT for devices sold in China, the Financial Times reports. That puts it behind a supplier Washington has flagged as a security risk. [...]