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Disney has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it forced YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream to raise subscription prices through anticompetitive carriage agreements.
Disney agreed to a $50 million settlement over claims that its practices made live-TV streaming more expensive. Eligible customers who subscribed to YouTube TV, DirecTV Stream, or AT&T TV Now between 2019 and 2026 may receive payments.
In an exit interview, Bob Iger reveals that Disney nearly acquired Twitter, explored a merger with Apple, and failed to buy the James Bond franchise, highlighting missed opportunities during his tenure.
Introduces Nexus Sampling, a training-free KV-cache eviction method using weighted reservoir sampling instead of deterministic top-k, improving long-context LLM inference under fixed memory budgets, matching dense attention performance at 80% eviction.
MaineCoon is a 22B real-time text-to-audio-video model that achieves up to 47.5 FPS on a single H100 GPU, enabling low-cost, long-duration streaming with synchronized speech and visuals for live AI characters.
NVIDIA quietly released Nemotron-3.5-ASR, a lightweight 0.6B parameter open-source speech recognition model designed for real-time streaming with support for 40+ languages, low latency, and cache-aware architecture.
Wan-Streamer is a unified end-to-end multimodal model for real-time audio-visual interaction using causal attention and integrated processing of visual, audio, and text modalities, achieving sub-second latency.
A new Emacs package called ytr enables streaming YouTube audio as a radio widget, powered by mpv and yt-dlp, and is available on GitHub.
A tutorial on building a realtime translation app using Gemini Live Translate, Next.js, LiveKit, and Cloud Run, covering audio streaming, translation, and deployment.
Fox's acquisition of Roku is expected to bring major changes, including making The Roku Channel exclusive to Roku devices and abandoning IoT products like lightbulbs in favor of sports content.
MOSS-TTS-Local Transformer v1.5 is an open-source 48 kHz stereo TTS model with zero-shot voice cloning, native streaming, and support for 31 languages, built on a Qwen3-4B backbone and served via SGLang-Omni.
Google's Gemini TTS now supports streaming audio generation, allowing developers to build voice applications that start speaking instantly without waiting for full audio output.
A security researcher discovered that registering as a FIFA agent granted access to FIFA's Microsoft Entra tenant, allowing them to bypass client-side authentication and access the live production streaming management panel for the 2026 World Cup, including RTMP stream keys for all matches. The researcher had to contact FIFA, MediaKind, HBS, CISA, and the FBI to get the issue fixed.
A technical blog post explaining how to avoid wasting LLM tokens by placing a durable buffer between the agent and the provider, enabling recovery from process crashes without re-fetching already-generated tokens.
The US Department of Justice approved the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger, surprising its own lawyers, but multiple US states and the EU are planning legal challenges.
Fox Corporation plans to acquire Roku, gaining direct access to 100 million households and aiming to boost its streaming presence, which could significantly reshape the streaming landscape through increased corporate consolidation.
A profile of streamer IShowSpeed and his outsized influence on Gen Z sports consumption, including his World Cup anthem and global livestream tours.
John Carmack shares a tribute to Fabrice Bellard, highlighting his foundational software contributions that power streaming services like YouTube and Netflix.
Fox announces it is acquiring Roku for $22 billion, gaining control over one of the most popular streaming platforms and access to user data, with plans to integrate Fox content and increase revenue. The deal raises concerns about political alignment and data privacy under Lachlan Murdoch's leadership.
Fox Corporation acquires Roku for $22 billion, combining its broadcast and streaming businesses with Roku's platform and advertising to expand into smart TVs and become a top player in US television.