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Fox is reportedly acquiring Roku, a major streaming device and platform company.

Fox is acquiring Roku for $22 billion, combining Fox's content with Roku's platform to become the third-largest player in the US TV industry.

StreamMemBench is a new streaming benchmark that tests how well personal-agent memory systems use observed evidence and user feedback for future-oriented assistance. Experiments show current systems often fail to turn stored information into reliable follow-up behavior.

At PyTorch Conference Europe 2026, Mistral AI's Patrick von Platen explains why real-world AI interaction requires streaming architectures that process continuous input and produce continuous output, using Vox Real Time as a live transcription example.

Apple TV's streaming engagement is driven by a few hit shows, similar to HBO's model, while Netflix has broader viewing spread. Analysts question if Apple can succeed as the 'new HBO' in streaming.

An article highlighting the digital services offered by public libraries, such as OverDrive for ebooks and Hoopla for streaming movies and TV, all accessible for free with a library card.

pleNx is the first native Plex client for the Nintendo Switch, allowing users to stream media directly on the console.

Artie is a self-serve product for real-time data replication to data warehouses, offering sub-minute latency, exactly-once delivery, and easy deployment without managing Kafka or DMS infrastructure.

OmniMem introduces a modality-aware memory allocation and perturbation-aware selection strategy for streaming audio-visual LLMs, achieving 2-4% absolute accuracy gains over compression baselines on long-video benchmarks.

USTPS is a secure UDP transport protocol that adds AEAD encryption, prioritizes speed over congestion control, and provides unordered reliable delivery with selective retransmission, currently in beta.

SwiftVR is a real-time one-step generative video restoration framework that achieves high frame rates on consumer GPUs using efficient attention mechanisms and a lightweight restoration-aware autoencoder.

StreamMA is a multi-agent reasoning system that streams intermediate results step-by-step to improve latency and accuracy, achieving up to 26.9× speedup and +7.3% performance improvement on benchmarks.

Stream3D-VLM is an online 3D vision-language model that enables real-time spatial understanding from streaming video by incrementally integrating geometry priors and using geometry-adaptive voxel compression, outperforming existing models on 3D spatial understanding tasks.

AT4K is a free alternative launcher app for Google TV that replaces the cluttered, ad-heavy default home screen with a clean, Apple TV-inspired interface showing only the streaming services you use. It's available on Google Play and offers a one-time $5 premium upgrade for additional features.

WiiM announces its first soundbar, the WiiM Bar, featuring Dolby Atmos, expandability, and a touch display, launching in July for $479.

Plex is adding new social features including personalized lists, community forums, match scores, emoji reactions, and follow alerts, aiming to enhance entertainment discovery and evolve beyond its media server roots.

Engineering notes comparing three approaches to unifying access to multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) behind a single internal interface, discussing trade-offs in API normalization, native SDK usage, and gateway patterns.

Roku has open sourced its LT operating system, making the distribution available for developers and the community.

StreamMA introduces a streaming communication paradigm for multi-agent reasoning that pipelines intermediate results to reduce latency and improve effectiveness by leveraging more reliable early steps, outperforming baselines across benchmarks and revealing a step-level scaling law.

Teknium announces that streaming tokens is now smooth on Telegram with Hermes Agent.