Innovation in technology and the arts continues to emerge, with developments in AI, musical instruments, and software development, while security concerns and financial dealings also made headlines. A new real-time notes app, Lightwave, was unveiled, a virtual analog synthesizer was developed, and Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun accelerator opened to all startups, according to reports from Hacker News. Simultaneously, a critical security crisis arose from the unsafe deployment of the OpenClaw AI agent, and a musician utilized an AI-generated voice after losing his ability to sing.
Lightwave, a real-time notes application, was built solo over three and a half years by its creator. The application was designed to feel like a text editor initially, but it was intended to grow into a structured tool as needed. The tech stack included Laravel, MySQL, Redis, and hand-rolled JavaScript on the client, with 270 lines of jQuery for legacy DOM utilities and IndexedDB for local persistence. Real-time collaboration used a hybrid approach, employing HTTP2 POST for resilient operations and WebSockets via Laravel Reverb for live cursors, presence, and edits. The app was in a pre-release stress test phase and would be a paid product.
In the realm of music, a Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer called VOOG was created in Python with a tkinter GUI inspired by the Subsequent 37. VOOG featured three oscillators with various waveforms, a Moog ladder filter, dual ADSR envelopes, an LFO with multiple waveforms and modulation destinations, and a noise generator. It supported 4 multitimbral channels and 8-voice polyphony.
Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun accelerator, which provided significant investment and resources, was opened to all startups. Additionally, a musician, Patrick Darling, performed using an AI-generated voice after losing his ability to sing.
However, not all developments were positive. A critical security crisis emerged due to the unsafe deployment of the OpenClaw AI agent. Furthermore, Ars Technica published an article with fabricated AI-generated quotes, violating its policy against unlabeled AI content, which led to an apology.
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