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Over 30 channels of commercial-free, human-curated radio programming focusing on great but non-mainstream music.

Exclusive: Guess who designed this year's Defcon badges? None other than famed hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang. The badges feature a new, secure and open-source chip Huang created, which doubles as a security token after the con. Hardware hackers will love the specs bsky.app/profile/defc...

The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key

Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.

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"That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life." - Kate Bush Happy Birthday to the truly original and influential Grammy-nominated English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, and record producer, who was #BOTD on 7/30/1958.

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We are aware of the bug that keeps the Now Playing Artist-Title from displaying on Android Auto; and we fixed the bug almost 2 weeks ago, but we're still waiting for Google to approve the update. Please be patient!

Reduced from 5 stars to 2. After the latest "update" the app no longed displays the artist and song that are now playing. It used to be great to just look at the screen in my car (Android Auto) as I was driving to get to know the music.

Enshittification is real - I have auto updates disabled for this very reason, but here I thought "what can go wrong" and learned my lesson.

Anyone having issues with our FireTV app? Someone reporting problems, but we can't duplicate and our logs show plenty of people using it OK.

Reminder if you're having issue listening with Alexa / Amazon Echo devices: Try saying "Alexa end early access" and our skill should work again. We are working on an update that's compatible with future Alexa updates. All their AI "enhancements" they're testing have completely broken lots of skills

Long-time SomaFM listener Bruce in the Pit lane at the 2026, 24 Hours of Le Mans with his SomaFM zip hoodie

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Sad news in the Ambient Music community today. Loren Nerell, a good friend to SomaFM as well as an amazing ambient and world musician, has passed away unexpectedly. We will miss you so much, Loren, but your music will live on. #ambient

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Farewell to saxophonist Plas Johnson, who played the iconic tenor sax solo for the "Pink Panther" title theme. He said: "We only did two takes, I think... When we finished, everyone applauded, even the string players. And that's saying something. They never applaud for anything." #filmsky #musicsky

Plas Johnson playing tenor saxophone