Lacquer is an iOS app that detects fake lossless audio files by analyzing the actual audio content rather than file metadata, using FFT analysis to identify upscaled or re-encoded files. It offers on-device processing with no uploads or accounts required, displaying spectral evidence for its verdicts, and functions as a full lossless audio player supporting FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and m4a formats.
U.S. wireless data consumption reached 159.3 trillion megabytes in 2025, up 20% year-over-year and exceeding total 4G decade usage, driven by AI workloads, IoT, and streaming. CTIA projects aggregate demand to grow 4× by 2032, with AI traffic expanding 3× faster than conventional wireless and reaching one-third of broadband traffic by 2034. Wireless operators invested $30 billion in 2025 on infrastructure, with small-cell deployments up 120% since 2018.
A research paper examines whether 7G wireless technology should become a distinct mobile generation beyond 6G. Rather than treating 7G as inevitable, the authors propose a readiness framework evaluating demand, system discontinuities, coordination value, sustainability, trust, and geopolitical viability across candidate technologies like agentic networks, RF-native computing, and quantum interworking.
Starlink satellites are emitting unintended radio frequency leakage that interferes with the Square Kilometre Array Low radio telescope's observations of signals from the cosmic dawn, with researchers detecting over 112,000 emissions from nearly 1,800 satellites at frequencies where these signals are prohibited. The leakage is roughly 10,000 times stronger than the ancient hydrogen signals SKA-Low is designed to detect, and current international regulations do not adequately address unintended electromagnetic radiation from satellites even when it contaminates protected astronomy bands.
A browser-based GNU Radio editor and runtime compiled to WebAssembly allows users to build and run software-defined radio flowgraphs without installation, supporting live visualization and hardware connectivity via WebUSB.