By the KAVANA engineering team — June 2026
The overnight music block is one of those broadcast engineering problems that looks simple from the outside and becomes progressively harder the more carefully you think about it. The surface description is easy: play music continuo...
By the KAVANA engineering team — June 2026
The word hallucination in AI discussions almost always refers to factual hallucination: a language model that confidently states something false. A chatbot that invents a court case. A research assistant that fabricates a c...
The recent Meta AI support incident should make every engineering and security team pause.
Not because Meta got hacked in some cinematic way.
But because the attack looks painfully simple from the outside.
Attackers reportedly abused Meta’s AI-powered support flow to take over Instagram accounts. The system was meant to help users recover access. Instead, it became a sho...
By the KAVANA engineering team — June 2026
The phrase "codec pipeline" suggests a problem with a defined beginning and end: audio goes in one side, audio comes out the other, and the codecs are the boxes in between. In practice, a broadcast audio codec pipeline is a seq...
By the KAVANA engineering team — June 2026
There is a class of broadcast engineering requirements where the consequences of failure are not a listener complaint or a regulatory annotation — they are a safety risk. Emergency broadcast is that class. When a national aut...
By the KAVANA engineering team — June 2026
Loudness normalization is one of those broadcast topics where the theory is well-documented and the practice is genuinely hard. The standards exist — BS.1770-4, EBU R 128, ATSC A/85, and a collection of natio...