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Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture

Mon, 22/12/2025 - 17:24
Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post

What would happen to the world's music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata from Spotify and offer it up for free as what it calls the world’s first “fully open” music preservation archive.…

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Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim

Mon, 22/12/2025 - 16:37
Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says a fraudster who claimed to be part of MI6 must repay £125,000 ($168,000) to a former love interest that he conned.…

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Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency

Mon, 22/12/2025 - 12:13
On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs

Romania's cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country's water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with work to remediate them still ongoing.…

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