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