Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack

France’s postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp

The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.

Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech

Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.

US insurance giant Aflac says hackers stole personal and health data of 22.6 million people

Aflac, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., confirmed hackers stole reams of personal data, including Social Security numbers, identity documents, and health information.

This founder just landed funding for a second go at the same problem: affordable custom home design

Drafted is now nearly five months old, and it’s everything Atmos wasn’t.

Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green

Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine. Green’s investment suggests Dazzle is poised for the coming wave of new AI-infused consumer businesses.

Hackers stole over $2.7B in crypto in 2025, data shows

This was another banner year for crypto hacks and heists — 2025 was the third year in a row that a new crypto theft record was set.

Zoox issues software recall over lane crossings

The company has issued a software update to its autonomous driving system to fix its lane-crossing behavior.

John Carreyrou and other authors bring new lawsuit against six major AI companies

These authors rejected Anthropic’s class action settlement, arguing that “LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates.”