Malicious npm package steals WhatsApp accounts and messages

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager (NPM) registry poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library to steal ...

Google lawsuit says data scraping company uses fake searches to steal web content

Google on Friday sued a Texas company that "scrapes" data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions ...

Spotify responds to ‘nefarious’ 300TB scraping by internet activists

Anna's Archive published a torrents-based Spotify backup: a 300TB release of Spotify catalog metadata today, with staged ...
ExchangeWire

Digest: Google Sues Web Scraping Company; ByteDance Boosts Benefits Amid AI Talent War; FaceBook Tests Free Link Limit for Businesses

In today’s digest we cover Google suing SerpApi over its web scraping activity, ByteDance boosting benefits for staff to ...

EU probes Google for "illegally" scraping the web to catch up to its AI rivals

European regulators have opened a new antitrust investigation into Google, centering on whether the company illegally scraped online content to shore up its artificial intelligence products ...
CNET

Wordle Players, It's Time to Retire Your Favorite Starter Word

If your starter word contains a J, rethink your strategy. Here are the most commonly used letters in the alphabet. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is ...
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A Pirate Group Says It Copied Nearly All of Spotify’s Music Catalog

In a blog post titled "Backing up Spotify," Anna’s Archive explains how it believes it has built the “world’s first 'preservation archive' for music” through the move. It says it has the metadata of ...