Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group
A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.
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Pirate activist group Anna
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A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
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Shield AI’s new CEO says the $5.6B defense tech startup is at an inflection point | Fortune
Demand for Shield AI’s V-BAT is ramping up in Europe and Asia.
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A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028
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A group of PE firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
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Permira, Warburg Agree to Buy Clearwater Analytics for $8.4 Billion
A group of private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus has agreed to acquire Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc. in a deal valuing the in...
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Private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agree to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt
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Echo, which uses AI agents to build Docker images that eliminate vulnerabilities at the source, raised a $35M Series A, bringing its total funding to $50M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
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Echo Raises $35 Million in Series A Funding
The fresh investment comes less than six months after the startup’s seed funding announcement.
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Echo, which uses AI agents to build Docker images that eliminate vulnerabilities at the source, raised a $35M Series A, bringing its total funding to $50M
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Sources: The US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers who were suspended in July misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, which he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico) https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/21/cisa-acting-director-madhu-gottumukkala-polygraph-investigation-00701996
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Sources: DHS is investigating whether six staffers misled CISA
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