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Daily Crunch: Free Spotify comes to Alexa

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Spotify’s free music service will now stream on Alexa devices, plus Bose and Sonos smart speakers Spotify has worked with Amazon…


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1. Spotify’s free music service will now stream on Alexa devices, plus Bose and Sonos smart speakers

Spotifyhas worked with Amazon Echo since 2016, but only for premium subscribers. Today, that changes.

The Alexa support — which includes playing Spotify’sTop Hits playlist, Discover Weekly and more — will be available for users in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Support for Sonosand Bose is more broadly available to users around the world.

2. Facebook’s latest experiment is a meme-creation app, Whale

Currently, the app allows users to decorate photos with text and stickers in order to create memes that can be shared to social media or texted to friends.

3. Vayyar nabs $109M for its “4D” radar tech, which detects and tracks images while preserving privacy

Vayyar is an Israeli s

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Six Egyptian Men Arrested Following Abduction and Sexual Assault Video

Security authorities in Giza have arrested six individuals, including five students and a delivery worker, following the viral spread of a social media video depicting the violent abduction of a young woman in broad daylight. Investigators tracked down the victim, who lives in the Al-Ahram area…

Security authorities in Giza have arrested six individuals, including five students and a delivery worker, following the viral spread of a social media video depicting the violent abduction of a young woman in broad daylight. Investigators tracked down the victim, who lives in the Al-Ahram area…
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PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak’s aftermath, it’s not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Home News Grand Theft Auto VI PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak’s aftermath, it’s not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe Also beware anything dubbed certainlynotavirusthisisgta6myboy.exe Image credit: Rockstar Games

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PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak’s aftermath, it’s not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe

Also beware anything dubbed certainlynotavirusthisisgta6myboy.exe

A drug deal in GTA 6.
Image credit: Rockstar Games

While scammers and other ne’er-do-wells leaning into the allure of playing GTA 6 as part of their efforts to spread malware isn’t anything new – cybersecurity companies have been issuing warnings about it for months – there appears to have been an uptick in such behaviour following the latest GTA 6 leak. With speculation rampant as to what exactly the hackers known as Cyberleek may have access to, now is not the time to be downloading any files claiming to be GTA 6.

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Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default

Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools…

Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools…
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Coldcard Hacker Gets Brazen Bitcoin Laundering Offer Onchain

The Coldcard security incident entered another chapter after a public bitcoin transaction offered laundering services to the thief behind one of the largest self-custody bitcoin thefts ever recorded, while users also reported emergency firmware updates leaving some hardware wallets unusable. The new developments come just days after Coinkite disclosed that a long-dormant firmware flaw had

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