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Today’s TechCrunch Roundup
Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system
23 Dec 2025, 3:05 pm by Zack Whittaker
The Uzbek government’s national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.
Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify
23 Dec 2025, 2:51 pm by Aisha Malik
Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.
The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation
23 Dec 2025, 2:00 pm by Lauren Forristal
Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa trackers, nothing similar existed for the Tooth Fairy. Recognizing that Generation Alpha is growing up with interactive online experiences […]
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