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• Spotify is bricking Car Thing, its first hardware launch.
• The company isn't offering trade-ins on the $80 devices and told users to trash them.
• Some jilted customers want the devices to stay operational or a refund.

Spotify is scrapping its first foray into hardware — and early adopters are feeling left in the lurch.

A Polish hacking group, Dragon Sector, went public recently with a scandal about one of Poland’s oldest train makers, Newag, bricking its own trains when they were repaired by third parties.

Three hackers in Poland were hired to fix the software of a broken train, and they were successful, but now the train company, Newag, is threatening to sue them, according to Polish outlet Rynek Kolejowy.