The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I’ve contacted @tim_cook , Apple's CEO, to block the Apple Store for citizens of the Russian Federation, and to support the package of US government sanctions! If you agree to have the president-killer, then you will have to be satisfied with the only available site Russia 24.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The breach targeted several US government agencies and is believed to have been carried out by Russian nation-state hackers. He believes that it “is not just an attack on specific targets, but on the trust and reliability of the world’s critical infrastructure in order to advance one nation’s intelligence agency.”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

While Microsoft points to “a very sophisticated nation-state actor” as the culprit, the US government and cybersecurity officials have implicated Russia as the architects of the overall SolarWinds attack.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

The decision comes as Ukraine has received cryptocurrency donations worth tens of millions of dollars from individuals and groups hoping to help the country’s war effort against Russia. Other outlets have reported that the government has received close to $100 million in crypto donations.).

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Twitter will label the accounts of government officials and state-affiliated media outlets, following similar policies from Facebook and YouTube. The new labels are already being applied but will roll out gradually, with government labels being applied to officials from China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

Yesterday, Meta blocked RT and Sputnik on both Instagram and Facebook after receiving requests to do so from a number of governments in the EU. Russia’s invasion of its neighbor has triggered an information war across various online channels, as both sides spread news reports and citizens and soldiers share frontline images and videos.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The US Department of Commerce has ordered American companies to not sell their tech to NSO, citing reports that the group’s Pegasus spyware is used against journalists, government officials, activists, and more. Pegasus had made headlines before this year, too.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

It has also gained international bragging rights through the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Face Recognition Vendor Test. Since the firm is so heavily invested in government work, it has to follow slow government procurement cycles and is unlikely to score huge infrastructure projects, Ding writes.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It’s not yet clear who’s behind this campaign, but the researchers suspect a nation-state actor rather than a private individual or group. Advanced insight into the purchase and movement of a vaccine that can impact life and the global economy is likely a high-value and high-priority nation-state target.”.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) denounced the attacks in an advisory issued Thursday. Hackers from Russian intelligence services are targeting organizations that are involved in COVID-19 vaccine development, according to US, UK, and Canadian authorities.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

New reports have emerged of hacking campaigns linked directly and indirectly to Russia’s war in Ukraine, with the stories shedding more light on an opaque element of the invasion: cyberwarfare. Many experts predicted that Russia would launch significant cyber attacks in Ukraine, shutting down the country’s electrical grid for example.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. The Nicaraguan government has closed down 1,500 nonprofits, including religious organizations, human rights groups and even the American Chamber of Commerce, Rutzen added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Shares of Chinese technology companies are selling off at home and abroad this week as the nation’s ties to Russia add to investor uncertainty at the expense of China’s tech industry. After all, when the market’s risk tolerance flips, we often see more conservative behavior from money managers, right?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The US Department of Commerce announced a new rule to prevent the sale of hacking tools to China and Russia, The Washington Post reports. If a US company wants to export spyware to a government that poses a national security concern, the company would need a license. The rule is complex and purposefully so.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On February 24, Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine after months of a military build-up on its borders. The attack began with cyberattacks that targeted Ukrainian government departments with floods of internet traffic and data-wiping malware, followed by a ground, sea and air incursion.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

South Korea’s National Assembly passed the bill on Tuesday. Russia requires that gadgets come pre-installed with apps made by Russian developers, and Australia is looking into regulating services like Apple Pay and Google Pay. Some in the US government have even proposed legislation similar to what was passed by South Korea.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While traveling in Russia or a European Union country on a mission to expand your business, you discover that you’re required to have data locally stored. Even worse, in the EU, you face the GDPR and have national regulatory authorities warning you how using U.S.-based based clouds in the EU violates the GDPR.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

The latest tech response to Russia’s Ukrainian invasion: Non-Russian tech companies continued their work to isolate the Russian state after its government invaded neighboring Ukraine. In response, Russia has decided to block Instagram , which we presume is more a defensive move than an offensive one. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Akin to how it takes nation-states a little time to get sanctions up and running, tech companies don’t roll out responses to geopolitical changes in a moment. But today we have notes on what tech companies are doing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. PST, subscribe here. Startups/VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

But presumably, that means chasing after more customers with government contracts, like Lockheed. attempts to gain an upper hand against threats from adversaries, including China and Russia. He wouldn’t elaborate. “Cloud computing is often not available on the battlefield, creating a strict edge computing environment.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 5, 2025

Governments see in these dual-use AI systems a means to military dominance, stoking a bitter race to maximize AI capabilities. Voluntary industry pauses or attempts to exclude government involvement cannot change this reality. Executive Summary Rapid advances in AI are poised to reshape nearly every aspect of society.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

In the weeks since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, more than 2.8 Flixbus , the bus transport service under the $3 billion German transportation startup FlixMobility , is offering free tickets for refugees , regardless of nationality. The organization is set to launch an online platform with Tech Nation U.K. refugee agency.

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TechNode

AUGUST 1, 2023

It comes after Beijing faces accusations from the US that China may supply Russia with military technology for its conflict against Ukraine, Reuters has reported. Context: DJI, with the lions share of the global consumer drone market at over 70%, suspended sales and after-sales services in Russia and Ukraine in April 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today marks exactly one year since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal of Ukraine. This week, a majority of the members of the United Nations reiterated its demand that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine and called for a cessation of hostilities”.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. The plan is called Plano Nacional de Banda Larga (PNBL) and one of the possibilities being discussed is for the Brazilian government to use Telebras, a state owned company, to become a provider of broadband services.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Russia's space chief Yuri Borisov has been replaced by former Roscosmos staffer and former deputy minister of transport Dmitry Bakanov, Ars Technica reports. The news comes less than three years after Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's former highly abrasive and unpredictable space head, was replaced by Borisov.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

On Tuesday, tech and communications regulator Roskomnadzor threatened to block Wikipedia over the Russian-language page covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming it contained “false messages” about war casualties and the effects of economic sanctions, among other things. “On

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The Verge

APRIL 2, 2022

Russia says it will end cooperation with other nations on the International Space Station until the sanctions put on the country are lifted. and Russia to ensure continued safe operations of the ISS.”. ????? “The New and existing U.S. export control measures continue to allow cooperation between the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The boreal forests of Canada, Alaska, and Russia will be especially vulnerable. This will put at risk decades of human development progress in densely populated coastal zones which are home to one in seven people in the world, says Pedro Conceio, director of the United Nations Development Programmes Human Development Report Office.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

As a state-owned Russian enterprise, it is now blocked from receiving investments from the US market under the terms of sanctions against Russia. In an interview with MSNBC in February, Clinton took the unconventional step of encouraging Anonymous to launch cyberattacks against Russia.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

A White House order issued Thursday morning directs the US government to expel ten diplomats and place a range of new sanctions on Russian individuals and assets in response to the SolarWinds hack. The US intelligence service believes with high confidence that the attack was carried out by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Amazon suspends Prime Video in Russia : Adding to our ever-growing list of companies that are pausing or ending business in Russia after the nation’s government launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine, Amazon is suspending Prime Video in the country.

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Candid

MARCH 16, 2022

This includes the United Nations and all its bodies, so groups like UNICEF, UN Women, UNHCR, the WHO and others are included. Namely: Russia’s civil society has been under assault for decades. Russia has made it nearly impossible for its nonprofit sector to receive funds from abroad. One of the easiest options for U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

government is increasingly concerned about Russia launching cyberattacks on American businesses, especially critical infrastructure. Then, on March 21, the president reiterated earlier warnings, citing “evolving intelligence that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks.”. Then the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

In June 2024, the United Nations Environment Programme conducted an environmental impact assessment to evaluate the damage resulting from Israeli military actions in Gaza. The charge of ecocide With such environmental destruction, claims of ecocide have been made against the Israeli government by international rights groups.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

The leaders of Evil Corp were criminally sanctioned to prevent people from paying them ransom, not because Russia would extradite them. DarkSide, the group that was responsible for the Colonial Pipeline, “doesn’t eat in Russia”. Now the US government is investigating it for money laundering. Nowhere good.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 16, 2025

A government whistleblower told lawmakers that DOGE's access to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) systems went far beyond what was needed to analyze agency operations and apparently led to a data breach. Usernames/Passwords).

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