TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

What may have seemed like an isolated protest years ago was revived in 2022 by developers sabotaging their own libraries — sometimes to speak out against big corporations, but more recently to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As such, these versions remain on npm as they do not violate the registry’s policies.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The accounts were attempting to push back against allegations of human rights abuses by the Chinese government against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. Read here: [link] — ASPI Cyber Policy (@ASPI_ICPC) December 2, 2021. 2/ A pro-Tanzanian government network adversarially leveraged copyright reporting to harass activists. “The

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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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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

That all changed this week after Russia invaded Ukraine, when its crowdfunding drew widespread attention, and its membership list ballooned to over 14,000 patrons, contributing a total of $436,966 a month. The Ukrainian government itself is also soliciting donations directly to help with its war effort.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

” VPNs are often used by people to evade more restrictive internet policies (whether due to geoblocked content, or more controlling governments or something in between), or simply to keep their browsing more private, but the VPN industry hasn’t had a completely smooth ride in fulfilling those aims. firm Versprite.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2022

The video shows an edited Zelenskyy speaking behind a podium declaring that Ukraine has “decided to return Donbas” to Russia and that his nation’s war efforts had failed. Meta’s head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, put out a tweet thread on Wednesday announcing that the video had been removed from the company’s platforms.

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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

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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Evan Smith believes that a key part of solving supply chain stability must involve enabling stakeholders, including businesses and governments, to build trust through a shared source of truth on the global supply chain. Bersin was assistant secretary in the office of policy at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

In March, one of China’s top tech policy makers published a set of draft rules that would bring e-cigarettes under the same regulatory scope as traditional tobacco, which means vaping companies will need licenses for production, wholesale and retail operations in the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter of e-cigarettes.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Don't freak out, but your gut is right: Your internet service provider (ISP) is tracking your every click to compile anonymous browsing logs they can potentially sell to advertising companies , or even cough up to government agencies in the interest of censorship. Bonus points if that policy's been verified by a third party audit.)

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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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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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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2022

Aside from one lighthearted reference to the escalating situation with Russia, Korban’s page stayed on message: “YOU CAN BE AN INVESTOR.”. Korban says she is personally organizing the distribution of funds with the assistance of local governments and businesses. Then, on February 23rd, the facade of normalcy fell apart.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

Domain registrar and hosting provider Namecheap is terminating service provision for customers based in Russia in the face of what it describes as “war crimes” committed in Ukraine. domains, a move that would disconnect much of Russia from the global internet. Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge.

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2022

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will “require the removal of Tweets posted by government or state-affiliated media accounts” if they contain images or videos that show prisoners of war from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In other words, the Conventions should be used as a blanket policy. Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) April 5, 2022.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The boreal forests of Canada, Alaska, and Russia will be especially vulnerable. Since then, new government policies, and the meteoric rise of renewable energy, seem to have made a dent. Fires and Disease By 2100, the number of extreme fires could increase 50% globally. will become more common. Indeed, we already have.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2021

You’re going to have to make some policy decisions to make these attacks end because that’s the scale of the thing. This policy is in place already , in a piecemeal way. The leaders of Evil Corp were criminally sanctioned to prevent people from paying them ransom, not because Russia would extradite them. Nowhere good.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

On its face, Apple’s policy enforcement here feels arbitrary and capricious — and, I suspect, it may become part of the antitrust investigations now underway against the company. There’s zero impetus on Apple to lower prices, stop being abusive, or even enforce their own policies with any sense of consistency or justice.

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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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We’ve got a well-rounded episode of The Vergecast today with everything from policy to space to consumer tech. In the first segment, Nilay and Dieter bring in Verge policy reporter Makena Kelly to talk about President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package and what it can do to improve broadband access in the US.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

But the citys power company shut down one coal plant in 2023, and the remaining one closed this weekfour years earlier than a target set by the national government. Wood helped replace natural gas from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, but isnt a good long-term solution.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The grim warning came at the launch of the latest edition of a report on organized crime published every four years by Europol that is compiled using data from police across the EU and will help shape law enforcement policy in the bloc in coming years.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2025

Countries targeting the education sector include North Korea, China, and Russia. The 2023 SonicWall report revealed massive year-over-year volume increases in attacks on K12 as threat actors continued to shift away from government, healthcare, and other industries to zero in on education targets.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

The value in An Ugly Truth comes from the detail it brings to the Russia investigation as it was experienced by some of its participants at the time. They said the company needed to make public that Russia-linked accounts were spreading hacked documents through Facebook. government, had previously known. It was crazy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, a long-time U.S. Climate change is thinning the Arctic ice, promising to create a northwest passage for international trade and reigniting the competition with Russia, China, and other countries over access to the region’s mineral resources. Who does Greenland belong to?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

sanctions for example, Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine , as well as Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Belarus and Venezuela will not face the new, 10% global base tariff. manufacturing and generating government revenue than eventually negotiating new trading deals. American trade policy created a U.S. trade imbalance worth $1.2

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Vance’s debut At the summit, Vance made his first major policy speech since becoming vice president last month, framing AI as an economic turning point but cautioning that “at this moment, we face the extraordinary prospect of a new industrial revolution, one on par with the invention of the steam engine.” as the outlier.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Government officials and cybersecurity firms said there were no significant or damaging cyberattacks during Election Day. With the bulk of the votes counted, government officials pointed to the threat of “foreign influence” campaigns — or misinformation — that would try to cast doubt on the election results.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Among the challenges: it’s hard to get people to download these apps; there has been no endorsement of the approach — or coherent response strategy — from the federal government; and it’s unclear that Bluetooth-based approaches have been all that effective even in countries where COVID-19 is better under control. Governing. ?

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Amid the the fourth week of Donald Trumps presidency and Elon Musks unprecedented blitz against the federal government, dread abounds for the countrys federal civil service the 2.3 million career government employees who handle everything from managing national parks and taxes to overseeing public health and homelessness aid.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

” Island of anxiety Greenlanders are increasingly worried that their homeland, a self-governing region of Denmark, has become a pawn in the competition between the U.S., Russia, and China as global warming opens up access to the Arctic. power at a time they are trying to form a government.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Around that time, I predicted that by July or August, Trump would post something else that clearly violated Facebook’s policies and had to be removed. Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group’s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol,” said Facebook’s Andy Stone in a statement.

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

The difference between TikTok and Facebook is that we have a great deal of transparency into the process by which Facebook gives your information to various governments. And specifically, Facebook does not release data to the Chinese government. And neither is the old foreign policy equivalent to the new.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

At the root of this concern is that no matter what ByteDance says about TikTok’s independence from Chinese governance, ultimately it must do whatever the country’s brutal, repressive authoritarian regime demands. Governing. ? That makes it hard for high-risk users to feel entirely safe, no matter what the app does. What sort of data?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Beginning next week, Twitter will add labels to the personal accounts of heads of state as it expands its policy on government-affiliated accounts, the company said Thursday. To continue to help you identify governmental officials and institutions on Twitter, we’re expanding our policy to label these accounts in more countries.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

foreign aid and development, executed by Trump political appointees at State and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency teams. The dismantling of USAID that followed Trump’s order upended decades of policy that humanitarian and development aid abroad advanced U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan.

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