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Russia blocks Twitter as Ukraine invasion escalates

The Verge

As the invasion of Ukraine enters its third day, Russia has blocked access to Twitter in an apparent effort to stifle the flow of information, according to a report from the internet monitoring group NetBlocks. Fighting remains heated across Ukraine as Russian forces focus their attack on the capital city Kyiv.

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Musk says Starlink satellite internet now enabled in Ukraine

Digital Trends

SpaceX has enabled its Starlink satellite-based internet service in Ukraine, according to CEO Elon Musk.

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Ukraine shuts down Russian bot farm operating one million fake accounts that spread disinformation

TechSpot

The SSU writes that the farm's goal was to discredit Ukraine's leadership and destabilize the country's social and political situation. The group that created it, which the SSU has now dismantled, spread disinformation on the internet, some of which related to the activities of the country's top military and political.

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Ukraine internet outages spark concerns of broader blackout

The Verge

But as the conflict intensifies, many civil society groups are increasingly concerned about the possibility of direct attacks on the country’s internet infrastructure. The invasion has already reduced internet connectivity in some parts of the country. Currently, we are seeing about 80 percent of the load we usually see in Ukraine.

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ICANN rejects request by Ukraine to kick Russia off the internet

TechSpot

The Ukrainian government’s plea to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for revocation of Russian domains has been rejected. On Wednesday, 2nd March 2022, Göran Marby, President of ICANN, replied to the government of Ukraine that it did not have the authority to grant its request to.

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Ukraine engineer talks testing SpaceX’s new Starlink service

The Verge

On Monday night, in between the hourly air alarms reverberating outside his home, Oleg Kutkov stuck his SpaceX Starlink dish outside of his window in Kiev, Ukraine, and pointed it up at the sky. To his surprise, he got a signal in just 10 seconds from one of SpaceX’s satellites overhead, indicating he was receiving broadband internet. “I

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In Ukraine, hacktivists fight back with data leaks

The Verge

A lot of internet bystanders were getting ready to make trouble for Russia — and they were going to use the mantle of Anonymous to do it. These smaller incidents are more favorable for Ukraine, but they’re also qualitatively different from military operations like Stuxnet or Sandworm. Uploaded to YouTube and shared to the 7.8

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