The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

The Daily Beast reports that the hacking ring — also known as Trickbot and based in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Suriname — is a persistent presence online. Law enforcement agencies and companies have made some recent inroads into tackling Trickbot.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2021

A new Russian law will require large social media companies to open offices in Russia if they don’t want to face advertising bans or other penalties , according to a report by Reuters. According to a Russian official, the law affects companies that have over 500,000 Russian visitors a day.

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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. law could soon be banned from both government markets and processing personal data. Any technology that extends the extraterritorial application of U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

More than $15 million has been donated so far More than $15 million in cryptocurrency has been donated to Ukrainian groups since Russia attacked the country on February 24th, according to research firm Elliptic. You don’t trust the local currency and on top of that, you don’t trust banks.” Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Local specifics of regulatory regimes are not core to Sardine’s business, because its platform is focused on fraud detection, not law enforcement. The startup has clients all over the globe and has helped companies in countries including Japan and Russia expand into the United States, Ranjan said.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

The process of routing your traffic through a VPN masks your internet protocol (IP) address — the specific number that's assigned to your device when it's connected to a local network — which can otherwise reveal a surprising amount of personal information. That includes your approximate whereabouts and the name of your ISP.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

We’re told the most popular courses to study are: Economics, Medicine, Law, Computer Science, Engineering and school subjects such as Maths, Physics, Biology and English. We’re also looking to launch in France, Nordics, Spain, Russia and many more countries. Course Hero, a profitable edtech unicorn, raises rare cash.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

The G2H can record video in three ways: to the Aqara cloud, to a local microSD card (up to 32GB), or to your iCloud drive with HomeKit Secure Video enabled. Aqara homes can be configured in one of six predefined regions: China Mainland, Europe, United States, South Korea, Russia, and Other.

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Biden administration has long called on Russia to do more to crack down on ransomware gangs operating within the country, though with limited success until now. Analysts have tied Russian groups to extensive ransomware operations in Europe and the US, often without interference from local law enforcement.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2021

Over the years, we’ve heard reports of smaller companies and local government entities paying ransoms to regain access to their computers, but this is perhaps one of the most high-profile examples of ransomware yet, and the news might inspire copycats. it’s going to take some time, and there may be some hiccups along the way here.”.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

Wood helped replace natural gas from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, but isnt a good long-term solution. That includes capturing heat from local data centers and wastewater. In 2019, Finland passed a national law to phase out coal by 2029 as part of its climate plan. Other factors also pushed the company to act quickly.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

After spending the previous season sounding the alarm about local drug kingpin Avon Barksdale, to the indifference and annoyance of his various superiors, McNulty is exiled to the city’s marine unit. They said the company needed to make public that Russia-linked accounts were spreading hacked documents through Facebook. It was crazy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

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. Why are other countries interested in Greenland?

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

We cover Section 230 , which is the law that says internet platforms can moderate. Ted Cruz went to Harvard Law School. That said, if you’re the local NBC reporter in Milwaukee, he’s the elected United States senator, what do you do? An American journalist is interviewing the president of Russia. We cover it a lot.

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

China brutally represses its political dissidents; in America, law enforcement in military camouflage have grabbed protesters off the streets and shoved them into unmarked vans. For years, Russia has sought to emphasize and even exacerbate existing tensions in the United States, presumably because it believes this is in Russia’s own interest.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Equifax lost data from more than 100 million people (possibly working for Russia, depending on who you believe), which is certainly more information than TikTok has ever had access to. TikTok says NBA content may not have appeared in those searches due to issues with language and localization, but were not actively removed from the platform.)

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

A country where nothing is true and everything is possible is, to be clear, looks more like Russia than the one I grew up in. Nextdoor is discontinuing a feature that allows users to forward their posts directly to local police departments. It seems like a dangerous path to go down, even if I realize we’re already well on our way.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Trending down : The fees that Amazon imposes on sellers make it nearly impossible for them to sustain a profitable business, according to a report from the Institute of Local Self-Reliance. Institute for Local Self-Reliance). But Amazon’s monopoly ensures there’s an endless stream of people willing to try. Governing. ?

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