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Head of Russian Space Program Mysteriously Axed

Futurism

Russia's space chief Yuri Borisov has been replaced by former Roscosmos staffer and former deputy minister of transport Dmitry Bakanov, Ars Technica reports.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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Russia asks prisoners to fill IT vacancies following worker exodus

TechSpot

KrebsonSecurity reports that the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service last month announced it planned to use incarcerated IT specialists sentenced to forced labor as remote workers for domestic commercial companies, a plan that had been proposed by Russian businessmen struggling to fulfill IT roles.

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Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares

The Verge

The proposed Telecommunications Business Act will put users who purchase digital goods from other sources at risk of fraud, undermine their privacy protections, make it difficult to manage their purchases, and features like “Ask to Buy” and Parental Controls will become less effective. trillion to date with Apple.

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Zambian card issuing startup Union54 raises $12M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

According to him, recent global events like Visa and Mastercard pulling out from Russia, leaving China’s UnionPay to fill in the void, have made it evident that payments are a politicized endeavor. “The purpose of creating another card network is an inspiration of what’s happening right now. .”

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A phone relay capture may be the latest of Russia’s communications woes in Ukraine

The Verge

According to the SBU’s Telegram post, the hacker was helping to route calls from within Russia to the mobile phones of Russian troops in Ukraine, and also sending text messages to Ukrainian security officers and civil servants proposing they surrender. Photo: Ukrainian Security Services via Twitter.

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Fresh off dramatic majority shareholder exit, Firefly could be headed for a SPAC

TechCrunch

The new FCC filing , which relates to a proposed launch of Firefly’s second Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California this spring, adds that the acquisition involved “the majority of Firefly Aerospace’s equity” and was by “special purpose acquisition vehicles controlled by AE Industrial Partners.”

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Daily Crunch: In latest earnings release, Twitter admits to miscounting users for the second time

TechCrunch

And it didn’t count right, revealing that it was reporting more users than it really had — by nearly 2 million — something Sarah points out is “a predicament that may have encouraged the company to more seriously consider its acceptance of Elon Musk’s proposal to take the company private in a $44 billion deal.”

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