The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

First time for a post debunking the "foiled sabotage / gas attack" and second time for a post debunking the "Ukrainian attack into Russia". Researchers raised concerns that the account suspension could have been part of a mass reporting campaign intended to disable OSINT accounts during a Russian invasion.

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TechSpot

MARCH 21, 2023

Russian publication Kommersant reports that employees of the Kremlin's internal political bloc - the Russian presidential administration's domestic policy, public projects, State Council, and IT departments - were informed that they must get rid of their iPhones before April.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus (GUBOPiK) has detained prominent Wikipedia editor Mark Bernstein, according to the Belarusian publication Zerkalo. The arrest comes after Bernstein’s personal information was shared on GOBUPiK’s public Telegram channel. The channel has since been made private.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Turns out not every company is going to grow vertically : Back when SPACs were hot, many startups looking to combine and go public were content to forecast aggressive revenue growth. The company just raised $20 million to keep working on “dynamic application security testing and identifying business logic issues,” TechCrunch reports.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This report from The Washington Post details how a team of researchers used a combination of Google Maps and radar imagery to track the movement of Russian troops, tipping them off to an invasion of Ukraine before the general public got word of the situation. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Someone's on the move.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

In the latest salvo from hacktivists working in support of Ukraine, an Anonymous-linked group has defaced a website belonging to Russia’s Space Research Institute (IKI) and leaked files that allegedly belong to the Russian space agency Roscosmos. At time of publication, the uv.ikiweb.ru site was inaccessible. Cosmonauts ??

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

First reported by the Washington Post , the person is a former member of Facebook’s integrity team and says the company puts profits before efforts to fight hate speech and misinformation on its platform. The whistleblower alleged differences between Facebook’s public statements and internal decision-making in other areas.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

Russia’s lower house of parliament has passed a law punishing “fake news” with up to 15 years in prison, according to Reuters. The rule would impose fines or jail terms for spreading false information about the military, as well as fines for people who publicly call for sanctions against Russia.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

It is worth noting that Nvidia has far fewer than 71,000 employees — its last annual report lists 18,975 employees across 29 countries, though it’s possible the compromised email addresses include prior employees and aliases for groups of employees. Companies that rely heavily on email often have a lot of mailing lists.)

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

YouTube is blocking state-backed Russian media outlets from advertising and earning money on the platform, as first reported by Reuters. Russia has since restricted access to Facebook and Twitter. Although Russia hasn’t blocked YouTube just yet, it threatened to ban the platform entirely for deleting two RT channels in September.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission amid the agency’s look at electric vehicle companies that went public via special purpose acquisitions companies. Don’t worry, reporter Kyle Wiggers (who is rounding out his first week with us) tells you all about what that is. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

He’s likely referring to the world’s notable dependence on Russian pipelines — a dependence which hasn’t stopped many governments from sanctioning Russia following its invasion of Ukraine , but has sparked fears over surging energy prices, particularly in Europe. Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures.

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The Verge

APRIL 27, 2022

Excluding the impact of our exit from Russia, subscriber growth exceeded expectations,” the company said in its press release. Spotify announced it would be suspending its services in Russia at the end of March, a few days before the end of the financial quarter. It reports that it’s already seen 1.5

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Varjo and partner Dogfight Boss also announced in August that their headset-based F-16 simulator had been deployed to help Ukraine train fighter pilots in its war with Russia. The company reported a 59% year-over-year increase in revenue in 2024. In the U.S.,

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

“We have always supported the academia and pharma industry, both public and private sector organisations, and we have been clear that this work is our top priority at present,” an NCSC spokesperson said in an email to The Verge. According to an NCSC report , APT29 uses “a variety of tools and techniques” in its hacking operation.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

The change first surfaced in a report by Reuters , citing internal emails to moderators. The New York Times confirmed this policy applies to people using the service from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians.”.

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The Verge

MARCH 19, 2022

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has confirmed it was the subject of a ransomware attack that took place last October, according to a report from Gizmodo. Grief, which is said to be associated with well-known Russia-based hacking group Evil Corp , threatened to release more documents if its payment threshold wasn’t met.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Wall Street Journal reports that Russia is a suspect, specifically its foreign-intelligence service known as the SVR. Hackers targeted and accessed the firm’s so-called Red Team tools, which it uses to test customer security and find vulnerabilities. FireEye says that it does not believe any customer information was taken.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

As Russian media attempts to cast the invasion as a response to Ukrainian aggression , on-the-ground reporting has played a crucial role in countering the propaganda, with footage coming from both professional journalists and amateurs on social media. services, public DNS resolvers provided by Cloudflare and Google, respectively.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Firefly Aerospace’s roller coaster ride could soon send the rocket startup to the public market via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, a recent filing with the FCC suggests. AEI took Redwire public last September via a SPAC merger. AEI declined to comment on the filing to TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2022

There’s an argument that the business is messy, so we should report on the issues as we hear about them; and there’s the narrative of the female takedown story, in which people believe that women are targeted by the press more than men due to unreasonably high standards. Some big tech apps remain. Slowdown or not, the market is still hot.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

The news comes at the same time that Proofpoint had released its Q1 earnings , in which it reported revenues of $287.8 It also however reported a GAAP net loss of $45.3 More M&A activity is underway in the red-hot field of cybersecurity. billion in cash. million, up 15% versus $249.8 million, according to Yahoo Finance data.

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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. CNBC reports that the organization also provided body armor, medical kits, and helmets to Ukrainian soldiers.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

NEW REPORT In @ASPI_ICPC 's report ' #StopXinjiangRumors : The CCP’s decentralised disinformation campaign' the authors analyse two Chinese state-linked networks seeking to influence discourse about Xinjiang across Twitter & YouTube. Read here: [link] — ASPI Cyber Policy (@ASPI_ICPC) December 2, 2021. The scheme was fascinating.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

But Europe’s situation is perhaps more curious; after all, it is the closest to Russia and its war on Ukraine. As we reported, African startups only accounted for a 2% deal share last quarter, while their European counterparts typically account for one-fifth of global activity, both in terms of funding and deal volume.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

The news was first reported by Automotive News. The news comes as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued to send shockwaves around the world. On Friday, Russia announced it was blocking access to Facebook. The news comes as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued to send shockwaves around the world.

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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. News outlets in Ukraine are also reporting outages caused by cyberattacks, which the Ukrainian government says it has “unambiguously linked” to Moscow.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine, U.K.-based “A lot of very senior partners and VCs who donated said ‘just send me the reports. We don’t want any publicity or our name in lights.’ Khi’s father (aged 70) and godmother (aged 82) are both in Ukraine, as are her stepsister and her children.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Short and to the point today: Follow our newest hire, the excellent Jacquelyn Melinek , who joined the TechCrunch+ team as a senior crypto reporter. Tech talent flees Russia : As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds along, technology companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how to handle their business operations and staff.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

In a TC+ guest post, they share a calculator for using growth metrics and public market valuations that can help founding teams “triangulate to a more company-specific enterprise value.”. To learn more about Major League Baseball’s tech stack, enterprise reporter Ron Miller interviewed its CPO and head of engineering, Vasanth Williams.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Today we’re sad that Aloria passed away on Sunday , as Lorenzo reported. Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 X marks the spot : GitHub launched its Copilot X initiative today, which Frederic reports is an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

” Beyond cost cutting, Mythic revamped its go-to-market strategy, returning to its roots with a “renewed focus” on defense (and to a lesser extent public safety, industry and consumer verticals), according to Fick. attempts to gain an upper hand against threats from adversaries, including China and Russia.

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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. As The Post explains, companies will need a license to export hacking software and equipment to China, Russia, and other listed nations, whether for cyber defense or not.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Using a special purpose acquisition company to go public was a popular fad in 2020 and 2021, but many startups that took this shortcut into the public markets haven’t done very well. ” Just how wrong were those SPAC projections? As war escalates in Europe, it’s ‘shields up’ for the cybersecurity industry.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2022

CDPR did not announce a new release date or even an expected timeline, which led some publications — including The Verge — to write that the game has been delayed indefinitely. As part of the delay announcement, CDPR said that the update would miss its planned Q2 release and that the studio would move development of the update in-house.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Mid-year, the 2017-founded startup reports that it had reached €14.7 Especially in Europe, as the region remains heavily exposed to high energy costs triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine and the country’s response to Western sanctions as the bloc seeks to reduce its dependency on Russia gas imports.

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2022

To protect essential reporting on the war, some exceptions apply under this guidance where there is a compelling public interest or newsworthy POW content. To protect essential reporting on the war, some exceptions apply under this guidance where there is a compelling public interest or newsworthy POW content.

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