Enlarge / Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s “Smart Voting” app. (credit: Natalia Kolesnikova/Getty Images) Apple company has restored an app sponsored by Alexei Navalny, a prominent leader of Russia’s political opposition, to the company’s Russian app store. The apple company took down the app last September, days before Russia’s legislative elections, under pressure from the Russian […]
Enlarge (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Intel, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, is suspending business operations in Russia “effective immediately, ” the company announced on Tuesday. “Intel continues to join the global community in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine, ” the company said in a statement . Intel stopped shipping chips […]
Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2021. (credit: RAMIL SITDIKOV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images) Roskomnadzor, Russia’s censorship authority, issued another demand on Tuesday for Wikipedia to remove what it called “unreliable socially significant information. ” The agency warned that failure to comply could lead to fines of up to 4 million rubles ($50, 000). The […]
Enlarge / World of Tanks will remain playable in Russia and Belarus even though developer Wargaming is leaving those countries. Wargaming, the developer behind the massively popular military MMO World of Tanks and its spin-offs, has decided to close its offices in Russia and Belarus amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. In an announcement on […]
Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within Russia saw their Internet speed slow to a crawl, no matter how fast their connection. Then came the […]
Enlarge / Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. (credit: Jason Connolly-Pool/Getty Images) The Biden administration slapped a new round of sanctions on Russia, with a focus on technology companies that support the Russian war effort in Ukraine. Among the sanctioned companies is Mikron, Russia’s largest chipmaker. “We will continue to target Putin’s war machine with sanctions from […]
Enlarge / A Viasat internet satellite dish in the yard of a house in Madison, Virginia. (credit: Getty Images) Viasat, the high-speed satellite broadband provider whose modems were knocked out in Ukraine and other parts of Europe earlier this month, has confirmed third-party researchers’ theory that new wiper malware with possible ties to the Russian […]
Enlarge / If you can’t buy Loop Hero , the developers encourage you in order to pirate it. With Russian gamers effectively cut off from purchases on most major gaming platforms due to corporate sanctions against the country, the Russian game developer behind indie darling Loop Hero is encouraging Russian customers to pirate the game. […]
Enlarge / NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei flashes a thumbs-up shortly after landing on Wednesday. (credit: NASA) After more than a month of speculation, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei did in fact return to Earth inside a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday, on the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan. The landing of the small descent module was […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Some Internet traffic in and out of Twitter on Monday was briefly funneled through Russia after a major ISP in that country misconfigured the Internet’s routing table, network monitoring services said. The mishap lasted for about 45 minutes before RTCOMM, a leading ISP in Russia, stopped advertising its network as the […]