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Legally, Russia can’t just take its Space Station and go home

Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin during a flight to the Vostochny Cosmodrome on September 4, 2021. (credit: ALEXEY DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images) The fate of the International Space Station hangs in the balance as tensions between Russia and the West escalate following the country’s […]

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White House warns of possible Russian cyberstrike on US critical infrastructure

Enlarge / US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger speaking during a March 21 White House daily press briefing. (credit: Getty Images) The Biden administration on Monday warned that it believes Russian state hackers may step up a cyber offensive that targets US organizations, particularly organizations in the private sector […]

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy Has Already Returned To Poland To Help Ukrainian Refugees!

Maksim Chmerkovskiy is back in Europe. Maks drew a lot of attention after spending a few traumatic days stuck in his native Ukraine at the beginning of the Russian invasion. He was thankfully able to escape and return to the US to reunite with his family, but admitted he felt “survivor’s guilt” and wanted to […]

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So how do Russian cosmonauts feel about Russia’s war on Ukraine?

Enlarge / Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov participate in a news conference after docking with the International Space Station. (credit: Roscosmos) On Friday, three cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station, having launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and harsh Western sanctions, the International Area Station […]

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Leaked ransomware documents show Conti helping Putin from the shadows

Enlarge (credit: Wired | Getty Images) For years, Russia’s cybercrime groups have acted with relative impunity. The Kremlin and local law enforcement have largely turned a blind eye to disruptive ransomware attacks as long as they didn’t target Russian companies. Despite direct pressure on Vladimir Putin to tackle ransomware groups, they’re still intimately tied to […]

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Halyna Hutchins’ Family Trapped In Ukraine

Months after the tragic loss of Halyna Hutchins, the family is staring another tragedy in the face. The cinematographer, who was accidentally shot by a live round by Alec Baldwin on the set of the western film Rust, was a first generation immigrant. She was born 1979 in Horodets, Zhytomyr Oblast, in the former Soviet Union — which […]