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 (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) The last time Western sanctions hit Russia after it annexed Crimea, President Vladimir Putin turned to Huawei to rebuild and upgrade the territory’s communication infrastructure. Now, the particular controversial Chinese technology company is positioned to aid the Putin regime on a much larger scale, despite the threat of […]
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 / The sun sets beyond an oil pumping unit, also known as a pumping jack, at a drilling site operated by Tatneft OAO near Almetyevsk, Russia. (credit: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) Russia’s economy is in shambles, and the value of the ruble has plummeted as the country finds itself increasingly isolated from global trade in the […]
Enlarge / Russian mobile phone networks could be severely hampered if mooted US tech sanctions go into effect. (credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg) The US is considering restricting the flow of semiconductors into Russia to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine. The move would prevent the Russian military and much of the nation’s economy from […]
Enlarge (credit: Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images) US officials on Thursday formally blamed Russia for backing one of the worst espionage hacks in recent US history and imposed sanctions designed to mete out punishments for that and other recent actions. In a joint advisory, the National Security Agency, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency said […]
Enlarge (credit: Barcroft Media | Getty Images) Huawei, the crown jewel of China’s tech industry, is reeling from a financial one-two punch delivered by US chip sanctions and a campaign aimed at cutting international markets. But with Huawei rapidly expanding into new markets and the Chinese government investing heavily to gain technological independence from the […]
(charge: Aurich Lawson) Firms, companies, and businesses which are struck with crippling ransomware strikes finally have a new strain to compete –large penalties in the US Department of Treasury at the event they pay to recoup their own data. Treasury Department officials left that advice official in a aide released on Thursday. It cautions that […]