Tag Archives: russia
Russia lifts its ban on Telegram
Twitter removes 170,000 state-backed accounts based in China
Yandex updates its self-driving tech on the 2020 Hyundai Sonata
On Russian terraforming: The race to reshape our planet’s future
Russia busts card fraud ring that included an infamous hacker
Russia tends to turn a blind eye to some fraudsters and hackers, but it just clamped down on a particularly large group. Investigators have charged at least 25 people involved in a credit card fraud ring that included a notorious hacker. While Russ...
Facebook and Twitter take down accounts linked to Russian troll farm
Facebook and Twitter took down a network of accounts with links to the same Russian troll farm responsible for interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
The Internet Research Agency (IRA), which has spent the last several years using social med...
Russian court says facial recognition tech does not violate privacy
While some countries are taking a stand against the use of facial recognition on the grounds of privacy invasion, Russia is taking the opposite view. A court in Moscow has ruled that the city's use of facial recognition does not violate the privacy o...
First ‘Stranger Things 4’ teaser moves the action far from Hawkins
As a Valentine's Day present to fans, the Stranger Things 4 teaser dropped this morning. "From Russia with love..." the show's Twitter account posted. The 50-second clip opens on a snowy Russian landscape where prisoners, watched by armed guards, are...
Senate: Obama Admin. wasn’t prepared to handle Russian interference
Today, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report (PDF) detailing the Obama administration's response to Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. The report says the Obama administration was not well-prepared to handle the unprecede...