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Russia's leading internet providers have restricted access to Twitter and Facebook — NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of Twitter in Russia from the morning of Saturday 26 February 2022. Facebook servers have subsequently been restricted as of Sunday.
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The Register, Japan Today, Engadget, BGR India, Reuters, VICE, HotHardware.com News, Axios, Until The Sun Comes, and PCMag
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| David Klepper / Associated Press: |
How Russia is trying to use social media platforms to stir up anti-Ukraine sentiment by spreading propaganda, disinformation, and discord online — The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat. It's cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda.
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Analysts: Russia's invasion of Ukraine could accelerate the fracturing of the internet, amid pressure on US tech giants from both Russia and the West to respond — Conflict could accelerate the fracturing of the internet into the ‘splinternet,’ analysts say
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| Axios: |
Google Maps temporarily stops displaying live traffic and “busy area” data in Ukraine, but basic traffic navigation is still available — Google Maps has temporarily disabled some of its tools for Ukraine following the Russian military's invasion of the country, a spokesperson confirmed Sunday.| Alexander Marrow / Reuters: |
Russia's regulator demands that Alphabet remove all restrictions on Russian-language YouTube channels of media outlets RBC, TV Zvezda, and Sputnik in Ukraine — Russia's state communications regulator on Sunday said it had written to Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google and demanded that access …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
How tech companies based in Kyiv, including Grammarly, Readdle, and MacPaw, are dealing with Russia's invasion of Ukraine — Russia officially invaded Ukraine Thursday. The U.S. and its allies are imposing sanctions, but, as U.S. President Joe Biden said in a press conference Thursday …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Opinion: as Apple prepares to launch an iPhone SE 5G, the company should keep selling the older iPhone SE model and bring its price down to $199 — Apple is planning to unveil a 5G iPhone SE in March—but the big news could be a price drop for the current model.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
A pro-Ukraine member of the Conti ransomware gang posts 339 days' worth of the group's chat logs, after its leaders declared support for Russia — A member of the Conti ransomware group, believed to be Ukrainian of origin, has leaked the gang's internal chats after the group's leaders posted …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Samsung updates its Galaxy Book Pro laptops with 1080p webcams, Intel 12th Gen CPUs, and brighter AMOLED displays, starting at $1,050 and shipping on April 1 — There's a clamshell and a convertible — Samsung has announced two updates to its premium Galaxy Book line: the Galaxy Book 2 Pro and Galaxy Book 2 Pro 360.
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| Rest of World: |
A look at AcadArena and other “game guilds” in Southeast Asia, which loan out NFTs of in-game creatures as “scholarships” to players of games like Axie Infinity — In just a year, guilds boosting players into NFT games raised more than $80 million in Southeast Asia.| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Ukraine's official Twitter account and government officials post donation requests in the form of bitcoin, ether, and USDT amid Russia's invasion — Quick Take — Ukraine's official Twitter account posted several requests for cryptocurrency donations on Saturday in the form of bitcoin, ether and USDT.
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Benzinga, CryptoPotato, Cointelegraph, CRYPTOPONG Newsletter, Cryptopolitan, Forkast, TradingBTC.com, The Daily Hodl, CoinDesk, and Protocol
Tweets: @sbf_ftx, @fedorovmykhailo, @ukraine, @vitalikbuterin, @tomicahtd, @spacerunnersnft, @ashevat, @onigiriman1998, @novogratz, @benbartenstein, @olvelez007, @btctn, @lawmaster, @olex_scherba, @launders, @katienotopoulos, @cryptomanran, @fundstrat, @olex_scherba, @prestonpysh, @connorsephton, @fwd, @gladstein, @wublockchain, and @tomaxwell
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
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Tweets: @fedorovmykhailo, @root_nomad, @davidfrum, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @twobitidiot, @fredbenenson, @caseynewton, @dbreunig, @dbreunig, @alexhern, @el33th4xor, and @neerajka
| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @usleepwalker, @brieflycrypto, @usleepwalker, @abodee647, @neerajka, @brett_ftxus, @naomibrockwell, @cryptomichnl, @neerajka, and @mslopatto
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A profile of iSTARE, an Intel hardware hacking group that analyzes and attacks future generations of chips to find critical flaws before they go into production — Researchers at iSTARE have to think like the bad guys, finding critical flaws before processors go to production.
Tweets: @lilyhnewman, @martijnrasser, @kennwhite, @tommgarrison, and @intel_brian
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger about his IDM 2.0 strategy, partnering with TSMC, the Tower Semiconductor acquisition, and learning from AMD's success — Intel has been one of the companies I have focused on from the very beginning of Stratechery.
Tweets: @chris_mellor and @ntaylor963
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