TechCrunch has learned that Russia search giant Yandex is to switch from using yandex.ru as its main front page for Russian-speaking users to ya.ru — a less trafficked domain it’s owned since 2000 that, historically, has only hosted a basic search engine page. Imagine if Google decided to de-emphasize google.com in favor of a less … Read more
Russia is also trying to control mobile connections. In recent weeks, a mysterious new mobile company has popped up in Kherson. Images show blank SIM cards—totally white with no branding—being sold. Little is known about the SIM cards; however, the mobile network appears to use the Russian +7 prefix at the start of a number. … Read more
Jailed Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny, has hit out at adtech giants Meta and Google for shutting off advertising inside Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine which he argues has been a huge boon to Putin’s regime by making it harder for the opposition to get out anti-war messaging. The remarks came after Navalny was … Read more
Microsoft says it’s “significantly” scaling down its business in Russia, more than three months after Russia invaded Ukraine. The software giant first pulled the plug on “new” sales of products and services in Russia in early March, and now Bloomberg News reports that the company is laying off 400 employees in Russia as it begins … Read more
Russia has been behind a series of cyberattacks linked with its conflict with Ukraine earlier this year with wide-ranging impact across Europe, the European Union (EU), the UK and the US said on Tuesday. The western allies said the most recent attack was on the communications company Viasat in Ukraine, which had a wider impact … Read more
Russia’s crackdown on news media, and specifically sites that present the country’s government in a critical light, has been well documented, but less so the impact that this censorship is having in other areas like education. Now that appears to be shifting. Brainly, the Polish startup best known as a popular platform for crowdsourcing homework … Read more
Google says it hasn’t made adjustments to the way it censors satellite tv for pc imagery of Russia, opposite to extensively circulated claims on Twitter that it “opened entry to Russia’s army and strategic amenities.” Early Monday morning, Twitter account @ArmedForcesUkr (which is unverified however has been cited a number of instances by the official … Read more
The Witcher 3 has been delayed for PS5 and Xbox Collection S/X. On Thursday, its Polish developer CD Projekt Pink mentioned it was transferring improvement again in-house, and in consequence, needed to indefinitely postpone the discharge of its blockbuster sport The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for next-generation consoles. The model, which was initially scheduled to launch … Read more
The European House Company on Wednesday ended cooperation with Russia on three missions to the Moon as a consequence of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, following a earlier determination to do the identical for a Mars mission. The ESA mentioned it will “discontinue cooperative actions” on Luna-25, 26 and 27, a sequence of Russian lunar missions … Read more
Infosys on Wednesday joined the company boycott of Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, saying it will transfer its enterprise in another country and pursue alternate choices. The transfer aligns India’s No.2 software program providers agency with a number of international friends equivalent to Oracle and SAP SE and was disclosed alongside a powerful earnings … Read more