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Meta pauses all Facebook ads targeting people in Russia and stops letting marketers in Russia run ads globally, after Roskomnadzor blocked Facebook in Russia — - Facebook made yet another move against Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine. — The company is halting all ads in the country …
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Roskomnadzor has reportedly blocked Twitter in Russia; a spokesperson says the company doesn't see “anything significantly different” than existing throttling — Russia's communications regulator said it blocked Facebook because of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources.”
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PayPal suspends its services in Russia, including its money transfer service Xoom; Wise and Remitly also suspended some services in Russia earlier this week — Payments company PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) shut down its services early on Saturday in Russia, citing “the current circumstances …
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung suspends all product shipments to Russia, source says including chips, smartphones, electronics; Samsung has a 30%+ smartphone market share in Russia — Samsung Electronics Co. said product shipments to Russia have been suspended due to current geopolitical developments …
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Have I Been Pwned: hackers stole 71K+ Nvidia staff credentials, including email IDs and Windows password hashes, many of which were “cracked and circulated” — The ransomware group that claims to have taken a terabyte of data from chipmaking giant Nvidia is threatening to release the company's …
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| New York Times: |
A look at volunteer hackers in the Russia-Ukraine war with unverifiable identities and locations, blurring the line between amateurs and groups linked to states — The hackers have claimed a number of disruptions over the past week, blurring the lines between amateurs and groups linked to governments.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Ukraine Deputy Minister for Information Transformation Oleksandr Bornyakov on Ukraine's “IT Army”, cybersecurity, and betting on crypto donations — An interview with the country's deputy minister for Information Transformation on its digital resistance as it braces for more conflict| Jacob Silverman / New Republic: |
For some right-wing libertarian-minded coiners, the right to freely trade crypto takes precedence over opposing a Russian invasion of a sovereign nation — Last month, a non-fungible token, or NFT, collector who goes by the pseudonymous Twitter handle @punk6529 posted a 56-part Twitter thread …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Snapchat turns off its “heatmap” feature in Ukraine as a safety precaution, no longer showing how many snaps are being taken in particular locations — Other companies have cut off sources of info on the public's movements — Snap has announced that it's temporarily turning off Snapchat's … | Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Many tech leaders believe work flexibility will be a staple and hiring will be more geographically dispersed even when the pandemic is over — Highly sought-after tech workers don't want to go back to the way things used to be. Their employers are making their work day more flexible and less distracting … | Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Yandex has lost 75%+ of its value in the past 6 months, despite not being directly sanctioned, as deals with Uber, Grubhub, and DuckDuckGo appear likely to end — Western investors and tech partners are abandoning the group following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine| Washington Post: |
Activision Blizzard is being sued by the family of an employee who died by suicide, alleging sexual harassment was a “significant factor” that led to her death — Activision Blizzard, the embattled gaming giant that Microsoft recently agreed to buy for nearly $69 billion …
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