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February 25, 2022, 6:50 PM

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:
Russia's telecom and internet regulator announces a “partial restriction” of access to Facebook over Meta blocking some Russian media outlets  —  The country's telecommunications and internet regulator announced the restriction on Friday, accusing Facebook of censoring Russia.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Nick Clegg says Meta refused a Russian order to stop the independent fact-checking and labeling of content from four state-owned media organizations on Facebook  —  The Russian government says Facebook blocked four local media accounts  —  The Russian government has partially blocked access …
Rachel Lerman / Washington Post:
Researchers say they realized Russia had invaded Ukraine hours before the news broke thanks to Google Maps traffic info and a SAR satellite image of troops  —  It was 3:15 a.m. in Belgorod, Russia — much too early for a traffic jam, thought Jeffrey Lewis, who was watching the traffic pileup on Google Maps.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Patreon suspends donations to Come Back Alive, a nonprofit started in 2014 to equip Ukrainian soldiers, for violating policies on funding military activity  —  - Come Back Alive started in 2014 as a nonprofit to provide equipment for the Ukrainian army, and its Patreon page received hundreds …
Taylor Lorenz / Input:
Some Instagram meme pages are turning into “war pages” that repost unverified footage without context, often claiming to be run by journalists in Ukraine  —  Just hours after the first explosions rocked Ukraine Wednesday night, massive Instagram meme pages began promoting …
Reuters:
Bloomberg:
Nvidia confirms a cyber “incident” caused internal outages; source: it appears to be a minor ransomware attack that's not connected to the Ukraine crisis  —  A cyber breach suffered by Nvidia Corp. in recent days appears to have been a ransomware attack that's not connected …
Bloomberg:
In a letter shared on Twitter, Ukraine's vice prime minister requested Tim Cook halt Apple's product sales and shut down its App Store in Russia  —  Mykhailo Fedorov, who serves as Ukraine's vice prime minister and oversees digital operations, urged Apple Inc. to halt product sales in Russia and shut down its App Store in the country.
Reuters:
The US restricts global tech exports to Russia, limiting access to a broad set of US-made products as well as foreign-produced goods built with US technology  —  The Biden administration announced sweeping export restrictions against Russia on Thursday, hammering its access to global exports …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Review of the $400 Steam Deck: customizable controls, powerful, and doubles as a Linux PC, but unfinished and buggy software, poor battery life, and a noisy fan  —  Early access memories  —  Both of these things are true:  —  First, I'm having more fun with the Steam Deck than any gadget I've tested in years.
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Zendesk abandons its $4.1B plan to acquire Momentive, which owns SurveyMonkey, after Zendesk stockholders rejected the deal  —  Zendesk announced today that it was walking away from the proposed $4.1 billion deal to buy Momentive, the owners of SurveyMonkey after stockholders rejected the deal.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
The UK's Online Safety Bill would mandate online platforms to give users tools to verify IDs, block anonymous users, and filter “legal but harmful” content  —  - The proposals mean online platforms would need to give users a way to verify their identity, and allow them to block any unverified accounts.
Jonathan Greig / ZDNet:
DDoS attacks disrupt several Ukrainian government sites; ESET researchers discover new data wiper malware installed on hundreds of Ukrainian machines  —  Cloudflare said the attack was “relatively modest compared to large DDoS attacks we've handled in the past.”
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