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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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| NetBlocks: |
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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| 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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| Grace Dean / Insider: |
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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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| João Carrasqueira / XDA Developers: |
Lenovo debuts updated Windows 11 and Chromebook IdeaPads with 12th-Gen Intel CPUs and the Tab M10 Plus running Android 12, available in June starting at $190 — Lenovo has a ton of announcements coming out of MWC 2022, and among them are a handful of new laptops geared towards consumers under the IdeaPad brand.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils updated ThinkPads: X13 with Snapdragon chips, X1 Extreme with a 165Hz display, and updated P-series and T-series with new Intel processors — A new X13, a new X1 Extreme, and more — Lenovo has dumped a whole bunch of new ThinkPads into the world, and there's some exciting stuff in there.
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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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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Crypto became viable for transactions in Ukraine, where Tether is popular, after its central bank suspended digital cash transfers and limited cash withdrawals — More than $15 million in cryptocurrency has been donated to Ukrainian groups since Russia attacked the country on February 24th, according to research firm Elliptic.
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Tweets: @usleepwalker, @brieflycrypto, @usleepwalker, @abodee647, @neerajka, @brett_ftxus, @neerajka, @naomibrockwell, @cryptomichnl, and @mslopatto
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
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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.
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