Nearly 30% of Russia’s Internet users have daily problems loading pages on the Internet, Kommersant writes citing a new report by tech news website TelecomDaily.
The cause of these difficulties can be blamed either on the operator or the user’s equipment, or on the large amount of content on a site,...
On Thursday, Google's Russian unit announced that it had filed an appeal against a Moscow court order requiring it to unblock the YouTube account of a Christian Orthodox news channel operated by a Russian businessman subject to U.S. and EU financial sanctions.
Konstantin Malofeev's Tsargrad TV claims that YouTube had...
A group of Russian nuclear scientists was arrested after it was discovered they used a top-secret supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency.
The scientists were apprehended after allegedly connecting the high-end machine to the internet to use it for “personal purposes,” including cryptocurrency mining, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
The Federal Nuclear Center...
U.S.-based IT services company DXC Technology has acquired Luxoft, a custom software development company founded in Russia and currently headquartered in Switzerland, for $2 billion in an all-cash deal, Cnews.ru reports.
“Luxoft and DXC are highly complementary, and our shared vision of digital transformation makes this strategic combination a...
The Moscow office of tech company Ngynx was raided by police on Thursday after the ownership of the popular web server's source code was disputed, ZDNet reports.
Ngynx (pronounced "Engine-X") was acquired earlier this year by U.S.-based F5 Networks.
NGINX cofounders Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov were detained during the reported raid,...
Russia's security service FSB said Thursday it is now reviving cooperation with American agencies on cybersecurity issues despite major tensions between the two countries, TASS reported citing the agency’s head Alexander Bortnikov.
“We are restoring those relations,” FSB’s chief told journalists in comments carried by the news agency, despite trading...
Twitter has removed only a third of content prohibited in Russia, Russia’s mass media watchdog said on Tuesday, TASS informed.
"Roscomnadzor informs that after it took measures to slow down Twitter traffic on March 10, 2021, the social network began to remove prohibited content but actually has removed only a...
Russian mobile operator MobileTeleSystems (MTS) is involved in negotiations on the purchase of online streaming service Ivi.ru, RBC reports citing unnamed sources.
The reported price of the deal for 36% of the popular streaming company is 20 billion rubles ($309million), according to the news outlet.
Analysts at Sberbank CIB commented...
The Russian central bank is worried about a risk that cryptocurrencies may furnish a convenient basis for financial pyramid schemes, even though they were created for very different purposes, the bank’s first deputy governor, Sergey Shvetsov, told a forum in Moscow on Wednesday, describing the possible consequences as a...
Russia is preparing to export its new Yenot (Racoon) system for tracking civilian-use drones to South Korea, Mail.ru reports citing a statement from the country’s Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The details of the deal were not disclosed, but according to the president of the Korea-Russia Business Council, Johngho Park,...
