Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency BfV has said that Russia was probably behind a widespread cyber attack on German energy providers disclosed last week Hans-Georg Maassen told the RND newspaper group there were several reasons to believe Russia was involved, including the way the cyber attack was executed. “The...
UK-based tech company Travelport has said in its first quarter filing that its plans to go private have been delayed by regulatory authorities in Russia, Bloomberg Law reported. On March 15, shareholders of the company approved a takeover by financial firms Siris and Evergreen Coast Capital, a unit of...
Investing in bitcoin has already yielded US electric car producer Tesla its first gains of around $1 billion. The figure leaves the company’s profits from selling its electric vehicles (EV) far behind, RT reported. Earlier this month, Tesla revealed that it had bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin in a filing...
The Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos has lost several potential contracts for launching foreign satellites due to Washington's sanctions, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told Sputnik on Monday. "I am aware of several similar situations when the customers would like to use our rockets but were forced to refuse because...
Russia has started building high-speed internet infrastructure in the Arctic to be used by large ports and oil and gas companies, the Federal Sea and River Transportation Agency announced Wednesday, as reported by The Moscow Times. The trans-Arctic underwater fiber optic cable will stretch across 10,000 kilometers from the northwestern...
Russian lawmakers have proposed a bill under which Russia will abandon the global World Wide Web under the pretext of national security, Gazeta.ru reports. The country would switch to the use of its own domain name system and Internet traffic routing, where only Russian websites will work, says the draft...
A blockchain-powered platform built by IBM and Maersk and designed to facilitate international trade is to launch in Russia, according to CoinDesk. A June 6 news release from Maersk, the Danish shipping and logistics giant, shows that an agreement has been reached with Russian authorities for the TradeLens platform to...
The Mos.ru charity fund helped to raise over 5 million rubles for donations, as more than 18,000 payments were made through the service, the Department of Information Technologies of Moscow (DIT) said in a statement. The service, launched in 2020, aims to  allocate funding to help children and adolescents, the...
Attempts to blame the Russian Nauka research module for the delayed launch of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) are improper, according to Roscosmos Spokesman Vladimir Ustimenko on Wednesday. "What we don't understand is why NASA and Boeing are blaming the Russian Nauka module for the...
5G, the latest mass technology of cellular communication will not replace its predecessor, LTE in Europe and, in particular, in Russia, for at least another ten years, Izvestia writes referring to a Deloitte report. According to the professional services network’s report, 5G will spread much slower than LTE, with economic...