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Donald Trump speaks at the 2024 Mom's for Liberty National Summit in Washington D.C., Friday, August 30, 2024.

Trump Talks About Sending Tweets at 3 A.M. and His Pal Jeffrey Epstein on Lex Fridman Podcast

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Politics Matt Novak Sep 3

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov delivers his keynote conference during day two of the Mobile World Congress at the Fira Gran Via complex in Barcelona, Spain on February 23, 2016.

Telegram Founder Charged With Several Serious Crimes in France

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Crime Matt Novak Aug 28

Image of fire at Ukrainian nuclear power plant

Fire at Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine Puts Experts on Edge

Images of a cooling tower belching black are frightening, but Russia says it’s all under control now.

Tech News Matthew Gault Aug 12

Russia Plays Up Its Nuclear Weapons in Flashy Public Drill

This is the third time this summer that the Kremlin has shown off its battlefield nukes.

Tech News Matthew Gault Aug 1

Pro-Putin Blogger Handed Bust of Himself Before Explosion Killed Him

A bomb went off at a pro-war event at a St. Petersburg cafe on Sunday, killing a prominent local blogger and injuring 30 others.

Tech News Nikki Main Apr 3

The U.S. Now Blames an Unnamed Pro-Ukrainian Group for Blowing up the Nord Stream Pipeline

Approximately a year after the large Russo-German energy project was sabotaged, the U.S. is pointing the finger at a "pro-Ukrainian group."

Tech News Lucas Ropek Mar 7

Russia Hits Wikipedia With Fine for Going Against Putin’s War Narrative

The Kremlin claims Wikipedia is promoting misinformation about the Ukraine invasion and has fined the company two million rubles.

Tech News Nikki Main Feb 28

Watch the Striking Trailer for Ukrainian Sci-Fi Film Atlantis

The country of Ukraine is entering a visually striking, politically vibrant science fiction film for this year’s Foreign Film Oscar category. The trailer is something else. Taking place in a near-future Ukraine, this film imagines the fallout of a terrible war between the Ukraine and Russia. A war that, well, is based on reality, specifically…

Trailers Julie Muncy Jan 2

Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Also Broke Into Its Source Code

The hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberattack, an operation allegedly backed by Russia that compromised networks at many U.S. agencies and Fortune 500 corporations, also broke into Microsoft’s internal systems and accessed one of the company’s most closely guarded secrets: its source code. “We detected unusual activity with a small number of internal accounts and…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley Dec 31

Veterans Affairs Officials Inexplicably Blow Off Briefing on SolarWinds Hack

Senior officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs abruptly cancelled a scheduled briefing with congressional leaders this week regarding the extent and impact of the SolarWinds cyberattack, a far reaching intrusion into the networks of multiple U.S. agencies and powerful corporations allegedly perpetrated by an elite team of Russian hackers sanctioned by Moscow. Democratic lawmakers…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Dec 24

SolarWinds Hackers Broke Into the Federal Agency That Oversees the Nation’s Nukes

The federal agency that controls the safety, security, and effectiveness of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile was also breached in the massive SolarWinds hack suspected to have been perpetrated by Russian operatives, Politico reported. This week, news broke that thousands of customers had installed a software package from IT management firm SolarWinds that had been…

Tech News Tom McKay Dec 18

Feds Still Trying to Determine How Screwed They Are After Massive SolarWinds Hack

A cyberattack that began by targeting an IT firm used by numerous federal government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and other high-value targets is shaping up to be a historic event. The U.S. government is still reeling after the detection of a massive foreign intrusion into federal computer systems at agencies including—at a minimum—the Department of…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Dec 15

Edward Snowden Leaks Intent to Become Russian

Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked a trove of classified National Security Agency secrets to journalists, never quite made it to Ecuador. His attempt to avoid extradition and prosecution by U.S. authorities hit a snag in Russia back in 2013 where he claimed political asylum and has been stranded ever since.…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Nov 2

What the U.S. Should Have Learned From the 2016 Election

Years after revelations regarding Russian interference in 2016 started to come to light, the tiresome odes to “Soviet Russian tradecraft” ought to leave us wondering what’s changed. At this point, the fact that there were multiple Russian-led campaigns to sow disinformation around the 2016 election has become a well-documented fact. All took advantage of social…

Politics Hannah Gais Oct 30

UK Authorities Allege Russian Hackers Targeted the 2020 Olympics

As if the 2020 Olympics haven’t had enough hurdles to contend with, it looks like we can add cyberattacks to the list. Earlier today, UK officials put out a memo noting that hackers working with the GRU—Russia’s military intelligence agency—had carried out numerous cyberattacks against major sponsors, organizers, and other key players at this year’s…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky Oct 19

Is NASA Finally Done Paying Russia for Trips to Space?

NASA just handed over $90 million to the Russian space agency for launching astronaut Kate Rubins to the International Space Station. Assuming its commercial partners are able to deliver, this could mark the last time NASA purchases a seat on a Soyuz spacecraft. It was 3-2-1 blastoff at 1:45 a.m. EDT today, when a Soyuz-2.1a…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Oct 14

Russian Design for a Reusable Rocket Sure Looks Familiar

Roscosmos is moving ahead with plans to build Russia’s first reusable rocket. Glancing at the design, it appears the Russian space agency doesn’t feel the need to reinvent the wheel, given the vehicle’s uncanny resemblance to the SpaceX Falcon 9. Roscosmos signed a contract with the Progress Rocket Space Centre to sketch out a preliminary…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Oct 7

Hundreds of Dead Animals Washing Up on a Beach Is Russia’s Latest ‘Ecological Catastrophe’

Hundreds of sea creatures’ bodies have washed up onto the shore in Russia’s Far East. All signs point to water pollution in what is the latest in a series of environmental catastrophes to befall Russia this year. The contamination, first reported last month, has left a bubbly yellow sludge on the water offshore of the…

Earther Dharna Noor Oct 6

Ice Age Cave Bear Found Exquisitely Preserved in Siberian Permafrost

Reindeer herders working on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island in arctic Russia have stumbled upon an incredibly well-preserved cave bear, in what scientists say is a discovery of “world importance.” When it comes to studying extinct cave bears, paleontologists have traditionally dealt with scattered bones and the odd skull. That’s why this new discovery is so important,…

Biology George Dvorsky Sep 15

Scientists Flag ‘Inconsistencies’ in Russian Vaccine Study

A group of scientists is questioning the only available study so far supporting a controversial vaccine candidate for the coronavirus that causes covid-19, which is being developed by the Russian government. The group is claiming to have found “potential data inconsistencies” that make some of the findings highly unlikely to be genuine. The Russian vaccine…

Health Ed Cara Sep 11

Trump Talks About Sending Tweets at 3 A.M. and His Pal Jeffrey Epstein on Lex Fridman Podcast

Telegram Founder Charged With Several Serious Crimes in France

Fire at Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine Puts Experts on Edge

Russia Plays Up Its Nuclear Weapons in Flashy Public Drill

Pro-Putin Blogger Handed Bust of Himself Before Explosion Killed Him

The U.S. Now Blames an Unnamed Pro-Ukrainian Group for Blowing up the Nord Stream Pipeline

Russia Hits Wikipedia With Fine for Going Against Putin’s War Narrative

Watch the Striking Trailer for Ukrainian Sci-Fi Film Atlantis

Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Also Broke Into Its Source Code

Veterans Affairs Officials Inexplicably Blow Off Briefing on SolarWinds Hack

SolarWinds Hackers Broke Into the Federal Agency That Oversees the Nation’s Nukes

Feds Still Trying to Determine How Screwed They Are After Massive SolarWinds Hack

Edward Snowden Leaks Intent to Become Russian

What the U.S. Should Have Learned From the 2016 Election

UK Authorities Allege Russian Hackers Targeted the 2020 Olympics

Is NASA Finally Done Paying Russia for Trips to Space?

Russian Design for a Reusable Rocket Sure Looks Familiar

Hundreds of Dead Animals Washing Up on a Beach Is Russia’s Latest ‘Ecological Catastrophe’

Ice Age Cave Bear Found Exquisitely Preserved in Siberian Permafrost

Scientists Flag ‘Inconsistencies’ in Russian Vaccine Study

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