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Twitter Hasn’t Been ‘Enshittified.’ It Always Sucked.

Twitter is officially dead. Since Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of it late last year, people have been saying it’s dead or dying or will die. Musk ended the argument when he renamed the app “X.” And now, so many people seem to pine for the days when Twitter was good. But let me tell you, it was never good. It was a place of sadness and attention farming; a place for enemies and humiliation. It was, in short, shit.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedAfter renaming and subsuming Jack Dorsey’s…

Alexei Navalny Disappears from Russian Prison

A spokesperson for the Russian activist said on Monday that authorities are refusing to disclose his current whereabouts Allies of Alexei Navalny say the imprisoned Russian opposition leader has been missing for days.  On Monday, Navalny’s spokesperson ​​Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that “the lawyers tried to get to IK-6 and IK-7 —  two colonies in the Vladimir region where Alexey  might be. They have just been informed simultaneously in both colonies that he is not there.

Western monopoly in AI ‘dangerous, and unacceptable’, says Russia’s Vladimir Putin

 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a plan to endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence, emphasizing that it's essential to prevent a Western monopoly.  Speaking at an AI conference in Moscow, Putin noted that “it's imperative to use Russian solutions in the field of creating reliable and transparent artificial intelligence systems that are also safe for humans.” “Monopolistic dominance of such foreign technology in Russia is unacceptable, dangerous and inadmissible,” Putin said.…

Review: The Soviet Century by Karl Schlögel

One might feel particularly put off – in view of Vladmir Putin’s (and thus Russia’s) abominable war on Ukraine raging since February 2022 – having to read a book on the erstwhile Soviet Union, that scours the ghostly traces of a lost civilisation, the “Soviet lifeworld” even though the Soviet Union is gone. But as we don’t stop reading about America even though it bombed Japan and Afghanistan, or about Japan despite the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38, cultural historian Karl Schlögel informs us that he was triggered to…

Russia’s largest bank to set up IT operations in Bangalore

Russia's Sberbank is setting up IT operations in Bengaluru. The company has received the permission for the same from Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The new IT office will house Sberbank's in-house data processing center. Founded in 1841, PAO Sberbank is claimed to be the largest bank in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. Sberbank is the largest Russian bank in India. The bank has become a crucial player in helping Russia navigate Western sanctions imposed over the conflict in Ukraine. While Sber's India branch has been…

Russia Is Censoring VK 30 Times More After Ukraine Invasion

VKontakte (VK), Russia’s homegrown Facebook clone and its biggest social network, saw a whopping 30-fold increase in censorship requests from government officials during the eight-month period following the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to a new report. The findings, revealed in a report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, are some of the clearest examples yet illustrating Russia’s aggressive effort to use its ground war to justify even greaterclampdowns on online political

Russia Puts Chechen Official, Local Businessman in Charge After Seizing Western Assets

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Russia seeks to team up with India on quantum computing

He said the matter will be brought up officially by the Russian government as part of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) forum. “We have not signed any official contracts and partnerships so far. However, next year, we’ll be discussing this on the platform of Brics. We’ve held and discussed potential ideas for mutual collaboration among scientists, and there is huge mutual interest among our countries," Yunusov said. He was speaking on the…

Russia Bans Officials From Using iPhones for Government Work

Thousands of top Russian officials and state employees have reportedly been banned from using iPhones and other Apple products over concerns they could serve as surreptitious spying tools for Western intelligence agencies. It looks like top government officials in Russia are about to start receiving way more green text messages.Is USB-C Finally Coming To iPhone?Russia’s trade minister, according to a Financial Times report, said the new ban will take effect Monday, July 17. The move affects a variety of Apple products…

Creator of ElonJet Moves His Flight-Tracking Account to Threads

Jack Sweeney, the college student behind the Twitter account @ElonJet, has moved his platform to Threads after he was banned last year. Elon Musk banned Sweeney’s account from tracking his private flights and threatened to take legal action against him, claiming that tracking his flights put his son at risk.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetIn his first post on his Threads account, @elonmusksjet, Sweeney wrote: “ElonJet has arrived to Threads!” In a separate post, Sweeney appeared to reference his ban on Twitter, and