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More than 30 dolphins wash up dead on beach after oil spill near southern Russia | World News
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Experts have said 32 dolphins have died since oil oozed out of two tankers in stormy weather three weeks ago near southern Russia. The spill happened in the Kerch Strait waterway, which separates the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula from Russia’s southern Krasnodar region. The deaths are “most likely related to the fuel oil spill”, said the…
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UK in AI arms race with Russia as Putin ‘wants destruction’, minister to warn | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The UK is in a “new AI arms race” with countries like Russia and North Korea, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will say on Monday. Minister Pat McFadden will be speaking at the NATO Cyber Defence Conference at Lancaster House, warning the UK and its allies that “cyber war is now a…
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Russia fines Google more than world’s entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts | World News
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Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles – two followed by 36 zeros – after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube. Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the world’s total GDP, estimated at…
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Iran, Russia and North Korea changed cyber attack tactics in the last year, says Microsoft | Science & Tech News
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Microsoft users face more than 600 million cyber attacks every day, partly fuelled by a growing trend of cyber crime gangs working with nation states, according to a new report by the company. In this year’s Digital Defence report, Microsoft said countries like Russia, Iran and North Korea have changed how they worked in the…
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Pavel Durov: Russia calls Telegram founder a ‘political prisoner’ after arrest in France | World News
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov is a “political prisoner” after his arrest in France, a Russian official has said. The 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire behind the encrypted messaging app was detained after his private jet landed at Le Bourget airport on the outskirts of Paris on Saturday. It is unclear what Mr Durov was arrested for but…
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Mass YouTube outage in Russia as authorities continue crackdown | World News
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People in Russia are unable to access YouTube amid an alleged crackdown on the video hosting site. Russian internet monitoring service Sboi.rf said there had been reports of thousands of glitches with the Google-owned video service. Users said the site was only accessible via virtual private networks (VPNs), which give users access to remote servers…
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UK to develop hypersonic missiles to catch up with China and Russia by 2030 – report | UK News
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Britain plans to equip its armed forces with a homegrown hypersonic cruise missile by the end of the decade, according to a report. Military chiefs are under pressure to catch up with China, Russia and the US by developing a weapon capable of flying at speeds higher than Mach 5 – five times the speed…
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Elon Musk sparks fury as billionaire admits scuppering Ukrainian attack on Russia | World News
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Elon Musk has sparked a backlash as he admitted his Starlink satellite communications network was not activated near the Crimean coast – effectively thwarting a sneak attack by Ukrainian forces on Russian ships. Ukrainian officials have reacted furiously to claims in a new biography of the tech billionaire which reportedly says the secret order meant…
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Russia reports ‘abnormal situation’ at Luna-25 spacecraft | Science & Tech News
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Russia has reported an “abnormal situation” at its moon-bound spacecraft which launched earlier this month. Luna-25 is an unmanned robot lander and the country’s first mission to the lunar surface in almost 50 years. It’s targeting a historic touchdown at the moon’s south pole on Monday, but appears to have run into unspecified trouble while…
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Luna-25: Russia starts processing data from moon lander hoping to make history | Science & Tech News
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Russian experts monitoring their moon-bound unmanned spacecraft Luna-25 have switched on its scientific equipment and started processing the first data. Russia is aiming to become the first country to carry out a soft landing on the lunar south pole – a region thought to hold pockets of water ice. Space agency Roscosmos said in a…