Technology News in Russia

Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine

Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.

Buyer pays $350 for broken RTX 4090 project only to find realistic fake GPU die and swapped memory — Russian repair specialist reveals sophisticated new cam using dummy PCBs

A customer paid approximately $350 for what appeared to be a repairable RTX 4090, only to receive a fake GPU with components that were painstakingly designed to resemble the rea...

Drone attack shuts a third Yandex data centre in Russia in 4 days

Yandex has lost a third major data centre in four days. The Russian tech company said on Sunday that a drone attack had left its site in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow, out...

Drones Strike Third Yandex Data Centre, Disrupts 80+ Services Across Russia

Data centers emerge as attractive targets in war

Russia and Ukraine have traded strikes on digital infrastructure in recent weeks, triggering major outages on both sides.

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers

Russian bot traffic falls dramatically as Ukraine takes out several Yandex data centers.

Russian modder slaps DLSS 5 onto Pac-Man with 4x Multipass

Russian YouTube channel dedicated to DLSS 5 experiments tries Pac-Man, and it's genuinely cursed.

Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"

One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.

OpenAI caught Russians and Iranians using ChatGPT for influence campaigns

The company says Russian operatives used its AI chatbot to update their bosses, shedding light on influence campaigns previously not attributed to Russia.

OpenAI bans ‘false front’ influence operations in Russia and Iran

OpenAI cracked down on threat actors in Russia and Iran that made use of the company’s chatbot to support “false front” entities designed to carry out covert influence operation...

Ukraine is building 'something similar' to Starlink, Zelensky claims — let's hope it fares better than Russia's disastrous Rassvet launch

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky confirms new satellite network in development which will provide Starlink-like connectivity for military communications.

Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Yandex data centers housing two top supercomputers

No more AI training in Russia? Destiny of two Nvidia-powered Russian supercomputers is unknown as drones hit Yandex data center in Sasovo.

Russia, China hypersonic missile threats fuel need for space defense, satellite CEO says

Space-based systems could detect and track incoming missile threats and intercept them either from land or space.

Russia's internet giant Yandex halts operations at major data center after drone attack

Russian internet giant Yandex paused operations inside one of its data centers after a drone attack as Ukraine continues to hit the country's infrastructure.

The Future Of AI, Robotics And Technology Entrepreneurship Discussed At Moscow Startup Summit

Russian firm completes country's first 130nm-capable chipmaking tool, trails modern equipment by 25 years

ZNTC completes development of Russia's first 130nm-capable lithography stepper, which could be used to produce chips sometimes late this decade, or rather early next.

OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic

In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin...

Russia cracking down on drone usage as it makes ERA-GLONASS navigation tech mandatory — GPS rival can monitor up to 1 million drones on land, water, and in the air in real time

Russia says its drone tracker lets officials land every drone in an area at the push of a button.

Russia unveils underwater swarm drones for oil and gas exploration — USC could control groups of 'up to 1,000 devices' for ship repair and more

Russia's USC has unveiled underwater robots for offshore response, vessel inspection, repair, logistics, hydrographic surveys, and AI-assisted maritime operations.

Sanctioned billion-dollar cybersecurity company from Russia finds 11 vulnerabilities in Google and Apple products — including a nasty one that compromised a device just through a malicious NFC tag

Nine Apple vulnerabilities affected access controls, privacy, macOS, and data protection, while two Android flaws enabled dangerous system changes.