Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Amazon has suspended shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus, and will no longer provide customers with access to its streaming service Prime Video in Russia.

The microblogging site Twitter is trying to fully restore its services in Russia as users report "increasing difficulty" accessing its platform amid the Ukraine invasion and the country's growing restrictions on Big Tech.

Cogent Communications has cut ties with Russian customers over its invasion of Ukraine, as reported by The Washington Post.

PayPal has suspended its services in Russia in the wake of the Ukraine invasion.

Online discussion forum 'Reddit' has categorically banned its users globally from posting links to Russian state-sponsored media outlets, including RT and Sputnik, as well as Russian advertisements on its platform.

Elon Musk’s space venture SpaceX has successfully launched 47 Starlink satellites. The Starlink 4-9 mission lifted off at 9.25 a.m. EST (6.25 a.m. PST) on March 3 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and was SpaceX’s ninth of a planned 52 launches...

Micro-blogging site Twitter has reportedly announced an expansion to its Birdwatch scheme, which sees volunteer fact-checkers vet potentially-misleading tweets.

Meta has pledged $15 million to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and neighboring countries amid the Russian invasion.

Germany on Friday said it has switched off a space telescope making the largest ever map of black holes in the universe on a Russian satellite in view of Moscow's ongoing war with Ukraine.

Namecheap announced today that it will provide sites protesting the current regime in Russia and Belarus with free domains and web hosting.

Streaming giant Netflix will not distribute a number of state-run channels in Russia as mandated by a new law, the company says, following reports that it could soon be forced to carry the networks.

Meta-owned American photos and videos sharing social networking service Instagram has announced that it will no longer be supporting the separate IGTV app.

SpaceX has sent a truck full of Starlink user terminals to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.

Meta has taken down a network for targeting people in Ukraine who posed as news editors, aviation engineers, and authors to spread misinformation around the Russian invasion across social media platforms.

A federal grand jury in San Diego returned an indictment today charging the founder of BitConnect with orchestrating a global Ponzi scheme. BitConnect is an alleged fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform that reached a peak market capitalization of $3.4 billion.

An international team of astronomers and scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), a pan-European radio telescope.