Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has lasted more than a year now, and each day brings fresh reports of new horrors from the front lines — as well as in cities that have been laid to rubble and seen all manner of war crimes and other atrocities. And thanks to newly updated satellite imagery and…
For the first time in Russia’s ongoing 294-day invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymir Zelenskyy says his troops in Kyiv were able to shoot down all elements of an attempted aerial attack from Moscow’s military. That allegedly included 13 Iranian-made Shahed-136 and 131 drones fired “from the direction of the eastern coast of the Sea of…
Russia has sourced at least $2.6 billion in computer components and electronics in the months since falling under Western tech sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing purchased Russian customs records. Semiconductors and other technology arrived in Russia between April and Oct. 31 via Hong Kong and Turkey — which have not…
For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flashpoint Ukraine. The latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. All times EST. 11:30 p.m.: The United States was finalizing plans to send its sophisticated Patriot air-defense system to Ukraine, U.S. officials told Reuters, while allies pledged just over $1.05 billion (1 billion euros) to help…
“I was hoping to wake up and everything was back to COVID times.” That sentence weighs on me as I continue chatting with Russian artist and game dev Mariya. COVID has caused a seismic shift in what “living” means for just about everyone over the past few years – yet it pales in comparison to…
Russian PC users are currently at a loss for new PCs and components as the lack of hardware and component support from manufacturers has been slim because of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia last year. Users are purchasing components for their computer systems and laptops, increasing sales of those parts by as much as…
Russian PC users are currently at a loss for new PCs and components as the lack of hardware and component support from manufacturers has been slim because of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia last year. Users are purchasing components for their computer systems and laptops, increasing sales of those parts by as much as…
At an industry event this year in Riyadh, the Saudi energy minister paused at about 9 p.m. in front of some 1,000 people and told them it was bedtime for Amin Nasser, the chief executive of state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco. He was not joking. Over a career of four decades, Nasser has earned a…
LONDON: A report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British defence and security think tank, claims that companies in India could be covertly helping Western-manufactured components bypass arms embargoes to make their way into Russian weapons deployed in Ukraine. The report, titled “Operation Z: The Death Throes of an Imperial Delusion”, written by…
Dr2mod, a Ukrainian maker whose Raspberry Pi work we’ve covered in the past, has developed an air raid siren monitor using a Raspberry Pi Zero W. This simple Pi project provides critical data regarding Ukrainian air raid sirens in real-time using the SBC along with an e-Ink display for visual output. This isn’t Dr2mod’s first…
