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U.S. Sending Ukraine New ‘Phoenix Ghost’ Suicide Drones to Fight Russia
The White House is sending the government of Ukraine a new type of drone developed by the U.S. Air Force that’s never been used in the battlefield before, according to Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby in a press conference Thursday.
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Intel Joins 600 Companies Leaving Russia Over War in Ukraine
Intel will suspend all business operations in Russia in response to the country’s continued war on Ukraine, according to a statement from the company late Tuesday. The tech giant has roughly 1,200 employees in Russia.
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Oopsies: Facebook Boosted Bad Posts for Six Months Because of a News Feed Bug
A “massive ranking failure” in the Facebook News Feed promoted content it pegged as bad for the past six months. The flaw in the News Feed’s ranking algorithm elevated misinformation, violence, and the Russian state media outlets Facebook pledged to downrank in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to more than a billion…
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Finland Detains 21 Yachts at Once Just in Case They Belong to Russian Billionaires
Finland shares a long border with Russia, so it finds itself with a large number of yachts with shady origins in their docks. Officials moved quickly, barring 21 yachts from leaving their winter storage this week.