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The management of Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, presented the audience of the popular messenger with a difficult choice.

According to US agencies, the massive cyber attack on federal agencies in the United States of America in December 2020 likely originated from Russia and was an attempt to obtain intelligence.

As RIA Novosti was told in the Complex of Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations of the capital, Moscow has risen three positions in the Smart Cities Index (Smart Centers Index) of Z / Yen and took 44th place in it.

The Lazarus hacker group attacked the developers of the coronavirus vaccine - the Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company in one of the Asian countries.

Pavel Durov told how he will monetize the Telegram messenger he created.

Ukrainian TV channel "NASH" was punished for broadcasting part of the press conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine reported on the website that the laws of the country were thus violated.

This was reported by the press service of the lower house of the national parliament.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading a bill on criminal liability for libel on the Internet, which also generally toughens penalties for such statements.

The Presidium of the Commission for the Development of Production and Distribution of Domestic Audiovisual Content, approved the list of domestic applications that must be preinstalled on all smart TVs sold in Russia.

More than half of the fake news in the past year was related to the topic of the coronavirus pandemic. More precisely, about 60 percent of such news were registered.

On December 9, the FTC, along with attorneys general from 46 states and two counties, filed a lawsuit against Facebook. The authors of the complaint are confident that Facebook adheres to a special strategy and, with its help, maintains a personal monopoly on the social media market.

Six-year-old Anastasia Radzinskaya from Krasnodar for the second time entered the ten highest paid bloggers on YouTube according to Forbes

The Coursera educational platform has compiled a list of courses that users have most often signed up for in the past year.

It became known about the blocking of another official Instagram account of the Russian media.

An application that combines sites with free access will be included in the list of domestic software products that will be preinstalled on smartphones, tablets, computers and TVs with Smart TV function.