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After former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson announced an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the X platform, the number of downloads of the app, formerly known as Twitter, skyrocketed, putting X at number one in the US App Store. According to various media outlets, including Reuters, AP, and The New York Times, the […]
The timing of this submarine’s return to service has been constantly shifting to the right, and is now projected at 2025. Russian propaganda media claim that their Project 949AM nuclear submarine Irkutsk, part of the Pacific Fleet and currently undergoing repairs and modernization at the Zvezda plant in the coastal region, was launched in 2023, […]
Belarus has built dozens of hangars at one of the country’s largest tank storage facilities. This was reported by motolko help. It is noted that in October 2022, Belarus handed over 211 pieces of military equipment to Russia, including 98 T-72A tanks. They were taken from the 969th tank reserve base in the urban village […]
SpaceX has applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to test unmanned barges at sea as maritime Internet stations. It is planned to install 12 conventional ground-based Starlink systems on the barge to test the system’s operation in marine conditions. It is not specified how these complexes will be connected to the terrestrial […]
On Thursday, a volcano erupted for the second time this year in southwestern Iceland. This was reported by the Icelandic broadcaster RUV. The eruption occurs just three weeks after the last eruption. A significant increase in seismic activity near Fagradalsfjalla on the Reykjanes Peninsula occurred at 5:20 am, and magma came to the surface around […]
The M-class solar flare, which occurred in the area of sunspot AR3575, caused extensive shortwave radio communications outages in the South Pacific. In Australia and Southeast Asia, sailors and radio amateurs reported signal loss at frequencies below 30 megahertz within an hour of the peak of the outbreak. There were also short-term power outages in […]
On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department agreed to sell Poland balloons with early warning and reconnaissance radars. The maximum value of the deal is estimated at USD 1.2 billion. According to the US procedure for selling arms and military equipment abroad, the State Department’s recommendation will now go to Congress. If the congressmen do not […]
Russia has a lot of An-2 airplanes, the so-called “corn growers.” If the plan is implemented, it will create an additional burden on Ukraine’s air defense. Along with the Prana Network hackers’ information on the cost and number of Russian Shaheds, the same source released documents on Russian plans to unusually use An-2 (corncob) aircraft […]
The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung reports that hackers have hacked about 3 million smart toothbrushes to use them for a DDoS attack. The attack was quite effective. It blocked the work of the Swiss company for several hours, causing millions of euros in losses. There are not many details. All we know is that the […]
Huawei has deployed the world’s largest commercial 5.5G network in Shanghai, offering data speeds of up to 5 Gbps, which is 10 times faster than a standard 5G network. The 5.5G network, also known as 5G-A, has been deployed in key areas of the city, including cultural and tourist areas, the metro, and business centers. […]