Hacker News with Generative AI: Russia

Russian parliament passes bill to track migrants via mobile app (novayagazeta.eu)
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has adopted a bill introducing a pilot scheme to register migrants in Moscow and the Moscow region via a mobile app, according to information published by the Duma on Tuesday.
Russia, Immigration, Surveillance, Technology
4 points by gslin 23 hours ago | 0 comments
Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow (bleepingcomputer.com)
The Russian government has introduced a new law that makes installing a tracking app mandatory for all foreign nationals in the Moscow region.
Russia, Surveillance, Privacy, Law, Foreign Policy
14 points by Ozarkian 1 day ago | 0 comments
Russian GRU Targeting Western Logistics Entities and Technology Companies (bund.de)
Cybersecurity, Geopolitics, Russia, Technology
8 points by doener 2 days ago | 0 comments
Elon Musk's party habits made him a dream target for Russian spies (msn.com)
Elon Musk’s party habits, promiscuity and ketamine use made him a dream target for Russian spies, says ex-FBI agent
Elon Musk, Russia, Spies, Intelligence, Security
10 points by simjue 3 days ago | 1 comments
Russia fines Apple two seconds of profit over promoting LGBTQ+ rights (appleinsider.com)
Apple has been fined $131,000 by a Russian court that found it guilty of breaking the country's laws on what it describes as LGBT propaganda.
Russia, Apple, Law, LGBTQ+, Censorship
6 points by docdeek 3 days ago | 1 comments
Russia's Pravda Network: AI-Driven Disinformation on a Global Scale (bisi.org.uk)
A widespread Russian-linked network, 'Pravda' and 'Portal Kombat' operates hundreds of websites globally, mimicking local news outlets to amplify pro-Kremlin narratives.
Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence, Russia, News Media, Global Politics
36 points by haizhung 3 days ago | 1 comments
Russia bans "undesirable" Amnesty International (politico.eu)
Russia announced Monday it would ban human rights NGO Amnesty International in the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on civil society groups opposing its war in Ukraine.
Russia, Human Rights, NGOs, International Relations, War
14 points by mdp2021 4 days ago | 0 comments
The forbidden railway: Vienna-Pyongyang (2008) (blogspot.com)
Our train trip via Russia to North Korea - using an officially closed for foreigners route inside the "Hermit Kingdom".
Travel, North Korea, Russia, History, Train Travel
227 points by 1317 4 days ago | 76 comments
Starlinks on Shaheds Guide Russian Missile Strikes in Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine, Military Technology, Warfare, Satellite Technology, Russia
13 points by throw05678931 4 days ago | 0 comments
FBI Agent Goes Public with Russian Intelligence Op That Hooked Musk and Thiel (kyivpost.com)
A former FBI agent has alleged that Russia’s GRU intelligence agency targeted tech billionaire Elon Musk for exploitation and offered him direct contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia, Intelligence, Elon Musk, Tech
26 points by mandeepj 6 days ago | 4 comments
A rare snail is filmed laying an egg from its neck (apnews.com)
A Russian drone strike in northeastern Ukraine kills 9 people, officials say
Nature, Biology, Rare Species, Russia, War, Military, Drone Strikes
12 points by gmays 7 days ago | 0 comments
Trump’s sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal’s work (apnews.com)
A Russian drone strike in northeastern Ukraine kills 9 people, officials say
Politics, International Relations, Ukraine, Russia, War
13 points by rebe 7 days ago | 2 comments
Attack of pro-Ukraine hackers reportedly erases a third of Russian court cases (therecord.media)
A cyberattack on Russia's national case management and electronic court filing system wiped out about a third of its case archive, according to a report by the Russian Audit Chamber.
Cybersecurity, Russia, Law, Ukraine
8 points by doener 7 days ago | 0 comments
Onfim's world: Child artists in history (resobscura.substack.com)
The sketches survived by chance, preserved on strips of birch bark found during Soviet archaeological excavations. They had been intended for use by school children from the medieval state of Novgorod. These children, who lived around the year 1250 CE, were meant to be learning how to read and write. But one student named Onfim used them to draw. And for this reason, Onfim has become immortal.
Art, History, Education, Russia
37 points by benbreen 8 days ago | 7 comments
China and Russia have signed a deal to build a nuclear power plant on the moon (scmp.com)
China and Russia have signed a deal to build a nuclear power plant on the moon, a project that would provide energy for a jointly developed International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), targeted to be up and running by 2036.
Space Exploration, International Cooperation, Nuclear Energy, China, Russia
5 points by zachguo 9 days ago | 1 comments
The Surreal Landscapes of Industrial Waste in Russia (comradegallery.com)
At first glance, these landscapes look like something from another planet—stunning expanses of turquoise water, vivid orange rivers, and vast, desolate plains. But beneath their surreal beauty lies a dangerous reality. These are industrial waste sites: ash disposal zones from power plants, sewage drainage channels, and toxic liquid reservoirs scattered across Russia.
Russia, Environmentalism, Photography, Industrial Waste
55 points by silverkite 10 days ago | 5 comments
Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492 (medium.com)
On the 5th of May 2019, travelers at Moscow’s biggest international airport were greeted by the astonishing sight of a passenger plane skidding down the runway in flames, its tail section engulfed by a conflagration of biblical proportions.
Aviation Accidents, Russia, Transportation, Tragedy
90 points by shmeeed 10 days ago | 60 comments
Germany is building spy satellites to help Ukraine watch Russia without the US (euromaidanpress.com)
Germany is building spy satellites to help Ukraine watch Russia without the US
Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Satellites, Espionage
23 points by srameshc 11 days ago | 1 comments
Kosmos 482's return being watched closely by experts (news.rice.edu)
Space Exploration, Satellite Launches, Russia
7 points by geox 14 days ago | 1 comments
A Russian fake news ring was struggling. Then it targeted USAID (informedalarmist.substack.com)
Russian disinformation doesn’t always work.
Russia, Disinformation, Politics, Foreign Aid, News Media
11 points by hn1986 16 days ago | 0 comments
Analysis of the Russian information manipulation set Storm-1516 [pdf] (gouv.fr)
Information Warfare, Russia, Analysis, Government, Security
23 points by bpierre 17 days ago | 1 comments
Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot (theguardian.com)
Exclusive account reveals previously unreported details and insights into how Kremlin’s sabotage campaign played out on the ground – and the multinational effort to track down the network behind it
International Relations, Espionage, Russia, Crime, Security
11 points by c420 18 days ago | 1 comments
Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot (theguardian.com)
Exclusive account reveals previously unreported details and insights into how Kremlin’s sabotage campaign played out on the ground – and the multinational effort to track down the network behind it
International Relations, Espionage, Crime, Russia
8 points by n1b0m 18 days ago | 1 comments
How Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe (theguardian.com)
Moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to prove
Russia, Intelligence, Europe, Cyberwarfare, Sabotage
9 points by ljf 19 days ago | 0 comments
Ukraine destroys Russian fighter jet with missile from sea drone in world first (scmp.com)
Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency said on Saturday, in what it said was the world’s first downing of a combat plane by a maritime drone.
Ukraine, Military Technology, Drones, War, Russia
14 points by neom 20 days ago | 0 comments
A Moscow-Based 'News' Network Has Infected AI Tools with Russian Propaganda (newsguardtech.com)
A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for “truth” —  is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the responses of AI models on topics in the news rather than by targeting human readers, NewsGuard has confirmed.
Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation, Russia, Propaganda, News
7 points by Michelangelo11 20 days ago | 1 comments
Russian disinformation network flooded training data to manipulate frontier LLMs (meduza.io)
A Russian disinformation network called Pravda (“Truth”) has influenced leading AI chatbots’ output by publishing numerous articles that made their way into the bots’ training data, a new report from the analysis group NewsGuard reveals.
Generative AI, Disinformation, Language Models, Russia
10 points by aussieguy1234 21 days ago | 0 comments
Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned mutilated (cnn.com)
War Crimes, Ukraine, Russia, Journalism, Death
24 points by fodmap 23 days ago | 29 comments
After 53 years, a failed Soviet Venus spacecraft is crashing back to Earth (gizmodo.com)
A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks.
Space Exploration, History, Russia
131 points by WalterGR 24 days ago | 46 comments
Russian satellite at centre of nuclear weapons claims is spinning out of control (theguardian.com)
A secretive Russian satellite in space that US officials believe is connected to a nuclear anti-satellite weapons program has appeared to be spinning uncontrollably, suggesting it may no longer be functioning in what could be a setback for Moscow’s space weapons efforts, according to US analysts.
Space Weapons, Russia, Satellites, International Relations, Military
8 points by c420 27 days ago | 2 comments