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  • Interesting to see this and the targeting of data centers in the Middle East. Its critical infrastructure and a hit gets the attacker a lot of bang for the buck in terms of economic damage.
    by thinkcontext
  • New Startup idea - private anti-air batteries for data centers
    by lapkaaaa
  • Seems like a mistake to stagger these hits, doing both in the same hour could have taken out backups before they had a chance to replicate elsewhere.
    by arpinum
  • Damn, this would have been a good argument for the US to fund Ukrainian long-distance operations, had Russia not been so far behind in the AI race already.
    by renyicircle
  • From reddit - "Right now, Yandex's biggest services are down: taxis, delivery, and Alisa. Moscow is paralyzed; it's impossible to order a taxi. Orders aren't going through."

    https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1x1q...

    by ortusdux
  • If you gear up with a translator, you may read this in-depth post on the events made by well-known Ukrainian tech executive Sergiy Petrenko, who also happened to be the CEO of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex in its early days:

    https://blognot.co/ataka-na-yandeks-v-sasovo/

    by brachkow
  • American and European data center providers should start thinking about design for resiliency versus drone and missile strikes.

    https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/drone-and-data-ce...

    by PeterCorless
  • Should we call it "Yandex experiment" from now on? Because it seems like the experiment didn't go well:

    April 27, 2020:

    "Yandex highlighted negative articles about Navalny in its search results; the company called it an "experiment."

    https://zona-media.translate.goog/news/2020/04/27/navyandex?...

    by RomanPushkin

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