On October 14, the State Duma immediately passed in the second and third readings a bill that allows banks and other financial organizations to transfer clients’ personal data and information constituting banking secrecy to third-party organizations without their consent. Only accredited IT companies and banks with a universal license will be able to process such data, provided the conditions established by law are met.

#THIS #Banks #TheStateDuma #Personaldata #Russia

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In the Moscow pre-trial detention center «Butyrka», the surveillance system with artificial intelligence was built on SecurOS software from the Russian company ISS («Intelligent Security Systems»). The system’s developer was identified by Current Time after examining scientific publications by FSIN employees and corporate data.

#ISS #THIS #SecurOS #Butyrka #RussiaandtheUSA #pretrialdetentioncenter #fsin

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On October 11, Sinocare reported problems with its provider amid a series of drone attacks on Yandex data centers. Because of this, users may experience difficulties activating new iCan continuous glucose monitoring sensors and using the iCan Health and iCan Reach apps.

#THIS #Sinocare #diabetes #theInternet #medicine #Russia #StrikesagainstRussia #Yandex

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Replacing equipment in Yandex data centers damaged as a result of strikes by Ukrainian drones may take up to six months. This was reported to Kommersant by sources in the IT market.

#THIS #WarinUkraine #datacenter #theInternet #Russia #StrikesagainstRussia #Yandex

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According to T-Invariant, after attacks by Ukrainian drones on three of Yandex’s five data centers in the Ryazan, Kaluga, and Vladimir regions, all three of the company’s supercomputers may have gone out of service. The latest site was attacked on the night of October 11: the data center in Vladimir was damaged, and the company completely shut it down.

#THIS #Vladimir #WarinUkraine #theInternet #Kaluga #Sasovo #DefenseForcesofUkraine #supercomputer #StrikesagainstRussia #Yandex

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In Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast, after a drone attack, a Yandex data center caught fire, and its operations came to a complete halt. The company warned that some services may be unavailable; there were no casualties.

#THIS #mosbirzhe #RyazanOblast #Sasovo #Economy #Yandex

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Bauman Moscow State Technical University Rector Mikhail Gordin said in an interview with Vedomosti that he does not recommend sending children into IT, because programming skill by itself does not guarantee a long career. According to him, the market in this field has become somewhat saturated, and salaries have stopped growing.

#THIS #Highereducation #AI #MGTU

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In the first half of 2026, Russian courts handed down 273 guilty verdicts under articles on treason, espionage, confidential cooperation, and aiding the enemy. That is more than the 170 such verdicts for the entire prewar observation period, according to a study by First Department and Parubets Analytics.

#ParubetsAnalytics #per #First #FirstDepartment #Russian #This

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