An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
Outside of Russia, Apple Maps and Weather apps now display Crimea as part of Ukraine, after displaying the region as not part of any country starting in 2019
In 2019, Apple made a controversial change in its Maps and Weather apps to show the Crimean Peninsula as a region of Russia for those living there.
Apple meets Russia's demands to show Crimea as part of Russia for Russian Apple Maps users; elsewhere on Apple Maps, Crimea isn't shown as part of any country
for Russian users Mahit Huilgol / iPhone Hacks : Apple Changes Crimea Map to Please the Russian Government Evan Selleck / iDownloadBlog.com : Apple bends to Russia's demands, changes the way Crimea sh...
Apple meets Russia's demands to show Crimea as part of Russia for Russian Apple Maps users; elsewhere on Apple Maps, Crimea isn't shown as part of any country
Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps.
Sources: Obama's move in 2016 to expel dozens of Russian diplomats and seize estates was in part due to a brazen Russian operation to breach FBI communications
including Carter Page, who would later act as an unpaid FP adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign. https://news.yahoo.com/... Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : NBC has a good follow-up to today's Yahoo story - sour...
GitHub confirms it is blocking developers in Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Crimea from accessing private repositories and paid accounts due to sanctions
But not China who had directed a massive DDOS attack at Github for hosting anti-censorship software tools https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/... Niac / @niacouncil : US sanctions are broad...
GitHub officially confirms it is blocking devs in Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Cuba, and Crimea from accessing private repositories and paid accounts due to sanctions
The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world's largest host of source code …
A developer based in Crimea and one based in Iran say that GitHub has “restricted” their accounts “due to US trade controls”
Tip: You can use this extension … Troy Wolverton / Business Insider : GitHub is reportedly blocking access to its site for users in places like Crimea and Iran, which are under US sanctions Joe Fay / ...
A developer based in Crimea and one based in Iran say that GitHub has “restricted” their accounts “due to US trade controls”
If you use GitHub's online services in a country facing US sanctions, you could be about to be kicked off all but the most basic offerings.
Sources: Google bars NGOs from providing Titan Security keys or promoting the availability of any of its products to activists in Iran, Syria, Cuba, or N. Korea
Sources and a document show how Google bars nonprofits from telling activists in certain countries about their products. Tweets: @josephfcox and @josephfcox Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : To be cl...