Yesterday, as Russia celebrated Victory Day, marking its position in defeating Nazi Germany, lots of the nation’s on-line platforms had been defaced in protest of the continuing struggle in Ukraine.

According to reviews, Russians with sensible TVs noticed channel listings changed with a message implicating them within the ongoing battle. “The blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of murdered children is on your hands,” the message learn. “TV and authorities are lying. No to war.”

According to The Washington Post, the hack apparently focused a number of of the nation’s largest web firms, together with Yandex and Rutube, Russia’s different to YouTube.

Russia handed a regulation this 12 months that bans any efforts to discredit the nation’s navy, however that hasn’t stopped some media retailers from protesting the struggle. Articles on Lenta.ru famous that they had “not been agreed with the editorial leadership” and that “the Presidential Administration will punish the publication for publishing this.”

— Mat Smith

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It solely offered two million final quarter, confirming Sony hasn’t overcome its provide points.

Sony introduced it offered simply two million PlayStation 5 items final quarter (This autumn), bringing its general whole to 19.3 million. That’s down significantly on the identical quarter final 12 months when it offered 3.3 million items. Game gross sales went up, although, with 70.5 million PS4/PS5 titles offered in comparison with 61.4 million a 12 months in the past.

While Sony contends with provide constraints, it’s anticipating higher days forward. It forecast a 34 % enhance in gross sales subsequent quarter to 929 billion yen ($7.13 billion) on account of higher elements provide and better gross sales of third-party video games. Sony can be launching PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium, its tackle Xbox Game move, in June. While PS Plus subscriber ranges had been flat, the brand new tiers may assist draw extra subscribers — and a few may pay greater than they do proper now.

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Kendrick Lamar’s new music video for The Heart Part 5 revolves solely round deepfake superstar faces superimposed on Kendrick’s physique as he raps throughout subjects together with psychological sickness, homicide and extra.

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Lincoln College was unable to entry recruitment and fundraising programs for months.

Lincoln College says it’ll shut this week within the wake of a ransomware assault that took months to resolve. While the influence of COVID-19 severely impacted recruitment and fundraising, the cyberattack appears to have been the tipping level for the Illinois establishment.

Lincoln says it had “record-breaking student enrollment” in fall 2019. However, the pandemic triggered a large fall in numbers. The faculty — one in all only some rural colleges to qualify as a predominantly Black establishment beneath the Department of Education — mentioned it affected its monetary standing. Barring a last-minute respite, the mix of the pandemic and cyberattack could have introduced an finish to the 157-year-old establishment.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says they’re on the best way to Facebook as properly.

As promised (or threatened), NFTs are coming to Instagram. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the app will this week begin testing a manner for customers to show non-fungible tokens on their profiles.

“We’re starting building for NFTs, not just in our metaverse and Reality Labs work but also across our family of apps.” Zuckerberg mentioned in a publish on Facebook. “We’re starting to test digital collectibles on Instagram so that creators and collectors can display their NFTs.”

An analogous function is coming to Facebook within the close to future, and Meta is contemplating enabling NFTs in its different apps, corresponding to Messenger and WhatsApp. Also within the works is a manner for folks to show 3D NFTs in Instagram Stories utilizing augmented actuality.

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