Apple, which in early August, suspended a program that allowed the contractors hired by contractors to listen to the records of conversations of the company's devices with a voice assistant Siri, announced changes in the program conditions in order to increase privacy and protect customer data. This was reported on the blog of Apple. Apple admitted that reports about the access of contractors to the records of conversations with Siri have caused concern among users.

Employees of Novaya Gazeta published the documentary "School Number One" about the terrorist attack in Beslan, which is 15 years old this year. The picture again lists the facts and conclusions that do not fit into the official version of events. The viewer also raises the question of why the tragedy in Beslan was almost immediately forgotten by society and what consequences it had for Russia. “Our film is not only about what actually happened in Beslan in September 2004.

In Russia, from January 1, 2020, all imported products that have marked "organic" can be removed from sale, Kommersant writes. The fact is that next year the law "On organic products" comes into force. According to this document, all products with such labeling should have Russian certificates. However, it will be impossible to obtain such certificates due to the unpreparedness of the corresponding mechanisms in Russia.

The court in Kyiv changed the measure of restraint to the chief editor of the RIA Novosti Ukraine agency Kirill Vyshinsky from the arrest for release for personal guarantee, TASS reports. Thus, the court granted the defense petition. After that, Vyshinsky was released from custody in the courtroom.

The former journalist of St. Petersburg television living in the exile in Finland Dmitry Zapolsky wrote the book Putinburg, which is published by the British publishing house PVL Consulting Ltd. Talking about the events of his life associated with many famous St. Petersburg characters of the 1990s and zero years, the author shows that it was in St.

In 2019, the electoral system faced the most serious crisis after the protests of 2011-2012, which resulted in a mass restriction of electoral rights of citizens. This is stated in the report of the Voice movement on the results of registration of candidates for elections to legislative assemblies of subjects and local governments. Its data is given by Vedomosti .

Russia's expenses for the purchase of weapons and intellectual property amounted to about 4.9 trillion rubles, or 5.3% of GDP, RBC calculated on the basis of the latest Rosstat data for 2017. It was this year that the peak of the state defense order came.

Director of the Corruption Foundation (FBK), an unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma Ivan Zhdanov became a defendant in a criminal case of malicious non-fulfillment of the court decision (part 2 of article 315 of the Criminal Code) due to the fact that he does not fulfill the court decision and does not delete the film "He is not Dimon to you." Judanov’s lawyer Vladimir Voronin. Maximum punishment under a given one The article is two years of imprisonment.

In connection with the expected decrease in customer demand, AvtoVAZ from mid -September will reduce the speed of some conveyor line in Togliatti for an indefinite period. This is written by "Vedomosti" , citing sources close to the company and its management.

The Belarusian police detained in Minsk one of the participants, who was not absent with the authorities of the protest campaign on July 27 in Moscow, Nikita Chirtsov, who was wanted. This was reported to TASS by a source in law enforcement agencies. "He was detained by the police of Minsk, who informed him that he was wanted for the action on July 27," the agency’s interlocutor said without clarifying the details.

In Omsk, law enforcement officers began a preliminary verification of extremism in relation to a local resident Natalia Count, whose child complained about the grass by teachers of the gymnasium. The woman wrote about this on her Facebook page . As a result, she was called to the "E" center and suspected of inciting hatred of a social group of teachers. “I got the agenda to the ED center, went there and wrote an explanatory,” said Natalya Count “MBH Media” .

Twenty -six people became victims of attacks on a bar in the city of Koatsakoalkos in the Mexican state of Verakrus. This was reported on Wednesday by the General Prosecutor's Office of the region on her Facebook page . “The number of dead is 26 people, of which 10 women and 16 men, another 11 people were injured and remain in hospitals,” the recording posted in the Twitter of the supervisory authority said.

The Japanese Toyota Motor and Suzuki Motor automakers announced the formation of a long -term alliance, which will accelerate their technological development and help adapt to changes in the world automotive industry, write Vedomosti with reference to the Toyota message . Under the terms of the Toyota agreement, the Toyota will acquire 4.94% of Suzuki shares in the amount of 96 billion yen ($ 907 million), and Suzuki, in turn, will buy 0.2% of Toyota papers for 48 billion yen ($ 453 million).

The Foundation for Combating Corruption (FBK), founded by Alexei Navalny, interrupted a series of investigations related to the elections to the Moscow City Duma-now the FBK officers drew attention to the acting head of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, running for the post of head of the city. As Navalny noted, from the declarations of Beglov on income and property it follows that, from 2008 to 2012, Beglov and his wife earned 30 million rubles.

Russian Karen Khachanov lost to Canadian Vasek Pospisil in the first round match of the US Open tennis championship, which started this week on the courts of the National Tennis Center in New York. The meeting ended in the defeat of Khachanov, seeded ninth at the tournament, with a score of 6:4, 5:7, 5:7, 6:4, 3:6. The meeting lasted 3 hours 51 minutes. Pospisil's next opponent, who ranks only 216th in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings, will be American Tennys Sandgren.