Apple executives have commented publicly for the first time on Bloomberg Businessweek's investigation into how China has built spy chips into the company's server motherboards over the years. The head of the technology giant, Tim Cook, denied Apple's involvement in this cyber scandal and called on the publication to withdraw its material, according to BuzzFeed News. Details “There is no truth about Apple in this story,” Cook told BuzzFeed News.

Russian interference in the 2016 US election was not only linked to Facebook and Twitter. Employees of the Internet Research Agency Yevgeny Prigozhin also used the services of American startups, writes Bloomberg. Details published by Twitter Hundreds of accounts linked to the Russian “troll factory” have been spreading their provocative messages through the services of technology startups IFTTT, RoundTeam and Dlvr.it, according to data .

According to The New York Times, the United States will notify Russia next week of its unilateral withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This is one of the most important international agreements on nuclear disarmament, the signing of which in 1987 became one of the turning points in the end of the Cold War and secured Europe from a nuclear clash between the two superpowers.

Two weeks after the disappearance of opposition Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi authorities have admitted that he was killed at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. The version presented by the Saudis almost coincides with the one that the media expected: the death of Khashoggi was allegedly the result of a sudden fight with the Saudi intelligence officers who interrogated him, and most importantly, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about either the interrogation or the murder.

On Friday, the American authorities made two statements at once, in which they accused Russia of interfering in the upcoming American elections. Firstly, the US Ministry of Justice accused the Russian woman working of businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, of organizing attempts to intervene in the 2018 intermediate elections in the US Congress.