Rosneft is helping Venezuela's state oil monopoly PDVSA bypass US sanctions, according to The New York Times. According to sources of the publication, the Russian state-owned company supplies it with vital oil products, receiving Venezuelan oil in exchange. Read more . Rosneft agreed to continue deliveries of oil products to Venezuela in exchange for Venezuelan raw materials.

This week it became known that Amazon has invested in the developer of drones Aurora - and this is perhaps the most serious move of the company Jeff Bezos in the development of autonomous cars. Detailed. The funding round, during which Aurora raised a total of $530 million, was led by one of the largest venture capital funds, Sequoia Capital. It is known that Amazon and T. Rowe Price Group also participated in it.

EU intelligence agencies have warned European diplomats about the presence of hundreds of Russian and Chinese spies in Brussels, the German publication Welt reported , citing knowledgeable diplomats. According to them, undercover agents are especially frequent in steakhouses and cafes near the administrative offices of the EU in Brussels. More. According to the European External Action Service, there are about 250 Chinese and 200 Russian spies in the EU capital, sources say.

Large telecom companies in the United States sold super-precise consumer GPS coordinates, usually used by emergency services, found the publication of Motherboard during a journalistic investigation . Experts surveyed by the publication said this is the first time of sale of the data that they hear about. Read more. About 250 blessers of their heads and private detectives received data on the location of Americans from the databases of AT&T, T-MOBILE and Sprint operators.

The online school for startups Startup School of the famous Y Combinator accelerator invites stars to talk about entrepreneurship every year. One of the lectures within the framework of the new course was read by the creator of Gmail and the author of the unofficial motto Google Don't be evil, Paul Buckheit. He teaches how to build global companies.

Russian cosmonauts should land on the moon for the first time in 2031, follows from the document of the Roscosmos scientific institute TsNIIMash, which was reviewed by RIA Novosti. By that time, the Chinese expect to already have a populated base on the Moon. Detailed.

Moody's has upgraded Russia's sovereign rating to investment rating, the agency said . It was the only international rating agency that still kept it at the "junk" level. More. Russia's sovereign credit rating has been upgraded from speculative ("junk") "Ba1" to the lowest level of investment grade - "Baa3". The outlook has been changed from “positive” to “stable”, which reflects the balance of credit risks. The short-term rating has also been upgraded from Not Prime (NP) to Prime-3 (P-3).