Hackers stole a record $ 600 million in cryptocurrency, but decided to return Anonymous hackers carried out the largest cryptocurrency robbery in history, stole $ 600 million from blockchains of the decentralized financial system (Defi) Polynetwork, but the very next day they decided to return the abducted and have already transferred it back almost half. The problem is that getting money from decentralized financial systems can be too difficult.

Inflation in August in annual terms in August changed slightly compared to the July figure, follows from the data of Rosstat. Since the beginning of the year, consumer prices rose by 4.49%, after inflation was zero during the week from August 3 to 9, Rosstat said. According to the Ministry of Economic Development, in annual terms, inflation remained at the level of 6.5%. The symbolic deflation seen in the last week of July thus did not hold up.

The Chinese Communist Party is serious about rewriting the cultural code of society - namely, it demands to replace the excessive use of strong alcohol, rooted in business, with "worthy alternatives". The reason for the comment of the highest control and anti-corruption body of the country - the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) - was the case of the rape of a colleague by an Alibaba middle manager with the participation of a client.

Oil fell noticeably on Wednesday, August 11, after the White House called on OPEC + to increase production in the interests of the global economy. President Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement that world oil prices have exceeded pre-pandemic levels at the end of 2019, and expensive motor fuel directly threatens the recovery of the global economy.

The developers of the two most popular antiviruses in the world announced a merger: the American NortonLifeLock buys the Czech Avast for more than $8 billion. Avast shareholders will receive either $2.37 per share and 0.19 new NortonLifeLock shares, or $7.61 and 0.03 NortonLifeLock shares. Depending on the choice, the amount of the transaction will be from $8.1 to $8.6 billion.

Facebook has suspended a network of accounts that a Russian-linked company used to organize anti-vaxx influencers to discredit Western coronavirus vaccines. Among other things, the network exploited the "monkey" origin of AstraZeneca's adenovirus vaccine. Facebook said it had blocked 65 social media accounts and 243 Instagram accounts with about 24,000 followers. Although limited in scope, the actions of the network of accounts have all the hallmarks of a coordinated and targeted operation.

The Investigative Committee charged the politician Alexei Navalny with a new accusation of creating an organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (part 2 of article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). We are talking about the FBK (included in the register of NPO-foreign agents, recognized as extremist and liquidated on the territory of Russia).

Scientists from the Space Research Institute and the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have studied a satellite image of the northeastern part of the Black Sea and the Kerch Strait, where an oil spill occurred on August 7. The area of ​​pollution turned out to be hundreds of thousands of times underestimated compared to the estimate of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), at whose terminal the incident occurred.

After Shell won the world's first zero-emission LNG supply contract, Total also rushed to sell carbon-neutral fuel to customers. However, as Bloomberg found out , the company first signed a contract, and only then in a hurry began to look for how to compensate for emissions from the sold gas. Fossil fuels are carbon neutral through the purchase of so-called "carbon credits".

Roskomnadzor has unblocked a popular resource for DeviantArt artists, access to which was limited a week ago. After the blocking, the DeviantArt administration removed the prohibited content from the site, and access to it was restored, explained .

The US Senate approved part of President Joe Biden's $1 trillion plan to develop infrastructure and create jobs. Almost all initiatives requiring tax increases have been removed from it, so it is expected that the bill will also pass the lower house of Congress without any problems - unlike the second, "social" part for $3.5 trillion. According to the voting results , the project was approved by 69 senators, 30 opposed.

A British citizen suspected of working for Russian intelligence has been detained in Germany, writes The Guardian with reference to the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Germany. According to these data, Briton David S. was an employee of the British Embassy in Germany and handed over documents to a representative of Russian intelligence in exchange for a monetary reward.

The government did not include budgetary funds to subsidize the sales of electric vehicles in the implementation plan for the development of electric transport, writes with reference to the draft of the corresponding federal project. Kommersant As follows from the document, funding for the program has been reduced, although it has begun to cover more hydrogen-fueled vehicles.

Mail.ru Group is investing an additional $60.3 million in Aliexpress Russia, its joint venture (JV) with China's Alibaba Group, RDIF and USM Holdings. In exchange, Mail.ru Group will receive additional shares in the company. As reported in the release, Mail.ru Group provided AliExpress Russia with $60.3 million in exchange for additional JV shares issued as part of the new issue. The shares are expected to be listed in the coming days.

Confectioners began to change the recipe of sweets to compensate for the sharp rise in the price of ingredients. Retailers themselves offer to make the product “a little simpler, but a little cheaper”. Essen Production AG, which produces sweets under the brands 35, Daezh and Cho Ko-Te, will use a recipe with a reduced content of confectionery fats when launching new sweets, Leonid Baryshev, CEO of the company, told RBC .