The Bell found out who is behind the latest repressions against RuNet - from limiting calls in instant messengers to blocking Telegram and the war with VPN. Control over the Internet passed to the Second Service of the FSB (official name is the Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism), which is headed by Colonel General Alexey Sedov. It was the employees of this unit who tried to poison Alexei Navalny in 2020 and monitored Vladimir Kara-Murza. @

A wave of complaints has been growing on GitHub, X and Reddit for several weeks that Claude, Anthropic’s flagship model, which is actively used by developers, has become worse at coping with complex tasks, writes Axios. Users report that responses are more superficial, tasks are often not completed, and the model feels like it is “thinking” less than before.

On April 15, Wall Street veteran Mark Mobius, dubbed “Indiana Jones” and the “godfather” of emerging markets, died in Singapore at the age of 89. The investor was one of the first to seriously look at the assets of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, including Russia. He bought its shares at the height of the panic sales of 1998 and called the country one of the most promising BRIC economies, before becoming disillusioned with it and starting to exit even before Crimea.

The US administration remembered the experience of World War II and wants civilian companies to participate in the production of military products, The Wall Street Journal has learned . Senior Pentagon officials held talks with at least GM and Ford executives Marie Barra and Jim Fairley, as well as representatives from GE Aerospace and Oshkosh.

VK sold its 25% in Tochka Bank, a digital bank for small and medium-sized businesses with 800 thousand clients, for 21.2 billion rubles. The buyer is Vladimir Potanin’s Interros, which will then transfer this package to his financial group T-Technologies (owns T-Bank, former Tinkoff Bank) through a closed subscription. Thus, T-Technologies consolidates “up to 100%” of Tochka Bank.

The topic of the issue is who became the new curator of Runet The Bell found out what all the latest repressions against RuNet are connected with - from limiting calls to WhatsApp and Telegram, ending with the complete blocking of instant messengers and the war on VPN. Behind them is the Second Service of the FSB - the darkest unit of the intelligence service, responsible for protecting the constitutional order from the opposition and fighting terrorism.

The Bell found out what all the latest repressions against RuNet are connected with, from limiting calls to WhatsApp and Telegram, ending with the complete blocking of instant messengers and the war on VPN. Behind them is the Second Service of the FSB - the darkest unit of the intelligence service, responsible for protecting the constitutional order from the opposition and fighting terrorism. It was its employees who tried to poison Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza.

Russia tonight attacked Ukraine with two dozen cruise missiles and more than three and a half hundred drones. At least 15 deaths are known in Kyiv and other large cities. Ukraine continues to knock out Russian oil export infrastructure. Two children were killed during a night raid on Tuapse. DSNS of Ukraine