The streaming service Netflix is ​​cutting 6% of its staff, or approximately 1,000 people. These are the largest layoffs at the company in the last four years. This is stated in an internal letter from management, which was reviewed by Reuters. Products, technical, legal and personnel services will lose the most employees. The letter was sent to employees Wednesday by Netflix CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos.

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the unregistered international organization “Community of Followers of Batal-Khadzhi Belkhoroev – Batalkhadzhintsev” as terrorist. This was reported by the press service of the court.

After a fire at the warehouse of the Aksaykardandetal plant, which produces plastic products, air pollution was recorded in the district in the Rostov region. According to the administration of the Aksakay district, in residential areas of the city of Aksai, excesses of the maximum permissible concentrations of suspended substances and soot, as well as increased smoke levels, were detected.

As a result of a drone attack on Balakovo, Saratov region, several residential buildings were damaged and a person was killed. The governor of the region, Roman Busargin, announced this on the morning of October 14. The Ukrainian monitoring channel Supernova+ claims that the Sberbank data center under construction has been hit.

Uber has begun testing driverless cars on the streets of Manchester, writes The Guardian. The first cars with technologies from Uber partners Pony and Verne are already driving around the city in the north-west of England. Together with them, Uber recently launched Europe's first robotaxi service in Zagreb. While the cars map the streets, a test driver sits behind the wheel and does not carry passengers.

Elon Musk said that restrictions on the use of the Starshield satellite system, including limits on the speed of movement of terminals, are set by the US military and ultimately by US President Donald Trump. He wrote about this on Twitter (X) in response to a message from former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov, who thanked the entrepreneur for restoring satellite communications on Ukrainian drones. “Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US Government.

In February 2026, the Russian military lost access to the Starlink terminals it had previously used to facilitate attacks on Ukraine. As a workaround, it has since turned to the use of Geran and Gerbera drones equipped with Chinese-made mesh modems. A typical attack involving Geran and Gerbera drones works as follows: some drones flying near the border connect to Russian or Belarusian signal repeaters and relay signals to drones operating deeper inside Ukraine.

A court in Russian-occupied Donetsk is currently hearing a criminal case against Russian serviceman Alexei Korolev, who is charged with murdering two or more people, along with large-scale extortion. The Insider found that Korolev is a repeat offender who went to the front from prison, where he was serving an 11-year sentence in a case involving large quantities of mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant drug.

The Insider also identified several dozen other members of the European Parliament who visited Russia after sanctions were imposed but were not known for openly expressing sympathy for the Kremlin. In some cases, they have indeed been harsh critics of Vladimir Putin.

A Ukrainian drone attack on the city of Balakovo in Saratov Region damaged several residential buildings and killed one person, regional governor Roman Busargin reported on the morning of Oct. 14. The Ukrainian monitoring channel Supernova+ claims that a Sberbank data center under construction there was hit, a conclusion confirmed by Astra ’s OSINT analysis.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky confirmed that the administration of US President Donald Trump threatened Kyiv with stopping the exchange of intelligence data if the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not stop attacks on oil refineries in Russia. The Ukrainian leader spoke about this in an interview with NPR. On the evening of October 13, Zelensky said that for the second day in a row, partners did not warn Ukraine about ballistic missile launches from Russian territory.

In recent years, equestrian sport in Russia has been one of the popular hobbies of the elite. Around Moscow and St. Petersburg there are premium equestrian clubs where horses are kept by Russian businessmen, parliamentarians, officials and members of their families. Caring for just one horse in the club costs at least 1.5 million rubles a year. The Russian Equestrian Federation is headed by the ex-wife of the head of Rosneft, Marina Sechina. She has held this post since 2016.

A court in Moscow placed the former rector of the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade, Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev, under house arrest in the case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). RBC writes about this with reference to sources. The detention of the ex-rector became known earlier in the day, on October 14. The investigation also requested house arrest. The article against Sinelnikov-Murylev provides for up to 15 years in prison.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has imposed new speed restrictions on the StarShield service used by Starlink terminals installed on Ukrainian drones. On Oct. 14, Ukrainian military communications and electronic warfare specialist Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov reported on his Telegram channel that the terminals now work only at speeds of up to 100 mph (about 160 kph).

US federal prosecutors have charged Saudi Arabian citizen Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked as an engineer at OpenAI, the BBC reports . According to investigators, he secretly installed a recording device in an executive meeting room at the company's San Francisco office. He is charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications.