The website VentureBeat published several photos of the alleged prototype of the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch. According to the publication, these are stills from a Galaxy promotional video made by an independent team collaborating with Samsung. The publication provides the technical characteristics of the device: 10 hours of operation, three-inch display, 4 megapixel camera.

The creator of the Megaupload file hosting service, Kim Dotcom, will take up politics in New Zealand. To defend the interests of the Internet industry, he will create a political party. On Sunday, September 1, Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom announced that plans for his political career had been leaked to the media. My embryonic NZ political plans leaked by whistleblower. Still looking for partners.

“The first social network dedicated to cybersecurity” appeared on RuNet. This was reported in a press release and on the official website of the Safer Internet League. Anyone who is ready to fight for the cleanliness of the Internet can join the ranks of the “cyber vigilantes”. To register, you only need an email account and a mobile phone. A new user is immediately awarded the status of “cyber vigilante”, and if he fulfills his obligations, the rank can be increased.

Lawyers for the owner of the Chronopay payment system, Pavel Vrublevsky, are considering the possibility of involving former CIA officer Edward Snowden as a witness in the case of the attack on the Aeroflot website. This is due to Snowden's statement that the NSA was spying on a Russian airline. As Pavel Vrublevsky’s lawyer Pavel Zaitsev told TJournal, the entrepreneur’s defense is studying reports of American intelligence surveillance of Aeroflot.

The Yandex startup incubator Tolstoy Summer Camp released 12 projects based on the results of two months of work. At an event dedicated to the end of the incubator’s work, the company announced three startups in which it is ready to invest “unspecified amounts.” Yandex selected for the workshop 22 out of 65 candidates from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan and the USA . Twelve teams reached the finals, but in the end the company offered funding to only three of them.

The Telegram mobile messenger has aroused increased interest among residents of a number of Arab countries. The general director of VKontakte, Pavel Durov, who is involved in the development of the application, spoke about this. The head of VKontakte, Pavel Durov, in a commentary on a post in the community of the publication “Zuckerberg Will Call,” spoke about the audience of the mobile messenger Telegram, to which he had a hand.

According to Odnoklassniki Marketing Director Arsen Israpilov, the MDK administration overestimated its strength and creativity. He denied the existence of financial agreements, because of the violation of which the community allegedly left.

The e-book store “Litres” launched the “ News from the Classics ” website, where it reimagined works of Russian literature. The plots of books and stories are presented in the format of modern media, explains Litres. For each work of Russian classics presented on the site, the authors have prepared an interpretation of the plot, adapted to modern times.

Blog hosting lj.rossia.org was included in the register of extremist materials on the website of the Ministry of Justice. The judge did not indicate a specific page containing prohibited information, but some providers have already begun to block access to the entire resource.

Yuri Degtyarev leads video bloggers into entertaining documentaries In March, Yuri Degtyarev announced the upcoming relaunch of the “Thank you, Eva!” portal, and a countdown stub appeared on the site. Almost six months have passed since then, and the creator of the project is finally ready to reveal what he has been preparing all this time. Yura, since the last interview and the promise to completely change the site “Thank you, Eva!” Almost six months have passed.