A BBC correspondent photographed paired toilets in the men's restroom at the Sochi 2014 press center. BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg published a photo from the men's toilet at the Sochi 2014 press center. Two adjacent toilets in the photo caused a strong reaction on social networks amid discussions about banning the promotion of homosexuality.

Belarusian Vitaly Zelkouski, who has become known on the Internet as a “severe tourist,” will run for parliament. Tut.by reports this. Vitaly Zelkovsky will be nominated as a candidate for deputy to the Minsk Regional Council of Deputies from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPB). Zelkovsky joined the LDPB itself on January 17, taking the post of assistant to the deputy chairman of the party, Oleg Gaidukevich.

page of the girl who organized the distribution of “unnecessary” tablets and computers for reposts was blocked. The VKontakte The distribution of items from Irina Petrova’s unnamed photo studio was supposed to take place on January 21. On January 20, an entry disappeared from her page, which had to be reposted in order to take part in the competition. Irina immediately launched a new “lottery” for a day, but a little later her page was frozen.

A California porn studio used CGI to remove a condom from the frame. This was reported by The Verge . Director Tony DiMarco revealed on Falcon Studios' official blog that condoms were removed using special effects in his new gay porn film, California Dreams. The film takes place in the seventies. According to DiMarco, he wanted to show a "more carefree and spontaneous time", so contraception seemed inappropriate to him.

The Izvestia newspaper, citing anonymous sources, reported that the general director of VKontakte, Pavel Durov, left the company. The press service of the social network denied this message. On the afternoon of January 20, the Izvestia newspaper reported that VKontakte CEO Pavel Durov and most of the developers left the company. The note says that the social network's press secretary, Georgy Lobushkin, refused to comment on this information.

Police found a person who allegedly hacked the microblog of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) in the summer of 2013. This was reported on the website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Employees of Directorate K, which investigates cybercrimes, found a 20-year-old journalism student at a Moscow university who allegedly hacked the FAS Twitter account.

Reaction of social networks to the news about Pavel Durov’s resignation from the post of general director of VKontakte Izvestia's news about Pavel Durov's resignation from the post of general director of VKontakte struck like thunder on a clear day. There is an opinion that the information dump is testing the waters to see how users and current shareholders will react to the departure of the founder of the largest European social network.

Waterproof Smartphone Case, High Fashion Lego Minifigures and Video Camera Brooch Our weekly roundup of the best Kickstarter projects includes a waterproof case for smartphones, high fashion for Lego minifigures, and a video camera that can be worn as a brooch.

Google has removed two extensions containing unwanted advertising from the Chrome browser app store. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal . The “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” extensions have been removed from the Chrome app store. In both cases, users noted that extensions began injecting advertisements into the pages they visited without warning. “Add to Feedly” was intended to add RSS feeds to the Feedly reader, an analogue of Google Reader, which was closed in July 2013.

The NBA Sacramento Kings will be using Google Glass during their game on January 24th. This was reported by The Verge with reference to the team’s website. During the game against the Indiana Pacers on January 24, some players, cheerleaders, sportscasters and even the team's mascot will be wearing Google Glass. However, the glasses will not be used on the field during the game; this is prohibited by some NBA rules.

An American became a field photographer in GTA V reports this American photographer and editor Christopher Murry has launched a special project with “war” photographs from the multiplayer mode of GTA V. Polygon . In addition to his passion for professional photography, Murry works as a lead editor at the Laika studio, known for the animated films Coraline and ParaNorman.

An employee of an online multicooker store insulted a customer about the status of his order. An employee of the online store multivarka.ru wrote an obscene expression in the order status of one of the customers. A letter with the new status was sent to the client himself, after which the employee was fired. An employee of the Federal Bailiff Service, Diana Alkhasova, spoke on her Facebook page about the case with the online store multivarka.ru.

Network security company Proofpoint has discovered a major botnet attack involving smart home appliances. This was reported by CNET . More than 100 thousand devices, including routers, multimedia centers, televisions and at least one refrigerator, took part in the mass spam from December 23 to January 6. During the attack, more than 750 thousand letters were simultaneously sent from 100 thousand mailboxes.

The Reddit community raised over twenty-six million dogecoins (about $30,000) to pay for the trip of Jamaican athletes to Sochi. portal reports this The BuzzFeed . published The Telegraph an interview with Jamaican bobsledders who complained that due to lack of funding, their team may not go to the Olympics in Sochi. “To tell the truth, we don’t know if we have enough money now to fly to Sochi. We'll see how it goes.