Hackers calling themselves Anonymous Caucasus launched attacks on the websites of large Russian banks on March 17. They reported about this on their microblog. Updated : Alfa Bank ATMs and Internet banking have been restored. On Monday afternoon, the websites of Alfa Bank and VTB-24 Bank went down. The “Caucasian” Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attacks. Russian bank VTB24 http://t.co/8g7Y9JT5T4 is out of action. Online banking has also been disabled https://t.co/Ze1zw5v7rx .

Microsoft offered Windows XP users an opportunity to upgrade to a more modern operating system by purchasing a new computer and receiving a $50 gift certificate. This was reported by Digital Trends . Microsoft has launched a promotional campaign to encourage the transition from Windows XP to the new Windows 8 operating system. On the Microsoft Store online store website, Windows XP users were reminded of the impending end of system support and offered to buy a new computer at a discount.

Book, movie, cartoon, songs and videos about the largest social network on the Runet and its creator Book, movie, cartoon, songs and videos about the largest social network on the Runet and its creator. Songs In 2010, the online publication VKurse held a competition to create a “VKontakte anthem,” inspired by a recording of the “Mail.ru anthem.” The songs of the four finalists became popular among social network users for some time, but never made it beyond the social network.

Dmitry Kiselev threatened the United States with nuclear war In the next episode of the final program “News of the Week,” TV presenter Dmitry Kiselyov casually stated that Russia is capable of launching a nuclear strike on the United States if necessary. Kiselyov’s statements gave rise to heated discussions on the RuNet. Kiselyov’s words were heard in Vesti Nedeli while discussing the referendum in Crimea on the republic’s annexation to Russia.

A Mashable columnist talks about his experience using vertical screen orientation Author: Olga Efimova The Mashable columnist, looking at his colleagues at the publication, decided to rotate his work monitor 90 degrees and shared his impressions with his readers. The idea is not new, but in conditions when most Internet projects, including the media, introduce infinite scrolling into their structure, it becomes the most relevant.

Rostelecom subscribers began to complain about the blocking of the LifeNews TV channel website. When they tried to open the site, they were informed that access to the resource was restricted. LifeNews representatives report that they were “not banned” and that they are “fixing the problem.” As LifeNews CEO Ashot Gabrelyanov told TJournal, the site was not available for 10-15 minutes, but the problem has already been resolved. I have a suspicion that this is some kind of technical story.

Pew Research Center experts celebrated the 25th anniversary of the web with a report on the future of the Internet Author: Olga Efimova On March 11, Professor Jeanne Anderson and Lee Raney prepared a report on the topic “Digital Life in 2025.” This report is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Burners-Lee, a British scientist, inventor of URI, URL, HTTP and HTML.

A Shanghai resident under the nickname jojotsai1012 committed suicide due to a breakup with her boyfriend, publishing her every step on Instagram . reports The Daily Dot . On March 7, an Instagram user under the nickname jojotsai1012 published a photo of herself in her underwear, attaching a disturbing message to it. I've never done anything really wrong in my entire life, so why am I subjected to such torment? My life has been miserable these past few weeks.

Stockholm developer Einar Öberg has created a service that turns city streets in Google Street View into a jungle. He published the announcement of his service on Twitter . service The Urban Jungle Street View allows you to select any point on the map where street panoramas from Google are available. By placing a yellow man on the desired street, the user will see pictures of it with bushes and trees overlaid on top. The arrows for moving along the path become stone.

Colorblind man Neil Harbisson has built a camera into his skull that beeps to tell him the colors of the objects he's looking at. reports this The Telegraph . Neil Harbisson can only see in black and white. For the last 10 years, he has been using an electronic “eye” that converts the colors of objects that come into his field of vision into corresponding sound signals. The device, created specifically for Harbisson, was called eyeborg.

Californian startup GOQii will launch a service in which owners of fitness bracelets will report to personal trainers in India. reports this Forbes . If the owners of fitness clubs are satisfied that buyers of memberships stop showing up at the gym after a couple of months, then manufacturers of fitness bracelets have the opposite task: they need their products to be used.

The team behind Pine, an Android smartwatch that came out of Kickstarter, is planning to release a series of wearables. This was reported by the GigaOM blog . The creators of the Pine smartwatch, Neptune Computer, have entered into a partnership with designers from Pearl Studios, the authors of the elegant Misfit Shine fitness tracker. Together, the companies are going to release a whole series of wearable devices, but have not yet announced all the details of their plans.

The easiest ways to open blocked sites On March 13, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation simultaneously blocked the websites of several online publications and Alexei Navalny’s blog, once again making RuNet users think that in the near future blocking will become routine for them. TJournal tried the most popular means of bypassing blocking and found among them versions “for dummies” - in which everything works right away, without settings.

Some Kickstarter users who supported the filming of the Veronica Mars film were unable to watch the paid version of the film due to difficulties with the service on which it was published. reports Mashable . Several backers of the film Veronica Mars, which was raised through Kickstarter, were unable to download it from the Flixster/UltraViolet service chosen by the creators. At the same time, there were no problems with access to the paid version on Amazon or iTunes.

In the test version of Twitter, it became possible to read posts from your favorite users in a separate stream. This was reported by TechCrunch . A new version has become available to users participating in alpha testing of the Twitter mobile client for Android. It now has a “Fave people” tab, which can be accessed by flipping through the pages of the main screen. The first time you open a new tab, information about how the new feature works appears.