The founders of the e-mail service Lavaboom, protected from surveillance by intelligence agencies, announced the upcoming launch of a beta version of the product. A message about this appeared on the official Twitter @LavaboomHQ on April 16. A section has opened on the service’s website that allows you to sign up for a waiting list.

The story of the theft of bank data from Russian Railways clients has acquired new details On April 15, unknown hackers posted on the Internet an archive with numbers and issue data of credit cards of more than ten thousand Russian Railways customers. The archive was published on a website specially launched for this purpose, “SOS! RUSSIAN RAILWAYS" . According to the hackers, they obtained all the information thanks to a vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic package.

A serious vulnerability has been found in the Android mobile operating system that allows attackers to change the properties of application icons. This was reported on the blog of the FireEye research group . The discovered vulnerability is related to the use of permissions to access various functions of the operating system.

The American corporation Caterpillar has released a viral commercial in which its excavators play a giant version of Jenga. Caterpillar is primarily known for its construction equipment, but also makes consumer products, including shoes and rugged smartphones. In a viral video posted to YouTube on April 17, her excavators play the popular board game Jenga with huge logs.

The Teleus project, designed to fight mobile operators and protect the rights of subscribers, was closed a year after its start. in-chief Yuri Sinodov spoke about this on Roem.ru. Its founder and editor - Yuri Sinodov decided to close the project on April 14. The editorial office working in Nizhny Novgorod was dissolved on April 16.

Microsoft's Russian SMMers began to ridicule their competitors The official page of the Russian representative office of Microsoft on Facebook went on the attack: they began publishing comics ridiculing competitors. Until recently, the official Facebook page of the Russian Microsoft published harmless images in the style of the Windows 8 operating system, telling about the various features of the company's products, including advertising for various applications and games.

Roskomnadzor ordered the online encyclopedia “Lurkomorye” to remove an article about heroin as promoting drug addiction. Representatives of the resource reported this on Twitter. On April 16, “Lurkomorye” spoke about the latest claims from the authorities. This time, the Federal Drug Control Service discovered in the article “ Heroin ” information about “methods, methods of development, production and use” of drugs, as well as places of their purchase.

A 31-year-old resident of Tomsk, who is reconstructing a water tower into a residential building, tells his story Every week TJournal invites interesting Internet personalities to visit us. This time we talked with Alexander Lunev, a 31-year-old resident of Tomsk, who became famous on the Internet and far beyond its open spaces thanks to a monumental construction project: restoring an ancient water tower and equipping it as a residential building. Did this all start in 2013? In 2012.

General Director of VKontakte Pavel Durov spoke about the FSB’s demands to hand over the data of the organizers of communities of Euromaidan supporters in Ukraine and linked them with the sale of his own stake in the company. He published a copy of the demand on his page .

Favorite publication invites readers to help it with self-identification No matter how hard scientists try in their research laboratories, for several years now they have not been able to find an answer to the question “What is TJournal?” TJournal's editor-in-chief invites readers to formulate a collective vision of what the project really is, and thus help it identify itself.

A club door in Bristol was removed just hours after Banksy's graffiti appeared on it. reports this The BBC . The work, which was dubbed “Couple with Smartphones,” appeared on Banksy’s website on Monday. It was previously discovered by eyewitnesses on Clement Street in Bristol, UK, on ​​the door of the Broad Plains Boys Club. A few hours after the graffiti became widely known, club employees removed the door using a crowbar.

A video showing an unsuccessful attempt to take a selfie in front of an approaching train received 22 thousand views on YouTube in less than 24 hours. reports The Daily Dot . YouTube user Jared Michael posted a video online of how he tried to take a selfshot in front of an arriving train and ended up getting kicked in the head by the driver. The video is only 11 seconds long and the train is traveling at high speed, making it difficult to see what happened in the video.

The owner of a beauty salon in London used a photograph of Kim Jong-un for an advertising poster, after which representatives of the North Korean Embassy descended on the establishment and demanded that the poster be removed. This is reported by the Daily Mail . Mo Nabbah, who runs M&M Hair Academy, a small hairdresser in London's South Ealing, used a photo of the North Korean leader to illustrate his message about discounted haircuts.

As a result of the patent trial between Apple and Samsung, it turned out that the death of Steve Jobs was the reason for the start of a more aggressive advertising campaign by the Korean giant. reports 9to5mac . On April 15, at the next court hearing in the framework of a major patent trial between Apple and Samsung, it turned out that initially the Korean giant did not plan to make aggressive attacks against its competitor and hoped that Google would do this work for it.

The head of the mobile division of Google Maps, Daniel Graf, has moved to work at Twitter. on the night of April 16 . A message about this appeared on the Count’s personal microblog Twitter management confirmed to The Wall Street Journal the appointment of Daniel Graf, but declined to comment further. According to Re/Code , Graf will hold the post of vice president of product in his new company. amid media reports about Graf's appointment .