Ugandan authorities shut down internet access nationwide on Tuesday, two days ahead of elections in which President Yoweri Museveni has overseen a crackdown on the opposition as he seeks to extend his...
In tonight's edition, a week after Ugandan authorities denied plans to shut down internet access during this week's presidential elections, public online access is blocked for millions of voters. Also...
Uganda's authorities have shut down rights groups, arrested opponents and their supporters, now they've turned off the internet. After 40 years in office, President Yoweri Museveni has no intention of...
An international sports governing body is investigating after a Canadian coach was accused of manipulating an event — depriving racers of qualifying points ahead of February's Winter Olympics....
Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out...
Winter is in full swing, which means you’ll likely be hunkering down for the next few months, or maybe you’re taking a fun trip to escape the colder weather. If you’re doing the latter, you might want...
Ugandan officials claimed that they could also shut down the internet-free, encrypted messaging app last week, but haven't done so yet....
Chinese short-video platform Kuaishou Technology is pitching its debut offshore bond sale to professional investors, joining a wave of domestic tech companies raising funds in the global debt market. ...
Article URL: https://state-of-iranblackout.whisper.security/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603910 Points: 42 # Comments: 12...
The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked January 12 to at least 2,000 people killed, activists say. With the Internet down in Iran, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more ...
The Chilean government has awarded a contract to Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech to supply its influenza vaccine ahead of the southern hemisphere winter. The vaccine will be part of Chi...
America’s national security strategy projects internal fears abroad...
The US State Department hailed Venezuela's interim government for releasing American prisoners, calling it a "step in the right direction."...
exa-d is our internal data processing framework that stores the web in S3. It helps deal with the complexity of data at (web) scale using specific design decisions like declarative typed dependencies ...
Former US president and secretary of state accuse Republican chair of partisanship in handling case of late sex offender...
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
US President Donald Trump’s latest moves to acquire Greenland are rattling Nuuk and Copenhagen....
Jerome Powell, a particularly mild-mannered speaker, slammed recent attempts to intimidate his department. Li Yuanqing/Xinhua via Getty Images The DOJ is probing Jerome Powell over his congressional t...
Anthropic wants to expand Claude's AI agent capabilities and take advantage of the growing hype around Claude Code - and it's doing it with a brand-new feature released Monday, dubbed "Claude Cowork."...
There is no precedent of a dominant power abandoning its primacy, as Trump is doing...