Yandex News

Last week, Russian Internet giant Yandex suffered a major source code leak when an unknown user (likely a former employee) published parts of the company’s internal repository online. The leaked code provides new insight into the inner workings of Russia’s largest search engine, which has faced growing criticism in recent years for cooperating with the Kremlin. Among other things, the breach confirmed that Yandex has censored image and video search results to prevent the Z symbol and… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A window into Yandex’s censorship  Meduza Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia Censors Web So ‘Bald F*cker’ Search Won’t Show Putin  The Daily Beast Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex blocks obscene searches for Putin | World  The Times Source link

Russia’s most popular search engine has installed software that blocks images of President Putin when users enter insulting or obscene words and phrases as the Kremlin seeks to stamp out dissent over the war in Ukraine. Yandex, which is often called Russia’s Google, has ensured that pictures of the president are no longer returned by searches for “khulyo,” which translates as “f***ing d***head”. Since 2014 the word has been commonly used in Ukraine to describe Putin. Other terms… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russian tech giant Yandex says code leaked in cybersecurity incident  Reuters Source link

This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine MOSCOW, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Russian tech giant Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Tuesday that fragments of its program code had been leaked online, with a preliminary investigation revealing violations of some of its own internal policies. “The company is taking this matter extremely seriously and has initiated a thorough investigation into the cause, content and implications of the leak,”… Source link

* This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine MOSCOW, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Russian tech giant Yandex said on Tuesday that fragments of its program code had been leaked online, with a preliminary investigation revealing violations of some of its own internal policies. “The company is taking this matter extremely seriously and has initiated a thorough investigation into the cause, content and implications of the leak,” Yandex’s… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia’s Google, Yandex, Fixes Results So ‘Bald Fucker’ and ‘Bunker Grandad’ Reportedly Won’t Show Putin  Yahoo News Source link

Russia’s biggest search engine secretly put blocks in its code to stop images of Vladimir Putin showing up in the results of potentially embarrassing searches, according to a report, with Nazi iconography also allegedly scrubbed out of the results of queries for the “Z” symbol signifying support for the war in Ukraine. Last week, fragments of the source code for Yandex—sometimes likened to “Russia’s Google”—were leaked online. Experts have been poring over the code ever since… Source link