Tag Archives: Internet

Russia’s ultrafast grocery delivery service Yango Deli that can get goods to customers in under 15 minutes has launched in London, the company said in a press release on October 14. The service already works with customers in Russia, France and Israel and has now added four dark stores in the UK… Source link

Russia’s ultrafast grocery delivery service Yango Deli can get goods to customers in under 15 minutes has launched in London, the company said in a press release on October 14. The service already works with customers in Russia, France, and Israel and has now added four dark stores in the British… Source link

The 60 rating InvestorsObserver gives to Yandex NV (YNDX) stock puts it near the top of the Internet Content & Information industry. In addition to scoring higher than 89 percent of stocks in the Internet Content & Information industry, YNDX’s 60 overall rating means the stock scores better than 60 percent of all stocks. YNDX has an Overall Score of 60. Find out what this means to you and get the rest of the rankings on YNDX! What… Source link

The developing world represents the best chance of growth for large internet companies, and today one of the very biggest set out its strategy for how it plans to tackle that. Google said that it would be investing $1 billion to support “digital transformation” across Africa. This will include landing a subsea cable into the continent to enable faster internet speeds, low-interest loans for small businesses, equity investments into African startups, skills… Source link

The Russian internet giant Yandex experienced an extreme Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for several days, in August and September. The attack recorded at about 22 million requests per second (RPS) is believed to be the largest DDoS attack in the history of the internet, according to the Russian publication Vedomosti. Cyber security company Cloudflare confirmed the attack adding that the worst volumetric DDoS attack it ever recorded was 17.2… Source link

The Russian Internet giant Yandex says it repelled the largest DDoS (denial-of-service) attack in history. The cyberattack included more than 20 million requests per second (RPS), according to the company’s blog on the website Habr.  The source of the attack was a new botnet, which Yandex named “Meris.” Yandex observed signs of the appearance of the new botnet back in late June. The company estimates that “Meris” consists of between at least 56,000 infected devices, but says the… Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex has been targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started last week and and it reportedly continues this week. A report in Russian media says that the assault is the largest in the short history of the Russian internet, the RuNet, and that it was confirmed by a U.S.-based company. RuNet is the Russian segment of the internet, created to function independently of the worldwide web. Its purpose is to maintain the unified… Source link

A new proposal from tech giant Yandex overcomes a major hurdle in the advancement of machine learning by bringing the process to the masses, so that anyone with a home computer can help train a large neural network. Modern deep learning applications require many GPUs, which can be costly, and so are usually only accessible to well-funded companies and institutions. To ensure ML model training doesn’t become exclusively the domain of big organizations that can afford the tech required,… Source link

Facebook and Google are building undersea internet cables around the world — and are betting that the investments will bring in millions of new customers. Facebook revealed Sunday that it is helping build a 7,500-mile cable connecting countries including Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan. The cable, called Project Apricot, is expected to launch in 2024 and will help deliver better 4G, 5G and broadband internet to the region, according to Facebook.  That… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk denied reports Friday that he demanded to be Apple (AAPL) CEO during a 2016 phone call in which Apple’s Tim Cook discussed buying the electric vehicle maker. Musk also took a separate swipe at Apple’s App Store fee on Friday, tweeting that it’s a “global tax on the internet.” The tweets from Musk were apparently prompted by a new book from The Wall Street Journal’s Tim Higgins, called “Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk and the Bet of the Century.” That… Source link