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Yandex is a Russian internet company known for its dominant search engine, along with mapping, cloud, advertising and other online services.
Ukraine attacked some of Yandex's biggest data centers over the past week, Tom's Hardware reports, disrupting national apps and city services. A Cloudflare report says the bot traffic moved to other hosts.
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Ukrainian drones hit Sberbank's Balakovo data center on Wednesday, the fourth Russian site struck in a week after three of Yandex's. Neither company has said whether a supercomputer was damaged.
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Cloudflare says the post-strike drop in Yandex Search traffic was almost entirely verified search crawling. Yandex.Cloud's automation moved to other hosting providers, so a falling aggregate chart cannot show whether bot threats receded.
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Yandex shut its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack, the third of its sites knocked out within days. Cloud customers absorbed outages across more than 80 services, cryptobriefing reported, and the only share-price reading, a fall of nearly 4%, came after the second strike.
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Ukraine hit three Yandex data centers with drones in a few days, the latest on Oct. 11 in the Vladimir region. Zelenskyy says the strikes also silenced pro-Russian bots, but the one measured figure in the coverage describes traffic from Yandex's own network.
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A7A5 stablecoin transfers fell to 14 a day on Tron and 18 on Ethereum after Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers. Elliptic's Tom Robinson ties the two, though the issuer's own explanation so far is technical problems.
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Cloudflare reports Yandex-network bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers. The series covers one network's requests, so it documents a provider outage more firmly than any change in global traffic.
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Cloudflare Radar shows Yandex's automated traffic fell sharply after the strikes, but researchers saw no matching drop in known propaganda networks. Cloudflare counts crawlers, scanners and malware as bots, so the dip cannot be read as a count of political accounts.
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Drone strikes damaged three Yandex data centers between Oct. 8 and Oct. 11, the Kyiv Independent reported. Yandex's fintech head said many users could not check balances or pay. Site protection now belongs in the cyber-risk register.
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Yandex lost one of its five data centers on Thursday after a reported Ukrainian drone strike on Sasovo in Russia's Ryazan region. Running workloads moved to its other sites, but the company warned that creating new cloud resources may be limited.
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Russia says a drone disrupted a data centre in eastern Moscow, after Ukrainian strikes on October 8 and 9 halted one Yandex site and hit another. The first of those losses exposed Yandex's choice to keep two of its three AI supercomputers at one site, the one that burned.
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Ukrainian drones forced Yandex to shut its Sasovo data center, one of its five major sites, knocking many Yandex Cloud services offline. For anyone hosting in Russia or Ukraine, the outage to plan for now includes losing a whole building and the hardware inside it.
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Keenable left stealth with $26 million and says AI labs already query its index during training and at runtime. The scarcity argument comes from the investor who led the round.
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The volume discount on its search API starts at 100 requests per second, which works out to roughly $3.2m a year. That tells you who the index is really for.
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A test of nine widely used employee monitoring platforms found all of them exporting identifying worker data. The buyer signed the licence and never saw the recipient list.
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A one-browser ad measurement run found a boolean where the bid request body was supposed to be. No gate fired, because every gate had been written about the code's question.
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One recorded day-one log is a sample of one site. It is still enough to show that the two submission channels most indexing services bundle do not reach Google the way the pitch implies.
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