In this issue

Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China’s so-called Great Firewall. So when Western tech companies began cutting ties with Russia following its invasion, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov was alarmed. He’d spent years exposing Russian censorship and feared that well-intentioned efforts to aid Ukraine would instead help Putin isolate Russians from the free flow of information, aiding the Kremlin’s propaganda war.

CHIPMAKER INTEL DETAILS $150 MILLION EDUCATION INVESTMENT

Chipmaker Intel outlined $150 million in educational funding aimed at growing the workforce for the semiconductor industry, as part of its $20 billion investment in a production hub in Ohio.

2 mins

US TEXTRON TO ACQUIRE SLOVENIAN ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT PIONEER

U.S. industrial conglomerate Textron Inc. has signed a deal to acquire Pipistrel, the Slovenian ultralight aircraft maker and pioneer in electrically powered aviation, both companies announced Thursday.

2 mins

WAR CENSORSHIP EXPOSES PUTIN'S LEAKY INTERNET CONTROLS

Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China’s so-called Great Firewall.

5 mins

iPad Air

The power of the M1 processor & 5G connection

6 mins

AMAZON TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEAR TRANSIT STOPS

Amazon said it will spend more than $120 million to build affordable-housing units close to transit stations near Seattle and Washington, D.C, the latest example of a tech company trying to address the affordable housing crisis critics say the industry has exacerbated.

1 min

INTEL UNVEILS $88B CHIPMAKING EXPANSION PLAN FOR EUROPE

U.S. chipmaker Intel unveiled plans this week to invest up to 80 billion euros ($88 billion) across Europe as part of an ambitious expansion aimed at evening out imbalances in the global semiconductor industry that have led to big chip shortages.

2 mins

CNN+ STREAMS START MARCH 29; MSNBC TO STREAM PROGRAMMING

The CNN+ paid streaming service will debut March 29 with programming headlined by network stars like Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper, along with poached personalities Audie Cornish, Kasie Hunt and Chris Wallace.

2 mins

BARCELONA STADIUM BECOMES SPOTIFY CAMP NOU UNDER SPONSORSHIP

Barcelona is teaming up with Spotify — and changing its stadium name — to ease some of the financial struggles that hindered the Spanish club recently.

2 mins

JULIAN ASSANGE DENIED PERMISSION TO APPEAL BY UK'S TOP COURT

Britain’s top court this week refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges.

2 mins

BIG BATCH OF SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS APPROVED IN VIRGINIA

Dominion Energy has received regulatory approval in Virginia for a series of solar projects expected to generate enough power to light up 250,000 homes.

1 min

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