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Domain and web hosting provider Namecheap is terminating all service with the company’s Russian-based users over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. 

“Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime’s war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia,” US-based Namecheap told Russian users in an email on Monday. 

The company is asking Russian users to transfer their domains to another provider by March 6. Otherwise their sites will resolve to a 403 Forbidden page. In addition, Namecheap has begun blocking Russian clients from using the company’s web hosting and private email services over Russian internet domains, including .ru and .su. 

When sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube ban users for violating their terms of service, those individuals often don’t leave social media altogether. Instead, many of these digital deportees flock to alternative sites to meet their online social demands.

Known broadly as “alt-tech,” sites like Gab, Parler and Rumble are best known as harbors for far-right netizens, providing more lax content moderation than their mainstream counterparts. To supporters of these sites, the platforms are seen as bastions of free speech in an online environment dominated by a handful of suppressive corporations. To critics, they willingly house bigotry, antisemitism and white supremacy — with Gab’s founder even openly expressing such views online.

Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, a research fellow…

Brave, the Chromium-based and privacy-focused browser, now has 50 million monthly active users. 

That total means user numbers have more than doubled from the 24 million it had at the end of 2020. 

To put Brave’s milestone in perspective, Google has billions of active users on Chrome, Android, iOS and Windows. Nonetheless, Brave has grown from a user base of 1.2 million in 2017 after launching in 2016: version 1.0 of the browser was released in November 2019.

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Its main pitch to people is that doesn’t sell targeted ads but rather trades attention via cryptocurrency. Brave offers…

Stationhead, the social-audio app that has helped drive millions of streams by hosting unofficial listening parties – often with the participation of the artists themselves – is launching a web version, the company tells Billboard. The launch will allow non-iOS users to host shows on the growing platform for the first time.

With the launch, Stationhead will expand its global reach by bringing in web and Android users to the platform’s community of 3.5 million hosts and listeners from more than 186 countries across the globe. Stationhead says it had a waitlist of 10,000 web and Android hosts prior to today’s announcement. Users of the web version will be able to choose from a range of additional options, including the ability to integrate premium recording hardware, including…

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Amazon Web Services went down Tuesday morning impacting users around the world who couldn’t access certain services and websites.

According to a posted message from AWS at 8:22 a.m. (PT) the company was “investigating increased error rates for the AWS Management Console.”

Down Detector, a website that tracks online issues shows the problem peaked around 9 a.m.

The outage impacted Amazon’s web-hosting platform taking down Netflix, Disney+, and Venmo.

McDonald’s, Tinder and even Associated Press went dark.