Russia's Ministry of Digital Development negotiates with Apple to reinstate the 'Max' app in the App Store. Maksut Shadayev spoke at St. Petersburg forum after app vanished June 5.

Meta embeds face-recognition code in phones for smart glasses platform.

Meta has quietly added face-recognition code to millions of phones for its smart glasses platform, as uncovered by a code review by WIRED. The system is designed to identify people using biometric data stored on users' phones.

Igor Sechin warns at SPIEF that the world is on the brink of the largest financial market bubble, driven by tech companies.

The world is on the brink of the largest 'bubble' in the financial market, Sechin stated at the SPIEF. In his opinion, the explosive growth of capitalization of technology companies is leading to this, with American funds BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street expecting to benefit from the crisis.

Fire breaks out at Antipinsky oil refinery in Tyumen, western Siberia - local government

A fire has broken out at one of the processing units of the Antipinsky oil refinery in Tyumen, western Siberia, the local government said.

Russia says US wrongly links economic ties to Ukraine conflict resolution, calls approach erroneous.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated in a CCTV interview that the U.S. ties development of economic relations to the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, and Moscow considers this approach erroneous. He noted that 'it takes two to tango,' which the U.S. is not yet willing to do, and Moscow is in no hurry.