IT in Ukraine

“We have become an operator that does not exist, but everything works.” De Novo CEO Maksym Ageev — on arrivals at data centers, large migration from “digital Kyiv” and the price of survival

In the summer of 2026, Russian forces launched a targeted hunt for Ukrainian digital infrastructure. One of the first drone strikes in Kyiv was the data center of one of the largest cloud service and colocation operators, De Novo.

From developer to realtor. How and why a developer with 10 years of experience switched to a new profession and launched his own coffee marketplace

Senior Full-Stack/PHP Developer with 10 years of experience, Mykola Siryk, was laid off at SoftServe in July. He posted an ad on LinkedIn about looking for a job in the IT field, but at the same time, he didn’t wait long for the dream offer from an "IT" company in a difficult market, and quickly found another activity where he could earn money here and now. So Mykola went to realtors — and on the eve of our conversation he closed the second deal to sell an apartment. In addition, he is seriously considering another option: to become an electrician, because his previous education and skills allow it — but he has no experience. Mykola Siryk is also developing his own project — a coffee marketplace called CupCult, which presents products from craft Ukrainian roasters.

When artificial intelligence plays dump. Test drive of the Gemini car on Ukrainian roads

“When did World War II start?” — your own car can arrange such a quiz in the middle of the road if the navigation is entrusted to the Gemini AI agent in Google Maps. We tested the new virtual navigator from Google on Ukrainian roads. As it turned out, it perfectly plots routes and knows about technical maintenance, but suffers from total amnesia and has an extremely unpleasant habit of hallucinating and suddenly answering the driver in Russian.

Bornyakov's path: from Arena City sysadmin to a $100 million IT company and an important government position

We continue our series of interviews with people who have made a great contribution to the development of Ukrainian digital products. Let us remind you that the first interview we recorded was with Artem Borodatyuk, founder of Fractal (Netpeak Group). The second issue is no less interesting. We were visited by Oleksandr Bornyakov, who not so long ago was the acting head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, and after his dismissal became the head of the supervisory board of Brave1.

MCP servers: hype or real benefit?

Tech-foundation of victory and the future: who keeps their finger on the pulse of innovation

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35 years of Independence. Guess the sounds that have become iconic

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"Second brain" instead of a separate skill. How AI is changing traditional IT professions

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Hackers hacked the UP.Ranok mailing list: readers were sent a fake about a "terrorist attack in Kyiv"

Ukrainian December1 introduced DroneSensor Providence, a system for detecting drones from 30 km away. It can intercept video from FPV drones that use analog video communication

Startup Underdog has created a local AI model for text-to-speech, which takes up 32 MB and can work without the Internet. They created a small browser game to demonstrate it.

Tesla will stop producing Cybertruck next year in favor of mass production of Cybercab robotaxi

A number of services at PrivatBank will be temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance

Education.ua named the top 10 universities in Ukraine — all of them teach IT specialists. What interesting technological developments and educational innovations have appeared there?

First the basic framework, then the factory. The Ministry of Digital Affairs explained the sequence of steps in the development of chip production in Ukraine

KAI will host the NASA Space Apps Challenge space hackathon. Participants are invited to create space-related projects in two days

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MCP servers: hype or real benefit?

In the new issue of "Sho po shi" we analyze the hot hype around MCP servers (Model Context Protocol). Why are "Silpo" and "Steyki Karpat" launching their own MCP, is there any real benefit for the average user, and why is it primarily about PR and new marketing markets?

Tech-foundation of victory and the future: who keeps their finger on the pulse of innovation

A country’s independence today depends not only on weapons, energy, or manufacturing. It also depends on whose software a business runs on, where data is stored, who creates technologies for the front, and how quickly Ukrainian companies can replace critical foreign solutions. In this special project, we have gathered companies and teams that are building this technological foundation — from system software and FPV drones with auto-target acquisition to quantum algorithms, inclusive teams, and underground schools. These are solutions and technologies that are already working today, and about developments on which the Ukrainian economy and its security will depend tomorrow.

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35 years of Independence. Guess the sounds that have become iconic

Today is Independence Day. Over the past 35 years, Ukraine has changed its sound — from the creak of modems to the hum of drones, from home servers to Ukrainian cloud data storage.

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"Second brain" instead of a separate skill. How AI is changing traditional IT professions

Is it possible to remain a good marketer, designer, or engineer if you work the same way you did two years ago? At HOLYWATER TECH, the answer is increasingly no. Just a year ago, there was no AI Video Creator position. Today, it’s a separate role that uses generative AI to create production-quality vertical videos. At the same time, most of the changes are much less noticeable. Marketers remain marketers, and developers remain developers. However, the tasks, requirements, and the very way of working within these professions are different. After talking with a recruiter and three HOLYWATER TECH specialists, it became clear: the main change is not the emergence of new job titles, but the fact that familiar professions are filled with new meaning. We tell you.

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Yesterday

Hackers hacked the UP.Ranok mailing list: readers were sent a fake about a "terrorist attack in Kyiv"

Ukrainian December1 introduced DroneSensor Providence, a system for detecting drones from 30 km away. It can intercept video from FPV drones that use analog video communication

Startup Underdog has created a local AI model for text-to-speech, which takes up 32 MB and can work without the Internet. They created a small browser game to demonstrate it.

Tesla will stop producing Cybertruck next year in favor of mass production of Cybercab robotaxi

A number of services at PrivatBank will be temporarily unavailable due to planned maintenance

Education.ua named the top 10 universities in Ukraine — all of them teach IT specialists. What interesting technological developments and educational innovations have appeared there?

First the basic framework, then the factory. The Ministry of Digital Affairs explained the sequence of steps in the development of chip production in Ukraine

KAI will host the NASA Space Apps Challenge space hackathon. Participants are invited to create space-related projects in two days

MCP servers: hype or real benefit?

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Why I think Reddit could lose the next decade

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Why I think Reddit could lose the next decade

Lately, I’ve been finding myself thinking more and more that Reddit has developed a myth of its success. Looking at the news, it might seem like the platform is going through one of the best times in its history. Reddit is talked about a lot, its discussions dominate Google, brands are paying attention to it, and marketers around the world are trying to figure out how to work with it.

A position in the TOP-3 of Google does not guarantee clicks or citations in ChatGPT: data from legal sites

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A position in the TOP-3 of Google does not guarantee clicks or citations in ChatGPT: data from legal sites

A legal website is in the TOP-3 of Google, but 96 out of 100 people who were shown it did not click on it. And ChatGPT, according to Ahrefs, almost does not link to legal websites from our sample, even those with thousands of queries in the TOP-3. We tested this on seven websites: six legal and one online comparison store. Below is a brief summary of the results and five steps on how to test your website. My name is Vladislava Rykova, I am the head of the MAVR agency and I work with legal services marketing. For two sites we took Google Search Console data, for the rest — public Ahrefs data.

3 mental health tech trends that are interesting to investors in 2026

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3 mental health tech trends that are interesting to investors in 2026

$7.4 billion was raised by American digital health startups in the first half of 2026 alone. A total of 244 investment rounds took place, and mental health remains the most funded clinical area in the sector for the seventh year in a row. But a large amount of money on the market does not mean that it is easy to obtain. A good idea, a relevant problem, or the use of AI do not make a startup attractive to an investor. You need to see a large market, a clear business model, and technology that creates real value, not just adds another feature.

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