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As we read in the news this morning, Cloudflare Radar has detected a sudden and critical drop in automated bot traffic coming out of Russian tech giant Yandex’s networks. And this happened right after Ukrainian drones successfully attacked the company’s key data centers in Sasovo (a cool name) and Kaluga.

Ukraine is developing its own satellite system similar to Starlink. Frankly, yesterday’s news surprised and made me think.

For the second day, news has been swirling in the news feeds about the fact that Moscow may leave Kyivans without the Internet and that there will be no connection in the winter. I see that there is often some complete trash being spread. Let's figure out step by step what is true and what is a lie.

“Get internet in buckets,” jokes Mykola Andrushchenko, marketing director of the Lanet network, on his Facebook page. Dark humor, Mykola. But funny. Thank you! In Kyiv, what I personally feared the most (regarding the destruction of infrastructure by the Russians) is beginning - hitting telecom sites and data centers.

About anonymous (and not quite) TG channels. Sorry, but this situation doesn’t really bother me.

The tech world is hot again. While ordinary developers are trying to understand why another version of a neural network has once again “broken” their product, Silicon Valley’s top managers are announcing the beginning of a new era. But there are some doubts:)

Russia's war against Ukraine in 2022 and the war in 2026 are two completely different wars. The first relied on the sheer strength of the Ukrainian people's spirit and, let's be honest, old principles of management and warfare.

We have always built the world for ourselves. Now we will have to rebuild it for robots. AI agents see the world differently. So when we start using them actively, the old marketplace architecture simply will not work for them.

I’m riding the subway. All around me are these leather bags wrapped in thin fabric.

The first round of the World Cup has ended, where football passions and intrigues are not inferior to the matches in terms of emotionality. A prison cell for the Iranian national team, politicized Haitian shirts, and how to earn your retirement thanks to one successful match.

Today, the editorial team of dev.ua turns five years old.

It seems that never before in the history of Ukrainian parliamentarism have deputies been put on the «jackal express» for not supporting porn. Or rather, its decriminalization.

Surely every dog ​​has already barked after seeing this week’s video speech by famous journalist Vitaly Portnikov.

And so it is: yesterday Uklon gave a solid jazz performance in Boryspil. While we are arguing about tariffs in the rain, the guys rolled out their Autonomous car to the interchange near Terminal F.

Good news: I seem to have a general picture after attending DOU Day and several recent interviews with IT leaders.

We used to be afraid that robots would take our jobs. Now it seems that this is not the case, and smartphone screens are taking away from us… not just our jobs (although they do that too), but basically everything. All our time. And they start with the smallest ones. And irrevocably.

We recently published a news story with a rather loud statement by Octava Capital founder Oleksandr Kardakov.

So the day of judgment has come :)

For nearly two decades, software development outsourcing has been a fast and cost-effective way to access global talent and scale. By 2024, the IT outsourcing market exceeded $512 billion, with companies saving up to 70% on labor and gaining flexibility by outsourcing teams to India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America (and, of course, Ukraine).

For some reason, we like to discuss the news: will there be subpoenas in «Diya» or not? Someone blurts out that there will be, then the Ministry of Digital Affairs comes out and says that it will never happen.

I am sure that many of our readers have paid attention to the latest news about the state of affairs with the global network in the Russian Federation. This news has flown and continues to flow into our information space unsystematically and remains largely unnoticed. In principle, and rightly so. We have enough of our own problems, and we don’t really want to be interested in: «What about the Russians?»

Communication in Ukraine is noticeably becoming more expensive. And there are no surprises here. The wave of price increases swept through at the end of last year. And in the first months of 2026, all three mobile operators announced tariff increases.

Looking at the panic surrounding the halving of the Bitcoin price, one wants to understand what would happen if we played the long game and did not engage in temporary speculation (and whether speculation took place at all).

A few years ago, today’s realities might have seemed like the plot of a fantasy film to Ukrainians. Life with a minimum of household goods, which Kyiv residents and others are now forced to live, is a test that sometimes causes despair, confusion, and anger not only at the enemy, but also at the local authorities, which probably should have foreseen something like this.

I am always surprised when our people start complaining that mobile communication is expensive in our country and that prices continue to rise. Therefore, today I propose to compare how much communication costs in Poland, where many Ukrainians also live now, and how much it costs here.

Monobank, if anyone still doesn’t know, has an awesome dashboard where you can see which brands, and which category of goods and services, Ukrainians spend the most money on.