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According to the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, from July 2023 to July 2024, Microsoft customers face 600 million attacks every day from both cybercriminals and nation states. It also emphasizes that cyber operations are closely related to geopolitical conflicts.

CNC router operator Baluta Maryan from Poland made an innovative coffee maker that prepares coffee under very high pressure. How does it work?

One fine autumn day, students of the Kyiv Aviation Institute (formerly the National Academy of Sciences) read strange news on the institution’s website: the university has decided to ban Telegram. According to the acting rector Ksenia Semenova, the innovation should only affect teachers and staff. But how will this affect students, since a huge amount of communication with teachers takes place via this messenger? Other higher educational institutions followed KAI’s example — some blocked access to Telegram in dormitories, others only warned about the upcoming innovation. State structures also began to actively report on the ban on the messenger. Meanwhile, the KAI clarified that the need for the ban concerns the transmission of work information and reported that they only recommend not using Telegram for other communication. dev.ua investigated whether Telegram will be available to officials and students, and how the most popular messenger in Ukraine can be blocked.

Professional Backend-Frontend programmer Oleksandr Fatyuhin gave his girlfriend smart glasses so she could take photos and videos, as well as use a voice assistant and headphones. He looked at them and decided to find a similar gadget that would help him in his work. The developer shared with dev.ua how he chose the model, what main tasks he planned to perform with the glasses and whether he managed to make his life easier in the end.

Today, everyone is used to the fact that there is a plastic bottle for used batteries in almost every entrance. Standardized containers for used batteries are also placed in a number of retail chains and gas station chains. It is not uncommon to sometimes see them in the halls of some administrative buildings or schools. But do many people know what happens to batteries afterwards and where they go, leaving these containers for collection? Especially considering the toxicity of this waste, the difficult cycle of its processing and the lack of appropriate enterprises in Ukraine. We will try to answer this question in this material.

Swift/IOS Developer Vyacheslav Gudzenko talked about his experience of working during shelling and asked the community how they conduct calls in modern realities.