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Software developer Oleksandr Pavelko and designer Elizaveta Gorbacheva have created the «PDR.ai» application with artificial intelligence and a virtual assistant that will help you quickly and easily learn traffic rules and prepare for the driver’s license exam even without access to the Internet. We tell you what it is interesting for and who it is useful for.

Meet us! This is our new show about artificial intelligence. It’s called Sho po Shi. Hosts: generative AI consultant Oleksiy Minakov and CEO of dev.ua Stas Yurasov.

ІТ-рекрутерка Вікторія Захарова запізнилась на співбесіду на 3 хв. У результаті, вона отримала негативний відгук від кандидата на Djinni. Це було вдруге за 8 років її роботи. Чи припустимо запізнення — обговорює ІТ-спільнота в LinkedIn, а також ділиться власними історіями.

Imagine 18 teams of IT professionals who worked tirelessly for over a year on something super-large and necessary for almost every Ukrainian. And in the end, such a product was born — a financial superapp that takes into account the most secret desires of over a million users, stands guard over interests and business, and shows an extraordinary dynamics of updates for even greater user comfort. Are you intrigued? We’ll tell you. On February 17, Raiffeisen Bank launched a new multifunctional mobile application, MyRaif, a whole ecosystem of digital finances that adapts to each user, created by the bank’s in-house team. By the end of 2025, both applications will be available to the bank’s clients, but later MyRaif will replace Raiffeisen Online, which the developers will turn off. dev.ua spoke with Viktor Manzar, Head of IT Solutions Implementation at Raifu, about why the need to release a new application arose, what its advantages are, and what features are already available to users today.

Threads is a new service from Instagram, which is a minimalist social platform, where the main emphasis is on text content and interaction between users. The main difference of the platform is its simplicity and lack of information overload, which makes it ideal for those who are tired of classic SMM with its endless stories and videos.

Kyrylo Kyrychenko, Senior Technical Recruiter, calculated how much it costs to hire one IT specialist, taking into account the services of a recruiter and the time spent on the search.

A team of Ukrainian startups is developing a medical startup based on artificial intelligence that helps doctors save time and record information and appointments during patient appointments. Yulia Tychynska, Bohdan Khaetsky, Dmytro Sofina, and Yuriy Gumenchuk, together with a team of data and ML engineers, created the Tayra.ai service, which significantly saves doctors and patients time, and also eliminates the hassle of deciphering illegible handwriting of doctors.

22-year-old Vadym Glushko is the founder and CEO of the OBRIY project, where together with the technical team they create an innovative system for collecting and analyzing public data. This is on the one hand. On the other hand, a team of developers-"osinters» led by Vadym conducts geospatial intelligence for the defense forces of Ukraine. Thanks to the data that the experts provided to the military, the Ukrainian defenders managed to destroy enemy equipment worth almost half a billion dollars. Vadym Glushko told dev.ua what prompted him to engage in geospatial intelligence, how the software works, how much AI is in it, and how volunteers are selected for the search engine team.

Elon Musk’s startup xAI presented the «smartest artificial intelligence on Earth» — the chatbot Grok 3. More than 100,000 people watched the demonstration of the launch of a new player in the AI ​​market.

Developer Ruslan Hladchenko created Mastermindy, an AI-based app where people can connect around common interests and work together to achieve common goals. For example, prepare for Java certification together, set goals, track progress, and all this in a social network format. Ruslan told dev.ua how Mastermindy transformed from Google Sheets in 2021 to an AI platform in 2025.

Ukrainian developers have created an application for analyzing CVs, transcripts of interviews with candidates, and other related documents that are involved in the candidate selection process. The Talantly.ai application generates reports that highlight the candidate’s compliance with the requirements, his strengths and weaknesses. dev.ua talked to one of the Client Support Team Leads of the service, Ivan Pelypenko, and found out what the application is capable of and who can use it. Below is his direct speech.

I, Inna Tyutiun, member of the board, director of the IT and retail business blocks of Sense Bank, tell you in my blog for dev.ua about how more than 500 IT specialists at Sense Bank are implementing dozens of projects in the state-owned financial institution, how an ecosystem of innovations is being built, designed to provide maximum convenience to our clients.

IdeaSoft, part of the Ukrainian-Swedish IT company Sigma Software Group, has entered the market of the United Arab Emirates. And although Ukrainian blockchain specialists have been cooperating with clients from there for a long time, the company’s current plans include multiple scaling and active involvement in projects related to the crypto market and blockchain in one of the most lucrative markets in the world. Within a year, 100 Ukrainian IT specialists will be working on projects in the OAE, while there are currently about 40 of them. dev.ua spoke with IdeaSoft CEO Andriy Lazorenko about expansion plans and the future of the crypto industry in the world.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI announced the launch of Grok 3 on Monday, February 17. According to the company, this latest version of the chatbot, which Musk describes as «terribly smart,» is a significant step forward, improving reasoning, computing power, and adaptability.

The Ministry of Defense has developed changes regarding the decommissioning of unmanned aerial vehicles by the military that are not suitable for operation. To this end, the agency interviewed representatives of 70 military units and identified key problems in the procedure for recording and decommissioning drones. Proposals have now been developed to eliminate problems during decommissioning.

People & Business consultant Daryna Tokarchuk recently came across a job posting with requirements that struck her. To apply for the position, the candidate was required to provide the date, place, and time of birth so that the company could conduct an analysis through astrology. This came as a surprise to the specialist, and she asked other IT professionals who else had encountered strange requirements during selection. Here are the cases the experts told about, and why employers think such requirements are justified.

Startups in the US, unlike large companies, shower employees with non-trivial benefits — from MRI scans to «vacation at your own expense.» What’s going on and is this really a «battle of employers»?

Is it possible to «eavesdrop» on satellites and how secure is modern space communication? Software engineer Oleksandr Gromovsky explains why the era of easy WikiLeaks-style interceptions is over, and where the vulnerability actually lies

Do IT professionals fall in love at work? An interesting question on Valentine’s Day, isn’t it? We asked it to the readers of dev.ua, and collected a lot of interesting stories and a little bit of statistics. We publish the most interesting from the mini-study.

Senior Employer Brand manager Yulia Semenova told how to use keywords in your LinkedIn profile and content: where keywords should be and how to find them, SEO for articles and posts, alt text for videos and photos, and how to create it using ChatGPT.

Ukrainian IT professional Oleksa Mashchyts, an entrepreneur and founder of the QA Ukraine community of testers, told how HR once selected a candidate whose soft skills prevailed over hard skills. And this surprised him. The IT professional asked other IT professionals what they would do.

HR and People partner Anastasia Nakonechna shared AI tools, free or with free functionality, that anyone can use to make their life easier.

Європейський крипторинок зазнає значних трансформацій із впровадженням регламенту Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA). Його мета — забезпечити правову ясність, захист прав споживачів, стабільність ринку та стимулювати інновації в галузі.

Last year, the state announced a competition for scientific research for the first time using a new principle, determining what it needed and addressing scientists as executors of a specific government order with clear terms of reference. As a result, this year the Cabinet of Ministers has allocated funding for 22 research projects based on the results of the competition, providing scientists with a total of UAH 186 million and setting a two-year deadline. These funds are to be used to fulfill «scientific state orders» for 10 agencies: the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Strategy, the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, and the State Special Communications Service.   However, apart from a few posts by Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and a small amount of news on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science as the organizer of the competition, there is little information on this topic. The list of developments within the framework of the state order for scientific and technical products in 2025-2026, approved by Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 38-r, contains information for official use. Given that some of the developments relate to topics that are quite sensitive for the state’s defense capability, this is logical. 

IT Recruiter Anastasia L. complained that recently she has come across many developers who provide false information about themselves, or even pretend to be someone else. Other candidates are also noticing a similar trend. Let’s take a look.

In December 2024, Ukraine faced its largest cyberattack in recent memory, paralyzing the operation of state registries. The attack was one of 4,315 cyber incidents handled by the State Service for Special Communications in 2024, a 70% increase from 2023. The Russian hackers who claimed responsibility for the attack claimed to have destroyed over 1 billion rows of data. However, less than two weeks after the attack, the state began restoring access to the registries. And exactly one month after the cyberattack, the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice announced the full restoration of the databases.

In August of last year, the Russians began using modified versions of fiber-optic drones on the front lines. The main reason for the popularity of this type of UAV is the inability to suppress it with the electronic warfare (EW) systems that our front lines are littered with. In addition, there is currently no effective countermeasure against fiber-optics. 3DTech is one of those Ukrainian manufacturers of fiber-optic drones that are working on a response to the occupiers. Last weekend, we visited the testing ground with the company and saw how its improved UAV turned out. We also learned what technological solutions can be effective in the fight against such enemy "birds". More about all this later in the material.

Full-Stack Developer from Kharkiv region Iryna Kostromytska published a post about how to get into IT when you’re already 40 and times are tough. The woman was able to learn English in a year and get a job at a top IT company because she had a lot of motivation — her family was left homeless due to the war. Her advice is being hotly discussed by the community.

A New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal has debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically scroll through an endless stream of Wikipedia article stubs, similar to the interface of the video-sharing app TikTok.

NovaPay Innovation Director Oleksiy Ruban gave an interview to Forbes, we selected the main points from it about the earnings model, number of clients, IT team salary, and competition.