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Belgian game studio LuGus Studios, best known for the game Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing, announced on the social network X (Twitter) that it has a solution for military drone operators and is contacting authorities in Ukraine for cooperation.

With the onset of a full-scale invasion, Ukrainian businesses, in particular financial institutions, have been actively migrating to the cloud in order to secure user data and preserve the functionality of the financial system. A vivid example of fast and high-quality migration was shown by Raiffeisen Bank, which in 2022 managed to migrate its infrastructure without disruption to customers for $0 and in just three months . However, migration requires considerable effort even after its implementation. Pavlo Klets, architect of cloud solutions at Raif, told dev.ua about the challenges that await businesses after a successful migration, and how to prepare for them and respond correctly. Raif more than two years of work in the cloud allowed him to formulate useful insights and practical advice.

Artificial intelligence, if it hasn’t yet turned the IT market upside down, is already confidently transforming it. While previously a separate team of developers was allocated for each project, now AI-based solutions can partially, and sometimes completely, take over their tasks. Developments based on GPT and Copilot are becoming more and more accurate and convenient, which naturally changes the approaches to the work of IT service companies. This is undoubtedly a historical moment that forces us to rethink roles, processes, approaches, and even pricing. But there are nuances.

Imagine a little boy who, as a child, dreamed of becoming a trucker and conquering the world by car, but instead chose programming and, together with co-founders from Kharkiv, built one of the largest and most dynamic service IT companies in Ukraine. At first glance, an incompatible synergy, however, today a car enthusiast, supporter of the opportunist movement and patriot of Ukraine Valeriy Krasovskyi runs a company from the top 15 in Ukrainian IT, which has more than 20 offices around the world and serves hundreds of international clients. dev.ua recorded a long interview with the founder and CEO of Sigma Software about war, business and dreams.

Leonid Shevtsov, a software architect from the product company Railsware, created a stochastic time tracker that helps you track your time and maintain a balance between household chores, work, and other activities throughout the day.

Fraudsters have never shied away from any methods to exploit people’s trust and extract both money and sensitive personal information from them, as well as trying to influence consciousness and prejudice. The advent of artificial intelligence tools has greatly expanded the capabilities and scope of attackers. Here are 5 of the most popular ways in which attackers used AI to carry out attacks this year.

These three new books were published in the last year and take into account the latest achievements and trends in generative AI. They are currently available in English, but I hope that Ukrainian publishers will translate them.

Product Owner Oleksandr Sosnovchyk recalled Mark Zuckerberg’s words when in January during a podcast with Joe Rogan he stated that AI has already reached the level of mid-level developers in programming and companies can start «automating» their work by the end of 2025. The specialist asked programmers, engineers, and developers how they feel about this statement and what, in their opinion, the scale of automation of code writing will be. Here are some of the specialists who are already preparing to switch to another profession.

We’ve previously written about the phenomenon of catfishing, or «career fishing.» This phenomenon involves Gen Z workers accepting job offers but then not showing up on their first day without informing their employers. The report highlights that this is a growing act of defiance among workers under the age of 27.

In December, Ukrainian banks and financial companies joined the memorandum on transparency of the payment services market, which provides for the fight against «drop schemes» and the reduction of transfer limits. «Drop schemes» pose significant risks both for financial institutions and for state security, as they are often used for tax evasion and financing of terrorist activities. Currently, the memorandum has been signed by 44 banks and 2 financial companies that are payment system providers.

DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks are evolving really fast. The biggest ones are already similar to carpet bombarding, but on the internet. 

Поки триває ажіотаж навколо ШІ від DeepSeek, китайці зробили ще один серйозний прорив у дослідженнях термоядерного синтезу: їхній експериментальний надпровідний токамак, який називають штучним сонцем, побив власний світовий рекорд з утримання плазми. Це наблизило вчених Китаю до мети відтворити процеси ядерного синтезу на Сонці для виробництва чистої необмеженої енергії.

«We’re looking for a developer again…» — these are the phrases we hear from our clients when discussing office redesigns. And while there can be many reasons for layoffs, we’ve noticed an interesting pattern: some offices seem to «burn out» people, while others have teams working for years. We know, not just from hearsay, but after implementing dozens of projects, that it’s not just about salary or management. Often, the root of the problem lies in the space itself.

Hello! It’s #fuckingvacancies again. Today is the first batch of crony job offers in Ukrainian IT and digital. And again — about low salaries, irrelevant requirements, a $1000 fine and anonymous letters.

Serhiy Grigorovich, founder of the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World, known for the games «Cossacks» and STALKER, gave an interesting interview to the authors of the Youtube channel «Pryama Chervona» Valery Litoninsky and Oleksandr «Fozzie» Sydorenko. We have selected the most striking quotes.

Anastasia Zherebetskaya, Senior HR Recruiter, believes that it is test tasks that can be the key to new opportunities for candidates in their job search. That is why the specialist advises to complete them and even gives relevant arguments why it is important. But what do IT professionals say about this?

The IT market is growing every day, and with it, so is the competition. Companies are finding it more difficult to find talent that fits their business strategy. They are asking: what kind of specialists do we need? Who should we look for — narrow experts or universal specialists? The answer lies in the combination of both qualities: it is the balance that allows us to achieve key OKRs and KPIs. These professionals are called T-shaped specialists, and their ability to adapt to change makes them indispensable in solving complex tasks. In this article, I would like to share my insights into why T-shaped specialists are the optimal model for working in an IT company.

How to unite a team that works mostly remotely is extremely rare? Over the past 5 years, employers have had to change the paradigm of teambuilding, adapting corporate events to the challenges of the time. Nowadays, to feel the team spirit, it is not necessary to rent a facility or prepare a mega-event at your own location. It is enough to competently approach the organization of employees' leisure time online. dev.ua, in a partner material with Englishdom, talks about the most common options for holding online team meetings and the experience of the most successful online events in Ukrainian IT companies.

In mid-January, the news that Ukraine plans to start its own chip production was very loud — it was spread by almost every media outlet. Before that, creating conditions for the development of the semiconductor technology industry was identified as strategic goal No. 14 in the Strategy for Digital Development of Innovations until 2030, which was finally presented to the public. Yevgeny Astakhov, a member of the expert team at the Ministry of Digital Transformation, which is working on a sectoral strategy, notes in a comment for dev.ua that Ukraine does not need to focus on advanced nodes, but rather focus on simple and mass solutions. «The cost of a factory using advanced technologies can reach tens of billions of dollars. Instead, mature nodes, such as 180–130 nm, 65–28 nm, are optimal for meeting urgent needs. Building a factory using such technologies is more economically feasible, which makes it attractive to investors,» he argues.

Imagine your website as a real-world touchpoint, a place where two realities meet: yours and your customer’s. Are you ready to welcome your visitors the way they need to?

Ukrainian IT professionals have the opportunity to earn money by identifying potential bugs in the system of one of the country’s leading banks. We tell you who can join, what experience they can gain, and how much they can earn.

Senior Recruiter Natalia Shelepko asked the community what drives IT professionals crazy during interviews with recruiters and tech interviews. Here are the 10 most popular triggers.

Part of Linkedin is ablaze with comments from outraged IT professionals who say they are not receiving responses to their submitted resumes and assume that recruiters are probably not even reading their documents. dev.ua decided to leave the ethical issue of correspondence without answers alone for now, but was interested in how resume selection can take place, whether recruiters use automated systems and AI in this process, and how ranking occurs in this case. We asked these questions to recruitment specialists. What we managed to find out will be useful for both recruiters and candidates.

In the Ukrainian AppStore, this «Chinese ChatGPT» is also among the leaders — already No. 2 in the «Productivity» category.

The pompous conference hall in the center of the capital, where a well-known political force used to hold events, is crowded today. Among the audience are many military personnel, representatives of business — technological and not only, the public sector and the government. With the famous stand-up comedian Vesta Hunchenko as the host and one of the top stars of Ukrainian sports, fencer Olga Kharlan as the ambassador, the Atlas project was presented here. What is it? The manufacturer of electronic warfare and electronic warfare equipment, Kvertus, calls Atlas the most ambitious and large-scale security project in the history of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Its ultimate goal is to cover the entire 1,300-km-long front line with intelligent electronic defense systems, creating an «anti-drone wall» worth about UAH 5.2 billion. dev.ua visited the presentation of the project and formed its own impression of it.

In recent days, everyone has been talking about the Chinese startup DeepSeek and its new free, open-source artificial intelligence model R1. The latter is literally rewriting the history of artificial intelligence right now. First, it outperformed OpenAI’s latest o1 model in several independent tests. Second, it helped DeepSeek become the top app on the App Store over the weekend. Third, it caused a drop in the stock prices of technology companies, including top graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia. For a detailed analysis of what helped DeepSeek outperform its competitors, read the material.

Project management is a special field of activity characterized by a high level of uncertainty. A project manager always accepts this uncertainty as a given and skillfully (or ineptly) works with it, turning challenges into opportunities. Often in business units there is a temptation to appoint one of the employees as project owner, but this step does not always lead to success. Why is this happening?

Eight years ago, in 2017, DataArt established the AI ​​Lab department, led by Yuriy Gubin, Chief Innovation Officer at DataArt, and Dmitry Baikov, AI Technical Director at DataArt. Back then, they strategically predicted the demand for artificial intelligence in the future, and the company facilitated the creation of the corresponding department. In the AI ​​Lab, specialists work on their own AI developments, which are further used by DataArt and provided to customers. The company did not look for external specialists to work in this department, but created career development opportunities for its specialists, since at that time there was a shortage of qualified AI specialists on the labor market. DataArt offered training to all interested colleagues. Specialists who successfully completed it and showed high results began working on both the company’s internal and client projects. As part of a new series of materials on the use of AI in Ukrainian IT companies, dev.ua spoke with AI and ML developer at DataArt Anastasia Nehoda, who currently professionally develops the AI ​​direction in the company, and learned what was achieved thanks to working with artificial intelligence.

Japan technology companies are worried about Chinese startup DeepSeek, which introduced its new open AI model — DeepSeek V3 — before the New Year, which is called a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. What, according to market experts, is troubling Asian tech manufacturers and what is the reason for the company’s shares falling?

Explosions were heard in Kharkiv on Saturday, January 25. Russian occupiers attacked the city with drones. The National Police showed photos from the sites of the attacks and confirmed that a civilian man and two women were injured in the Kholodnohirsky district of Kharkiv as a result of a strike by a Molniya UAV on a civilian infrastructure facility. For several months, the aggressor has been terrorizing the city, as well as the near rear of Ukrainian troops in Kursk and other areas of the front, with a new drone capable of covering more than 30 km. Recently, the Russians began equipping these drones with anti-tank mines, which has enhanced their effect. We tell you in detail how the "Lightning" works.