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In the last month alone, the technology market has seen several high-profile transfers of top managers to the miltech sector. At the end of February, it became known that Head of AI Volodymyr Kubitsky was leaving MacPaw, who joined Yaroslav Azhnyuk’s The Fourth Law. In early March, everyone learned that a similar decision had been made by former Intellias Vice President of Talent Management Roman Hapachylo, who headed the defense startup DoD Solution, in which he has a stake. Around the same time, the former director of digital product development of the telecom operator Mykhailo Nestor also announced that he was leaving his established position at Kyivstar. After a long pause, he shared that he had joined the miltech startup Swarmer as an SRO.

He created mobile applications for Nova Poshta and Epicenter, built a career at Genesis and Headway, but a full-scale war changed priorities. Today, Viktor Pavluchinsky, together with his team, is developing Pugach, an intelligent electronic warfare system. In an interview with dev.ua, Viktor tells why Smart-EW is about mathematics, not about a soldering iron, how to automate the "friend-or-foe" system, and why high-quality Ukrainian components are better than cheap Chinese imports.

On March 20, 2026, OnlyFans founder Leonid Radvinsky died after a long battle with cancer. His death was announced later as his family requested privacy during this difficult time. Radvinsky was a major donor to a cancer research program. He wanted to join the Giving Pledge, an initiative in which members, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, promise to give away a majority of their wealth to charity. Despite the format of the adult content platform he owned, the Ukrainian-American businessman kept his personal life a secret and very rarely gave interviews. We have collected the most interesting facts about him.

The Guardian analyzed the market for services that pay people to sell their personal photos, videos, and phone conversations, which are then used to train artificial intelligence.

Roman Gapachilo worked in service IT for over 20 years and seemed to know the industry down to the smallest detail. But at some point, that wasn’t enough. He left the large service business Intellias, where he had worked for 7 years, and headed the Ukrainian defense startup DoD Solution, which develops computers and software for autonomous drones. dev.ua talked to him about this transition, the risks, 1 million euros of investment, hiring, humor during war, and why everything is much simpler in defense: you either do it or you lose.

Artificial intelligence has changed dramatically over the past two years. While it used to be a utilitarian tool—for writing code or summarizing emails—it has now become an emotional support for millions of people. Users turn to AI not just for answers, but also for support, conversations, and even intimacy. This is how the booming market for AI companion apps, also known as «AI girlfriends» or digital partners, emerged. As of 2026, they had amassed over 150 million downloads on Google Play alone.

Ukrainian IT professionals are massively complaining about burnout, chaos around artificial intelligence, and problems with the labor market. The corresponding thread gathered dozens of comments on Threads after a question from IT stand-up comedian Vlad Halytskyi, «IT professionals, what’s driving you crazy about your work right now?» The discussion quickly turned into an emotional cross-section of the industry — and it turned out to be quite harsh.

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?»

Unfortunately, this is not clickbait, but a fact. Businesses should soberly assess the situation: over the past month, the cost of contracting servers and related equipment has increased several times, and this trend will continue — most likely for at least another two years. Purchasing new hardware becomes a challenge for the company. And the issue is not only about price and terms: there is a risk that you simply won’t get the quota and will be left without the opportunity to upgrade or expand your existing equipment. What exactly is happening and why?

Ukrainian military and former system administrator Oleksiy Halkovich created the Memessage application—a tool that allows you to animate correspondence and turn it into a video with the most realistic chat behavior possible. The development became a way for him to «escape from reality» during his service — and at the same time grew into a full-fledged product. We tell you how humor helps keep your mind sharp and who Memessage can be useful to.

The KageSec group, which includes developers and security researchers from various countries, including Ukraine, spoke about the KageOS project. It is based on artificial intelligence and is designed for preventive cyber protection of the user.

After several months without updates, informationappeared on the official Glory to the Heroes page from Ukrainian Deaf Tone Games (formerly known as Spacedev Games) that this week multiplayer will be added to the game with the ability to play as both the Russians and the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We spoke with the studio head about why the studio returned to a controversial decision two years after the previous scandal.

OpenAI has long denied the possibility of advertising in its ChatGPT. Moreover, Sam Altman previously stated that advertising is a «last resort» for his company, and it is the combination of advertising and artificial intelligence that worries him. But not so long ago, Altman’s «concerns» were completely dispelled: the company not only acknowledged its intention to introduce ad blocks, but also launched test advertising in the US in the free version of the chatbot. Currently, such advertising is presented as separate content blocks with the inscriptions «sponsored».

Team Lead та Senior PHP Engineer Станіслав Ревко розповів, що під час співбесід на позицію PHP Software Engineer троє з семи кандидатів «попалилися», що використовували ШІ. Цей кейс викликав активну дискусію в LinkedIn.

Акт Бея-Доула по-українськи та інші зміни, які можуть вплинути на весь tech-сектор.

Від естетики КДБ і романтизації радянської техноутопії до відвертої глорифікації агресії та прямих закликів до геноциду. Сьогодні відеоігри стають не просто веселим дозвіллям, а віртуальними полігонами для підготовки «Юнармії» та поширення викривлених історичних наративів на глобальну аудиторію. У цьому матеріалі ми аналізуємо анатомію російського впливу в Steam, розглядаємо кейси прихованої зневаги до українців та з’ясовуємо, і чому такі гіганти, як Valve, досі вагаються з повним баном пропагандистського софту, попри офіційні звернення Мінцифри.

Зі слів Head of Recruitment в ІТ та технологічній сфері Ніни Дʼяченко, ще 27 грудня минулого року її власну квартиру на Дорогожичах у Києві зруйнував «шахед». Тоді вона була вдома і чудом обійшлася без серйозних травм, адже стеля квартири впала всередину. Це був пізній ранок суботи, і Ніна на момент влучання перебувала в ліжку. 

Коли автор матеріалу чекав на маршрутку від метро, прямуючи на ярмарок вакансій в оборонній сфері «Арсенал Талантів», то поряд із ним уже зібралося чимало людей. Склалося враження, що більшість із них їдуть туди ж. Таке враження в деяких склалося і щодо автора — бо до нього підійшла дівчина, котра представилася Марією і запитала, як дістатися до місця події. Після small talk у маршрутці вона розповіла, що сама світчнулася з журналістики в miltech, а на захід їде в пошуках нових кар'єрних можливостей. 

Попри обіцянку Дженсена Хуанга, що DLSS 5 — це найбільший прорив у графіці, мережа вибухнула неймовірною кількістю мемів і зауважень, що тепер ігри викликають ефект «зловісної долини». 

Russia this morning used a new cruise missile — the Izdeliye 30 — to strike Kyiv. The first launches of such weapons over Ukraine have been recorded since the end of 2025, probably as part of combat tests. dev.ua has collected everything that is known about the new missile — from GUR and Jared Defense Express.

Today we are witnessing the intersection of classic search and generative AI. While SEO specialists are debating the usefulness of content, the development of GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) dictates new rules: algorithms need not just texts, but clear digital entities in global knowledge graphs. Recently, the editorial team of dev.ua has already published an article about how the very concept of «Artifact Marketing» received recognition from Google. However, today I want to delve into practice: how this approach works for real business.

This is again Sho po Shi, a show about artificial intelligence in Ukraine. And its hosts: AI evangelist Oleksiy Minakov and CEO of dev.ua Stas Yurasov.

An ML engineer with no medical background used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to create a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog. The tumor shrank by 75%.

Ukrainian IT outsourcers are changing their business model — and this is already being felt in the labor market, Forbes Ukraine has investigated. In particular, SoftServe is hiring fewer juniors, Ciklum and Capgemini are going beyond classic development, and Sigma Software has even launched a cofounding direction. The common denominator is that AI has changed not only the tools, but also the very logic of why clients pay IT companies.

«Most companies, when they scale, increase marketing and sales. But they don’t scale processes and standards. And that’s what’s critical. If you don’t scale quality standards as you grow, the company will simply multiply chaos upon chaos.» This column is about how to grow without losing quality, why standards are more important than scaling rates, and what role the CEO’s control and personal responsibility play in this.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way programmers work. According to GitHub, developers who use AI assistants like Copilot can write code up to 55% faster than without them. But with these new capabilities comes a new question: what will the role of the engineer be as machines learn to perform more and more technical tasks. dev.ua asked the tech leaders of several Ukrainian IT companies: What would they do over the next 12 months if they were ordinary engineers without management positions today, so as not to fall out of the market? Here’s what they advise.

In the last days of February, the government announced that the first 1,000+ Ukrainians had already passed the «Health Screening.» Among these thousand-plus people was a dev.ua journalist who decided to test the effects of the government program on himself. We remind you that the program was announced in December last year, and we have already published instructions on how to receive funds. Now we decided to test how it works ourselves.

I've been on both sides of an interview more than once - as a candidate preparing for tough questions, and as an interviewer - a Project Manager (hereinafter - PM) with experience, who works with risks, crises, people and uncertainty every day. I always catch myself thinking: standard interviews rarely reveal the real power of a project. Questions like "tell me about your most successful project" sound logical, but in practice they say little about the maturity of a specialist. Because the true value of a PM is not revealed when everything is going well, but when something does not go according to plan. So how can a PM present their experience convincingly — without templates and memorized answers, and make recruiters see specialists not as "task managers," but as managers, team leaders in conditions of risk and uncertainty?

Iran is a country cut off from Google Play, Visa, AWS, and international venture capital. These restrictions have forced local entrepreneurs to build their own digital ecosystem from scratch.