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When the ATB-Market network refused to advertise in the Trukha Telegram channels, the dev.ua editorial team decided to check who else from Ukrainian businesses continues to cooperate with this resource. After analyzing the publications for almost two months, the journalists found advertisements for such companies as Epicenter, Rozetka, Yabko, Kernel, Antoshka, LIMO, Bukovel, and Prostor. Some on the list have already opted out of advertising in these Telegram channels. In addition, on the day of publication, Foxtrot also announced its decision to stop working with «Trukha».

November 2022 has already gone down in technology history because it was then that OpenAI opened access to ChatGPT, and in less than a week, a million people started using the product, which until recently seemed like a fantasy. In two months, the audience exceeded 100 million users, a record that no digital service had achieved before. But the real significance of ChatGPT lies not in the records.

War is increasingly turning into a confrontation of autonomous systems. Ukrainian companies are already creating ground robots that can perform missions where the risk for the military is too high. The guest of the new issue of «7 Questions for the DefTech CEO» is Maksym Vasylchenko, founder and CEO of Tencore. We talked about competition in the DefTech market, the pain points of the industry, and the future of war.

From checking a transaction to tracing stolen funds and de-anonymising entire entities, blockchain explorers do far more than most people realise. A look at where they’re heading next

Artificial intelligence can write a letter, create a business plan, or summarize a meeting in seconds. But its main value is saving working time. 72.5% of companies are implementing AI to automate repetitive tasks, and 71.5% are implementing it to improve the efficiency of work processes.

Due to the full-scale war, millions of Ukrainians have found temporary shelter in other European countries. At the same time, the absolute majority of them continue to use the services of domestic banks — both because of the convenience and technological sophistication of Ukrainian online banking, and because, despite the distance, they do not sever ties with their native country: they make transfers to their relatives, pay for goods, services and tickets, donate to the army and volunteer funds.

It was a common manipulation technique, played out like a musical score. It all started in the classic way of a modern digital adventurer — with a banner about «eDopogo» in Telegram. A person simply clicks on the link, sees a form for logging into the bank, thinks for a second, closes the tab and forgets about it. It would seem that the incident is over.

Uklon’s transformation from a taxi-hailing service to an ecosystem of not only urban, but also intercity and international trips is gaining momentum. A few weeks ago, the company announced the test launch of Uklon Travel Bus bus flights to two international airports — from Kyiv to Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin Airport and from Odessa to Chisinau Airport. And on July 20, the first flight to the airport in the capital of Moldova took place.

A little over a month ago, Olena Hryhorko became the new head of one of the largest Ukrainian IT outsourcers DXC Luxoft, replacing Olena Samborska as Managing Director. The latter, meanwhile, moved to mono, where she took the position of HR Director. Olena Hryhorko has been with Luxoft for almost 20 years. Before heading the company’s Ukrainian business, she held the position of Regional Department Manager, managing two locations — Dnipro and Odesa.

In Threads, a mobilized IT guy with the nickname oncceuponatime_dude keeps a diary about how he ended up in the army. We’ve already told you about his experience from «gentle busification» and a night in the CCK barracks to his first day in the battalion . In the second part of the AIT man’s confessions and discoveries, he talked about the BZVP, «NATO shots on the lips,» and «playing stormtroopers.» In the third part of the diary, the AIT member shared his thoughts on why those who were converted to the military did not flee the army, how different the conditions of service are in the staff and infantry, and weapons in the blanket. The fourth part of his observations — about intimidation in the army and the redeployment of the unit — is not without surprises . The fifth part of the frankness is about intimidation in the army, losses, and life in a front-line city. The sixth portion of confessions and discoveries — about thoughts about the SZCh, fear of being transferred to the infantry, and the desire to escape from Ukraine . We are publishing the seventh series of army reflections of a mobilized IT soldier about psychological and physical recovery in the army (not really), delays, and memories from civilian life.

Claude Code in seconds raises CRUD, generates a typical class, throws boilerplate, which three years ago took half a day of a junior. According to GitHub, 92% of American developers use AI tools in their work — the ability to prompt is no longer an advantage, it is basic hygiene, like git or reading a stack trace.

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a trend, but a reality that saves millions or… burns them in a matter of seconds. At every conference, we are told about the amazing successes of AI, but for some reason, Ukraine is accustomed to keeping quiet about fake news, wasted budgets, and the dark side of AI. We decided to break this stereotype and analyze the topic without embellishment! In this episode of the dev.ua video podcast, a star-studded company of tech experts has gathered to break the rose-colored glasses and discuss the most high-profile failures of modern technology. No boring theory — just real insider stories, millions in losses, bots and fake accounts that you will never hear about in beautiful advertising demos.

Hello! It’s #vsrativakansii again. A new selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today’s episode features another Russian holiday, penny rewards, and the requirement not to be an idiot and an offer for a test week.

Despite industry fears about the emergence of uncontrolled AI hackers, cybersecurity experts note that artificial intelligence operated using the methods of ordinary people, and the attacks could have been avoided with basic security protocols.

The median salary for DefTech specialists in June 2026 is $2,500, the same as six months ago. For comparison, the median in IT in general is $2,700, meaning DefTech pays $200 less on average.

The founder of the PRACTIK brand, Ivan Zubarev, told dev.ua how the Ukrainian manufacturer of dry dog ​​and cat food uses artificial intelligence in production, customer service, and recipe development, and why the company fundamentally leaves certain decisions only to humans.

Ukrainian Defense Tech is developing faster than ever. If earlier the cycle of creating a new technology was measured in years, now it is measured in weeks, and sometimes days. This changes not only products, but also the requirements for engineers, companies, and the entire industry. In the new issue of the column «7 Questions for DefTech CEO» dev.ua spoke with Yuriy Lavrenov, CEO of SKIF. He told why Ukrainian miltech lacks people, who overestimates technology today, that civilian IT often does not understand the defense industry, and what, in his opinion, the technological war of the coming years will be.

When an experienced professional is looking for a new job, it is expected that his strong personal brand and his own projects will be convincing advantages for the employer. The case of Head of Marketing Yevhen Grebinenko showed that in practice it can turn out quite the opposite: a successful interview ended with a sudden withdrawal of the offer due to “excessive independence”, and then he was sent another offer - in particular, to share his work for free.

The war is finally going beyond the Russian-Ukrainian front, turning into a complex knot involving the Middle East and the United States. The successful strike by Ukrainian drones on military cargo in the Caspian Sea has become an excuse for Iran to openly threaten Kyiv for the third time in a year. Tehran has officially declared the entire territory of Ukraine a "legitimate target." The situation is escalating against the backdrop of an unprecedented exchange of intelligence: while Russia is targeting Iranian missiles at American bases in the Middle East, Iran may be targeting Ukrainian cities with its ballistic missiles. We analyze the reality of the Iranian threat and tell in more detail what Iranian ballistics could be used against Ukraine and whether the exhausted Ukrainian Patriot systems are capable of protecting the sky.

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:)

Ukrainian defense manufacturers have long been accustomed to working in conditions of shortages — but this shortage rarely concerns weapons themselves. Most often, everything rests on ordinary microelectronics: Raspberry Pi, memory cards, fiber optics, specific microcircuits. dev.ua asked engineers from Dwarf Engineering, SKIFTECH, and the CEO of BlueBird Tech what the production processes really rely on when it comes to components.

With the advent of the special legal regime «Diia.City», the Ukrainian IT sector received a flexible tool for attracting specialists — a gig contract, which combined the advantages of labor relations and civil law cooperation. The gig contract gave IT companies more flexibility, and specialists more freedom. But it did not eliminate the issue of labor safety. It is simply that now it needs to be resolved not according to outdated templates, but through clear and adapted rules of cooperation.

Together with our permanent sponsor — cloud operator Ucloud — we continue the only show in Ukraine about artificial intelligence, which not only continues, but also sets trends.

While most technology companies are trying to minimize risks, freeze capital expenditures, or operate exclusively in the mode of preserving existing assets, the national fixed-line operator Ukrtelecom (part of Rinat Akhmetov’s SCM group) is implementing one of the largest and most complex telecom infrastructure modernization programs in the modern history of Ukraine.

An agronomist takes a photo of a corn head and within seconds receives a grain count along with a yield forecast. A logistician opens the system in the morning and within 8 minutes has a crop transportation plan for the fields, elevators, and port. This sounds like a set of separate AI features. In fact, it is one system. For eight years, Kernel has been developing its own Digital Agribusiness (DAB) — a web and mobile platform with a microservice architecture on the backend, which combines 6 separate projects — from crop planning, agricultural operations, calculation of fertilizer rates to logistics, analytics, and Data Science models. Its task is not just to collect data, but to answer key business questions: how much to invest in a season, what yield to expect, how not to lose it during the growing process, and how to track what is really happening in the fields or individual areas. dev.ua is launching a project in which, in partnership with the largest Ukrainian agricultural holding, Kernel, talks about the most modern technological solutions in agriculture that increase the efficiency of agricultural production and simplify the work of farmers.

Product Marketing Manager at Railsware Artem Sagaydak organized an exam for four LLMs on real data. He shared this experience with dev.ua. Below is Artem’s direct speech.

Dnipro startup RoboL Robotics has moved from laboratory prototypes to commercial operation. The company installed its first robotic kiosk under the Robi Coffee brand in the Apollo shopping center in Dnipro. The founder and CEO of the project, Anton Kotyk, told dev.ua how the robot reacts to air alarms, what operational challenges the team faced, and why the startup is preparing to expand to Finland.

Ukrainian defense tech has already become a separate industry with its own rules, competition, and personnel challenges. Companies are no longer arguing about whether drones are needed — now they are looking for answers to other questions: how to protect themselves from FPV drones, which engineers are most in short supply, why robotics is becoming the next stage of war, and how to convince IT professionals to move into the defense industry. In the new dev.ua series, we ask the same questions to the heads of Ukrainian defense tech companies to show what Ukrainian miltech is doing today, what challenges it is experiencing, and where the industry is heading. The hero of this issue is CEO and co-founder of Frontline Robotics Yevhen Tretyak, who told why the main limitation of the development of the defense industry is not money, but people, what technologies are overvalued today, why the fight against FPV drones will become one of the key areas of the coming years, and why, in his opinion, modern defense tech is very reminiscent of Ukrainian IT from fifteen years ago.

Startups have two favorite sayings: «we pivoted» and «it was a transformative year.» Honestly, I’ve said it so many times in interviews that I’ve started to distrust these phrases when I hear them from others. Most of the time, there’s nothing concrete behind them—just a convenient way to avoid admitting that the plan didn’t work.

During combat tests, PEGAS for the first time overcame difficult off-road terrain inaccessible to most serial NRCs, traveled up to 40 km without recharging, and at the same time turned out to be almost five times cheaper than factory analogues.