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Many stories have been written about the thorny path of finding a job for juniors in recent years, including on our website. But recently one of these stories went viral — Junior UI/UX Designer from Lviv, Oleg Banera, told on social networks how a recruiter from one of the largest Ukrainian IT companies voiced «slave-like» conditions, unacceptable even for those young specialists who are willing to work almost for free for the sake of experience on their resume. Oleg’s post then garnered thousands of reactions, but all the discussions mainly concerned the «cringe» vacancy, while the personal situation of the author of the viral post remained, in essence, behind the scenes.

Currently, the vast majority of companies operating in the deftech and miltech sectors use polygraphs to screen candidates during the hiring process, making it a common practice in the industry. In addition, polygraphs have long been a common occurrence in employment in law enforcement and the security sector, the financial and banking sectors, for representatives of security companies and those specialists whose work is related to the topic of cybersecurity. In this article, we do not undertake to evaluate this practice in terms of evidence or effectiveness — let the experts argue about that. Instead, we try to convey the personal experience of those people who have successfully or unsuccessfully passed the polygraph and are ready to share their cases.

In the world of Android users, freedom of action has always been the main feature that was flaunted to the owners of closed iPhones. If you want, you can change the interface beyond recognition, if you want, you can download useful utilities directly from the Internet. But it is this freedom in the form of nondescript .apk files (installation packages for Android) that has today turned into an ideal weapon for cybercriminals.

Lead Laravel Developer & Tech Lead Oleksiy Babintsev decided to remedy the situation with the weak representation of the most popular PHP framework in Ukraine and launched a project — Laravel Ukraine. What started as a small group on LinkedIn, in less than a year turned into a full-fledged portal for developers, which in the first weeks of operation gathered hundreds of users and attracted active attention from the community.

Over the past year, marketers have become accustomed to AI Overview, AI Mode, and discussions around how large language models are changing search. It's no longer surprising that Google isn't just showing links, but generating its own answers. But I was interested in another question. We talk a lot about how AI finds information. Much less about how it forms ideas about objects. That's why I started observing one of my own experiments, involving a regular wrought iron grill. At some point, Google AI began to describe it not only through its characteristics or purpose. The responses included references to the music project Elite Kovka Music, the product's artistic legend, video content, and other related elements. In fact, the model began to see a whole context around the product. And this may be a much more important change for marketing than it seems at first glance.

While the leadership of the Ministry of Defense in Ukraine has just changed, and the industry is still discussing whether it will be possible to maintain the pace of reforms without Mykhailo Fedorov, another discussion is taking place in Europe in parallel: whether the Western defense industry is ready to even come close to the speed at which Ukrainian deftech works. The topic of integrating Ukrainian defense experience into European defense policy has been heard more and more often in recent months — from Eurosatory to the Ukraine Recovery Conference. dev.ua talked to representatives of Ukrainian deftech companies — DevDroid, SKIFTECH, BlueBird Tech, Frontline Robotics, Himera, and Dwarf Engineering — about why European manufacturers are not keeping up with the Ukrainian pace of innovation, what they have already learned and what they still do not understand, and what partnerships between Ukrainian and European companies really look like.

A new format of private education is gaining popularity in the US: instead of traditional lessons, homework, and teachers, artificial intelligence, personalized learning programs, and the development of practical skills.

Russian FPV drones, in particular on fiber optics, pose an increasing threat to residents of frontline regions. Thanks to new batteries, they can cover up to 30–40 km, and models on fiber optics are practically invulnerable to electronic warfare. Commander of the 429th separate brigade of unmanned systems «Achilles» Yuriy Fedorenko explained how civilians should act to increase their chances of survival.

In the spring of 2022, Koru Pharma, a global biopharmaceutical company from South Korea, approached Clarity Ukraine with a request to replace its current ERP system. A large-scale business serving thousands of customers in different countries and working with multiple currencies needed a reliable digital foundation. Clarity Ukraine, Microsoft’s official representative for the implementation of Dynamics 365 Business Central, became a partner for this transformational project.

Yesterday, after the appointment of a new Cabinet of Ministers, Play City Chairman Gennady Novikov wrote a resignation letter. dev.ua briefly spoke with the former CEO about the reasons for this decision, the fate of his team, and further career plans.

The resignation of Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defense and, ultimately, his absence from the new government became one of the most discussed topics in the Ukrainian DefenceTech community — so much so that it eventually led to rallies in several cities. The industry’s reaction has been mixed: most entrepreneurs and investors express concern about the loss of momentum in reforms, while a smaller portion calls for not personalizing the problem and trusting institutions rather than individuals.

Russia's war against Ukraine in 2022 and the war in 2026 are two completely different wars. The first relied on the sheer strength of the Ukrainian people's spirit and, let's be honest, old principles of management and warfare.

Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who may leave the government, held a candid press conference for journalists and MPs. He summed up the results of his work since 2019, spoke about the architecture of technological warfare, and openly named the reasons for the conflict with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky.

Almost a year ago,Ukrainians protested against Law No. 12414 , which undermined the independence of the anti-corruption bodies NABU and SAPO. Social networks have already called July a “month of stupid decisions,” and people with cardboard boxes are making history again. In the morning, peaceful “cardboard protests” started in different cities of the country in support of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. dev.ua has collected for you the most striking slogans from different parts of Ukraine.

After Mykhailo Fedorov was dismissed from the post of Defense Minister and his farewell message, in which he summed up five months of work, Ukrainian entrepreneurs, volunteers, and public figures began to publish their own assessments of his activities. Most of them called the personnel decision a mistake and thanked Fedorov for the reforms he managed to initiate.

The Lionwood.studio team — a product subsidiary of Lviv-based Lionwood.software — has developed the RewardChain platform, which preserves the successes of specialists at work. This Web3 tool records the professional achievements of specialists in the form of protected digital assets that remain the property of the employee forever and do not disappear after their dismissal or the closure of corporate accounts.

If you ask what makes a crypto project successful, the answer usually comes down to the usual set: strong technology, competent tokenomics, well-known investors, aggressive marketing. All of these are important. But these are obvious factors, and that is why they explain almost nothing. Hundreds of projects do them, and only a few survive.

The last few years have been a watershed for the Ukrainian fintech market. While cyber fraud was previously associated with banal phishing or telephone «scams» ​​on behalf of the «bank security service,» now the industry is facing a technological nightmare.

The government plans to create a coordination center through which decisions on the designation of enterprises as critical will be made — regardless of which body makes them.

In early June, military medic Victoria «Tori» Honcharuk took over as head of AB3.Tech, a defense technology partnership platform created by the Third Army Corps. Within weeks, she was heading to her first major international event in her new role, one of the largest defense events, Eurosatory 2026, in Paris. Immediately after returning from the forum, where AB3.Tech reached important agreements with foreign defense companies, Viktoriya found time to talk to a dev.ua journalist. We asked her in detail about her tasks at AB3.Tech, the role of the platform in establishing connections between deftech manufacturers and the military, as well as her combat path and previous background.

The era when a mobile phone had to "drop" its speed and switch from 4G to good old 3G or even 2G to make a phone call is officially coming to an end. While couch analysts were predicting the death of classic calls under the onslaught of instant messaging, a quiet technological revolution has taken place in the bowels of telecom networks. Voice has not disappeared. It has simply become fully digital and learned to live inside high-speed networks. Without unnecessary pathos and boring engineering terms, let's figure out why traditional switching is becoming a thing of the past and how VoLTE and VoWiFi technologies have become game changers.

«I heard a legend that in ancient times, before the Great War, you could call each other on your mobile phone and talk without the Internet or instant messengers,» Sergey «Flash» Beskrestnov, an advisor to the Minister of Defense, once wrote on social media. In the comments to this post, he explained that, like many thousands of Ukrainian servicemen, he has a systematic problem with online stores, banks, government agencies, and utilities. «They call my mobile, but for me it has been ‘not available’ since the beginning of the war,» added «Flash.»

The legal regime of software code in Ukraine is regulated by the Civil Code of Ukraine and the Law of Ukraine «On Copyright and Related Rights», which entered into force in 2023. Thus, under civil law, a computer program (code) is an object of copyright and is equated with literary works. At the same time, the author of the relevant intellectual property object is exclusively an individual who, through his creative work, created the relevant result. Thus, given that AI lacks legal personality, the latter is not a subject of copyright, which corresponds to current approaches in regulatory and judicial international practice.

The founder of the startup Injobe.com, Pavlo Mykhalchuk, grew up in a small village in the Khmelnytskyi region and doesn’t remember the moment he decided to become an entrepreneur. He says it all happened naturally. At thirteen, he was breeding rabbits and pigeons, a little later he sold insurance policies at StarLife, and after school he worked as a waiter and assistant cook. «I was constantly looking for an opportunity to earn money. I tried different things, saw what worked and what didn’t. I was interested not just in making extra money, but in understanding how it all worked,» the man recalls. When most of his peers were preparing to enter, Pavlo asked his parents not to insist on university. He was not against education as such, but he was convinced that he would learn much more now if he immediately started working and was responsible for his own decisions. «I said that I wanted to build my own life. My parents supported me,» says the 25-year-old entrepreneur. Now he admits that he is increasingly thinking about business education — not because he felt the need for a diploma, but because he wants to systematize the experience he gained in a completely different way — through his own mistakes, unsuccessful decisions, and dozens of business experiments. dev.ua talked to an entrepreneur who knows everything about Telegram business and plans to monetize his own HR-tech project.

Artem Nosenko, a UI/UX designer at Fintech Band, has turned his old photo archive into a tool for historical memory of the destroyed Kakhovka Reservoir. He created a bilingual interactive web project that clearly shows the scale of the ecological disaster on the Dnieper River and allows you to look into the past of places that no longer exist. The project sparked a wave of interest among foreigners and went viral on Reddit despite massive complaints and opposition from Russian bots.

Former military man, now product manager Oleksandr Kucheryavy decided to debunk the myth about IT as an ideal social elevator for veterans. The text is intentionally provocative and pointed — according to the author himself, it is a deliberate «therapeutic shock» designed to dispel illusions even before the first interview. Published with the author’s permission.

After 2022, the IT market has significantly updated and opened up new opportunities for companies. Those who previously focused mainly on development are now expanding their focus on working with demand and growing their customers' businesses. Product quality remains important, but the ability to systematically shape and manage demand plays an increasingly important role. This is becoming the new market standard. When classic sales channels give less predictable results, there is room for new approaches, in particular, for the transition from a service model to more complex ecosystem solutions.

When it comes to multiplayer game services, the modern market resembles a roller coaster, where multi-million dollar projects like Concord fail almost the day after release, while ARC Raiders retains the lion's share of its audience for months. Against this backdrop of turbulence, the development of the Ukrainian game SAND by Hologryph studio looks like a true miracle of survival, as the project went through production hell, war, and team reductions, but has already managed to attract about 300,000 players and earn its first million dollars. Journalists from dev.ua spent several evenings at the helm of sand tramplers and tell us why they love and hate the game at the same time.

UI/UX designer Artem Nosenko, who also works on Monobank interfaces at Fintech Band, created Quark, an application for saving and organizing links, notes, quotes, images, videos, and PDFs from various sources.

Hello. I have often written about direct contract employment before, and now I am actively urging the Ukrainian IT community to take the annual Stack Overflow survey, because these topics are closely related. So, if you are a developer, DevOps, tester, or manager, take 15 minutes and go to stackoverflow.com/dev-survey/start . I will explain why it is important.