Igor Sheludchenko

News writer

In Creators Media Group since November 2022. Prior to that, he worked for 6 years in the Ukrainian mass media as an editor and editorial editor.

I monitor, analyze and update news from developers, about developers, around developers, as well as about developments and technological innovations.

Since the start of full-scale operations, Aytiv employees have increased tax payments to the Ukrainian budget by 45%

News Ukraine 04-12-2024 at 19:38 comment
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Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, IT specialists have increased tax payments to the Ukrainian budget by 45%. In 2021, 16 billion were charged, and in 2023 — 23.9 billion.

«Disgusting and annoying»: Microsoft adds Copilot to Windows 11 autorun

News Software 04-12-2024 at 15:16 comment
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Microsoft has added its AI assistant Copilot to the Windows 11 startup.

LifesaverSIM, a tactical medicine game simulator, has been integrated into «Action»

News Technologies 04-12-2024 at 12:36 comment
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LifesaverSIM, a tactical medicine simulator, has been integrated into «Diia». Now everyone can learn tactical medicine, the press service of «Дія» reports.

ChatGPT wrote about it: experts found a word to identify AI content

News Technologies 04-11-2024 at 19:22 comment
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Emails written by ChatGPT are very easy to identify — you only need to pay attention to one word.

Preparing for mobilization. The Ministry of Defense has launched an online platform «Military Assistant»

News Ukraine 04-11-2024 at 17:22 comment
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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has launched the online platform «Military Assistant», created specifically for military personnel.

Ukrainian student creates Youtube audio translator into Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar

News Software 04-11-2024 at 16:38 comment
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Taras Ivanov, a 17-year-old Ukrainian developer from the city of Selydove in Donetsk Oblast, created the service «Free Video Translator» —, which translates and dubs YouTube videos into Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar for free.

The Rada passed a law to strengthen mobilization. Demobilization has been removed

News Ukraine 04-11-2024 at 11:50 comment
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The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the second reading the draft law №10449 on strengthening mobilization.

The Cabinet of Ministers canceled the register of software producers and distributors

News Ukraine 04-10-2024 at 17:52 comment
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The Cabinet of Ministers abolished the register of software producers and distributors, which had been maintained by the Ministry of Economy until now.

Ukrainian developers have created an app for stork tracking

News Software 04-10-2024 at 17:03 comment
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Ukrainian developers have created a mobile application to track the number of storks.

Citizens may be deprived of their second car for the front — draft law on mobilization

News News 04-10-2024 at 13:27 comment
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Ukrainians may have their cars taken away for the needs of the front line — such provisions are included in the new draft law on mobilization.

Expensive, fragile, ineffective: American drones have performed poorly in the war in Ukraine

News Technologies 04-10-2024 at 13:25 comment
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American drones from the Silicon Valley company Skydio have performed poorly in the war in Ukraine — they are expensive to manufacture and repair, but they constantly fail due to Russian electronic warfare.

Up to a month to restore: Ukrainian hackers BLACKJACK hacked Moscow sewage system

News News 04-09-2024 at 18:47 comment
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Hackers from the BLACKJACK group, close to the cyber department of the Security Service of Ukraine, destroyed the IT infrastructure of «Moscollector».

Google launches Gemini Code Assist — another competitor to GitHub’s Copilot

News News 04-09-2024 at 18:38 comment
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On Tuesday, at its Cloud Next conference, Google unveiled Gemini Code Assist — an AI coding assistant previously announced as Duet AI.

The programmer returned from the Czech Republic to Russia, threw $150 to Navalny’s fund, put up leaflets and went to jail for 7 years

News News 04-09-2024 at 15:42 comment
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After 5 years of living in the Czech Republic, Russian programmer Alexei Malyarevsky had a fight with his girlfriend and decided to return to Russia.

We rioted, but it didn’t help: ENESTECH Software from TECHIIA holding has not paid salaries for 4 months

News Ukraine 04-09-2024 at 12:17 comment
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ENESTECH Software, a member of the TECHIIA holding, has been delaying payments to its employees for several months now. Most employees have not yet received compensation for four months.

Low competition and record hiring: Djinni summarizes the results of the first quarter of 2024

News Ukraine 04-08-2024 at 19:42 comment
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In the first quarter of 2024, the labor market pleased job seekers with record hiring, reduced competition, and an increase in the number of vacancies.

«Digital sovereignty». German authorities transferred 30 thousand civil servants to Linux

News Software 04-08-2024 at 17:51 comment
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Authorities in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein have switched 30,000 civil servants from Microsoft Windows to Linux.

Experience, title, specialization, and English: who gets $6K in Ukrainian IT and why

News News 04-08-2024 at 15:29 comment
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Only 9% of Ukrainian IT professionals have a salary of $6000. Most often, these are developers (68%) or DevOps specialists (9%).

Electronic cabinet of persons liable for military service will be launched in summer

News News 04-08-2024 at 11:25 comment
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The e-cabinet of persons liable for military service should be launched this summer.

JPEG is far behind: Google introduces improved image compression format

News Technologies 04-06-2024 at 13:17 comment
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Google has introduced a new ops library, Jpegli, that compresses images 35% more efficiently while maintaining high quality.

For the first time in 9 months: there are more offers for Manual QA without experience than for marketers

News Ukraine 04-05-2024 at 19:30 comment
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For the first time in the last 9 months, Manual QA offers without experience were received more than those for marketers.

Instead of «dream vacation», advertising AI depicts a 50-year-old woman naked on a bed

News Software 04-05-2024 at 18:36 comment
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The American lottery Washington Lottery was forced to remove its advertising AI application after it mistakenly generated a nude image in response to a rather banal request.

Blockchain, DevOps, bot development: Freelancehunt names online professions with salaries starting from $2 thousand

News Ukraine 04-05-2024 at 15:34 comment
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Company Freelancehunt shared statistics on the highest salaries of online professionals.

Ukraine sends thanks to American hackers for attacks on Russia. Western experts are concerned

News Ukraine 04-05-2024 at 13:59 comment
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The command of the airborne assault troops sent letters of appreciation to the American hackers who systematically attacked the IT infrastructure of the Russian Federation.

Finance Committee approves liquidation of CRAIL and transfer of functions to the Ministry of Digital Transformation

News News 04-04-2024 at 15:46 comment
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The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy voted to liquidate the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (CRGL).

Ukraine launches open call for startups to create technological solutions for the military

News Military Tech 04-04-2024 at 14:34 comment
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In Ukraine, the Defence Builder Acceleratoris an acceleration program for defense startups aimed at rapid delivery of technological solutions to the frontline.

Fraudsters set up a fictitious IT company and received UAH 5 million in investments in six months

News Ukraine 04-04-2024 at 12:00 comment
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Odesa law enforcement officers detained two men — aged 48 and 41. They were served a notice of suspicion of fraud committed on a large scale.

SBU finds Russian hackers who attacked «Kyivstar»: data will be transferred to The Hague

News Ukraine 04-04-2024 at 11:46 comment
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Cyber specialists and investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine have found Russian hackers who attacked the mobile operator «Kyivstar».

Intellias acquires US-based C2 Solutions and plans to hire more specialists in Ukraine

News Ukraine 04-03-2024 at 19:07 comment
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Intellias, a Ukrainian service IT company that develops custom software, has announced the acquisition of 100% of the shares in the US-based C2 Solutions.

1.5% of the salary and UAH 20 thousand per month. Council includes private entrepreneurs in new booking model

News Ukraine 04-03-2024 at 16:27 comment
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The Economic Committee of the Verkhovna Rada is working on a new model of economic booking.

Tomorrow, the relevant committee of the Verkhovna Rada will vote to liquidate CRAIL and transfer powers to the Ministry of Digital Transformation

News Ukraine 04-03-2024 at 14:36 comment
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The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy plans to consider a draft law on the liquidation of the Gambling Commission and the transfer of powers to the Ministry of Digital Transformation on April 4.

Children’s IT school Robocode fires 32-year-old teacher after graduation «Pregnant at 16»

News Ukraine 04-03-2024 at 13:14 comment
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The children’s IT school Robocode fired a teacher after he appeared in one of the episodes of the show «Pregnant at 16».

Former CIA chief calls on Ukrainian IT to spend 10% or more on cybersecurity

News Ukraine 04-02-2024 at 22:44 comment
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Former executive head of security at the CIA Nick Gisinto, who worked for the agency for 10 years and after leaving it worked for Uber and Tesla, called on companies to spend at least 10% of their IT budgets on cybersecurity.

Ukraine has reduced the age of mobilization and allowed students to do internships abroad

News Ukraine 04-02-2024 at 21:07 comment
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a draft law on mobilization. The document states that the mobilization age will be reduced from 27 to 25 years.

The head of EPAM called the percentage of mobilized people «critical» for business

News Ukraine 04-02-2024 at 18:49 comment
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The head of EPAM Ukraine, Stepan Mitish, believes that a figure of more than 10-15% of those mobilized will be critical for the company.

A group of three programmers was detained near the border with Romania. But they were punished in different ways

News Ukraine 04-02-2024 at 16:04 comment
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A group of five people were detained while trying to illegally cross the state border from Ukraine to Romania outside of checkpoints.

The average salary of newcomers to IT is $600 — statistics

News Ukraine 04-02-2024 at 12:08 comment
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The average salary of those who found their first job in IT last year was $600.

No kidding: the top hires in March include candidates based in Ukraine

News Ukraine 04-01-2024 at 18:31 comment
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Almost all of March’s top hires were candidates based in Ukraine.

Backdoor found in xz Utils of Linux distributions. Urgent call to abandon Fedora

News Technologies 04-01-2024 at 16:25 comment
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A backdoor has been discovered in the popular xz Utils package for lossless data compression and working with the .xz format Backdoor is a method of bypassing standard authentication procedures, unauthorized remote access to a computer.

Google believes that Rust programming language is twice as efficient as C++

News Technologies 04-01-2024 at 13:19 comment
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Google believes that the efficiency of developers using the Rust programming language is twice as high as when using C++.

Down with piracy. Ukraine joins WIPO ALERT and launches blacklist of infringing websites

News News 03-29-2024 at 19:40 comment
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Ukraine has joined the international platform WIPO ALERT (World Intellectual Property Organization).

Control questions in vacancies scare off 20% of candidates

News Ukraine 03-29-2024 at 17:01 comment
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The presence of control questions in job postings reduces the number of responses by 20%.

Ukrainian developers have created Ratel Deminer — a machine for remote demining

News Military Tech 03-29-2024 at 14:53 comment
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Ukrainian manufacturers, who previously introduced the Ratel S and Ratel M ground robots, have developed the Ratel Deminer, a demining machine that can remotely disarm anti-personnel mines.

Google leaked the timing of RCS implementation on iPhone

News Technologies 03-29-2024 at 14:42 comment
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Apple is likely to introduce a new RCS messaging standard in the fall, which should replace SMS/MMS.

Yoga, massage and full all-inclusive: journalists visit Google’s new $2.1 billion office

News Technologies 03-28-2024 at 19:40 comment
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In February, Google opened a new office worth $2.1 billion.

Unity Nest coworking space closes in Odesa: it lasted less than a year

News Ukraine 03-28-2024 at 17:08 comment
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Unity Nest coworking space will be closed in Odesa on March 30.

Minus 1020 employees and one more office in six months: the rating of top 25 game development companies in Ukraine has appeared

News Ukraine 03-28-2024 at 14:19 comment
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In six months, the number of employees in the Ukrainian gaming industry decreased by 1020, or 11.75%. Over the year, it decreased by 1411 (almost 15%).

LinkedIn plans to add TikTok-style videos to its platform

News News 03-28-2024 at 12:10 comment
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LinkedIn is planning to add short video viewing to its functionality, similar to YouTube Shorts.

The Rada refused to book employees with high salaries

News Ukraine 03-27-2024 at 15:53 comment
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The Verkhovna Rada rejected the idea of automatic reservations for persons liable for military service who receive a salary of UAH 35,000 and pay taxes.

Zoom unveils Workplace, a large-scale AI platform for collaboration

News Technologies 03-27-2024 at 12:12 comment
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Zoom has introduced the new Zoom Workplace, an AI-powered collaboration platform with Zoom AI Companion capabilities.

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