Digitalization without spending limits: The Cabinet of Ministers has lifted limits on the purchase of laptops and mobile phones for IT systems
Currently, there are restrictions on the purchase of cars, furniture, computers, mobile phones and equipment by government agencies. They were approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in Resolution No. 332 of April 4, 2001, and apply to state bodies, institutions and organizations that are funded by the state budget. However, an exception…
Searches are conducted in Netflix offices on suspicion of tax fraud
This includes Netflix’s offices in France and the Netherlands.
Intel is disappointed with the CHIPS law: «Invested $30 billion in two years and got zero»
Intel’s CEO is disappointed with payments under the US CHIPS law. Since its adoption, the company has invested $30 billion in factories in the United States and has not received direct investment from the state.
More than 600 developers and designers of The New York Times go on strike the day before the US election — the publication’s servers are under threat
The New York Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers, product managers, data scientists and designers who power the newspaper’s digital services — including live blogs, mobile push notifications and election feeds.
Tablets are gaining popularity: sales are up 20%, Apple dominates but is losing ground
A new report by IDC shows that in the third quarter of 2024, tablet sales in the global market amounted to 39.6 million devices. This is 20.4% more than in the same period of the previous year.
Apple and Samsung also want to buy Intel, — rumors
It seems that Qualcomm is not the only company that wants to buy Intel. Samsung and Apple are also rumored to be interested in acquiring the tech giant with its own production facilities.
Apple invests $1.1 billion in Globalstar, a satellite service provider that powers Emergency SOS
Along with the release of the iPhone 14 series of smartphones in 2022, Apple announced an emergency call function via satellite. For this purpose, it used the infrastructure of the American satellite service provider GlobalStar. Now it has become known that Apple has allocated $1.1 billion under a new agreement with Globalstar to expand the…
Not a single Intel Core Ultra 200S sold in Germany’s largest store in a week after release
Through a week after release of Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake processors, Germany’s largest online PC component retailer did not sell a single one.
TSMC deprived Intel of 40% discount due to careless comments by Pat Helsinger
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s comments on TSMC’s presence in China have damaged relations between the companies and deprived Intel of huge discounts.
Nvidia «has picked up» of Intel’s laid-off employees — and some will receive 30% higher salaries
Intel is currently experiencing one of the biggest crises in its 50-year history, forcing the company to announce the layoffs of thousands of employees — some of them along the way intercepted Nvidia.
Ubisoft has no plans to add Ukrainian to its games, and XDefiant’s localization was «a show of solidarity and support»
Olga Sendziuk, Managing Director of Ubisoft Ukraine, in interview Forbes talked about the work of the company’s Kyiv and Odesa offices, challenges during the war, and localization of games into Ukrainian. We have selected the main points.
Former Apple employee from Ukraine thanks the company for evacuating her family
Former Apple employee Ekaterina Rezikova publicly thanked the company and Tim Cook for helping to evacuate employees and their families from Kharkiv in 2023.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella receives +63% ($79.1 million) in compensation for a year of massive layoffs and hacks
Despite the layoffs and data security incidents, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received a whopping 63% increase in his compensation compared to the previous year.
Gamers in Ukrainian IT: game designers and sysadmins play the most, and PCs are the most popular device
Website DOU surveyed Ukrainian IT professionals about their gaming preferences and favorite gaming platforms, and found out, among other things, how the situation differs by specialty (interesting spoiler: those who play have a higher median salary).
Snapdragon — everything? ARM cancels Qualcomm license amid Nuvia intellectual property trial
ARM has canceled a license that allows Qualcomm to use the company’s intellectual property to develop processors amid ongoing litigation.
Tim Cook calls Apple Vision Pro successful with low sales and AI that has not yet been released
Apple CEO Tim Cook has an unusual definition of success. He considers the Apple Vision Pro headset a success, that is not in demand and Apple Intelligence, which has not yet been released, is the best on the market.
No, «Nova Poshta» did not open the sky, but was granted technical permission to fly in Europe
Today, a number of media outlets published news with a sensational message that «Nova Poshta» planes will be opened to the skies and allowed to fly to Lviv and Kyiv. The ITC.UA editorial team asked the press service of the «Nova Poshta» group of companies for a comment and got to the bottom of the situation.
«Own business»: on the portal «Diia» young people can receive a grant for business development – up to UAH 150 thousand
Young entrepreneurs under the age of 25 can apply for grants of up to UAH 150 thousand to start their own business as part of the «Vlasna Sprava» program. This opportunity is available on the «Diia» portal.
Booking through «Diia» was stopped due to companies’ abuse of their right, — MP Fediyenko
It turned out that company executives left a small quota, which was used when an employee was stopped by TCC representatives.
Amazon Web Services CEO advises employees to quit if they don’t want to return to the office for five days
Matthew Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), supported the company’s new policy of a five-day work week in the office. He noted that employees who disagree with this decision can look for work in other companies.
Meta fired 20 employees for «fraud» with food vouchers — they were spent on laundry detergent and acne patches
Meta fired about two dozen employees in Los Angeles for using food vouchers to buy personal or household items (pads, laundry detergent, or wine glasses). As noted by Arstechnica,ome employees pooled their money to buy more expensive goods, or ordered food at home in the evening instead of at the office.
Riot Games is laying off employees again, but the League of Legends team will be «even bigger»
Riot Games, the studio behind the popular League of Legends game, has announced another round of layoffs. Although this statement looks a bit contradictory, as it contains a promise that the «League» team will become «even bigger in the future than it is today». Yes, the layoffs will be beneficial.
More than 700 Ubisoft employees in France go on a three-day strike — over demands to return to the office
You can quickly get used to working from home.
487 Ukrainian Internet providers ceased operations due to tax authorities’ actions
After being forced to switch from the simplified to the general taxation system, 487 Internet providers with 1316 regional offices ceased operations.
Intel and AMD set up the «x86» — Advisory Group with computer and software manufacturers
In an unexpected collaboration, Intel and AMD created the «x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group (x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group), which includes CEOs of many related companies.
Google is becoming a nuclear giant — the company has signed an agreement with a modular reactor developer
Google has just signed a power purchase agreement with nuclear power startup Kairos Power, with delivery starting in 2030 and a 500 MW deployment by 2035.
NVIDIA CEO calls Elon Musk a superhuman — builds supercomputer fast (and buys lots of chips)
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang explained how the company is changing the field of computing and that NVIDIA is not like the «bubbles» dotcom times. He called Musk’s creation of an AI supercomputer in 19 days superhuman.
An IT specialist from EPAM was detained in Zakarpattia on a «attempt to cross the border» — he says he has a reservation and came on vacation
The court ruled that the «case had incorrectly formulated the» charge and sided with the IT specialist.
Ukrainian robot_dreams has launched a contest for «coders» — giving $1000 for the «weirdest» one-line code
Ukrainian educational platform robot_dreams launched a contest for «shitcoders», in which the winner will be offered a cash prize for the strangest one-line code.
US Department of Justice wants to split Google — the Ministry has prepared recommendations for the court
The U.S. Department of Justice has made recommendations to split Google to prevent a monopoly.
Foxconn builds the world’s largest Nvidia GB200 chip factory: «Demand is extremely high»
Taiwanese company Foxconn is expanding its activities in the field of artificial intelligence. The company is building a factory in Mexico that will produce GB200 chips for Nvidia. These components are key to the next generation of the computing platform Blackwell from an American company.
The court banned Google from paying for exclusivity of applications in Play, placing its programs in smartphones and other anticompetitive practices
On Monday, October 7, a U.S. court issued a permanent injunction forcing Google to
to soften its attitude towards alternative Android app stores. Google is prohibited from engaging in anticompetitive practices that favor Google Play.
Renamed Twitter, so you don’t have to pay? Elon Musk and X doubled the Australian fine when they tried to cancel it
X Twitter faces a $400,000 fine for ignoring a request from the Australian Electronic Security Commission. The regulator wants to verify the measures that X is currently taking to combat the alleged distribution of child sexual abuse materials.
Jensen Huang earned $109 billion from Nvidia — enough to buy Intel (with a balance)
Currently, Nvidia’s CEO’s personal wealth is estimated at $109 billion, which is more than Intel’s market capitalization of $96 billion, writes Tom’s Hardware. In fact, if Huang had suddenly decided to acquire a company «blue», he would have received at least $13 billion in change.
Breaking: Tencent wants to buy out Ubisoft amid falling shares, poor sales and delays
Tencent and Ubisoft’s founders, the Guillemot family, are considering a buyout of the French game developer after losing more than half of its market value.
Military duty and increased taxes: what awaits Ukrainians starting from October 1 (yes, «will be adopted retroactively»)?
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy has reviewed draft law No. 11416-d on a historic tax increase. By a majority vote, the Committee supported the document for the second reading. About this reported MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
Aytiv residents are to be banned from using sole proprietorship and simplified taxation system
Yuriy Gaidai, Senior Economist at the Center for Economic Strategy reportedThe Ukrainian IT industry is concerned that the use of the simplified taxation system may be restricted. This idea was born at a working group discussing the tax bill. They were considering protecting the «Diia City» regime from IT specialists switching to the third group…
Star Citizen developers are forced to work seven days a week — the company earned $700 million from the game
Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of Star Citizen, has ordered its employees to work seven days a week to prepare for the Citizencon event on October 19.
OpenAI raised a record $6.6 billion at a valuation of $157 billion — Apple refused to invest
OpenAI has just completed a historic funding round, raising $6.6 billion in investment at a $157 billion valuation.
The exemption for international parcels up to 150 euros will be canceled — Hetmantsev
Danylo Hetmantsev (Servant of the People), chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy, said that a separate bill on taxation of international parcels worth up to 150 euros will be submitted to the parliament in the near future.
Exports of Ukrainian IT services have fallen to the lowest level since the beginning of the war
In August 2024, the export of Ukrainian IT services amounted to $507 million. This is $38 million (or 6.97%) less than in July of this year ($545 million). Thus, August demonstrated the lowest export of IT services from Ukraine in the first eight months of 2024.
Epic Games sues Google and Samsung over auto-blocking of third-party apps
Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, has filed a lawsuit against Google and Samsung. The company believes that the Auto Blocker feature on Samsung devices prevents the installation of alternative app stores.
Twitter/X has fallen in price by 80% since «Elon Musk took over
In 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter for a whopping $44 billion, starting the epic of transforming the network into a new service with «freedom of speech» called X.
At Tesla’s plant in Germany, 17% of employees are on sick leave, and 200 have not been at work since the beginning of the year — Elon Musk is shocked
Production of Tesla in Germany faces an unusual problem — sick leave. Employees use the social system, and trade unions say that the company has extremely difficult working conditions.
Meta fined almost $102 million for improper password storage
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed a fine of $101.5 million on Meta. The reason was a violation of the rules for storing user passwords.
Google spent $2.7 billion to rehire its IT guy — he was rejected for «uninteresting» product
Three years ago, a software engineer proposed an AI chatbot project to Google, but it was rejected, and the man quit the company to found his own startup.
South Korea fines Samsung for exposing workers to radiation — further penalties expected
South Korean regulators have confirmed that Samsung violated nuclear safety rules and exposed workers at a semiconductor plant to radiation.
New California law will force digital stores to admit that they do not sell, but only license content
Digital stores will not be able to use words such as «buy» or «purchase» unless they disclose the licensing terms.
The number of «closed» sole proprietorships in Ukrainian IT grew by 157%, while new registrations — fell by 20%
According to YouControl (via Highload) the Ukrainian IT industry shows a decline in the registration of new sole proprietorships — in the summer, for example, the total number decreased to 9.1 thousand (a 21% drop compared to a year ago and a 48% drop compared to 2021).In June-August 2023, IT specialists registered 11.6 thousand individual…
WOG network programmer fined UAH 34,000 for downloading a script «main.ru» for sending SMS messages
According to the materials court case, software engineer of the company LLC «West Petroleum Market» (manages the WOG filling station network) intentionally downloaded a dangerous Python script, despite «awareness of the principles of malware and the prohibition of its distribution».
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