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On May 11, Privat24 went down in the middle of the business day — users were unable to log into accounts, make payments, or use any features. The bank confirmed a technical glitch and restored service the same day.
GovTech Lab Ukraine has opened a new call for applications from state bodies. But the key indicator is not the number of participants, but rather that in the previous cycle, 18 out of 21 submitted challenges failed to pass the selection — and this may be a more useful result than the winners themselves.
OnePlus is preparing a budget smartphone with dust and steam protection higher than most flagship models — and the price calls into question the entire "premium" segment up to $300.
$5,600, 4,999 units and a transparent "engine compartment" — but behind this gadget lies a quiet corporate alliance: since 2024, HP has been the title sponsor of Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1, and the laptop is the first tangible evidence of this deal.
To save Siri from failure, Apple signed a multi-year deal with Google and opened access to user queries for Nvidia servers. The company, which spent years building an isolated technology stack, is now dependent on two of its main competitors.
Yartura has developed an interceptor that catches up with enemy drones where most competitors lag 100–150 km/h behind. But the key bet is not on speed, but on AI that operates after the first miss.
Google has launched Gemini Go, a simplified version of its AI assistant for smartphones running Android Go. This marks the first time Gemini becomes available to hundreds of millions of users of budget devices in Global South countries.
Apple is preparing for WWDC 2026, and the first data on iOS 27 compatibility has already emerged. Four popular models may be excluded from the support list — what this means for millions of users.
# Deal for 97.6 Million Hryvnia to Consolidate Taxi, Scooters, Delivery and Tickets in Single App. But the Broader Context Is Larger: Uklon Already Tests Drones, Backed by Kyivstar and VEON's $1.3 Billion Investment in Ukraine.
OpenAI has rolled out Dreaming V3, a new memory architecture for ChatGPT that has significantly improved context retention accuracy for the first time. However, few have noticed: deleting a conversation does not erase the memories extracted from it.
Balance Ultra with a titanium case and 30 days of battery life costs $599 compared to $849 for the Apple Watch Ultra 2. The difference is substantial, but the watch is going up for pre-order, and there are no real-world tests yet.
Starting June 8, Samsung Health will analyze five nighttime biosignals through AI and compare them to your personal baseline norm. The question is not whether this will work more accurately than a doctor — but who else will have access to the data.
Amazon's New Proteus Gets AI and Voice Control: The warehouse robot now plans routes and prioritizes tasks on its own. But behind the technical upgrade lies a much sharper bottom line.
On June 8, Apple will open WWDC 2026 under the slogan "All Systems Glow" — and the main intrigue is not new features, but whether the company will finally be able to restore Siri's reputation after a year of failures with Apple Intelligence.
Honor quietly added a new X7e smartphone to its lineup — without any presentation or fanfare. The main focus: a giant battery and a 50 MP camera at a minimal price.
The Ministry of Defense has officially codified the Vepr ground robotic complex — a platform that has been operating on the front lines for a year and is capable of evacuating two wounded soldiers per trip without a human operator.
Lockheed Martin officially opened the MAB-5 production facility in Cortland, Alabama. The plant has been built on schedule, however, delivery timelines have already been adjusted due to issues with solid rocket boosters.
Martyn Tech has developed a heavy quadcopter Adis with satellite control: 10 kg payload over 20 km, and in tests — 12 kg and 50 km with reduced load. The drone has already passed codification for military procurement.
# Poland's government approved a bill banning mobile phones for students under 16 throughout the entire school day. The Netherlands, where a similar measure has been in effect since 2024, has already recorded results — and they are inconvenient for those who dismissed this idea as populism.
# Google Labs' New Dreambeans App Generates Up to 14 Illustrated Stories Daily from Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search Data. An Antidote to Endless Scrolling — or a Perfect Surveillance Wrapper?
When mass public awareness about calls from "pseudo-banks" yielded real financial results, scammers shifted their focus: now they don't call themselves — they force victims to install an application or click a button.
Ferrari has officially unveiled the Luce, a four-door, five-seater electric vehicle with 1,000 horsepower priced from €550,000. The design is by Jony Ive, it features physical buttons, and Ferrari's stock fell 3% on the day of the presentation.
Samsung and Microsoft are removing the built-in Gallery synchronization with OneDrive. It's not a disaster, but there's one behavioral nuance that few people know about: after switching to a separate application, deleting photos from your smartphone will no longer erase them from the cloud.
# Tokyo's Terra Drone Deploys Fixed-Wing Terra A2 Interceptor Drone in Ukraine with 75 km Coverage Radius Tokyo-based Terra Drone has deployed its fixed-wing Terra A2 interceptor drone in Ukraine with a coverage radius of 75 kilometers. The system complements the already-deployed Terra A1 and is built around a single principle: a cheaper interceptor against mass cheap threats.
Renders from a third-party accessory manufacturer have revealed the design of the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE months before its announcement — and simultaneously confirmed a shift in the Fan Edition lineup's philosophy.
A kamikaze drone of aircraft type was developed together with fighters of the Special Operations Forces — and now it costs less than many FPV quadcopters. The question is whether the price can withstand the pressure of scaling.
Wear OS 7 replaces familiar tiles with unified Android-compatible widgets and opens Galaxy Watch to third-party developers. Behind the convenient rebranding lies a serious bet on Gemini and voice control for smartwatches.
New leaks contradict earlier rumors about unchanged proportions for the iPhone 18 Pro. Behind them lies a long-standing engineering dilemma: how to increase the screen size without making the phone unwieldy.
# Ukraine Launches Closed Beta of Lapathoniia Chat — Local AI Assistant on Ukrainian Infrastructure Ukraine has launched a closed beta of Lapathoniia Chat, a chat assistant powered by two proprietary large language models that operates exclusively on Ukrainian cloud infrastructure. The key selling point is not its features, but where the data is physically stored.
24 million Diia users: this is not about digitalization for digitalization's sake. Service statistics reveal where the state has actually replaced queues and where the paper trail still remains.