Category: Technologies

The President of Ukraine held the first meeting of the Technological Bet with a focus on protecting the sky from enemy attacks. Scientists and weapons manufacturers participated in the meeting to discuss countering “shaheds” and missiles.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held the first meeting of the Technology Bet. According to him, it was actually a constituent meeting, UNN reports.

"A special format for introducing innovations for defense with the participation of scientists and weapons manufacturers, developers of technological solutions for our Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine. Of course, there were all the necessary commanders and representatives of the army, intelligence and security forces," Zelenskyy said.

The President added that today they focused on the first, key task, namely the protection of the sky.

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"This is countering the Shahed and missiles," Zelensky emphasized.

In addition, he said, there has already been a lengthy and rather detailed discussion on these issues, and there are already first outlines of how we can further strengthen protection.

"Specific solutions should be presented at the next Technology Bet. I am grateful to all the participants involved," Zelensky summarized.

Roskomnadzor has blocked Viber in Russia for “violating the law.” The messenger, owned by the Japanese company Rakuten, is used by 26% of the Russian population.

Roskomnadzor has announced the blocking of Viber messenger in Russia, UNN reports with reference to the Russian media.

The Russian agency justified this by "violating the requirements of the Russian legislation to the organizers of information dissemination, the fulfillment of which is necessary to prevent threats of using the messenger for terrorist and extremist purposes, recruiting citizens for their commission, selling drugs, as well as in connection with the posting of illegal information.

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Viber messenger is owned by the Japanese company Rakuten. According to Mediascope, 26% of the Russian population uses it on average per month.

From December 13 to December 16, Diya will temporarily suspend its residence declaration services due to the upgrade of the SMS data center. The service is scheduled to resume on December 16 at 18:00.

From December 13 to December 16, the services for declaring the place of residence and obtaining an extract of the declared place of residence will not work in the application and on the Diia portal. This is reported by the press service of Diia, according to UNN.

“Starting December 13, two services on the portal and in the Diia app will not work: declaring a place of residence and obtaining an extract of the declared place of residence. Also, information about the declared place of residence will be temporarily unavailable when sharing passports and residence permits through Diia,” Diia said.

The reason for the service outage is that the State Migration Service is updating the data center.

“On such days, access to the SMS data is restricted so as not to damage or lose it during the changes. We remind you that Diia does not store data, but only displays it from electronic registers and systems. Therefore, while the data center is unavailable, the services related to it will temporarily be unavailable. We plan to resume services on Monday, December 16, at 18:00,” Diia added.

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The Cabinet of Ministers is launching a pilot project that will allow current and former military personnel and their families to receive a number of services through Diia. In particular, they will be able to apply for the status of a person with a disability due to war, financial assistance, etc.

The NBU and the Ministry of Digital Transformation have created a silver commemorative coin “Digital State” with a binary code and an electronic network. The 10-hryvnia coin will go into circulation on December 13, 2024, and will be available for purchase from January 9, 2025.

The National Bank of Ukraine and the Ministry of Digital Transformation have jointly created a commemorative coin "Digital State" dedicated to Ukraine's technological achievements, UNN reports.

Commemorative coin "Digital State"

The obverse of the coin depicts the small State Emblem of Ukraine surrounded by an electronic network that symbolizes Ukraine as a single digital system. This composition embodies the monolithic and integrity of the state, which has united all aspects of citizens' lives with the help of the latest technologies. The network reflects the symbolic unification of the west, east, south and north under a single coat of arms, emphasizing the country's technological unity.

The reverse of the coin is decorated with a schematic map of Ukraine created from the digits of a binary code in which the name UKRAINE is encrypted. The name is read vertically on the left, and its decoding is possible through a sequence of digits. At the bottom right is the inscription "DIGITAL STATE", which is represented by a stylized computer mouse cursor. The composition emphasizes the importance of technology in the modern world.

The coin was designed by artist Andriy Sagach.

The Digital State coin was put into circulation on December 13, 2024. It is made of 999 silver, has a square shape, the face value is 10 hryvnias, and the weight of the precious metal is 31.1 g. The coin has a smooth face and a mintage of up to 7,500 pieces.

You can buy the coin from January 9, 2025.

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Last month, the National Bank of Ukraine presented a new commemorative coin to mark the centennial of Ukrainian Radio.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the results of air defense over the past day. From 2:00 PM on December 12 to 10:00 AM on December 13, 81 out of 94 missiles and 80 out of 193 enemy drones were destroyed.

The air defense forces of Ukraine shot down 81 out of 94 missiles and 80 out of 193 enemy attack drones launched by the Russian army from 2:00 pm on December 12 to 10:00 am on December 13, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Friday, according to UNN.

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According to the Air Force, from 2:00 pm on December 12 to 10:00 am on December 13, the enemy carried out a combined air attack on Ukraine with various types of missiles and attack drones.

In total, the radio engineering troops of the Air Force detected 287 enemy air attack assets during this period – 94 missiles and 193 UAVs, namely:

– 4 aeroballistic X-47M2 "Kinzhal" missiles from MiG-31K fighters, launch area – Tambov region;

– 2 "Iskander-M" ballistic missiles, launch area – Bryansk region, temporarily occupied Crimea;

– 1 KN-23 ballistic missile, launch area – Bryansk region;

– 55 X-101, X-55SM cruise missiles from Tu-95MS strategic bombers, launch area – Volgograd region;

– 24 "Kalibr" cruise missiles, launch area – Black Sea;

– 7 "Iskander-K" cruise missiles, launch area – Voronezh, Rostov regions;

– 1 guided air-to-surface missile X-59/X-69, launch area – airspace over the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region;

– 193 "Shahed" attack UAVs and unidentified UAVs from the areas of Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Orel, Bryansk, Millerovo – Russia.

The air attack was repelled by air defense missile troops, aviation, electronic warfare units, mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Including the effective work of F-16s, the Air Force emphasized.

As of 11:30, the confirmed destruction is: 80 X-101/X-55SM/"Kalibr"/"Iskander-K" cruise missiles; 1 "Iskander-M" ballistic missile; 80 "Shahed" attack UAVs and unidentified UAVs. In addition, 105 enemy UAVs did not reach their targets due to active countermeasures by the Defense Forces (lost in location), five returned to Russia, and one to Belarus

– the Air Force reported.

They also added that the enemy's missile and drone strike was again mainly aimed at Ukraine's energy facilities.

Developer Nick Shelia created the MNT social network to coordinate pro-European protests in Georgia. The app helps filter out disinformation and is available for download on the App Store and Google Play.

Georgia has created a social network for participants in pro-European protests. The application, called MNT, was presented by developer Nick Shelia, UNN reports with reference to Novosti Georgia.

"A Georgian social network has been created to help citizens at rallies receive direct information about events at the parliament or other locations," Shelia writes on LinkedIn.

According to him, MNT will help "filter out Russian/Chinese bots" that are conducting disinformation campaigns about the rallies on Facebook, TikTok or X.

The program is available for download in the App Store and Google Play.

At the same time, the program's code is completely open source. According to Shelia, everyone can contribute to the improvement of MNT.

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DIU cyber specialists established control over the web servers of the State Duma and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. A banner “The country of Russia does not exist” appeared on the State Duma website, and the website of the Constitutional Court was blocked.

Cyber specialists of the Ukrainian intelligence established full control over the web servers of the official government portals of the Russian Federation and on the occasion of the Russian "holiday" "Constitution Day" a banner with the words "The country of Russia does not exist" was posted on the website of the State Duma. This was reported to UNN journalist by his own sources.

"On December 12, cyber specialists of the Main Intelligence Directorate, as a result of a successful operation, established full control over the web servers of official government portals of the Russian Federation – the website of the State Duma, the website of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, as well as the official website of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court of the Russian Federation," the source said.

The source noted that on the occasion of the official state holiday of the Russian Federation "Constitution Day", which is celebrated on December 12, cyber specialists of the GUR posted a banner on the website of the State Duma of the Russian Federation with the words "The country of Russia does not exist", and the website of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation was blocked and gave users an "error" when they tried to enter it.

"The DDoS attack on these Russian web resources completely paralyzed their work and disabled the servers. The successful cyber operation was confirmed by Russian propagandists, who spread a message from the "Government of the Russian Federation" on their resources that "an organized group of hackers struck, disabled the servers of the sites, and compromised important databases," the source said.

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Apple has started integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT into its devices, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The new feature will allow Siri to use chatbot capabilities to work with photos, documents, and create content.

Apple on Wednesday began integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT into its devices, providing a long-awaited feature that investors hope will help boost sales of its latest iPhones, Reuters reports, UNN writes.

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The move is part of a broader rollout of AI-based tools in the latest operating system updates for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

The ChatGPT integration, announced in June as part of Apple's Intelligence presentation, will allow the company's Siri voice assistant to use the chatbot's expertise, including in user requests for photos and documents such as presentations.

Users can also ask ChatGPT to create written content in any program that supports the new Writing Tools feature. They can use the chatbot's image creation capabilities to add images.

The move came at the peak of the holiday shopping season, the company's most profitable sales period of the year. The slow rollout of Apple Intelligence features has so far caused some investors to worry about the strength of the iPhone 16 sales cycle.

The AI features will be available on the latest iPhone series, as well as on the Pro and Pro Max versions of the previous iPhone 15 line. Users of iPads with A17 Pro or M1 chips and later, as well as Macs with M1 chips and later, will also be able to access the tools.

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A global outage of OpenAI services resulted in the inaccessibility of ChatGPT and Sora. The company identified the problem and partially restored the services after the incident.

The popular chatbot based on artificial intelligence ChatGPT has stopped working due to a global failure. This was reported by the developer company OpenAI, according to UNN.

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It is noted that around 2 a.m. on December 12, users from all over the world began to complain about the failure of the ChatGPT and Sora services. Later, the company published a post confirming the problem.

ChatGPT, Sora, and the API are not working. We have identified the problem and are implementing a fix. We're working as fast as we can to bring the service back to normal,

– the statement said.

The company later reported that API and ChatGPT traffic was partially restored.

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In November of this year, more than 18 thousand users in the United States reported problems with ChatGPT over the past day. Failures have also been reported in the UK, Germany, and Canada, with most complaints related to the service itself.

In 11 months, the Armed Forces of Ukraine received more than 1.2 million drones of various types, including reconnaissance and attack UAVs. By the end of the year, it is planned to transfer about 100 thousand more drones.

The Ministry of defense handed over more than 1.2 million drones of various types to the Defense Forces, writes UNN with reference to The Ministry of defense of Ukraine.

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The Ministry of Defense transferred more than 1.2 million drones of various types to the Defense Forces in 11 months of 2024, in particular: 40,000 reconnaissance multi-rotor drones, including more than 12,000 "night" 5,000 aircraft-type reconnaissance UAVs, such as Shark, Gore and Fury; 6,000 units of Deep-Impact attack drones, including an-196 "February", Firepoint and others; 2,000 multiple attack drones UAVs such as nemesis, bat, vampir5,000 reusable FPV copters. 1.1 million FPV kamikaze drones, commissioned by the Ministry of Defense in accordance with the needs of combat units, were transferred by the State Special communications service.

By the end of the year, it is planned to transfer about 100,000 more drones.

Providing the defense forces with modern UAVs remains a priority, which makes it possible to strengthen the country's defense capability and the effectiveness of combat operations.

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The Ministry of defense of Ukraine has allocated more than UAH 87 billion for the purchase of drones, of which 59 billion – for DeepStrike. Umerov said that 82% of electronic warfare equipment and 41% of UAVs were contracted in three months.