A crazy week for Grok | Competition between X and Threads | AI slows down developers — DOU News
📝 In the latest digest, we discuss the missile attack on the N-iX office, the transfer of the CEO of Windsurf to Google, opaque tariff changes at Cursor, and other news from the Ukrainian IT and global tech sectors.
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00:00 Intro
00:22 As a result of the Russian attack on Lviv, the office of the IT company N-iX was damaged https://dou.ua/lenta/news/n-ix-office...
01:32 The Ministry of Defense launched a pilot of a drone marketplace for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. How many IT specialists developed the system https://dou.ua/lenta/news/dot-chain-d...
02:33 DOU Day Picnic https://dou.ua/dou-day-picnic-2025/
03:28 There will be no new MacBook this year https://www.neowin.net/news/for-the-f...
05:11 Creating a video from photos, access to Flow and a new subscription level. Google launches new AI tools in Ukraine https://dou.ua/lenta/news/google-shar...
06:58 Gathering for the Third Assault https://dou.ua/triyka/
07:53 A crazy week in the “life” of Grok and the adventures of Musk
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/mu...
14:44 Threads has almost caught up with X in terms of the number of daily app users
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/thr...
16:51 Apple updated the design of Liquid Glass, making it more matte https://www.theverge.com/news/700066/...
18:02 Windsurf CEO moves to Google, but OpenAI acquisition falls apart https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/win...
19:34 Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes that upset users, but price will remain the same https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/cur...
20:58 Perplexity introduces browser with built-in AI
https://www.theverge.com/news/703037/...
22:58 AI assistants can reduce developer productivity by 19% https://www.infoworld.com/article/402...
26:48 Helm 3.18.4 update https://github.com/helm/helm/releases
27:21 What Zhenya recommends this week:
— Article about Figma (in issue 144) and Zhenya's tips from all issues https://dou.ua/forums/topic/48369/
— What's under the hood of Claude Code https://pierce.dev/notes/under-the-ho...
— Omakub website - a project that creates a ready-made, customized environment based on Ubuntu https://omakub.org/
— Omarchy website - a project that offers a ready-made configuration based on Arch Linux and the Hyprland window manager https://omarchy.org/