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Crypto-friendly congressman, Patrick T. McHenry, is temporarily taking over as Speaker of the House following the removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy from his leadership role. McHenry, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, has previously helped advance bills to regulate cryptocurrency. This development could be a positive for crypto regulation while McHenry maintains it, but it is uncertain how long he will remain in the position.
The SEC opposed Coinbase's motion to dismiss its case, repeating old, unsupported claims that Coinbase listed unregistered securities, a claim that Coinbase continues to refute.
Anthropic, one of the companies FTX/Alameda invested in, recently announced it was seeking a $20-$30 billion valuation, which would raise FTX/Alameda’s stake from a $500 million valuation to $3-$4.5 billion.
Take-Two's Zynga, who developed blockchain game "Sugartown," launched its first NFT collection in September and generated over $5 million in trading volume from these NFTs in the first month.
Jump Trading lost nearly $300 million with FTX's collapse, according to Michael Lewis’ new book, ‘Going Infinite’. This is just one of the many interesting details coming to light in the book about FTX and those who worked with FTX.
The Design Museum in London and Intuit Mailchimp’s in-house creative agency, Wink, collaborated to resurrect the look, feel, sound, and smell of emails in the digital age. The exhibition ‘Email is Dead’ ushers visitors into the obsolescence of the decades-old form of communication, which has dwindled with the advent of DMs and instant messaging apps.
Jony Ive, Apple's former design chief, has invested in Cruz, a company known for its USB-C-powered bottle cap with integrated blades that turn drink bottles into portable blenders. The $129 BlenderCap, which Cruz launched at CES, comes with a 32-ounce vacuum-insulated bottle and is designed to fit other wide-mouth bottles.
Annice Jumani has a unique condition called synesthesia where she associates colors with letters and numbers. Despite feeling isolated and different due to her condition, she found solace in sports and later embraced her synesthesia as a valuable tool in her career as a design director. Through her journey, she learned to celebrate her differences and encourage others to do the same, recognizing that what sets us apart can be our greatest strengths.
The 4-hour work week, tailored for the industrial age, misses the mark for today’s creative and knowledge-based jobs. It presumes a linear relationship between the hours put in and the output that results; that one more hour of “work” will create one more output of similar value. However, the truth is that quality creative work doesn't behave like an assembly line. Sound judgment is far more important than the mere capacity to create output.
For the first time in history, users of technology can now talk in natural language to a computer and simply get stuff done. The technology of today and tomorrow is going to be increasingly conversational. Language is deeply multifaceted and therefore requires a multidisciplinary design approach that combines knowledge of language, technology, and human psychology.
Components are built and presented in isolation, which simplifies the QA process by enabling focus on specific parts of the UI. Well-structured design systems will also facilitate testing activities by featuring various states and variations, comprehensive documentation, and clear visual guidelines.
Typeform announced the public beta of a new product called Formless. It’s an AI-driven way to create forms and collect data. The Pro plan will be free during the public beta.
Learn from real product user flow recordings and screenshots. Organized into types of flows, products, and industries, this website also includes specific recordings and screenshots for desktop and mobile devices.
Jrnylist is a simple, easy-to-use Midjourney prompt generator that combines medium types, styles, and formats. Based on examples, the website allows you to copy the original prompt and use it as a template for your creations.
On August 29th of this year, Xiaoyuan Gao from Not Your Type Foundry posted a statement on her Instagram addressing the unauthorized use of her font files by a font distribution website. The website in question is Fontesk.com, a platform where users can access and download numerous “high-quality free fonts for commercial use” and “open-source fonts.” When confronted, Fontesk.com refused to remove the font in question and even went so far as to block Gao’s IP address from accessing its website.
Two massive A-brands, both with legacy design systems in place with over 150 touchpoints including web, app, and TV, and over 7 million users. The challenge was to merge these two brands into one design system with zero actual customers to test on. Here’s what challenges the merger of T-Mobile and Tele2 into Odido presented to their design teams and a look at how the design systems were merged.
Design tools are constantly evolving, with new features being added all the time. It can be tempting to want to learn all of the latest features, but it’s important to be strategic about how designers invest their time. Whether they should focus on learning new design tool features or honing their soft skills depends on their current skill level, their career goals, and the company they work for.
For designers, done means "quality" or "delight." For engineers, it's mainly related to objective measures of done (unit tests, performance benchmarks, etc.), while PMs tend to look for speed and usage data. Although the definition of done differs, product teams need common ground, preferably before any real work starts.
Design System expert Dan Mall answers the most common design questions, including queries about grid systems, color palettes, how-to-start design systems, and portfolio tips.
Well-designed buttons are also about labels. There are three common traps you should avoid: prefer "Continue" instead of "Next", be careful with "Done", and avoid "OK".
We flagged the Indian software scene in the last edition, here’s a quick dive into the Indian fintech space, which saw $442m in funding in Q2 2023.
AI is a technological revolution more akin to the invention of the internet than the proliferation of smartphones, as computers will no longer act like calculators but as something like the human brain.
This essay describes the big potential of small apps. It goes over the challenges they face in building defensible, long-term businesses as well as a possible solution by building on top of growing protocols.
Internationalizing, whether launching totally into new markets or bringing additional products to it, is really one big continuous experiment in customer discovery.
A simple trick: if your average user stays around for four months, price your annual plan at five months. This allows you to increase your LTV by 25%, and it’s a really simple change to make.
An X thread exploring who should get advisory shares, how much they should get, why you might give advisory shares, and potential pitfalls.
Five things that worked consistently for five bootstrapped founders: do things better than anyone else, create a “wow” experience, keep it simple, focus, and ship.
“Visual differentiation” - you’ve achieved it when a customer sees your product in the first 30 seconds, it’s crystal clear to them what makes you different from everything else they have ever seen.
“Strong opinions, weakly held” is a mantra used by Marc Andreesen. It’s a technique for decision-making under imperfect information. It’s about committing to a decision, moving fast and learning quickly, and then being comfortable pivoting when new information surfaces.
Joining as the CEO of a company you didn’t start can present many challenges, from avoiding organizational rejection to making big decisions right away. Here’s a breakdown of some recent observations.
Have a product that solves a genuine user problem and simply articulate that to the customer.
Companies forcing ultimatums on employees will lose talent and struggle to hire as employees start countering companies' ultimatums with their own.
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Cerberus is a static analysis tool that attempts to retrieve Go and Rust symbol names. Cerberus does this by locating which libraries are used, downloading and building them, and then hashing the functions and comparing them to the provided binary.
CertGraph constructs and crawls the graph of a domain’s SSL certificates. It does this by treating each domain as a node and each certificate alternative node as an edge to another domain node. The tool was created for enumeration via SSL certificates.
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If you’re trying to reach developers or other privacy-conscious audiences, you know how ineffective the ‘default’ channels can be. Your buyers block Google ads. They’re not on Facebook.
Meta is planning to offer ad-free access to its platforms in Europe for a monthly subscription fee of $14 for the Instagram app and $17 for both Facebook and Instagram on desktop. Users can still use the platforms for free but would need to consent to targeted advertising. This move follows discussions with EU regulators aiming to address concerns about the use of personal data for targeted ads.