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Framer has raised a $27M Series C funding round led by Meritech Capital. The company plans to further scale up its product and commercial teams with the new round, especially in Europe and the U.S. That means introducing features for larger sites, like localization, custom forms, and additional enterprise-level integrations.
Zapier has been moving to offer its customers more complex integrations and workflow automation. The company's new tool, Canvas, helps its users plan and diagram their business-critical processes. Canvas is powered by AI, allowing users to explain the problem they want to be solved and then have the service generate a process for them.
Meta is starting to roll out AI stickers across its apps. Users will soon be able to edit their images or even co-create them with friends on Instagram using the new AI editing tools, restyle, and backdrop. Meta is also launching beta versions of 28 AIs with unique interests and personalities. Some are played by cultural icons and influencers, including Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, and Naomi Osaka.
The car industry still needs to catch up in prototyping adoption. This article reinforces the required mindset, recommended tools, and the process for testing automotive interfaces.
A new study by Koivisto and Grassini compares human and AI creativity using the gold standard test of divergent thinking. Over 200 participants were tested against three AI chatbots - ChatGPT3, ChatGPT4, and Copy.Ai. The findings indicate that current AI surpasses average human creative production. However, highly creative humans can still compete by making surprising connections between concepts.
People from feminine countries usually undersell themselves because humbleness is a virtue while those from masculine countries might oversell themselves because of their competitive nature. This can have a significant impact on designer’s careers, promotions, opportunities, and generally how well they work with others.
Screen Studio makes your screen recordings look beautiful. The tool automatically offers innovative zoom capabilities, has high-quality effects, and counts with an intuitive and easy-to-use editing mode. Several branding and style customizations are also available.
Connect your iOS screenshots folder and let the magic happen. This AI-powered tool understands, organizes, and makes screenshots easily searchable.
Animated backgrounds are a fun way to make your content more engaging but they’re hard to make. This collection of free 4k looping animated backgrounds is a great starting point for your next project.
Shipping software to production, regardless of whether it delivers any value to its users, is the norm in most organizations. That reality makes it difficult for product teams to justify to their stakeholders that more time needs to be spent on discovery. Jeff Gothelf proposes a smart move, putting a key question in the center of each sprint. Once the focus changes from what needs to be built to what needs to be learned, discovery becomes a necessity.
Didem Yagci is the Plywood Picasso. Her work transforms layered plywood panels into mesmerizing wall sculptures that brighten any space. Known as the "Monarch of Hues" on Instagram, the artist's enchanting creations use gradients and fluid shapes to dive into a world of depth and dimension.
Focus Order is a Figma plugin by Microsoft’s Design team that helps designers create designs for keyboarding and screen reader users. The plugin now integrates with component libraries so that components can be annotated faster. Links to the code documentation are included.
Not paying attention to how things look can considerably affect the bottom line. Visual testing needs detailed specifications, thoughtful planning that includes static and dynamic modes, and methods for covering edge cases.
Hustle culture is about working long hours and pushing yourself to the limit as the path to success. It's not sustainable in practice. Being driven by curiosity, interest, and even some obsession can be an alternative that better fits the way designers operate.
You might have noticed that not every interactive element gets a cursor by default. You can quickly add that behavior to any element by using a few lines of CSS.
Monitoring employees' activity goes beyond just checking who swiped their badge to get into the office. Tools are propping up that enable employers to monitor employee internet usage and even take screen recordings.
The UK’s energy startup sector has raised the most VC cash in 2023, knocking fintech off the top spot it has held for a decade. It has raised $3bn so far this year versus fintech’s $2.1bn, down from a high of $13.5bn in 2021.
AI is great at doing tasks, but not so much doing full jobs. Sam Altman argues that AI will enable humans to focus on different work that AI can’t do.
You likely have OKRs for your business, but do you have them for yourself? We often just wake up each day and try our best. Having an idea of what you’re working towards specifically can help make it feel less like Groundhog Day.
A deep dive into how to make your paid ads more effective, especially if your target customers are developers.
A big part of a CEO's job is to communicate with their investors. Good writing often reflects good thinking. Some of the most successful companies and investors out there are also great writers that publish a yearly letter to their investors.
Written for operators, but useful for founders if you flip it. Your culture should be identifiable throughout your hiring process. Give time for potential hires to interview you and learn about your company culture.
Being short-termist is like playing Jenga. Each time you cut a corner, you remove a block, and your tower gets a little bit more fragile.
As a founder, we don’t want to admit that we don’t get something. If we pretend we’re not confused, the confusion compounds. Feel comfortable admitting you don’t understand something, and often people will help you out.
Stay close to your product and customers. Execs at Starbucks should be able to make a latte.
A zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Exim mail transfer agent allows unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution on Internet-exposed servers. The vulnerability is due to an Out-of-bounds Write weakness found in the SMTP service, which can lead to software crashes or corruption of data following successful exploitation.
Johnson Controls International this week reported in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it had suffered a cyberattack that caused disruptions to its internal IT infrastructure. The attack was perpetrated by cybergang Dark Angels, who posted a ransom letter claiming the attack. It was done with ransomware that encrypted Johnson Controls’ VMware ESXi machines.
Progress Software posted a security advisory for several vulnerabilities affecting WS_FTP Server, a secure file transfer solution. Rapid7 has observed that these vulnerabilities are being actively exploited and provided details of the attack chains it has been seeing.
This article teaches readers how to store and analyze Software Bill of Materials with OWASP Dependency-Track to identify security vulnerabilities in open-source components. It covers how Dependency-Track can be deployed in a production environment and summarizes the pros and cons of the platform.
NoSQL injection is a vulnerability where hackers can interfere with queries to NoSQL databases. This can let them bypass authentication, steal or edit data, cause denial of service, or execute server code. NoSQL databases do not use SQL, instead favoring non-relational data formats that open up for injection risks through the lack of standards. This blog dives into the different NoSQL injection techniques and provides labs for readers to try to exploit them.
Code Signing helps ensure the trust and security of deployed code using cryptographic signatures. This post from AWS walks through the process of configuring a CodeCatalyst CI/CD pipeline that uses AWS Signer to automatically sign deployed code.
Cloudflare has announced a new proposed standard called Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) that masks Server Name Indication (SNI), preventing networks from snooping on which websites a user is visiting. ECH is the last puzzle piece to privacy, and Cloudflare hopes that more providers will offer ECH, leading to a more private internet for everyone.
Discern Security has raised $3M to use AI for cybersecurity. Many firms buy expensive tools but don't know how to use them properly. Discern's software maps infrastructure and tools, then makes recommendations to optimize configurations and get the most protection.
Substation is a cloud-native, event-driven data pipeline toolkit. It allows for the deployment of modular, serverless data pipelines, data processing, and writing custom data processing applications in Go.
Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startups Talon Cyber Security and Dig Security for around $1 billion in total. Talon protects distributed workforces with secure enterprise browsing. Dig secures data across public clouds. The deals would expand Palo Alto's security portfolio as demand grows.
ESET researchers uncovered a Lazarus cyberattack on a Spanish aerospace firm. Hackers posed as Meta recruiters on LinkedIn and sent coding challenges containing malware. Once inside the network, Lazarus deployed multiple tools including a new backdoor called LightlessCan. ESET analyzed the attack method and Lazarus' toolset through cooperation with the victim company.
Volatility3 is a memory forensic framework used for incident response. It recently added support for S3 object storage and released an in-depth blog post on how it was implemented.
A Krebs on Security reader noted that the 8base ransomware group was leaking a significant amount of information on its public error pages. Brian Krebs used this information to trace the website to a 36-year-old Moldovan programmer. The programmer denied the connection.
A viral TikTok account has amassed a following by utilizing off-the-shelf facial recognition tools to dox random people. The account usually starts by choosing a victim from other viral videos or comments and then goes through the process of processing the image and doxing the person. TikTok has commented that the account does not violate their policies.
Cloudflare has a vulnerability where customer-configured protection mechanisms can be bypassed due to gaps in cross-tenant security controls, potentially exposing customers to attacks Cloudflare is supposed to prevent.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino faced a disastrous interview during Vox Media's Code 2023 event. The interview garnered attention for several reasons: X had lost millions of daily active users since Elon Musk's acquisition, Yaccarino was observed not having the X app on her smartphone's home screen, and there were discrepancies between her claims of advertisers returning to the platform and Musk's statements about declining ad revenue.
The rise of AI in marketing technology brings ethical questions to the forefront. This article sheds light on how marketers are considering ethical principles when handling data.
This article contains 28 ‘attendee journey’ hacks and 2 real examples from Zendesk and Brex on how to generate buzz around your brand at big events. Zendesk created branded experiences instead of directly sponsoring events. It flew an army of drones to form a QR code near a show venue. Brex partnered with a strategic hotel to make its room keys look like Brex cards.
This guide breaks down strategies to use for marketing around Black Friday and Cyber Monday. These include offering hourly deals, curating gift ideas, offering a free gift with purchase, extending sales, and making gift cards printable. Additionally, marketers should ensure the website and checkout are conversion-optimized to avoid lost sales.
A marketing professor at UCSD shares a lecture on influencer marketing via a LinkedIn carousel. It’s a step-by-step guide on how to approach influencers and build long-term relationships that drive growth.
YouTube has announced new analytics features that can help with video content planning. These include greater insight into subscribers, such as new subscriptions by video and cancellation reasons. Additionally, view counts can now be broken down into new vs. returning viewers, which helps you understand what acquires users best.
Whether you’re a new creator or seasoned veteran, this is a list of books that teach you how to build systems, create content, and make money online.
This guide walks through the appropriate marketing budget to meet your brand’s revenue goals. The process starts with setting a clear revenue or growth goal and calculating customer acquisition cost, customer lifetime value, and funnel step conversion. With this data, you can work backwards from your goal to identify how much marketing spend is needed.
There are no ‘silver bullets’ for a subscription business, but one can grow by getting 5 core things right: paywall and pricing, initial purchase journey, ratio of short to long-term plans, payment processing, and churn appeasements. B2B subscription businesses are able to grow more quickly than B2C but might feel more pain when a single account churns.
Mistakes include reporting too many metrics to executives, promoting features instead of benefits, and using hard CTAs on top of the funnel.