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Telegram is evolving towards a super app model similar to WeChat, integrating mini-apps and decentralization. Partnerships with the TON Foundation and Tencent Cloud seem to be geared toward expanding this ecosystem globally.
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Flex Layout is Penpot’s ground-breaking responsive layout feature that makes it easier and faster to produce dev-ready design assets. Here’s how it works: ⚡ Designers create the layout and it automatically shows as it is on the web page thanks to CSS flexbox
The new iOS version doesn't introduce any major features but offers numerous smaller improvements. One notable change is the cleaner redesign of the Messages app, which simplifies sharing photos and other media with a new gesture.
Spotify has launched a new feature called Spotify Jam that allows up to 32 Spotify users to DJ together for group playlists in real time. Both free and Premium users can join, but only Premium subscribers can initiate and invite others to Jam sessions. Premium hosts can control the session and participants can add songs, choose playback devices, and manage tracks collaboratively.
Microsoft is releasing a significant update to Windows 11 featuring the introduction of Windows Copilot, AI enhancements to Paint, Snipping Tool, and Photos, RGB lighting support, a revamped File Explorer, and more.
AI was traditionally a subtle, unobtrusive component in software applications. Now it is being put in users’ hands to turn into anything they want. AI is the raw material for creativity and productivity and people can take it and use it in creative and interesting ways. GenAI is actually a UX revolution, not an AI revolution.
A recent study published in the Wall Street Journal by Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich tested whether MBA students or ChatGPT was better at generating ideas. They tested both the quantity of ideas and the quality of ideas. In both cases, ChatGPT greatly outperformed the Wharton MBA students.
A high-quality web UI is, among other things, extremely robust. It manages to convey information with consistency regardless of the viewport size (down to a reasonable limit) or font size preferences. Many factors influence this, including zoom, window size, font size, and arbitrary user-inflicted stylesheets. In CSS, text-relative units should be used everywhere, including the media queries.
Every shortcut for designers, centralized and searchable. Tools covered include Figma, FigJam, Framer, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, XD, and After Effects.
Component design has become an essential aspect of product design. Getting them right not only benefits you but also your team. This 4-part guide helps designers create, document, and evolve design system components.
Every great product team needs to cross the gap between ideas and implementation. The path is made of collaboration, communication, and documentation. Luke Finch, design systems consultant, shares his thoughts on how to turn documentation into a dynamic and evolving conversation.
There are three approaches to handling micromanaging clients: involving them early in the design process and telling them that the decision was already made, having an iterative design process based on data that allows for new additions to be added later, and being upfront when something similar has already been tried and didn’t work.
Microsoft, Intel, and others hire anthropologists along with engineers, financial analysts, and strategists. An anthropologist in a business setting isn't there to analyze office slang or determine who is at the water cooler. Their role is to understand human behavior in depth, which is a key factor for creating user experiences that genuinely work.
AI actively creates new user behaviors, requiring new designs to support users. Accordion editing and apple picking are new behaviors directly caused by existing generative AI tools and their limitations.
The Gmail Basic HTML view for desktop and mobile web will be disabled starting in early January 2024. The HTML version lacks several features, but it is helpful for users in low-connectivity areas and older browsers.
Directional images are silent guides that effortlessly direct the audience's gaze to specific areas of a page. An online fashion retailer strategically placed a directional image of a model gazing at their "Shop Now" button. This resulted in a 30% increase in click-through rates and a 20% increase in sales. A travel agency used an arrow pointing towards their "Book Your Adventure" CTA. This simple addition led to a whopping 50% increase in bookings within a month.
Mastodon 4.2 introduces a more robust search experience, adds several user experience enhancements, and provides performance improvements. Other updates include redesigned link cards, restructured reply chains, and a new hashtag format.
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Series is a platform designed to centralize and automate business finance and operations. Backed by $25M in funding, it offers modular ERP-like features, enabling companies to choose functionalities best suited for them. By streamlining operations, it aims to reduce the complexity and cost businesses face when managing multiple vendors and systems.
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BORN Ontario, Ontario’s government-sponsored birth registry, reported a data breach affecting 3.4 million people who sought fertility, pregnancy, newborn, or child healthcare from 2010-2023. BORN reported that the hack was due to the MOVEit cyberattacks.
GPUs from all major suppliers are susceptible to a new attack, as demonstrated in a recent research paper, that allows malicious websites to read visual data from other websites, violating the Internet's critical same-origin security policy. While currently deemed more of a curiosity than an immediate threat, the vulnerability highlighted by the attack underscores the risks inherent in hardware optimizations and the need to re-evaluate trust in hardware as a foundational security measure.
Chinese state-sponsored hackers identified as TAG-74 have been conducting a multi-year cyber espionage campaign targeting academic, political, and government organizations in South Korea. The hackers utilize social engineering attacks, including Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM) file lures, to deploy the ReVBShell backdoor and Bisonal remote access trojan.
A list of best practices and configurations for GitHub and GitLab. The list includes tools to aid in source code management best practices as well as a series of controls that are recommended to be implemented.
This article talks about one of the latest phishing delivery methods - a sophisticated infostealer that targets the hospitality industry through online booking services. It involves a malicious actor making a booking request and sending a series of urgent emails with links to an executable infostealer. The article provides recommendations for staying safe online, including avoiding clicking on unsolicited links and verifying the authenticity of messages through official channels.
This article talks about four main variants of DDoS attacks, including flooding, amplification, resource depletion, and diversion or ransom attacks. Mitigation strategies include recognizing the signs of DDoS attacks, having an incident response plan, contacting an ISP provider, having threat intel handy, and using other mitigation defenses and tools.
How To Rotate is a website that provides tutorials on how to rotate a variety of API keys. The project is sponsored by Truffle Security and currently includes 19 tutorials.
JA4+ is a network fingerprinting tool that provides a suite of modular network fingerprints for multiple protocols, allowing for improved threat-hunting and security analysis. The fingerprints include TLS client and server response, HTTP client, light distance/location, X509 TLS certificate, and SSH traffic.
BinDiff is an open-source comparison tool for binary files to quickly find differences and similarities in disassembled code. It is used to identify and isolate fixes for vulnerabilities in vendor-supplied patches and to analyze multiple versions of the same binary. BinDiff is now open source.
A group of researchers found that GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer can be coaxed into revealing other people’s API keys. The keys that can be leaked were included in training data as they were accidentally committed in public repositories. The researchers have also released a tool to search for publicly exposed credentials.
OpenAI announced a Red Teaming Network made up of a contracted group of employees to bolster its AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies. The goal of this effort is to flag biases in models and prompts that can be used to bypass safety filters.
A Spanish judge has closed an investigation into the alleged hacking of ministers' phones with Pegasus spyware due to a complete lack of cooperation from Israel. The judge had sent a formal request for information about the software made by Israeli firm NSO Group, but Israel did not respond.
Crypto has a poor reputation for poor cybersecurity, and according to crypto cybersecurity company Halborn’s COO David Schwed, the culprit is simply poor security practices.
Microsoft has introduced passkeys to Windows 11, allowing users to log in to websites and applications without a username or password, instead relying on device PIN or biometric information.
TikTok hasn’t yet been able to gain traction for its in-stream shops and sales promotions in Western markets. Despite promising growth in Asian countries, the app now faces challenges due to the Indonesian Government moving to ban the sale of goods on social media. If this trend continues, it could limit the ambitions of TikTok as well as Elon Musk’s “everything app”.
The European Union has criticized X for having the worst ratio of disinformation to legitimate content among mainstream social networks. This assessment was made during the testing phase of a new methodology aimed at combating disinformation. X has faced criticism for facilitating the spread of Kremlin propaganda and removing labels denoting state-affiliated media accounts, leading to a surge in propaganda. In the past, toxicity and harmful disinformation on X encouraged an advertiser exodus.
This guide includes 13 high-priority items to include on your brand’s use case or feature pages. The author used this structure to scale a SaaS from 100k users to 250k users within a year. The framework includes items such as breadcrumbs, an above-the-fold positioning statement, and an internal linking module to other resources/tools.
Sometimes you run into awkward keywords or phrases that may be challenging to integrate naturally into a sentence. This guide provides 6 tips on how to work with awkward keywords without negatively impacting the human readers’ experience and affecting SERP results.
Vibetrace has implemented an email subject line generator into its website, powered by OpenAI. It evaluates the length of subject lines and provides suggestions for subject lines and preheaders. The more details you feed into it, the better the suggestions will be.