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Hackers accessed Salesloft's GitHub account between March and June, stealing security tokens linked to 22 companies and prompting the company to disable Drift, reset credentials, and enhance security measures.
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Budgets are tighter. Audiences are distracted. AI is everywhere. Some agencies and teams are thriving through these changes. Others are struggling to keep up. Find out how:
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Entry-level marketing roles are declining as AI takes over repetitive tasks. Unemployment for recent college graduates is 5.8%, matching adults without a high school diploma, while underemployment is above 41%. Without these entry-level opportunities, companies could struggle to develop mid- and senior-level talent in the coming years.
40% of shoppers expect fewer discounts, and 75% anticipate higher costs for gifts this holiday season. Concerns about tariffs, supply chain disruptions, and a potential recession are prompting nearly a third of shoppers to start gift-buying earlier. Price increases are expected across categories, including a 15-20% rise in toys sourced from China. Extended return policies remain a key incentive, while about a quarter of consumers plan to spend less due to economic uncertainty.
Google claims the open web is in “rapid decline” in a court filing defending its ad business. It argues that forcing a breakup of AdX would damage a fragile ad-supported ecosystem. While Google maintains that AI search isn't hurting web traffic, it hasn't provided data to prove it. Instead, Google's ad revenue is increasingly driven by mobile apps and walled environments, not open websites.
ClickUp's early growth strategy relied on a scrappy, low-cost tactic that involved tracking 1-star reviews of competitors on sites like Capterra, G2, and TrustPilot and then reaching out to frustrated users directly on LinkedIn. The personalized message framed ClickUp as a solution to the problems they faced with rival products. This approach cost nothing but time, generated the company's first 100+ customers, and helped drive $1M in ARR.
Holiday campaign planning on Pinterest should start now to capture rising gift-related searches that begin in October and peak by December. With 55% of users preferring personalized recommendations and saves strongly tied to purchase intent, brands should create curated festive boards by recipient or interest and prompt users to save Pins. Pinterest recommends early activation, save-driven design, and personalized content to influence gift planning behavior and drive seasonal sales.
This webinar on September 10 will address how social teams balance efficiency and authenticity when using AI. The speakers will explore ways to humanize brand voice, integrate AI into workflows without losing identity, and create brand-first content. The discussion will also cover practical applications and distinguish hype from helpful tools.
70% of consumer purchase decisions are driven by emotion rather than rational factors. Customers with strong emotional engagement are more loyal and are more willing to spend more, recommend a brand, and promote it on social media. Ads that spark strong emotional responses are 2.6X more likely to go viral and 4X more likely to build long-term brand value. This guide covers how common emotional triggers like nostalgia, FOMO, individuality, and well-being can be leveraged to drive deeper connections.
Cluely built its reputation on viral stunts and creator-driven marketing. Its CMO, Daniel Min, has centered the company's growth on social media, relying on provocative videos, UGC, and local creators. Critics say Cluely's AI is either a cheating tool or just a “GPT wrapper”, but its ability to spark conversation keeps it relevant and reflects a shift where young founders act as influencers instead of engineers.
Social platforms present audience growth as empowerment but profit from free user labor, data, and content. Algorithms push creators to self-censor, simplify ideas, and chase scale. This leads to conformity instead of authentic expression. Real connection may come from smaller, intentional communities outside platform control, where resonance matters more than reach.
Discord's “Sign in with LEGO” option is one of its biggest growth drivers.
Survey results showing which AI tools people know and use, and how they feel about them.
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The latest G2 report evaluated category leaders based on thousands of customer reviews (including 7,126 for Notion alone).
Generative AI is converging around three main roles: agentic tools that complete tasks, thought partners that expand ideas, and companions that offer emotional connection. Companies must eventually specialize to succeed.
AI has yet to reshape consumer apps, leaving few AI-native products on home screens. In the coming years, startups will test how AI transforms business models and industry power.
Demographics and firmographics rarely define a true target market. Instead, focus on the shared needs, behaviors, and motivations of your best customers, validated by whether they would resonate with each other's testimonials.
Capacity is not just time - it's a system shaped by past investments, team dynamics, and context. Decoupling time from capacity is essential for measuring true effectiveness and impact.
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Join Miro's upcoming webinar on _Product leadership in an AI-accelerated world_ [9] to learn how to use AI for discovery and definition (rather than just delivery), how to turn AI challenges into opportunites, and how to design ways of working that prioritize people
Strategy sets direction, OKRs define goals, and KPIs measure value. Without strategy, both lose meaning.
Google Nano Banana enables fast image editing with natural language, offering object removal, colorization, text editing, character consistency, and branding previews. It streamlines routine design tasks while preserving creative flexibility.
To stand out, don't just apply. Build connections, tailor your story, and show initiative. Hiring managers choose candidates who reduce risk and clearly demonstrate unique value.
Product and GTM teams must align across all stages to merge technical insight with market validation for lasting success.
Systems thinkers excel at spotting patterns but often overlook individual psychology, limiting product success.
Targets always rise, orgs often block progress, and great products still drive the best growth.
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DeepL's AI translation API [4] isn't just another wrapper tool. It's a proprietary-trained model that outperforms ChatGPT-4, Google Translate, and Microsoft's offerings in translation quality. That's why Weglot chose DeepL to power multilingual websites for 50,000+ companies.
Jeremy Edberg, formerly responsible for Reddit's infrastructure, discusses the challenges and limitations of traditional task queues using RabbitMQ for operations like Reddit's vote processing. While they do have scalability and flow control benefits, they are also fragile and have the potential for data loss due to queue failures. A better solution is durable queues that checkpoint task status to a persistent store like Postgres, as this can enable the resumption of failed jobs and prevent data loss.
This post goes over CSS color animation techniques, specifically addressing the challenge of creating smooth color shifts. It highlights the limitations of using RGB for color transitions, which can result in washed-out, greyish intermediate colors due to how browsers calculate these transitions. CSS filters like `hue-rotate()` are a more performant solution that avoids these issues, offering a more vibrant color shift.
While writing code can be relatively simple, the real challenge is in reading and understanding existing codebases. Building a mental model of a system, which involves understanding its components, dependencies, and potential side effects, is a time-consuming and effort-intensive process. This is necessary for debugging though.
We should revisit the approach of systems like the Rational R1000, which used an intermediate representation (DIANA) instead of plain text source code to remove formatting debates and improve development efficiency.
The principle of making invalid states unrepresentable in software design is not a good one. State machines, foreign key constraints, and Protocol Buffers are all examples where strict enforcement can lead to complications when dealing with edge cases or schema changes. While constraints are important for reasoning about systems, software should allow for some invalid states to accommodate real-world complexities and avoid rigid, difficult-to-change designs.
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With DevCycle's MCP server, your AI agent can create, manage and evaluate feature flags [11] - and you can stay in code and in context. Use it to create / QA features end-to-end with a prompt, or to investigate incidents right from your AI-enabled IDE. Want to get started fast? Use AI to install DevCycle for you [11].
Jaaz is an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to Canva and Manus, functioning as a multimodal creative assistant that can be used locally. It lets users generate images and videos from prompts, create visuals with "Magic Canvas" and "Magic Video" features, and use an infinite canvas for storyboarding.
Quartz is a free set of tools for publishing digital gardens and notes as websites. It's a static-site generator with features like Obsidian integration and networked thought capabilities.
HeroUI is a React UI library built on Tailwind CSS for creating accessible and customizable web apps. It has themeability with custom TailwindCSS plugins, automatic dark mode, and pre-made components with 210+ templates. HeroUI's components are designed for accessibility, follow WAI-ARIA guidelines, and can be used directly in React server components.
Artificial intelligence should be viewed as a "normal technology.” This view, presented by Princeton computer scientists, suggests AI's development could follow the trajectory of previous technological revolutions. This means a slower adoption rate, a gradual impact on jobs with increased human oversight, and a focus on downstream defenses against misuse, rather than alignment.
This dev modernized the ftape Linux kernel driver, which hadn't been updated in 25 years and was necessary for recovering data from old QIC-80 tapes. He used Claude Code to update the driver to be compatible with modern Linux kernels, addressing deprecated functions and build issues. Despite requiring some manual adjustments and prior kernel module knowledge, Claude Code made the process really fast comparatively.
Proactively find bugs by carefully and slowly reading code to build a mental model of the program and identify discrepancies, rather than relying solely on iterative testing.
Nintendo won a $2 million settlement and a broad injunction against a modder who sold devices that circumvented Switch security, banning him from selling or possessing such devices, reverse engineering Nintendo systems, or linking to related materials.
Mac-Angle is a C++ library for reading the lid angle sensor data from supported MacBooks that provides real-time angle measurements with exception handling and a CMake build system.
Package managers, while automating dependency handling, ultimately contribute to "dependency hell" and are a net-negative for programming due to their unnecessary automation, poorly defined package concepts, and encouragement of unvetted dependencies.
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Container costs are one-third of EC2 spend, and more than 80% is typically spent on idle resources.
Tesla's board is asking investors to approve a pay package that could deliver Elon Musk as much as $1 trillion in stock over the next decade. The deal would allow Musk to receive installments of shares if Tesla hits a series of market capitalization and business milestones. The maximum payout would give him an additional 12% stake in Tesla, but the company would have to reach a market value nearly eight times its current valuation. The unprecedented pay package is aimed at keeping Musk focused on the company.