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Tether, which has already issued nearly 250,000 XAUT tokens backed by 7.66 tons of gold, is reportedly exploring large-scale investments spanning gold mining, refining, trading, and royalty companies.
Celo's migration from L1 to L2 slashed security costs by 99.8%, cut transaction costs 560x, sped up block times 5x, and halved inflation and carbon emissions.
Adobe is launching Premiere for iPhone later this month, offering a free, fast, and beginner-friendly app with pro editing tools, AI features, and Firefly integration. It supports multi-track editing, 4K HDR, auto-resizing for social platforms, and seamless project transfer to Premiere Pro. An Android version is coming soon.
Amazon's Lens Live is an AI-powered visual search feature that instantly scans products and displays real-time matches in a swipeable carousel. The feature integrates Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant, to provide product insights, summaries, and answer questions while browsing through the camera view. Lens Live is now available to tens of millions of U.S. customers in the Amazon Shopping app on iOS. A broader rollout is planned for the coming months.
Blank Street, a Gen Z-favoured coffee brand, has unveiled a minimalist rebrand with Wolff Olins, positioning itself as a global lifestyle brand. The new identity introduces a “window” motif, custom typography, and a signature “Blank Street Green” palette, balancing sophistication with playfulness while building a scalable, future-proof look.
The word “rebrand” has become loaded and often avoided, with many companies instead framing changes as a “brand refresh” to reduce resistance. Designers note that non-creative stakeholders can be spooked by the idea of a rebrand, associating it with layoffs, restructuring, or failures. High-profile controversies like Jaguar and Cracker Barrel amplified this, as debates reduced rebrands to “new logo” battles in the mainstream. In reality, most branding work focuses on evolution rather than total reinvention, though full rebrands can still be transformative when tied to business strategy.
Designers often resist changes that worsen user experience, but sometimes these trade-offs are necessary for a product's survival. The concept of “enshittification” describes platforms degrading for profit, yet in some cases, restricting free features or nudging upgrades isn't greed - it's about sustaining the business, supporting paying customers, and ensuring the product's future.
AI interfaces are evolving toward "Do What I Mean" (DWIM) systems, where users express intent rather than follow interface bureaucracy like complex menu sequences. This approach, rooted in 1966 computing philosophy, allows users to simply state desired outcomes (like "remove clouds") instead of executing step-by-step procedures. Such intent-based interfaces unlock greater expressiveness and capability by eliminating cognitive ergonomic limits imposed by traditional buttons, menus, and swipes.
Lumi turns users' creativity into elegant and workable websites simply by chatting with AI.
BX Museum is a curated repository of brand artifacts that offers categorized collections from various brands to explore design, identity, and marketing.
Transform text into stunning AI motion design, animated videos, and dynamic graphics instantly with Hera's advanced AI technology.
Tools meant to add flexibility can instead push people to work off-hours, causing burnout and inequity. Designers can counter this by avoiding manipulative patterns and supporting boundaries through features like working-hours settings, time awareness, and flexible notifications.
Context has become a critical factor for effective AI and user experience interactions. Mismatched context leads to misunderstandings and eroded trust. A holistic approach includes auditing communication channels and leveraging AI's expanding context windows. Practical strategies involve contextual research, ethical safeguards, and integrating real-time data to create more resilient, user-centric digital systems.
User interface labels should use "your" when the system communicates to users and "my" when users communicate to the system. Many interfaces unnecessarily add possessive prefixes when simple labels work better. The "my" approach creates awkward situations in emails, help documentation, and support interactions.
Oslo's Himkok bar's "Design by Sipping" menu pairs 13 cocktails with custom furniture and objects created by Studio Sløyd.
Vancouver-based tattoo artist Taeseok Park creates "memory maps" that transform clients' pivotal life moments into hyperrealistic geometric tattoos using personal references like photos and quotes.
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The Simple Agreement for Future Equity was supposed to simplify fundraising by delaying valuation discussions, but founders are stacking multiple SAFEs at different caps and losing track of dilution - Carta data shows they typically own less than 40% of their company before Series B after giving away 10% on pre-seed SAFEs, 20% at seed, 20% at Series A, plus 12-13% for employee options.
You.com raised $100 million in Series C funding, reaching a $1.5 billion valuation, to enhance AI infrastructure for the Agentic Era. The platform integrates various data sources, providing accurate results for AI agents by combining private data with live web data. It processes over a billion queries monthly and outperforms competitors like Bing and Google in speed and accuracy, offering API solutions for developers and tailored AI applications for enterprises.
Exa raised $85m in a Series B led by Benchmark, with Peter Fenton joining the board, aiming to optimize web search for AI applications. Their search engine offers high-quality, ad-free results and features full content access, fast performance, high compute options, customization, and zero data retention. Plans include expanding their GPU cluster and team to continue advancing web search capabilities beyond traditional engines.
It's tempting to define your market as "small businesses in the UK" or "females 19-29," but that misses who actually buys - individual teams at Google purchase the same $50/month tools designed for solo founders, swiping credit cards like any small business would. The author discovered this at WP Engine when Fortune 500 companies started buying their WordPress hosting built for small businesses. A bank used it for branch websites, a fast-food chain for local social content. The common thread wasn't company size but specific needs. The real market dimensions are urgency of problem, tolerance for new vendors, whether they buy individually or in a committee, and how they measure success. Stop asking "what size company buys this?" and start asking "who recognizes themselves in our customer stories?" That recognition, not firmographics, defines your market.
A BDR manager with 8 reps and no budget asked how to improve email quality without spending all day coaching. The answer was surprisingly simple - make your SDRs self-assess before hitting send using a scorecard you build with ChatGPT in 15 minutes. The key is to craft a prompt with seven components: objective (create a scorecard), persona (act as a sales manager), context (your ICP details), instructions (4 categories with 3-4 criteria each), constraints (under 500 words), tone (conversational), and response format (markdown with checkboxes). The output gives you a scoring system, and your reps develop better instincts, you spend less time editing, and reply rates go up because they're catching their own mistakes before you have to.
The Exit Yield Calculator, based on Yale's research, estimates annual income from a lump sum post-business sale without depleting the principal. It considers taxes, one-off expenses, and a conservative investment strategy with versions available in USD, GBP, and EUR. Aiming for a $25 million exit figure often provides financial freedom, but planning for post-exit life challenges is equally vital.
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Tapflow 2.0 transforms your documents into structured, sellable guides, playbooks, and workflows with AI-assisted drafting, live collaboration, and built-in payment integrations.
Clado is an AI-powered people search tool with 200M+ profiles that enables fast, agentic research for sales, hiring, and lead generation.
Tyce is an AI-native document editor that lets you query, edit, and manage documents with intelligent, real-time updates.
Open source software companies keep learning the same lesson. You start by building open source tools for the community, putting everything on GitHub, and promising it'll stay free. You build in public, create Discord channels, and respond to every issue. Then the bills come due - servers, salaries, and the basic costs of existing as a company. So you launch a paid tier, swearing it's just for a tiny fraction of users. Your community gets angry. The whole industry acts surprised when free software eventually costs money, even though software is expensive to build and maintain. Nobody expects free movie tickets just because trailers are free, but somehow charging for software after giving away the core version makes you a sellout.
The universe operates on simple laws, and so does advice. First Law: Good advice is simple. We complicate basic truths to feel superior, yet "show up consistently" remains true whether you accept it or not. Second Law: Good advice is boring. Bad advice promises overnight transformation. Good advice says show up at the dojo every Thursday for years until one day you're doing handstand pushups without thinking. Third Law: Good advice is constructive. It points toward futures worth creating instead of listing what to avoid. These laws work like gravity - they don't care if you find them pedestrian.
Venture-backed IPOs in 2025 have performed well, with all of the largest offerings trading above their initial prices. Figma is expected to benefit from this positive trend, pricing its IPO at $33 per share. Circle is the standout performer, with shares up over 5x since its IPO, sparking interest in public offerings from other crypto and tech companies.
The universe operates on simple laws, and in Silicon Valley, the simplest law is velocity.
As founders, we tend to see our startups as extensions of our identity.
Before any decision, ask yourself how you'll feel about it in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years.
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Hackers are exploiting a critical CVE in SAP S/4HANA that enables low-level users to gain admin control. The flaw affects multiple versions, risking data theft, backdoors, and ransomware. SAP released patches on August 12. Organizations should update immediately, as the Dutch NCSC issued a medium-high priority advisory on September 5.
A dark web vendor claims to have breached Anuvu (formerly Global Eagle), a major satellite provider for airlines and cruise lines, allegedly obtaining over 70 admin credentials for internal services like AWS and Postgres databases. The stolen data includes sensitive employee info, customer databases, and Starlink contract details, potentially exposing users of in-flight connectivity. Researchers verified parts of the data appear legitimate and warned that the breach could enable targeted phishing and credential stuffing attacks against airline partners like Air France, Delta, Southwest, and British Airways.
A new phishing campaign that leverages iCloud Calendar invites was reported to BleepingComputer. The phishing email notifies the user that their PayPal account is being charged and requests the user to call a given phone number. The notable thing is that the email is sent from Apple's servers because the attackers add the user's email to an Office 365 group, which they invite to the event, and include the phishing text in the Notes field.
The true/false positive binaries only capture whether an alert accurately alerts on a signal, but not if it is impactful. The author proposes adding a layer of intent or disposition to alert metrics to measure whether the alert had an actual business impact. This leads to a refined classification with the steps: True Positive - Malicious, True Positive - Suspicious, True Positive - No Business Impact, and False Positive.
MCPs pose security issues like poor auditing, insecure credentials, and excessive privileges. Teleport offers a Unified Identity Framework, giving each MCP a unique cryptographic identity with dynamic credentials, fine-grained access, and thorough logging. This post covers deploying and securing MCP access to a database.
Active Directory Certificate Service (ADCS) is used in Active Directory environments to manage certificates for systems, users, applications, and more, and provides a variety of potential privilege escalation vectors. ADCS logging is not enabled by default and must be enabled via certsrv. This post demonstrates how to create and test KQL alerts for a common privilege escalation technique.
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The repository contains ten variations of malicious PDF files that include phone-home features. These can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh.
ghbuster is a tool from Datadog that detects suspicious GitHub users and repos using heuristics. The tool analyzes patterns like coordinated star manipulation, commits from unlinked emails, users with only forked repositories, and accounts with minimal community activity to flag threat actors weaponizing trust in the open-source ecosystem. It provides a command-line interface with modular detection rules and requires a GitHub API token.
Finch is a fingerprint-aware TLS reverse-proxy that inspects TLS handshakes and HTTP requests to extract JA3, JA4, JA4H, and Akamai HTTP/2 fingerprints, then evaluates them against hot-reloadable rules.
VirusTotal discovered a phishing campaign using SVG files with embedded JavaScript to impersonate Colombia's judicial system, delivering malware through fake government portals. The campaign used 44 unique SVG files that evaded all antivirus engines but were detected by VirusTotal's AI Code Insight feature, which also uncovered 523 additional samples dating back to August. The malicious SVGs create convincing fake judicial portals with progress bars and security tokens, while secretly downloading ZIP archives containing malware to victims' systems.