This report outlines some of the main highlights in the digital asset space in 2023, discussing price activity, the influence of regulators and infrastructure providers, developments in blockchain platforms, and application-driven adoption. Factors such as macroeconomic trends and decreasing volatility in crypto markets have created a solid foundation from which crypto prices have rebounded substantially. The full report also dives into expectations for the year ahead.
As the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, attempts to combat high inflation rates, he is rolling out a plan to allow legal contracts to be paid in Bitcoin. This move aims to deregulate the economy along with over 300 measures impacting sectors like real estate and mining. The proposition, which promotes currency freedom, may also see cryptocurrencies playing a role in Milei's plans to dollarize the economy.
Cryptocurrency scammers are misusing a Twitter feature that allows any account name to be associated with a tweet's ID. This potentially leads users to fraudulent accounts instead of the proposed legitimate account stated in the original URL, making scams look more credible. The method targets primarily crypto-related accounts and has been used to promote fake crypto giveaways, wallet-draining websites, and deceitful Discord channels.
Multicoin is one of the main and earliest investors in Solana and the Solana ecosystem. As such, these blog posts from Multicoin are a treasure trove that provides a full overview of the firm’s thesis on Solana.
A British Virgin Islands court froze over $1 billion in assets of 3AC founders and associates in an attempt to aid liquidators in recovering creditors' claims exceeding $3 billion.
Worldcoin has halted its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil, and France, surprising many after recent expansions, due to regulatory challenges and ongoing efforts to meet global standards.
Vladimir Putin has integrated the digital ruble into Russia's tax code, increasing control over digital asset transactions and aiding in circumventing sanctions related to Ukraine.
Apple's next generation of wireless CarPlay has appeared in mock-ups of dashboard-spanning UIs designed for Porsche and Aston Martin. Rather than simply taking over the infotainment center and a few small parts of the in-dash system, the new dashboard seeks to overhaul all car displays, with the theme varying for each automaker.
The Google Research team’s new LLM video generator approach may allow for longer, higher quality clips and eliminate some of the constraints and issues with current diffusion-based video generating AIs where the movement of subjects in the video tends to break down or turn glitchy after just a few frames.
CSS had a fantastic year in 2023. Every modern browser now supports container queries, subgrids, the :has() selector, and a wide range of new color spaces and functions. Additionally, new primitives like CSS nesting and scoped styles have given creators more control. Chrome also supports CSS-only scroll-based animations as well as smooth transitions between web views.
2023.12.22·developer.chrome.com·20 min read·TLDR Design 2020 to 2022 was an unsustainable bubble. Tech giants have grown so bloated with excess staff that a correction was unavoidable. That’s why UX job openings are down 70% and UX salaries are down 11% - a market correction.
2023.12.22·adplist.substack.com·13 min read·TLDR Design Design job interviews ask designers to do what jobs tell them never to do — design for design's sake. It’s time to challenge the notion that a more elaborate hiring process automatically equates to a company’s prestige based on its perceived ‘hiring bar.’
Considering how technology and society progress today, new concepts may soon emerge that may have a profound impact on society.
Animista is a CSS animation library where you can play with a collection of ready-made CSS animations and download only those you will use.
Juno can conduct hundreds of interviews simultaneously, extracting and delivering rich insights for you in the background 24/7.
Designers can now bring all of the interactivity and materials from 3D designs beyond the web to Apple devices thanks to a new native renderer in Spline Metal. The tool can embed native 3D with Swift code or generate an Xcode project for publishing on the App Store.
Throughout its eight-year history, Zeplin has kept a collection of ideas and principles guiding its product evolution. As part of its beliefs, the company avoids mixing ready-to-build designs with in-progress ones, keeps track of collaboration, establishes clear standards, prioritizes user journeys, invests in documentation, and emphasizes visibility of specs, assets, and any user interface building blocks.
The Information is Beautiful Awards recognize excellence and beauty in data visualization, infographics, interactives, and information art. The entries for this year are divided into categories such as Arts, Entertainment, Culture, Places, People, Games and Sport, and others.
2023.12.22·informationisbeautifulawards.com·Tool·TLDR Design Web design may be a high-tech industry. However, if you look closely, you’ll find decades-old technologies not limited to outdated websites: Apache HTTP servers, jQuery, JPEG images, the command line, and even HTML.
It is undeniable that 2023 was a year of radical changes in AI. This post organizes the most important releases for creatives, considering generative AI game-changers and new interaction paradigms.
2023.12.22·designingwithai.substack.com·6 min read·TLDR Design Soren Iverson has been creating unhinged interfaces daily for nearly a year. The first book he published sold out, so now it's time for a second.
Tony’s Chocolonely’s logo is the chocolate bar itself: no separate logo, wordmark, or alternative versions - making the brand stand out.
Market volatility and regulatory watchdogs have doused the M&A flames of 2023. Unpredictable sales forecasts have shifted focus internally. Regulatory pressures will remain in 2024, but market volatility and sales should stabilize, setting the stage for more acquisitions.
Acutely felt at the later stage, active investor count is on the decline. With “active investor” defined as making more than two investments in a year, are these funds just taking a break, or are they “zombie funds”?
This article presents 24 predictions for 2024. It covers predictions related to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cybersecurity, healthcare, and the future of work, offering insights into the potential advancements and challenges we might encounter in the near future.
This article offers practical tips and advice for founders and sales teams looking to improve their B2B sales approach. The biggest takeaway? Deeply understand your audience and don’t underestimate the power of relationship building.
Here’s practical guidance on how to present your startup's marketing performance to the board, including which metrics to cover and how to present them.
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Christian Idiodi is a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group. In this podcast, Idiodi shares insights on the foundations of a good product manager and tactics for improving.
Whether it’s housing, physical goods, or software, you can argue we’ve favored quantity over quality. With all the talk about tech optimism and acceleration going on, this article encourages us to pause and think about quality and fully understand our ideologies before we build.
2023.12.22·investing1012dot0.substack.com·23 min read·TLDR Founders Your focus determines your reality. Allocating resources evenly to everything only ensures you get nothing done. Say no more, double down on what works.
Sam Altman dishes out some timeless advice.
Graduating students are not as eager to seek jobs in tech as in recent years, with layoffs and comparatively low wages largely to blame.
An unprotected database belonging to Real Estate Wealth Network was accessible from the internet for an unknown period. The unprotected database was 1.16 terabytes in size, containing more than 1.5 billion records. Britney Spears, Floyd Mayweather, Dave Chappelle, Elon Musk, Dolly Parton, Mark Wahlberg, Nancy Pelosi, and others have been affected.
The data breach disclosed recently by Comcast’s Xfinity impacted nearly 36 million individuals, the company told US authorities. Hackers gained access to customer usernames and hashed passwords as well as names, dates of birth, contact information, secret questions and answers, and the last four digits of social security numbers in some cases.
Microsoft has warned that Iranian cyber-espionage group APT33 is using new backdoor malware called FalseFont to target defense contractors worldwide. FalseFont provides remote access to compromised systems and file transfer to its command-and-control (C2) servers. Microsoft has advised network defenders to reset credentials for accounts targeted in password spray attacks and reset any remote access options like RDP.
In this blog post, the researchers describe a detailed analysis of the Menorah Malware, originally discovered by Trend Micro in August and used by APT34. The malware creates a mutex to ensure only one copy runs at a time and extracts the hostname and username to compute a hash that identifies the infected machine. It can perform commands such as creating new processes, listing files and subdirectories, exfiltrating files, and downloading files using a hard-coded C2 server.
Chrome has implemented new mitigations to make it more difficult to exploit the v8 JavaScript engine. The "V8 Sandbox" project was developed as a way to isolate and protect v8. This document discusses Liftoff, v8's WebAssembly compiler, and highlights some interesting opcodes generated by Liftoff.
This blog post provides a pathway to getting started in code review. The post suggests starting out with small vulnerable code snippets before moving on to CVE patches and then finally full libraries. It was written in 2021 and therefore does not make any mention of AI assistants like ChatGPT or Copilot.
A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications.
Dynamic instrumentation toolkit for developers, reverse engineers, and security researchers.
FARA, or Faux YARA, is a simple repository that contains a set of purposefully erroneous Yara rules. This is intended to be used for training for security analysis and for even Yara veterans to keep their skills up.
In this blog post, the researchers delve into an analysis of the web injection utilized in the recent malware campaign, its evasive techniques, code flow, targets, and the methods employed to achieve them.
2023.12.22·securityintelligence.com·10 min read·TLDR InfoSec This report uncovers a stealthy cross-platform Go malware stealer dubbed JaskaGO, which evades many antivirus solutions. JaskaGO poses a severe Windows & macOS threat as its extensive C2 command set enables advanced system persistence and data exfiltration. The focus of this stealer is sensitive user info like browser logins and crypto wallets.
Post URLs on X use the format https://twitter.com/[account_name]/status/[status_id]. The account_name is not validated. Security researchers have reported that crypto scammers have been making use of this “feature” to post crypto scams and fake giveaways while making the URL appear to be from legitimate accounts such as Binance.