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GenAI is set to significantly influence Amazon's Prime Day sales, with Adobe predicting a 3,200% increase in AI-driven traffic. This four-day event expects $23.8 billion in online sales, a 28.4% year-over-year growth. GenAI tools enhance shopping experiences, aiding in research, product recommendations, and deal finding.
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Students can now access lecture transcripts from Panopto and peer-reviewed Wiley content directly within Claude conversations, while new Canvas LTI support enables seamless integration into coursework.
Nvidia passed Apple's previous record of $3.9 trillion before closing at $3.97 trillion.
OpenAI has finalized its $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive's hardware startup, io Products Inc.
YouTube framed the change as a minor update of existing rules, but the timing reflects growing concerns over AI-generated slop flooding the platform, damaging their credibility and advertising appeal.
Bitcoin surged to $111,400 on Wednesday, breaking above the $110,000 resistance level that had capped gains for weeks and approaching its May 22 record of $112,000, with some exchanges showing new all-time highs while major aggregators indicate BTC remained just below its peak. The move triggered $425 million in liquidated short positions and lifted the broader crypto market, with Ethereum jumping 6% to $2,760 and crypto equities like MicroStrategy and Coinbase gaining 4-6%. Analysts noted that declining volatility historically precedes major upward moves. Institutional interest in ETH continues to grow due to its role in tokenization and settlement infrastructure.
Ripple has appointed BNY Mellon as the primary custodian for RLUSD reserves, reinforcing its push to scale institutional stablecoin adoption. RLUSD, issued under a NYDFS Trust Charter, is designed for enterprise use in cross-border payments and is backed 1:1 with high-quality liquid assets. BNY will also provide Ripple with transaction banking services, signaling deepening ties between traditional finance and regulated digital asset infrastructure.
Pump.fun is launching its native token, $PUMP, through an ICO on July 12 at $0.004 per token, with ambitious plans to "kill Facebook, TikTok, and Twitch" by creating a social streaming platform. The ICO will sell 33% of the 1 trillion token supply, with all tokens fully unlocked on day one. Remaining tokens will be allocated to the community (24%), the team (20%), investors (13%), and other initiatives. The public sale requires KYC through partner exchanges and excludes US/UK residents. Tokens will become transferable 48-72 hours after the sale ends. There will be an airdrop some time after the initial sale.
Blueprint is partnering with Privy to launch AI agents that manage assets across EVM, Solana, and Sui chains. This will help automate onchain activity through session signers and delegated transactions. Users can onboard with just an email, with Privy handling seamless identity and transaction flow behind the scenes.
Crypto VC faces a challenging environment with lower returns to LPs resulting in tougher fundraising conditions, though 2025 capital deployment remains on pace with 2024 despite slower deal counts, and improving M&A activity (NinjaTrader, Privy, and Bridge acquisitions) signals better exit opportunities. Three major shifts are emerging: tokens replacing dual token/equity structures as the primary investment mechanism, fintech VCs converging with crypto VCs as payment rails move onchain, and the rise of "liquid venture" where funds invest in public tokens with VC-like return profiles. Despite challenges, crypto remains at the frontier of venture innovation with its blend of public/private markets and hyper-power law outcomes, positioning it to continue attracting capital seeking asymmetric returns as more assets move onchain.
“Sunk Cost Cage” refers to the modern sunk cost fallacy in crypto, where past investments keep individuals trapped in diminishing pursuits. Recent institutional moves, like $49 billion into BTC ETFs, $4.3 billion into ETH ETFs, and Robinhood's EVM chain on Arbitrum with perpetual swaps, illustrate crypto's evolution into mainstream finance. Participants split into four camps based on belief in BTC and broader crypto, making honest self-assessment vital for deciding whether to specialize or plan an exit. Escaping the cage demands admitting past efforts may no longer justify continued commitment and embracing broader opportunities.
The “DeFi Mullet” (fintech apps in front, Ethereum DeFi infrastructure in back) offers users the sleek UI they're used to with the benefits of permissionless finance. Ethereum enables faster integrations, real-time transparency, and immutable infrastructure for fintechs building financial products without legacy constraints. Coinbase's crypto-backed loans via Morpho are the first large-scale proof point, with $860M in collateral and 9,100 borrowers. As open finance stacks mature, the next wave of consumer-facing apps will be powered by Ethereum under the hood.
Crypto VC is polarizing around two extremes: tokenization/stablecoin startups led by ex-Stripe, PayPal, and Meta founders fluent in fintech scale and regulation, and high-velocity, onchain-native degen apps like prediction markets and tap trading. The former appeals to TradFi VCs but requires deep payment infrastructure insight, while the latter thrives on cultural intuition and can generate sustainable revenue without token dependence.
Bonk has increased to 78.5% market share, cutting Pump.fun's dominance from 90% to just 21.3% in under 8 days.
In a U.S. congressional testimony, Paradigm's Dan Robinson argued that crypto offers a superior financial system because it combines globally efficient markets with peer-to-peer competitiveness.
Trading-card RWA platforms like Courtyard, RIP.FUN, Dripshop, Phygitals, and Collector Crypt are turning collectibles into liquid onchain assets using gacha mechanics, livestreamed rips, and tokenized cards.
Apple has been granted a patent for a next-generation Apple Pencil equipped with optical sensors that can track motion, orientation, and position in 3D space, allowing users to draw on any surface—or even in mid-air—without needing a touchscreen. The stylus may feature technologies like optical flow sensors, laser speckle tracking, internal trackballs, and other advanced sensors, signaling Apple's ongoing push toward spatial computing beyond traditional devices like the iPad.
Figma has released new updates to its grid beta feature, providing designers with enhanced precision and control capabilities. The improvements include the ability to delete rows and columns directly on the canvas, set minimum and maximum resize parameters for both grids and objects within them, and efficiently adjust multiple grids simultaneously using a faster grid picker tool. These updates streamline the grid editing workflow by offering more granular control over grid layouts and batch editing functionality.
Apple COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan taking over the COO role this month. Until his retirement, Williams will continue overseeing the design team, Apple Watch, and Health initiatives. After Williams steps down, Apple's design team—which he took over after Jony Ive's departure—will report directly to CEO Tim Cook, marking a notable leadership shift in Apple's design structure.
Throughout history, our understanding of complex systems, such as the brain, has been shaped by contemporary technologies, from hydraulic mechanisms in Descartes' era to modern AI neural networks. Xerox's breakthrough paper metaphor made computers accessible by mapping unfamiliar digital concepts onto familiar office experiences, while smartphones later adopted physics-based interactions. Effective metaphors don't merely explain, they transform thinking by bridging the unfamiliar with intimate, human-scale experiences, although cultural assumptions about universality must be questioned.
The creative industry faces significant challenges, including economic uncertainty, AI disruption, and tighter budgets, leaving many professionals exhausted and questioning their futures. Despite these difficulties, the industry isn't dying but transforming, presenting opportunities for those willing to adapt by diversifying services, building stronger networks, and focusing on authentic human creativity that AI cannot replicate. Rather than abandoning their careers, creatives should view this rebuilding phase as an opportunity to create a more sustainable industry while also recognizing that human creativity remains essential and valuable.
In fast-paced product teams, designers who raise concerns are often mislabeled as negative, when in fact they're using “defensive pessimism”—a strategic, experience-driven effort to anticipate and prevent failure. While confidence and optimism dominate decision-making cultures, it's the cautious voices—often dismissed or ignored—that provide essential foresight to ensure ambitious plans actually succeed in the real world.
Tailorbrand's logo creator uses AI to create custom logos in just a few clicks.
Colormoods.co is a color generator that suggests pairs based on a stimulation scale. It uses intensity, contrast, hue, and vibration to match the desired mood or effect.
This guide explores onboarding microinteractions, small design elements that respond to user actions and create smoother first experiences. Effective microinteractions maintain simplicity through single-purpose interactions, provide immediate contextual feedback, and use motion carefully with durations of 200-300ms. Designing them properly involves identifying key onboarding moments, defining triggers and feedback, prototyping with tools like UXPin, and iterating based on user testing.
Notifications often create disruption and fatigue due to their high frequency, but they can be improved by designing for different severity levels and starting with slow, steady delivery rates. Facebook's research showed that reducing notification frequency initially decreased traffic but ultimately improved user satisfaction and long-term engagement. Effective notification UX encompasses setting up notification modes, integrating frequency options into onboarding, and enabling users to snooze or pause notifications as needed.
Dyson's design approach prioritizes technology and visual impact over usability, leading to products that are often uncomfortable, impractical, or unnecessarily complex. The brand's emphasis on innovation and the myth of the “star designer” support a culture of flashy, tech-driven consumption, which ultimately undermines more thoughtful, collaborative, and user-focused design.
Karolina Banasik combines her love for needlework and travels through xStitched Maps, her Etsy shop specializing in embroidered map patterns.
The iPad stands as the only worthwhile drawing tablet, while drawing displays offer both budget and premium options for artists who prefer desktop applications.
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Personal information of customers at bookmakers Paddy Power and Betfair has been compromised in a data breach. The parent company, Flutter, notified customers via email that usernames, emails, contact details, first lines of addresses, and cities or towns might have been accessed, but no passwords, ID documents, or payment data were affected.
The county of Gloucester in Virginia notified over 3,500 employees that their personal information was stolen in an April breach. The stolen data includes names, driver's license numbers, bank account information, health insurance numbers, medical information, and SSNs. The BlackSuit ransomware gang took credit for the breach but the county did not confirm this.
A new flaw in ServiceNow, named Count(er) Strike, allows users to view restricted data by counting records without full access. It was identified by Varonis Threat Labs in February under CVE-2025-3648. The vulnerability is particularly relevant for configurations with misconfigured or overly permissive ACLs. While ServiceNow introduced new access control frameworks in the latest versions, administrators are advised to review their tables to ensure data security.
This post demonstrates how to utilize AWS IAM Access Analyzer to audit external access, followed by further fine-tuning with Last Access Data to identify unused permissions. Policies can then be refined by using CloudTrail to view the actual API calls made by a role and feeding those into the IAM Policy Simulator to determine the minimum required permissions. Least privilege reviews can be automated using Lambda, and real-time detection can be enabled using CloudTrail with EventBridge.
Fog Security conducted a comprehensive investigation to identify all the various AWS ARN formats and discovered nearly 2,000 different ARNs supported by AWS IAM. While most ARNs follow a standard format of `arn:partition:service:region:account-id:resource-id`, some omit the account-id, some require a namespace, and there are other inconsistencies and duplication. Fog released a searchable listing of all ARNs as well as JSONs of all ARN formats and all service prefixes.
This research reveals a 20-year-old NTFS vulnerability (CVE-2025-49689) that can be exploited via crafted Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files, causing an integer overflow during mounting. Malicious VHDs bypass Log File Service (LFS) validation, enabling out-of-bounds memory reads and kernel-level code execution through pointer hijacking and IO_RING primitives. It shows how legacy filesystem code remains a target, especially with modern file formats used in phishing campaigns.
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The Tradecraft Garden is a collection of projects centered around the development of position-independent DLL loaders.
MongoDB's Kingfisher is an open-source secret scanning tool built in Rust that actively validates discovered secrets against external APIs and cloud services in real-time to eliminate false positives. Unlike other scanners that simply flag potential secrets, Kingfisher uses advanced pattern matching with Hyperscan, multi-language parsing with Tree-sitter, and dynamic validation to confirm whether detected credentials are active and pose security risks. The tool runs on-premises to keep data local, supports 700+ detection rules across cloud platforms, and outperforms tools like TruffleHog and GitLeaks in MongoDB's benchmarks.
Researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the critical CitrixBleed2 vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler that can be used to steal user session tokens. The vulnerability is caused by the use of the sprints function along with a format string containing the “%.*s” format string. Citrix denies active exploitation, but security researcher Kevin Beaumont and ReliaQuest argue that they have seen evidence of exploitation.
Huntress has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to help organizations better leverage existing Microsoft security tools, such as Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft 365 licenses, through seamless integration with Huntress' EDR, ITDR, SIEM, and security awareness training capabilities. The partnership addresses the gap where over 300 million organizations use Microsoft's ecosystem but struggle to fully utilize available security features due to limited resources and expertise. Huntress provides 24/7 SOC services to maximize the value of existing Microsoft security investments, particularly targeting businesses that lack in-house cybersecurity expertise.
Bitcoin Depot suffered a data breach that exposed personal information of nearly 27,000 customers. The breach included data like names, addresses, and driver's license numbers.
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is not syncing with Microsoft Update, stopping updates from being deployed.
A hacking group called DoNot APT, linked to India, targeted a European foreign ministry with malware named LoptikMod, using fake emails to steal sensitive data while evading detection.