While iOS 26's new Liquid Glass UI has divided opinion and sparked nostalgia-fueled claims that Steve Jobs would have hated it, the truth is likely the opposite—Jobs, a fan of skeuomorphism, unification, and control, would probably have embraced its tactile realism and cohesive integration of AI. Rather than resisting Apple's current direction, Jobs would have doubled down on simplifying the ecosystem and leveraging design to shape user experience, just as Liquid Glass aims to do.
There's an emergence of interface design patterns for managing AI agents that can enhance familiar UI elements like Kanban boards, dashboards, inboxes, task lists, and calendars, which could help users start, monitor, and control multiple agents. Each pattern offers different advantages and limitations for agent management, from Kanban's workflow visualization to the calendar's temporal organization capabilities. These patterns will evolve significantly as agent management interfaces mature, potentially drawing inspiration from real-time strategy game interfaces rather than traditional productivity tools.
Design systems should be treated as evolving products rather than static libraries, requiring continuous research, design, testing, and refinement cycles. All team members, not just dedicated design system teams, must share responsibility for the system's evolution and must balance business needs with customer requirements. Sandbox testing is key, as it validates new components through controlled experimentation before full implementation.
SF Symbols 7 is a library of over 6,900 symbols designed to integrate seamlessly with San Francisco. It comes in nine weights and three scales, automatically aligns with text, and can be exported and edited using vector graphics tools to create custom symbols with shared design characteristics and accessibility features.
This icon set features over 1,000 icons, was drawn at a 2px stroke weight and in a 24x24 frame, and has been designed to work at three different stroke weights (1, 1.5, and 2px).
The creative industry is facing a crisis driven by economic uncertainty, rising AI adoption, and declining demand, hitting freelancers and small studios the hardest and prompting widespread job insecurity and emotional strain. In response, many creatives are adapting through diversification, community support, authenticity in their work, and strategic use of AI, demonstrating resilience and a redefinition of success in an evolving landscape.
Graphic designer Chloe Gaillard creates immersive, concept-driven visual worlds, such as “Kaolyn”, a warm, ceramics-inspired typeface with hidden vase motifs, and “Odette”, a nostalgic project rooted in her great-great-grandmother's handwriting. With a focus on emotional storytelling through typography's subtle details, Gaillard blends modernity and memory to craft unique, silent graphic languages that define each project's identity.
Palantis crafted a sleek and adaptable visual identity for MP2E Solutions, using a symbolic hyphen and industry-specific color palette to reflect the company's technical expertise and versatility in sectors like pharmaceuticals and electronics. Through thoughtful branding, including a dedicated iconographic system and cohesive design elements, Palantis positioned MP2E as a forward-thinking industrial leader ready for its next chapter.
iOS 26 introduces a redesigned lock screen with full-screen animated album art and playback controls on a liquid glass platter - Apple is opening this feature to third-party apps via a new API, allowing broader use beyond just Apple Music.
Examples like Melbourne's Acute House and Naples' Porta Est Masterplan demonstrate how thoughtful design can turn challenging sites into sustainable, economically productive environments that blend heritage preservation with modern functionality.
Experiential design is a human-centered approach that creates multisensory experiences with emotional resonance, focusing on serving the audience rather than just the brief.
Attackers used stolen domain admin credentials to infiltrate a hospital network - aiming to deploy remote access tools, steal sensitive data, and unleash ransomware.
Trend Micro has released security updates to fix multiple critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) and authentication bypass vulnerabilities in its Apex Central and Endpoint Encryption (TMEE) PolicyServer products. Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption PolicyServer is a central management server for TMEE, providing full disk and removable media encryption for Windows endpoints. The vulnerabilities include three pre-auth RCEs that stem from insecure deserializations and an auth bypass due to a broken auth implementation.
India's largest ride-sharing app, Zoomcar, has notified the SEC that it suffered a data breach that exposed the data of 8.4M individuals. Zoomcar was notified of this breach when the threat actor contacted certain employees about their unauthorized access. The breached data includes names, phone numbers, car registration numbers, personal addresses, and email addresses, but does not include financial information or plaintext passwords.
The CISA has released an advisory that a path traversal vulnerability in the SimpleHelp Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) tool is actively exploited. Sophos reported that the DragonForce ransomware gang is chaining this vulnerability with two other vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware across client networks. Following encryption, the threat actors employ a double extortion strategy, demanding a ransom for the data and threatening to leak the stolen data.
Elastic's Windows endpoint telemetry analyzes call stacks to identify both the activity and the performer, enhancing malware detection. The call stacks, or "return address stacks," can be manipulated by malware using return address spoofing and stack frame crafting to conceal malicious actions. Elastic enriches these stacks with module information, applies behavioral tagging, and detects sophisticated evasion tactics like SilentMoonwalk call stack spoofing.
On May 7, an anonymous hacker named "xoxo from Prague" breached LockBit's admin panel and leaked an SQL database containing operational data from December 2024 to April 2025. The leak revealed that LockBit earned approximately $2.3 million from ransom payments during this period, primarily targeting China and the manufacturing sector, while its registration fee claims were grossly inflated at only $10,000 to $11,000. Additionally, the leak disclosed details about 75 affiliates and their connections to other ransomware groups like RansomHUB, HellCat, and Evil Corp, with affiliates adjusting ransom demands to match company revenues and specific geographic targets.
Current deception technologies fail against skilled attackers due to obvious fake assets that don't align with real infrastructure patterns. Attackers exploit legitimate services and trusted channels, like GitHub OAuth flows, for their own deception. Effective deception involves analyzing real asset patterns and deploying fake assets through trusted communication channels, following the formula: Deception Assets + Communication Channels = Desired Effect. The key principle is congruence—attackers engage with deceptions only when found through expected channels, and the assets match their experience, leading to methodical validation that increases their dwell time.
Gemini is now enabled by default in Workspace, with access to Drive and Docs [12]. You can't isolate sensitive content. A real risk for teams handling client data, IP, or confidential files.
SharpEye is an advanced Linux intrusion detection and system security monitoring framework. It utilizes advanced analytics, machine learning, and behavior-based detections.
zip_smuggling is a Python utility that creates zip files that contain additional data embedded within the file structure that is not displayed when the zip is examined or decompressed, but can be retrieved via PowerShell via an LNK within the zip file.
Get visibility into the IAM permissions in your AWS organizations and accounts. Use your AWS IAM policies (downloaded via iam-collect) and evaluate the effective permissions.
The standalone Meta AI app has a share button that shows users a preview of their posts and then publishes their conversations within the app. However, many users seem unaware of this sharing. Researchers have discovered conversations that include sensitive PII, users requesting aid with committing tax evasion, and other sensitive information. Notably, Meta does not indicate users' privacy settings when they post.
Nearly 270K websites have been compromised with malicious JavaScript Injectors that are obfuscated using the ‘JSF-ck method.' This method uses six ASCII characters to produce working JavaScript code by relying on JavaScript's type coercion to encode numbers and letters using crafted combinations of the characters. It leads to very long and easy-to-detect code, but is challenging to unobfuscate without specialized tools.
macOS Tahoe introduces ASIF (Apple Sparse Image Format), a new disk image format that achieves near-native speeds of 4.8-6.6 GB/s, compared to traditional encrypted sparse images that only reach 100 MB/s on Apple silicon Macs. ASIF images, being intrinsically sparse files in APFS, maintain efficient sizes regardless of the host file system, ideal for virtual machines and high-performance storage. This format can be created exclusively with Tahoe's Disk Utility or diskutil command and is designed to work with macOS Sequoia for mounting. It significantly outperforms existing disk image formats, including sparse bundles, by utilizing a single file for storage.
Hackers from the Scattered Spider group are targeting U.S. insurance companies by employing social engineering tactics such as phishing and fraudulent calls to deceive employees and infiltrate systems.
The U.S. confiscated $7.74 million in cryptocurrency connected to North Korean IT workers who used fake identities to gain employment at American companies and funneled money back to North Korea to aid its weapons programs.
This report looks at how young men engage with social media influencers and the impact on their views and mental health. Only 25% trust what they see on social media, yet 43% trust the influencers they follow. Nearly half believe social media gives them a negative view of the world, and 70% want to see more content from positive male role models. Over half say depictions of men online feel unrealistic, and 24% have switched the platform they primarily use in search of a healthier, more positive social media experience.
As AI eliminates traditional marketing bottlenecks, the demand grows for leaders who can translate automation into strategic growth. Fractional CMOs, who are more focused on oversight rather than execution, bring scalable expertise and objectivity that full-time roles often lack. Their value comes from their ability to align AI with human insight to create faster, more intelligent brand-building systems.
Effective marketing taps into overlooked problems and clear positioning. Dyson succeeded by solving real, everyday challenges like hair styling, while Skechers grew by focusing on comfort for people on their feet all day. Rebrands only work when they clarify confusion, not just change logos. HBO dropping “Max” succeeded by leaning into recognition, while KIND's update faltered without a clear story. AI-first positioning often backfires unless directly tied to customer benefits, as Duolingo learned. Nostalgia works when paired with real value, like Red Lobster's $19.99 shrimp deal featuring Joey Fatone.
While ‘comments' involve brands engaging in conversations on social media, whether by replying to customer posts or joining comment threads on viral content, ‘community' building goes much deeper. Comments do increase visibility, show brand personality, and create casual interactions, but they are only one part of a broader strategy. True community building focuses on creating lasting connections, offering shared spaces, and providing ongoing value that goes beyond reactive engagement. Relying only on comments can lead to shallow interactions and comment fatigue. Building a real community requires an effort that involves more than just the social team.
Ranking #1 no longer guarantees website traffic, and traditional SEO that targets keywords is becoming less effective. Many users now get answers directly from AI tools, skipping websites altogether. A new search strategy emphasizes influence-based metrics such as share of voice, citation visibility, and overall reach across platforms. This free 30-minute-long webinar will take place on June 18.
PayPal's Storefront Ads is a shoppable ad format that lets consumers browse and purchase products directly within publisher sites and apps without being redirected. The ads use PayPal's shopping data and payment tools to enable seamless checkout via PayPal or Venmo. Business Insider, Vox Media, and Horizon Media are early partners. A US rollout is planned for later this summer.
WhatsApp is introducing ads for the first time, placing them within the Updates tab where 1.5B users engage daily with statuses and channels. The new formats include sponsored status updates, promoted channels, and paid subscriptions, allowing businesses to reach users without interrupting private chats.
Product loyalty often forms through emotional connections rather than superior features or design. A product may stick because it solves a problem reliably, feels familiar, or enters a user's life at the right moment. Loyalty also grows through early adoption, trusted recommendations, or the effort it would take to switch. Over time, the product becomes part of the user's story, making it feel personal and hard to replace.
YouTube's Player for Education program allows creators to earn revenue when their educational content is embedded in school materials. Even though the videos run without ads, creators are paid based on watch time through licensing fees from educational partners. A new section in the YouTube Studio app lets creators track earnings from these placements.
Companies that are serious about experimentation know that it's more than A/B testing the color of your CTA buttons. It's a strategic growth lever that delivers greater insight and control over how you engage with customers.
If AI speeds up software development, the new bottlenecks are backlog quality, user insight, and managing change. Product teams must focus less on speed and more on smart prioritization, anticipating needs, and guiding product evolution with strategic judgment.
Just as the Internet demanded a rethinking of product development decades ago, AI now requires teams to evolve how they build and deliver value. Those who resist change will fall behind as others seize the opportunity to redefine what's possible.
Variable rewards, social proof, and identity formation keep users loyal to products. Designers are urged to craft ethical, value‑driven experiences rather than manipulative hooks.
OpenAI builds products through fast, responsible iteration, fueled by internal AI use and a culture where ideas can come from anyone. To thrive in this AI era, employees must go beyond using tools - they should adopt AI as a thought partner to elevate their work and productivity.
Everyone's talking about reusable identity, but few understand how it works or what it means for user onboarding. Persona recently hosted tech leaders from Ally Financial and KeyBank for a detailed discussion [9] about reusable identity — including how it impacts trust, compliance, and the balance between UX and risk. Watch the recording
AI tools enable quick, low‑cost prototypes that validate ideas before engineering. This walkthrough covers prompt design, iterative loops, and stakeholder demos, emphasizing speed over pixel‑perfect fidelity.