MCPs (Model Context Protocols) excel at orchestration workflows like information synthesis and task automation but struggle with iteration workflows requiring real-time feedback and continuous refinement. Working with MCPs involves two key UX challenges: unintuitive configuration similar to IFTTT and interaction patterns that feel like bridge solutions rather than natural app evolution. Most workflows are hybrid, requiring different AI interaction approaches depending on whether users need discrete task delegation or continuous creative assistance with immediate visual feedback.
Documentation analytics help design system teams measure launch success by moving beyond "we shipped it" to understanding actual impact and user engagement. The six key strategies include revisiting original goals to assess whether updates solved intended problems, using time filters to analyze post-launch behavior patterns, and tracking page views versus sessions to distinguish visibility from meaningful engagement. Teams should examine top-performing content to identify successful patterns, address underperforming pages through improved messaging or targeted outreach, and use insights to optimize future launches with data-driven strategies.
Sarah O'Connell forged a successful copywriting career without traditional industry credentials, relying instead on craft, confidence, and community to overcome bias and underestimation. Now a leader and advocate for working-class representation in the creative industry, she emphasizes the power of self-belief, mentorship, and diverse voices in driving truly original and meaningful work.
Renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando collaborated with Swiss brand Cauny on his first complete watch design, creating a minimalist timepiece inspired by a green apple.
Award-winning illustrator Yuko Shimizu discusses her unconventional path to art, entering SVA at 30 after leaving her PR career, which she believes gave her clarity and real-world experience that younger students lack.
Apple has controversially redesigned the iconic Finder icon in macOS Tahoe, swapping its long-standing color scheme and applying a new "Liquid Glass" texture, sparking backlash from users who see the change as a break with decades of design tradition.
After advising 1,000+ startups across 25 batches, Dalton Caldwell is leaving YC to co-found Standard Capital - an AI-native Series A firm with Paul Buchheit and Bryan Berg.
Startup growth is cooling off - Q1 2025 data from 9,000 companies shows revenue growth dropped 3-5 percentage points, with top performers falling 8-10 points. While Q1 typically underperforms after Q4 highs, the real story is that growth rates have been declining since the 2021-2022 boom when cheap capital fueled expansion. Every sector got hit - consumer, SaaS, fintech, even AI.
After the news broke over the weekend, Scale has officially announced its next phase with Meta investing $14.3B. Scale's founder Alexandr Wang will join Meta's AI initiatives. Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege will step in as Scale's Interim CEO.
Short answer: don't raise pre-revenue - it's usually easier to just get paying customers first. However, if you're building hardware like Rivian, network effects like Uber, or heavily regulated products like Coinbase, you might actually need cash upfront. If that's you, what works is: teams with deep industry expertise, 75k+ free users who can't live without your product, viral social media launches, or top accelerators writing $500k checks. Just know that getting your first $1,000 in revenue is still probably easier than any of these alternatives.
Every first sales call drives toward one moment: "I get it, and I think we can help." You can't say "I get it" without actually learning something - ask questions and uncover what's broken. You can't say "I think we can help" unless you know how - recognize their pattern and match it to past wins. It's a forcing function: learn first, promise second. When placed right, it creates a curiosity gap where buyers lean in because they actually want to hear what's next.
A/B testing in tech often fails to deliver meaningful results, with only 10% of tests tied to revenue-beating controls. Teams frequently follow outdated practices and fail to implement successful outcomes, wasting resources. The industry needs a shift towards data-driven strategies and stakeholder alignment to improve testing effectiveness.
The "don't micromanage" advice has created managers so scared of hovering that they under-manage instead. Lattice's Jack Altman says micromanagement is a powerful tool when used to model excellence or bring attention to neglected areas. Rippling's Matt MacInnis advocates to "go and see" when data looks weird. Stripe built review systems with "red pen holders" who marked up anything going to 100+ users. The key is knowing when to dive deep and when to zoom out.
Google's new AI Mode is actually pretty good, and that's the problem. Users get comprehensive answers without clicking through to websites, cutting publisher traffic by 50%+. Good news: only 1% of users currently use it. Bad news: that won't last. Start thinking of survival strategies, like diversifying your traffic through other forms of media or building a brand so strong that people find you directly.
From Meta plowing $14B into Scale AI to OpenAI's 80% price drop on its o3 model, the pace of AI development has gone parabolic. At the foundational model layer, startups, investors, and tech giants are going all in. For frontier AI labs to succeed, they must execute a multi-pronged strategy: capture advertising revenue from incumbents and build a defensible enterprise business while investing in moonshot endeavors.
AI now enables apps to understand and respond in English, shifting how we interact with software by letting users delegate tasks through voice commands.
GitLab has released patches that fix critical security issues for its Community and Enterprise versions. It fixed an HTML injection vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to take over accounts by injecting malicious code into the search page. GitLab also patched a missing authorization issue that could allow remote threat actors to inject malicious CI/CD jobs into any project's future CI/CD pipelines in GitLab Ultimate EE servers.
Researchers at Proofpoint are warning of a password-spraying attack targeting Microsoft Entra ID accounts by a threat actor called UNK_SneakyStrike. The researchers said the peak of the activity occurred on January 8, when 16.5K accounts were targeted in a single day, but the attacks have continued in short bursts since then. Proofpoint identified that the attackers were using the TeamFiltration pentesting framework based on a unique user agent that it uses and other artifacts.
NHS Professionals, which provides temporary staff to NHS trusts, suffered a cyberattack in May 2024 when criminals stole its Active Directory database containing user credentials. Despite claiming no data was compromised, internal reports confirm the theft. The organization lacked proper security measures like multi-factor authentication and endpoint detection systems.
This post examines the threats posed by government pressure on cloud service providers. The simplest attack vector is for the government to force a cloud provider to deplatform an organization, resulting in a denial of service. Another vector involves the government violating confidentiality by compelling the provider to release sensitive information. This risk can be mitigated by storing critical data on-premises or using confidential computing architecture.
Execution Modality is a detection engineering technique that describes how a malicious behavior is executed rather than what the malicious behavior does. Detecting Execution Modality shifts detection closer to the operating system source of truth to create a technique-agnostic detection while preserving necessary context. Given this, Kernel Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) should be considered superior to user-mode ntdll hooking.
Meta developed "localhost tracking" to bypass Android's security protections and identify users despite VPNs, incognito mode, and deleted cookies. This post dives into how it works. Meta now faces potential record fines under GDPR, DSA, and DMA regulations totaling up to €32 billion (20% of its €164 billion revenue), as penalties can be applied cumulatively across different violated regulations.
Hirundo's Machine Unlearning platform, which also tackles jailbreaks, aims to address issues in the AI core without retraining the model while boosting the accuracy of non-generative applications.
This tool scans web applications for second-order subdomain takeover by crawling apps, collecting URLs (and other data) that match specific rules, or responding in a certain way.
Recent cyberattacks on major retailers are disrupting shopping experiences. United Natural Foods' breach affected Whole Foods' supply chains, while UK retailers like Marks & Spencer and Co-op faced weeks-long outages and empty shelves. These attacks expose customer data and highlight rising ransomware threats targeting consumer-facing businesses for maximum impact.
A new security vulnerability named EchoLeak enables hackers to extract company data from Microsoft 365 Copilot using just one email. This attack deceives the AI into violating its own protocols and divulging confidential information, all without requiring any action from the user. Experts caution that this highlights more significant risks associated with designing and using AI tools.
Google Cloud and Cloudflare experienced significant outages, disrupting access to various services, including websites and apps, while other platforms such as Spotify and Discord also faced connectivity problems.
Yes24, South Korea's K-pop ticketing platform with 20 million users, was attacked by ransomware on June 9th, taking the site offline for four days and disrupting the industry, causing canceled fan events and postponed ticket sales for major artists.
Hackers are deceiving individuals into downloading counterfeit DeepSeek software, which installs a virus named BrowserVenom that covertly alters browser settings to exfiltrate web data via a hacker-controlled proxy.
88% of users turn to Reddit to research purchases. Conversations help people feel more confident about what they buy. 34% of posts are still viewed a year later, and 57% of those long-viewed posts mention a brand or product. Just one organic brand post per week is linked to a 3.5% increase in positive mentions, while 3 comments on user posts can boost that by another 2.2%. One additional positive user post per week is associated with a 1% lift in site traffic. Adding Reddit to paid search increases ROAS by 13.7%.
Gen Alpha is turning screen time into income with 47.1% earning money online through digital side hustles such as reselling clothes, streaming games, or posting content. This represents a 15% increase from last year. Social media shaped this generation, making online earning a natural part of their lives as they watch creators on platforms like YouTube and Twitch build successful careers. These young entrepreneurs earn an average of $13.92 per hour, nearly double the federal minimum wage. 1.7% already make over $40K annually. They spend less time on screens for entertainment and more time working online, dedicating 20.3% of their screen time to their hustles.
67% of consumers unsubscribe from emails due to excessive frequency and 39% ignore emails entirely because of inbox overload. Most people prefer one to three emails per week, and nearly half unsubscribe when content feels irrelevant or non-personalized. Although email drives more purchases than social ads, capturing attention depends on thoughtful timing and clear value.
Churn acts as an invisible cap on growth for subscription businesses by setting a limit where customer loss matches acquisition. A 10% monthly churn, for example, means customers stay for only 10 months, which caps growth even if 100 new customers join each month. Reducing churn or increasing traffic helps but often hits limits due to difficulty and cost. The most effective lever is conversion rate optimization, which improves both acquisition and retention, raising the growth ceiling more sustainably.
ChatGPT uses current web content only for queries it sees as timely, ranked, or tied to recent events. For evergreen topics, it defaults to its 2024 training data and does not search the web or cite sources. This means a lot of SEO content focused on evergreen queries may not be surfaced in real-time AI responses. Instead, brands have a better chance of being referenced by creating timely, structured, and well-sourced content. Articles with data, rankings, comparisons, and clear citations are more likely to be used.
The most recommended tool among social media managers was not a camera or light, but a microphone, as mentioned by over 150 respondents in a study who cited poor audio as a dealbreaker. While iPhones remain the dominant filming device, many teams also use stabilizers, magnetic tripods, and wireless rigs to improve content quality on the go. The wide range of accessories from ergonomic chairs to SD card readers highlights how production and editing are often happening in nontraditional workspaces.
General-purpose products are dying across industries because companies that focus on a single customer benefit, like price or convenience, outperform those trying to do everything. Department stores, sitcoms, and universities lost relevance as specialized competitors took their place. AI is set to reverse this trend by enabling products to deliver multiple high-value benefits at once through extreme personalization. This shift could re-centralize industries around powerful general-purpose offerings, especially in retail, media, and education.
True strategy comes from knowing your brand's voice and goals, not chasing every viral trend. Experienced social managers understand platform content without endless scrolling. Audiences prefer thoughtful engagement over immediate replies, and meaningful content outperforms fast content. To create original work, social pros study why content performs well. Social media reflects culture but does not create it.
In this 5-part web series, you'll learn product development best practices that apply across industries, based on Wrike's experience working with +20,000 organizations - including NVIDIA, Lyft, Siemens, Ogilvy and many others.
Like the early internet, generative AI is full of vague metrics that don't reflect real value. As AI integrates into other tools, meaningful metrics will shift from surface stats to signals tied to impact, retention, and business results.
General-purpose products declined as companies specialized in price, convenience, or quality. AI's ability to personalize and scale may bring back products that excel across all fronts.