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HUGGING FACE RELEASES A FREE OPERATOR-LIKE AGENTIC AI TOOL

Hugging Face's Open Computer Agent is a free AI agent that uses a Linux virtual machine for tasks.

CRYPTO INDUSTRY URGES SEC TO CLARIFY STAKING STANCE

Crypto industry groups, led by the Crypto Council for Innovation, are urging the SEC to issue formal guidance on staking amid ongoing regulatory uncertainty for web3 infrastructure providers. While the SEC has recently clarified that memecoins and stablecoins are not securities, it has yet to define compliant staking frameworks or approve staking in ETFs. The industry is optimistic about upcoming staking-enabled cryptocurrency ETFs and continues productive meetings with the agency. At the same time, firms are pushing back against the IRS' classification of staking rewards as service income.

TRUMP CRYPTO DINNER GOES POORLY

A TikTok prankster who paid ~$300,000 for a seat at Trump's memecoin holder dinner called the three-course meal “trash,” likening the filet mignon to “Walmart steak.” He also dismissed Trump's brief, scripted speech praising crypto as “something special” as “pretty much like bullshit,” noting the president departed before presenting watches to top token holders. Other attendees described the food as merely “OK” and reported similar disappointment with the event's organization. Meanwhile, 35 Democratic lawmakers are urging a Justice Department probe into potential foreign-emoluments violations stemming from the international guest list.

LAGRANGE TOKEN LAUNCH

Lagrange has launched $LA, its native token used to pay for cryptographic proofs that power things like ZK rollups and verifiable AI. Clients pay fees (in $ETH, $USDC, or $LA), and the system converts those into $LA to reward provers, creating steady demand for the token. Token holders can stake or delegate $LA to support specific provers, helping scale the network while reducing supply and boosting long-term value.

MAMO: AN AI AGENT FOR PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Mamo is a non-custodial AI agent that automates passive wealth creation by scanning trusted DeFi vaults and compounding earnings. Launched from a 2025 Coinbase AI hackathon, Mamo communicates like a friendly assistant, explaining every move and answering questions 24/7. Its ecosystem is powered by the community-aligned MAMO token, with no VC backing or team unlocks, and is free to use during the introductory period. By supporting social login, passkey wallets, and debit-card funding, Mamo aims to make onchain yield strategies accessible to both crypto newcomers and veterans.

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AFTER A PERSONAL DATA BREACH: 5 STEPS

If your personal data is exposed in a breach, attackers can use it to escalate their access through phishing, identity theft, and account takeovers. To protect yourself, take immediate action: freeze your credit, strengthen MFA, replace compromised IDs, secure key accounts (Apple, Google, etc), use a password manager, and lock down your phone. Stay vigilant for scams, monitor your social media, and treat cybersecurity as a necessity, not an option.

16 TAKEAWAYS FROM DELPHI DIGITAL'S 2025 TOKENIZATION REPORT

2025 is the most favorable environment yet for onchain finance. Driven by regulatory tailwinds and breakthroughs in real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure, the shift from proxy tokens to fully compliant, tradable securities is underway, with leaders like Securitize, Dinari, and Kraken building regulated, chain-agnostic systems for tokenized equities, funds, and credit. The long-term value lies not just in the assets, but in the protocols powering 24/7, compliant onchain rails.

SUI VALIDATORS FREEZE STOLEN FUNDS IN $220M HACK

POTENTIAL COINBASE CIRCLE ACQUISITION ANALYSIS

Though Coinbase drives most of the USDC volume, it only receives 50% of its revenue. Circle, by contrast, captures full protocol revenue on all $60 billion of USDC in circulation and controls the smart-contract, cross-chain bridging, and governance layers, making it a “TAM play” rather than a margin business. Owning Circle would give Coinbase 100% revenue attribution across the entire USDC supply, full protocol control to monetize onchain wallets and its Base L2, and a consolidated regulatory position. With Circle exploring a $5 billion IPO and USDC's reserve income forecast to reach $20 billion annually, acquiring Circle for anywhere between $10–20 billion aligns with both companies' strategic and financial incentives.

BEARISH MSTR ANALYSIS

MicroStrategy's stock stalled around $369 to $440 even as bitcoin soared past $110k, indicating weakening investor enthusiasm.

TRANSITIONING ONCHAIN SKEPTICS TO BELIEVERS

In under seven days, a developer went from rejecting crypto payments to praising the speed and cost savings after using onchain transfers via Base.

$8.5B WORTH OF BITCOIN SHORTS TO BE LIQUIDATED

At $115,000, an estimated $8.5 billion in cumulative short positions across major exchanges like Binance, OKX, and Bybit are set to be liquidated, creating a potential cascade.

STRATEGY BUYS 4,020 BTC BITCOIN FOR $427 MILLION

FRAMER EVENT

Framer announced major updates at its recent event, including Wireframer, an AI tool that builds responsive websites using ready-made content with only styling needed. Vectors 2.0 now has a revamped vector editor with instant SVG editing in dedicated canvases. The workshop added a no-code environment for advanced components. Advanced Analytics now also includes A/B testing, funnels, and click heatmaps in one platform.

SHOPIFY LAUNCHES AN AI-POWERED STORE BUILDER AS PART OF ITS LATEST UPDATE

Shopify launched new AI tools at its Edition event, including an AI store builder that created full storefronts from prompts like “tennis gear.” Sidekick gained voice chat and screen-sharing, letting merchants ask questions and get help audibly. The new Horizon theme included built-in AI and Theme Blocks for no-code customization. Sidekick's monthly users have more than doubled since its December launch.

MICROSOFT IS TESTING A NEW AI FEATURES FOR NOTEPAD AND PAINT

Microsoft is testing new AI-powered features in Notepad and Paint for Windows 11, including tools that generated and rewrote text based on user input. These features are currently available to Windows Insider participants. The Paint app is gaining new AI capabilities like custom sticker generation, object isolation, and a “Perfect Screen” tool, but these are limited to Copilot+ PCs and require a Copilot subscription.

I ASKED GOOGLE TO DESIGN ME AN APP UI AND IT DID - GOOGLE STITCH FIRST LOOK

A 20-year-experienced UX/UI designer tested Google's Stitch, which uses Gemini AI to generate UI and code from prompts. The tool delivered basic designs that lacked style, had limited editing, and struggled with flow and color accuracy. Exports to Figma and code were decent, but image-based features were misaligned and outdated. The designer called it half-baked, falling short of rivals like Figma's First Draft.

CREATIVE RISK: CHARTING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PATH IN DESIGN

Interdisciplinary design research focuses on meaningful meetings through prep and follow-up, trust via transparent monthly updates, and mentoring through examples over control. The future calls for “π-shaped” designers with deep expertise in multiple areas and adaptability in an AI-driven world. Success now means taking creative risks and blending tech skills with leadership and empathy.

UX COPY SIZES: LONG, SHORT, AND MICRO

Understanding the distinctions between long-form, short-form, and microcopy is essential for designing clear, effective UX writing that meets user needs. Each copy type serves a specific purpose—long-form for complex detail, short-form for key ideas, and microcopy for quick guidance. Knowing when to use them improves comprehension and usability.

COLORPOCKET

ColorPocket is a powerful color toolkit for designers and developers. It allows users to pick, organize, and easily manage colors using the eyedropper, color picker, tints, and shades.

VISUAL DESIGN PLATFORM

Cutout.Pro is an AI-powered platform that provides automatic visual design tools to remove backgrounds, enhance images, generate art, and more.

AI-POWERED BRAINSTORMING

FunBlocks AI is an all-in-one AI platform that supports whiteboards, mind mapping, brainstorming, document writing, and presentation creation.

INTERNS DESIGNED COCA-COLA'S NEW SPRITE + TEA FLAVOR

Coca-Cola has officially launched Sprite + Tea, a limited-time soda that blends lemon-lime Sprite with tea. Originally pitched by interns in 2019 and popularized as a DIY trend on TikTok, the drink reflects Coca-Cola's continued push to attract younger consumers with unexpected flavor innovations.

AI PACE LAYERS: A FRAMEWORK FOR RESILIENT PRODUCT DESIGN

Designing AI products is challenging due to uneven change rates in strategy, design, and development, which disrupts traditional workflows. The AI Pace Layers framework, based on Stewart Brand's “Shearing Layers,” helps by structuring development into layers that evolved at different speeds, allowing teams to spot friction and build more resilient, human-centered systems.

LEARNINGS OF A SOLO DESIGN SYSTEM DESIGNER

Building and maintaining a design system as a solo designer requires wearing many hats—handling everything from tokens and documentation to adoption strategy and cross-functional collaboration. Success comes from reusing existing tools, managing expectations, fostering strong relationships, and prioritizing progress over perfection.

HISTORY ON TAP: AN ODE TO THE DESIGN LEGACY OF TRADITIONAL PUBS

Despite rising costs and changing habits, traditional British pubs remain rich sources of visual inspiration and cultural identity for artists and designers.

ARTISTIC AI STARTUP PROMISE GOES FULL SPEED AHEAD, LANDS GOOGLE INVESTMENT AND PARTNERSHIP

Promise, an AI studio backed by Google's AI Future Fund, uses tools like Gemini and Veo in its MUSE platform to target Hollywood projects.

ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ACCESSIBLE FORM DESIGN

Best practices for creating accessible web forms by emphasizing semantic HTML, keyboard, and screen reader compatibility, clear error handling, proper color contrast, and thorough testing to ensure usability for over a billion people with disabilities.

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SUSPECTED INFOSTEALER MALWARE DATA BREACH EXPOSED 184M LOGINS AND PASSWORDS

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a publicly exposed database that was unencrypted and not password protected, which included over 184M unique logins and passwords. The database contained legitimate credentials for various services such as email providers, Microsoft products, social media accounts, and financial accounts. Fowler contacted the hosting provider, and the database has since been removed.

DOZENS OF MALICIOUS PACKAGES ON NPM COLLECT HOST AND NETWORK DATA

Socket's threat research team discovered 60 packages on NPM that collect sensitive information about a device and send it to Discord. The malicious packages contain a post-install script that collects hostnames, internal IPs, user home directories, current working directories, usernames, and system DNS servers. Socket did not detect any additional payloads, but reported the packages for removal.

RESEARCHERS DROP POC FOR FORTINET CVE-2025-32756, URGING QUICK PATCHING

A serious security flaw, CVE-2025-32756, is being used by hackers to attack Fortinet products like FortiMail and FortiCamera. This bug lets attackers run harmful code without logging in by tricking the system with special data.

HOW TO AUTOMATE INCIDENT RESPONSE FOR AMAZON EKS ON AMAZON EC2

This AWS blog post explains how to automate incident response for Amazon EKS clusters, highlighting key differences from EC2 response procedures. It covers EKS-specific challenges like pod-to-process mapping, network isolation using cordoning and network policies, and presents a customized automated forensics solution that handles acquisition, isolation, investigation, and reporting for EKS security events.

HUMANS ARE INSECURE PASSWORD GENERATORS

Neural networks can crack human-chosen passwords by learning from password distributions, making traditional "strong" passwords vulnerable. The solution: abandon human-chosen passwords entirely and use password managers with randomly generated passwords to maintain security.

LEVERAGING SYSMON TO COMPLEMENT EDR AND ADDRESS EVASION TECHNIQUES

Attackers can bypass EDR solutions using techniques such as kernel hooking, syscall injections, DLL unhooking, process hollowing, and APC injection to evade detection. Sysmon event IDs 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12 detect these evasion methods by monitoring process creation, DLL loads, thread injection, memory access, file creation, and registry modifications. Combining Sysmon with traditional EDR forms a layered defense, capturing endpoint activities that standard EDRs miss, particularly low-level memory manipulation and kernel-level operations.

SECHUB

SecHub provides a central API to test software with different security tools.

THE BOOK OF SECRET KNOWLEDGE

A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools, and more.

TELEMESSAGE EXPLORER: A NEW OPEN SOURCE RESEARCH TOOL

Micah Lee, a journalist, developed and shared an open-source tool named TeleMessage Explorer to assist journalists in examining leaked data from TeleMessage. This tool processes and visualizes messages, users, and attachments from the compromised dataset. Journalists require special access to the dataset to utilize the tool and reveal significant insights.

BANKS WANT SEC TO RESCIND CYBERATTACK DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS

American banking groups, led by the ABA, want the SEC to revoke cybersecurity incident disclosure requirements, arguing they conflict with confidential reporting and hinder law enforcement efforts. The groups claim the July 2023 rule creates market confusion and interferes with incident response.

BREAKING RSA ENCRYPTION JUST GOT 20X EASIER FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS

New research from Google Quantum AI indicates that RSA-2048 encryption can be cracked by a quantum computer with one million qubits in one week, needing 20 times fewer qubits than Google's 2019 estimate due to algorithmic improvements. This advancement shortens the timeline for when the current RSA encryption schemes become vulnerable, with experts predicting that quantum computers will break asymmetric cryptography by 2029. Organizations must accelerate post-quantum cryptography adoption immediately, as the multi-year migration timeline means preparation cannot wait, even if quantum attacks are still years away.

OPEN MPIC PROJECT DEFENDS AGAINST BGP ATTACKS ON CERTIFICATE VALIDATION

Open MPIC is an open-source tool that helps stop BGP hijacking attacks during website certificate checks. It works by checking domain ownership from many places around the world instead of just one. This makes it harder for attackers to trick systems and helps keep internet traffic secure.

VIBE CODING COMPANY SAYS CLAUDE 4 REDUCED SYNTAX ERRORS BY 25%

Claude 4 helped the Vibe coding tool Lovable reduce syntax errors by 25% and speed up coding by 40%.

YOUTUBE HAS ALREADY PAID OUT $12 BILLION TO RIGHTSHOLDERS THROUGH CONTENT ID

YouTube's automated Content ID system has paid $12 billion to rightsholders, with over 90% of copyright claims in 2024 being monetized rather than removed.

FAKE SOFTWARE ACTIVATION VIDEOS ON TIKTOK SPREAD VIDAR, STEALC

Cybercriminals are creating deceptive AI-generated TikTok videos that mislead viewers into executing harmful PowerShell commands, leading to the installation of Vidar or StealC malware instead of legitimate software activation tips.

IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION. ADVERTISING IS GETTING WORSE – AND IT MIGHT BE DELIBERATE

Copywriting in advertising is deteriorating as brands pursue slogans that generate conversation even if they confuse or alienate audiences. The shift away from persuasive writing toward rapid content production is driven by AI adoption, the collapse of traditional copywriting, and a perception that consumers no longer engage with longer form messaging. As agencies chase virality over clarity, the loss of focused craft has led to campaigns that shout rather than persuade, replacing brand narratives with surface-level disruption.

GOOGLE AI MODE TRAFFIC IS UNTRACKABLE

Google's AI Mode in Search hides referral data, making traffic from it invisible in Google Search Console and analytics tools, where it's instead classified as Direct or Unknown. This lack of transparency prevents website owners from knowing how much traffic AI Mode is driving, despite claims that it delivers higher-quality visits. The links generated include a “noreferrer” attribute, which strips referrer information and blocks attribution. While Google states AI features are included in overall search traffic, current documentation only references AI Overviews, not AI Mode, leaving significant gaps in reporting and visibility.

TURN YOUR POWER USERS INTO CREATORS AND VICE VERSA

Brands can turn customers into thriving communities by prioritizing YouTube as a central content engine, repurposing videos across platforms, and deeply engaging in the comments. Transform power users into creators (and vice versa), using them not just for content but as credible advocates who resonate more authentically than branded messaging. Build advisory boards from engaged users to gather product feedback, test content, and foster loyalty. Make users feel heard, empowered, and involved at every stage.

WHY GOING VIRAL IS NOT A VIABLE MARKETING STRATEGY

Video is a powerful format for storytelling, but it only works when the story, audience, and business goals are well-defined before production begins. Many companies fall into the trap of producing content for volume or entertainment value, assuming visibility will translate to impact, but attention without intent rarely drives growth. Build strategic video systems that scale with the brand, resonate with the audience, and deliver insights that guide future efforts.

COMPASS MASTERS: HOW TO NAVIGATE BUYING SIGNAL WILDERNESS (WEBINAR)

This webinar, led by Jess Cook (Head of Marketing at Vector) and Alex Lindahl (GTM Engineer at Clay), will look at how B2B teams can use buyer intent signals to drive pipeline and create high-converting campaigns. Aimed at demand generation, growth, and ABM professionals, the session offers strategies to align marketing with sales, prioritize intent data, and engage high-quality leads. It is free to register and will take place on May 28 at 12 PM CDT.