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Base scaled to 25 Mgas/s in Q1 and is on track to hit 50 Mgas/s by end-of-Q2 on its way to a 250 Mgas/s annual target. Key bottlenecks include L1 data availability, execution client speed, fault-proof performance, and state/history growth. A rigorous go/no-go process, proactive benchmarking against future gas limits, and published node configuration guidance ensure safety and reliability as Base raises its gas target.
Coinbase and PayPal have partnered to eliminate trading fees for PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD, on Coinbase, allowing users to buy, sell, and redeem it directly for U.S. dollars.
The U.S. SEC has postponed its decisions on proposed ETFs for Polkadot and Hedera, extending the review period to June 11.
MetaMask now lets users pay gas fees with tokens like DAI, USDC, or USDT instead of ETH, allowing full flexibility in choosing a default gas token for all transactions.
El Salvador's top digital assets regulator, CNAD, met with the U.S. SEC's Crypto Task Force to propose a cross-border regulatory sandbox, hoping to share lessons from El Salvador's agile crypto framework and test small-scale tokenization projects.
Generative AI has stirred debate in the design world, with some embracing it and others seeing it as a threat to creative authenticity. In response, Adobe added a “created without generative AI” tag in its Fresco app, letting artists certify hand-made work through its Content Credentials system. While expanding its AI tools and integrations, Adobe also supports transparency and gives creators the option to separate their work from AI-generated content.
Figma is expanding its AI design tools for paid users with new beta features that simplify image editing and content creation. The standout update, Edit Image, uses OpenAI's gpt-image-1 to let users modify images with text prompts, such as changing backgrounds, moving objects, or adding elements. Users can also choose from image generation models by OpenAI, Google, and Amazon. Other tools like Rename Layers, Boost Resolution, and Replace Content further improve the design process.
Microsoft's spring "Wave 2" release of 365 Copilot focuses on human-agent collaboration with features like AI-powered search, personalized memory, and specialized reasoning agents such as Researcher and Analyst. The redesigned Copilot app offers easier access to AI tools and adds a Copilot key for smoother integration into daily tasks. Copilot Notebooks combines different content types for analysis. A new Agent Store will host Microsoft and third-party AI tools.
Art direction at Figma involves balancing brand identity with personal taste and aligning collaborators' styles with the needs of each project. It's described as a communication-driven craft rooted in repetition, intuition, and a willingness to trust illustrators to explore and interpret ideas freely. Creative success often comes from allowing space for surprise and personal investment, resulting in work that feels both unexpected and emotionally engaging.
AI automates design tasks that were once done by hand, shifting the designer's role from execution to interpretation. What now matters is not creating visuals, but assigning meaning, providing context, and exercising good taste. Designers have become curators and translators, guiding AI with intention and purpose. Creative direction, rather than technical skill, is emerging as the true differentiator in design.
The Strama Table Lamp blends minimalist elegance with industrial design. Inspired by museum stanchions, it features cast metal bases and a suspended LED strand, creating a warm, refined glow. Though still a concept, its sleek form, energy efficiency, and versatility highlight the dedication to timeless, functional aesthetics.
Eddie is an assistant AI video editor for video pros. It helps users create great rough cuts, log A and B rolls, and automatically edit multicams. Eddie seamlessly connects to video editing applications like Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro.
Ememe allows users to create 3D chat AI characters and connect them to external apps, social media, metaverse, and games to use as AI-NPCs. The tool can generate not only chat, but also voices and animations.
ion offers a complete AI-powered visual workflow that lets non-technical teams edit, refine, and ship changes to codebases in real-time.
Designers can use form, color, and storytelling to visually express scent, creating immersive branding that evokes emotion and atmosphere. Modern fragrance design moves beyond clichés, building imaginative worlds where audiences can "smell with their eyes." Collaborations like Wade and Leta with D.S. & Durga show how scent is captured through surreal, synesthetic visuals and narrative mood boards.
Designing AI experiences requires understanding perception, reasoning, memory, and agency. Agentic systems, like ant colonies, use specialized agents guided by a supervisor. This setup enables complex workflows where humans provide input and review results.
Freelancers in 2025 face harsher feast-or-famine cycles, falling rates, AI disruptions, and ghosting clients, yet are adapting through specialization, visibility, stronger networks, and strategic repositioning.
With over 20 years of experience and 5,000 sculptures, Surajit Sen's work highlights the significance of conveying thoughts through art and the delight of ongoing learning in the ever-evolving field of 3D design.
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Remember when SOC 2 was hard? Delve's AI agents [4] are putting an end to that. They work around the clock, scanning your systems and gathering evidence while you do the whole ‘building your company' thing.
A speculative look at how AI might evolve over the next few years, from clumsy "order a burrito" assistants to superhuman research AIs transforming industries and reshaping geopolitics, kicking off a Cold War-style competition for compute and talent.
Andrew Chen from Andreessen Horowitz highlighted the rapid acceleration of technology adoption and its impact on consumer startups using historical examples like the Michelin Guide and modern analogs such as viral marketing and content strategies. He noted emerging opportunities in areas like video technology, offline-to-online channels, and innovations in autonomous vehicles and augmented reality.
This article pushes back on the hype—and fear—around AI, suggesting it's more like electricity or the internet than a runaway superintelligence. Instead of imagining sci-fi scenarios, it argues we'll see gradual but powerful impacts, giving us plenty of time (and tools) to adapt. Rather than worrying about runaway AI scenarios, the authors propose focusing on realistic risks like accidents, misuse, and systemic harms, addressing these through existing regulatory frameworks and downstream safeguards.
When Uber was losing money, scenario modeling identified a path to profitability—even when experts were skeptical. This guide walks through how scenario modeling works, showing exactly what's needed to achieve targets like "$1B in revenue" or "profitable growth." It includes step-by-step instructions and a real-world example: improving margins in a food delivery business.
Many startups waste marketing dollars because they don't properly track campaign impact. The fix: track your spending not just at the channel level (like Google Ads or Meta), but at the campaign level. Real attribution means knowing exactly which marketing dollars drive revenue and scaling accordingly. Skip overly simplistic models (like first or last touch), and avoid siloed data.
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illustration.app is a powerful vector graphics generator that allows users to create stunning, scalable illustrations in seconds.
viiew.me lets creators and professionals build sleek, customizable portfolios to showcase their work and personal brand.
Investing in emerging sectors like biotech, AI, fintech, healthcare, and climate tech offers growth opportunities but comes with inherent risks. These sectors are at the forefront of technological advancements and may benefit from government incentives and corporate investments.
Teams often nail communication in small groups but struggle when expanding. Great conversations at scale require balancing autonomy (local) and coordination (global). Prioritize minimal formal structure—just enough to guide interactions, not so much that it slows everyone down. Watch out if your team sounds rushed, disconnected, or overly scripted, it likely means you've drifted too far in one direction. Healthy teams design interactions thoughtfully, creating clarity without stifling agility.
Most warm intros fail because the sender sounds insincere or generic. Persuasive intros come down to sincerity and anticipating questions the reader cares about: Why me? Why now? What's the benefit for me specifically? Avoid entitlement and boilerplate messages. Instead, personalize just enough to make the recipient feel genuinely valued. Good intros balance sincerity, subtlety, and empathy—never assume your referrer's credibility alone can seal the deal.
Setting up a simple Slack bot to send real-time alerts about key product events like new signups, cancellations, and feature usage can help you respond to customers immediately, catch early warning signs, and maintain a pulse on your business without waiting for weekly analytics reports.
Startups accounted for most tech layoffs in the latest round of workforce reductions.
Founders should avoid hiding important issues and know their zero cash date precisely.
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Yale New Haven Health System reported a major data breach affecting 5.5 million patients following a March 8 hack. Compromised information may include names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and medical record numbers. The health system has offered credit monitoring services and faces multiple lawsuits alleging negligence in data protection.
Blue Shield reported a data breach affecting 4.7 million members due to a misconfiguration of Google Analytics between April 2021 and January 2024. Protected health information, including insurance details, medical claims, and patient information, was inadvertently shared with Google Ads, though no Social Security numbers were exposed. Blue Shield has since implemented safeguards to prevent similar incidents from occurring.
Figma's security team developed an endpoint security strategy that emphasizes device quarantine, allowlisting, and access controls for improved usability and security. They implemented the Endpoint Security Baseline (ESB) using OSQuery to identify security risks, placing devices in quarantine if threats are detected until they can be resolved. Figma also deployed Santa for application allowlisting and Opal for just-in-time access to SaaS applications.
AWS Private CA is a service that allows an organization to issue certificates via ACM without the need for a public certificate, which may disclose sensitive services. However, certificates generated via the console default to a 13-month validity period. In contrast, certificates generated using the SDK or CLI are more flexible, but they do not include certificate expiration notices. The solution in this post leverages Lambda functions to periodically generate a report of certificates and notify via email and Security Hub of any certificates that are expiring within 30 days.
Runtime reachability enables security teams to prioritize vulnerabilities that require immediate attention. It includes network reachability, package-loaded reachability, and function execution reachability. Package-loaded reachability may prioritize false positives, while network reachability might de-prioritize vulnerabilities in non-internet-accessible systems. Function execution reachability is the most robust but requires a (C)ADR.
Augur scours the internet to identify early signs of malicious intent (e.g., infrastructure setup), profiles attacker behavior, and creates blocklists to protect customers' environments.
Vex2pdf converts CycloneDX JSON docs to PDF reports. It was designed to work with VEX reports but can also generate PDFs for standard Bill of Materials (BoMs).
BloodHound-MCP-AI is an MCP server that enables querying BloodHound using natural language queries to analyze Active Directory (AD) attack paths.
The privacy group noyb filed a GDPR complaint against Ubisoft in Austria for requiring online connections for single-player games, specifically Far Cry Primal. Its investigation revealed data being transmitted to Google, Amazon, and Datadog servers. noyb seeks penalties of up to €92 million and plans to target other gaming companies with similar practices.
Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative progress report highlights significant security improvements, with 92% of employees using phishing-resistant multifactor authentication. The company has prioritized security across all operations, standardized development pipelines, and created a UX Toolkit to reduce user-targeted attacks. This overhaul follows criticism of Microsoft's security culture after the Storm-0558 breach in 2023.
According to Verizon's 2025 Data Breach Incident Report, the company observed a 47% increase in the rate of ransomware detected in data breaches. Verizon has observed a decrease in the average payout and the percentage of organizations that paid ransoms, but also noted that small-to-medium-sized businesses were particularly hard hit. It also stated that exploited vulnerabilities, serving as an initial access vector for breaches, surged over the past year, primarily due to attackers exploiting zero-day exploits in edge devices and VPNs.
VulnCheck identified 159 actively exploited vulnerabilities in early 2025, revealing a troubling trend of quick exploitation targeting network edge devices, content management systems, and operating systems.
Microsoft is offering up to $30,000 for finding Critical or Important AI vulnerabilities, as defined by the Microsoft Vulnerability Severity Classification for AI Systems, reproducible on a product or service listed in the In Scope Services and Products.
SessionShark is a phishing kit that facilitates the theft of Office 365 credentials by circumventing multi-factor authentication through deceptive login pages and real-time notifications via Telegram.