Aurascape helps corporate IT departments monitor AI employee usage across thousands of AI applications—both approved and unauthorized. The technology tracks interactions, decodes prompt-response data, and evaluates security risks, even for less common AI tools.
Companies with cyber insurance face ransomware demands 2.8 times higher than uninsured victims, as criminals specifically search for insurance policies during attacks. Insured victims pay more often (44% vs 24%) and pay significantly larger amounts.
SIEM provider RunReveal released an MCP server for use with its product. In this post, RunReveal provides insights into some ways that its customers are using the MCP server for threat hunting with Cursor, investigating GuardDuty alerts, and tuning and testing alerts. RunReveal believes that enriching and standardizing data to make it easier for LLMs to query is the future of its product.
This blog post focuses on kernel-mode registry objects essential for runtime hive management. It meticulously examines key internal structures, including _CMHIVE, _HHIVE, memory mapping mechanisms, cell maps, and key control blocks that collectively enable registry functionality like transaction management and synchronization. The post provides detailed explanations of these previously undocumented structures based on reverse engineering of Windows Server 2019, noting these findings apply to Windows 11 as well.
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Chris Krebs resigned from SentinelOne after his security clearance was revoked and a presidential order was issued to review CISA's conduct under his leadership.
Microsoft has advised Windows 11 users of blue screen crashes following recent updates and suggests using Known Issue Rollback or Group Policy for fixes - deployment guidance is available on its support website.
CPC inflation is real, but its magnitude depends on the data source: Google's official stats suggest muted increases, while account-level data reveals double-digit annual growth in sectors like legal and travel. WordStream's industry benchmarks, adjusted for anomalies, show that 52% of sectors now experience CPC growth exceeding the 4.24% US inflation rate.
YouTube's push into connected TV and Shorts is forcing creators to manage both high-cost, long-form “TV-style” content and less-monetizable short-form videos. YouTube now dominates TV viewership and is leaning into episodic formats. Creators say Shorts boost reach, but don't deliver strong revenue or deep audience bonds. Brands like Jones Road are treating YouTube more like a storytelling platform than a profit driver, often needing sponsors to fund production. Meanwhile, competition from TV networks and costly production is squeezing creators trying to keep up across formats.
OpenAI is reportedly developing a social media app potentially integrated with ChatGPT centered around image generation. The app could help OpenAI collect real-time content, similar to Musk's xAI-Grok setup with X.
Instead of targeting individual keywords, AEO focuses on clusters of related questions with similar intent, creating pages that address hundreds of them at once. Like traditional SEO, only a small percentage of strategies drive meaningful impact. The emphasis should be on testing, validating, and reproducing high-performing tactics rather than wasting time on technical audits or vanity metrics. With AI chat interfaces now displaying links and driving traffic, brands can influence these answers if they focus on product-related questions, create content that fills key gaps, and optimize for visibility in citations used by LLMs.
This article shows how startups are experimenting across pricing, onboarding, user engagement, and GTM roles. Lovable's “Launched” platform creates a loop of user-generated content and product exposure by embedding editing CTAs in community-submitted apps. FirmPilot defines the emerging “GTM Engineer” role to drive sales-assisted growth through automation, experimentation, and buyer journey optimization. Decagon introduced dual pricing options (per conversation or per resolution) to align AI agent costs with perceived value.
Reddit Answers lets users instantly receive summarized human opinions from Reddit discussions, acting as a supplement to traditional search engines. The tool presents smart overviews of popular Reddit threads alongside direct links, making sentiment mining fast and structured.
MagicPost is an AI LinkedIn post generator. It can turn URLs into LinkedIn posts, select post types for each use, and edit and optimize generated posts. It also has a scheduling tool for future posts, along with analytics to track engagement.
Liquid Death's exit from the UK was not a branding failure but a move driven by reduced margins after shifting manufacturing to the US. Despite generating over $2M in its first year with minimal marketing, the brand lacked the local foundation it had in the US. Entering retail without established demand weakened its impact. Branding alone was not enough. Product, pricing, placement, and promotion all matter. Brands should be built for real consumers, not for industry buzz or creative recognition alone.
Attio positions itself as the first truly AI-native CRM, branding its platform as an intelligent command center rather than a passive data tool. It differentiates from legacy CRMs by embedding AI into its core architecture, enabling fluid, context-rich automation across workflows. By combining structured CRM data with unstructured inputs like calls and emails, it delivers a level of contextual intelligence that reinforces its role as the operational heart of GTM teams. Attio's focus on seamless, delightful user experiences—through features like self-naming workflows and smart email handling—strengthens its identity as a product built for the modern, AI-powered era.
Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. But getting that kind of coverage—and staying there—is hard and pricey for any size team.
Pinterest successfully migrated 3.7 million lines of code from Flow to TypeScript over eight months. The migration used a "big bang" approach using codemods and had three phases: setup, conversion, and integration. Pinterest validated the migration through detailed testing, including daily automated tests, manual testing, and byte-for-byte comparisons of transpiled JavaScript.
`useMemo` is often a better choice than `React.memo` for optimizing component rendering in React. `useMemo` provides more explicit dependency tracking, makes optimizations visible at the usage site, and has granular control.
AI tools are the most useful for experienced devs as a force multiplier. Experienced devs with AI can learn new concepts quicker and overcome knowledge gaps faster, allowing them to work faster with less errors.
Many users and distributors of Meta's Llama models are likely violating the Llama Community License. These violations include failing to prominently display "Built with Llama" on related products/services and not including "Llama" at the beginning of fine-tuned model names.
The OpenAI Codex CLI is an experimental, open-source coding agent for devs who work in the terminal. It provides ChatGPT-like reasoning with the ability to run code and manipulate files.
OpenAI has new models, o3 and o4-mini, that are more intelligent and efficient than previous versions like o1 and o3-mini. These models also have improved safety features, including a rebuilt safety training data and system-level mitigations.
Astro 5.7 has been released. The Experimental Fonts API allows for easy integration and optimization of fonts from various providers. The stable Sessions API allows for secure server-side storage of user data, supporting type-safety and cookie-less options with various storage drivers. SVG components are now natively supported, allowing direct import and use of SVG files as components within Astro projects.
Tract was a UK startup trying to address the housing crisis by improving the planning permission process. It explored various business models, including site sourcing, land appraisal, land promotion, and an AI-powered planning document editor, but struggled with a conservative market, complex land promotion, and low willingness to pay. The founders concluded that the British market's limitations made venture-backed disruption difficult and decided to shut down the company and return capital to investors.
OpenAI is reportedly in discussions to acquire Windsurf, an AI-powered code editor with a VSCode extension, for around $3 billion. Windsurf, a competitor to other AI coding tools like Cursor and offerings from Microsoft and Anthropic, is VC-backed and was recently valued at $2.85 billion.
Plandex is an open-source, terminal-based AI coding agent designed for large, real-world projects with features like smart context management, configurable autonomy, and multi-provider model integration.
Delve went viral for pulling all-nighters to ship agents for SOC 2 that auto-collect all the evidence you need to pass an audit. Get compliant in 15 hours and close your next deal with Delve. Here are the results:
OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social media network. The company currently has an internal prototype that contains a social feed focused on ChatGPT's image generation. It is unknown whether the company plans to launch the social network as a standalone app or if it plans to integrate it within the ChatGPT app. Having a social media app would allow OpenAI to access real-time data to contain its AI models.
Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning Instagram out of Meta in 2018 due to concerns about the rising threat of antitrust litigation against Facebook. He had predicted that there would be a non-trivial chance that Meta would be forced to spin out Instagram and WhatsApp in the next 5-10 years. The company is currently being accused of monopolizing the social networking market - Instagram and WhatsApp are at the heart of the antitrust trial, which seeks to cleave the apps from Meta as a possible remedy. Meta disputes the allegations and says that regulators are failing to acknowledge a number of rivals.
Lipoproteins are a type of cholesterol that is undetected by routine tests and undeterred by existing drugs, diet, or exercise. People with high levels of the cholesterol are at extremely high risk of cholesterol buildup in their arteries, which raises their odds of heart attack, stroke, and early death from cardiovascular problems. Eli Lilly has developed a drug called lepodisiran that dramatically reduced levels of lipoproteins for up to one year. The effects waned after a year but only slightly.
Scientists captured rare footage of a colossal squid on March 9 off the South Sandwich Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The observed colossal squid was a juvenile and not fully grown at about a foot long - mature individuals grow to around 23 feet long and weigh over 1,100 pounds. It was found swimming at around 1,968 feet beneath the surface. This is the first confirmed live observation of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. Video of the young squid is available in the article.
Many engineering managers, directors, heads of engineering and startups, and mid-sized companies are reporting that they are currently finding it harder to hire than ever. Some previously common hiring approaches, like coding problems and take-home exercises, no longer work. Candidates are likely to inevitably hit potholes that AI assistants are able to fix eventually. Some companies are starting to introduce more in-person processes despite the cost.
Building a fully functioning code-editing agent is easy. This post shows how to build a small yet highly impressive agent in less than 400 lines of code, most of which is boilerplate. It explains how to use the Anthropic Go SDK to access Claude, what tools are, and how to access them. The post covers essentially all there is to the inner loop of a code-editing agent.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed deleting all friends lists to get people to use Facebook more in 2022. The idea was to wipe the lists and have everyone start again. It was discussed over emails but was never implemented. The company has taken a different approach to revitalizing the Facebook experience lately by introducing a revamped friends tab that doesn't show algorithmic content to users.
Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai, complicating Rippling's efforts to serve Buoaziz over a lawsuit that accuses him of bribing a Rippling employee to spy on the company. The UAE has a reputation for being a safe haven for those wanting to avoid extradition. Its legal environment makes extradition very difficult, although the country has told the media it is committed to working with international partners on law enforcement and recently stepped up extraditions of some long-wanted criminals. Deel has responded to the lawsuit by denying all wrongdoing.
Pursuing an IPO in the current climate is surprising, even at an exploratory level, but just because the company is working on an IPO doesn't mean it will proceed in the usual timeline.
MCP-Shield scans installed Model Context Protocol servers to detect vulnerabilities like tool poisoning attacks, exfiltration channels, and cross-origin escalations.