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The Manta L2 chain saw a $250 million decrease in total value over the past week after it enabled withdrawals for STONE and wUSDM. These two assets were used for airdrop farming during Manta's New Paradigm campaign, which rewarded users with MANTA tokens for bridging onto the chain. Co-founder Kenny Li remains optimistic, promising technical upgrades and campaigns to reignite interest in the chain.
This article is a comprehensive two-part analysis of the current state of AI and its future trajectory. Part 1 delves into the centralizing forces present in AI model creation, while Part 2 explores the potential of crypto and decentralized technologies to democratize AI and create a more open, accessible ecosystem. The author provides valuable insights into the technical, economic, and societal implications of AI's development and the critical role that blockchain and crypto can play in shaping its future.
Decentralized exchange Uniswap is the first DeFi blue-chip to deploy on the Blast Layer 2 chain. Thanks to Blast’s native yield on ETH and the USDB stablecoin, users can earn native yield on their LP positions.
This thread explains the terminology and definitions of Bitcoin’s new Runes token standard.
Meme coins primarily serve as vehicles for gambling and entertainment, but are not strictly used for speculation.
If the deal is completed at the lower end of the range, it will be the industry's biggest since the recent crypto winter slump.
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Apple is considering using Baidu's Ernie and other third-party AI engines to enhance its capabilities. This could lead to challenges in consistency and privacy concerns due to cloud reliance and Ernie's alleged ties to the People's Liberation Army cyber warfare division. It could also pose a significant hurdle in delivering a unique user experience in the competitive AI market.
Harper Collins designers are refocusing their skills to reduce the publishing house's carbon footprint by tweaking fonts, layouts, and ink. They have successfully saved 245.6 million pages and 5,618 trees to date. Using a mix of experience and intuition, they have applied their sustainable design methods to their entire book range, meticulously reducing pages by multiples of 16 and ensuring a seamless reading experience for their consumers.
Microsoft wants to make generative AI applications more secure and trustworthy with new tools in Azure AI that help product builders deal with prompt injection attacks, hallucinations, and content risks. These include Prompt Shields to detect and block direct and indirect prompt injection attacks, Groundedness Detection to identify text-based hallucinations, and Safety System Message Templates to help mitigate misuse and harmful content. Azure AI Studio lets organizations measure an AI application's susceptibility to many threats.
Starting a career in user experience research poses challenges. This article shares ten crucial steps to enhance research impact, from using "risk" as a research guide to ensuring stakeholder alignment.
AI technology necessitates deliberate design rather than being perceived as magical, emphasizing the importance of thoughtful implementation. Prompt engineering involves programming a versatile model for specific tasks, requiring comprehension of user requirements and iterative refinement based on insights from both users and the model.
Like great artists, you must embrace the journey of abstraction and systematically refine and distill an artifact down to its purest essence. Move incrementally towards meaningful simplicity rather than jumping straight to the end, as Picasso did. This iterative process benefits you because you're gaining a deeper understanding of your work and the audience. After all, it's not jarring at the end and feels more natural.
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AI won’t replace designers. However, it may be time for designers to reinforce the message of who they are and what they do. Unlike AI, designers offer personal service and better communication and pay attention to details.
The team behind Linear, a modern software development planning app, introduced a more cohesive, timeless UI. This case study reveals how they started with concept exploration, created prototypes, tested early, and shipped a complete redesign while also working on other projects.
Figma lets designers set text styles and color variables separately without a direct link between them, which can be a problem. This article proposes a seamless integration of color variables into text styles, allowing designers to assign specific color variables to text styles directly within Figma. Color variables in text styles improve consistency and adherence to color guidelines, streamline design tasks, and free up time for creativity.
One of India's fastest-growing and largest financial services companies, Razorpay, explains how it adopted and measured design systems, the challenges it faced in cross-functional collaboration, how it improved team workflows, and how Figma has increased productivity and design system adoption.
One of CSS' major flaws is creating and managing CSS files and ensuring styles only apply to intended elements - combining CSS and HTML in one file allows for easier control.
Figma now supports scoping, so it might be best to skip semantic colors altogether.
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This post outlines trends in startup valuations, noting increases in median valuations for Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds despite a decrease in the number of rounds completed. It attributes the rise in valuations to increased investment in AI startups and predicts a slight improvement in Q1 2024 volume compared to the previous quarter.
The rise of LLMs could disrupt the financial services data market historically dominated by companies like Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk, which built their success on aggregating and analyzing hard-to-access data. There is potential for new entrants to leverage LLMs to access and analyze previously fragmented financial data and challenge established market leaders by following a playbook of data aggregation, standardization, and offering enhanced services.
China and the US are engaged in parallel technology races, with China aiming for independence in strategic high-end capabilities while the US focuses on onshoring domestic manufacturing and containing China's rise. While China has surpassed the West in low-end consumer technologies, the high-end battle is still ongoing, with the US leading in AI but China making rapid progress in chip design, manufacturing, and electric vehicles as it seeks to overcome a sluggish economy and Western sanctions.
Here’s a comprehensive guide for first-time startup founders that offers practical advice from repeat founders and startup experts on key aspects of building a business, such as identifying a compelling problem to solve, managing ego, hiring for fit, understanding your target customer, balancing feedback, and maintaining financial health. It emphasizes the importance of learning from both successes and failures, adapting leadership styles, and staying focused on the core functional benefits of the product to achieve success.
As companies grow, they often fall into four detrimental habits that obscure their messaging: targeting too broad an audience, choosing inappropriate representatives for their product, focusing on indirect benefits rather than direct product features, and emphasizing the founder's vision over the product's current capabilities. These practices collectively undermine the clarity and effectiveness of a company's communication, necessitating a conscious effort to identify and rectify these habits to maintain message integrity.
Akash Bajwa, an investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, discusses the significance of content marketing in establishing a company's expertise and positioning, particularly through original research and data, which greatly influences B2B buyers' decisions and trust in a brand. This approach not only aids in conveying a company's authority in its field, but also serves as a strategic tool for internal clarity and decision-making, as demonstrated by companies like GitGuardian with its annual reports.
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Rubrik, a data security and backup company, has filed for an IPO after raising $1.2B to date at a $4B valuation in 2021. While unprofitable with increasing losses, Rubrik has a strong product, $784M in ARR growing 47% YoY, 6,100 customers, 133% net dollar retention, and is riding tailwinds from exploding data growth and a shift to the cloud.
This article discusses the shift in SEO strategies towards optimizing for user satisfaction by understanding and leveraging human biases and the non-linear, complex purchase journey known as the "Messy Middle." It emphasizes the importance of providing comprehensive information, utilizing internal linking for exploration and evaluation, and recognizing the role of human biases in influencing online purchasing decisions.
Amy Webb, a renowned author and professor, delivered a session at SXSW this year. She highlighted the current "technology supercycle" that is reshaping society and the economy, which is defined by the convergence of AI, biotech, and connected smart devices. This convergence is reshaping how humans engage with the physical world around them. To succeed in this supercycle, Webb suggests that founders need to stay informed of the latest tech, plan for the long term, and actively engage in the conversation.
Pitching ROI in sales is ineffective and can backfire, as executives often write off salespeople who make naive claims about their product's financial return.
YC companies are defying the notion that building AI models requires immense resources by training or fine-tuning their own foundation models with YC's support, achieving remarkable feats like generating professional music and designing novel proteins within just three months.
Apple has introduced a new "Spatial Persona" feature for Vision Pro that aims to create the illusion of users being in the same physical space, with each user able to control their own view and positioning of objects, enhanced by spatial audio.
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A data breach at PandaBuy, an online shopping platform, has exposed the personal information of over 1.3 million customers. Two threat actors allegedly exploited multiple vulnerabilities to gain access. The leaked data includes usernames, names, phone numbers, emails, IP addresses, order details, addresses, and more.
This article provides a deep dive into a new critical vulnerability in the open-source AI framework Ray. The vulnerability is due to a lack of authorization in the Jobs API that is disputed and thus unpatched. The article goes in-depth into the framework, the vulnerability, the IoCs, and the impact of exploitation.
Omni Hotels has been experiencing a widespread outage affecting its reservation, hotel room door lock, and point of sale systems since Friday. All locations are open and accepting new customers but front desk employees have been experiencing widespread issues. Omni Hotels hasn't released any details on the cause, but internal IT employees have said that services are being built from scratch.
Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant is an intentionally vulnerable API service designed as a learning and training platform for developers, ethical hackers, and security engineers. It covers popular API vulnerabilities, including OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks, providing an interactive environment to identify and fix vulnerabilities, exploit them manually or through automation tools, and test security mechanisms.
The backdoor in the widely-used open-source xz compression library could have led to a significant security disaster had it not been fortuitously detected by a curious Microsoft engineer investigating latency issues. This near-miss scenario has raised alarms about the potential for similar undetected compromises in software infrastructure. This post analyzes the current state of open source software.
This post details a method that uses Tailscale to establish a C2 on a Kubernetes node. In this scenario, an attacker has obtained time limited cluster-admin credentials and wants to utilize those credentials to establish persistence. The described attack involves deploying Tailscale on the node via containerd or a static manifest and utilizing Tailscale ACLs to only allow communication from C2 controller nodes to the infected bot nodes.
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Zafran connects to both vulnerability data and the organization’s security controls. It analyzes risk while taking into account controls’ efficacy as well as exploitability factors.
Snyk Maven Plugin tests and monitors Maven dependencies for vulnerabilities.