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Despite being pioneers in design, many older designers are now dismissed as “irrelevant.” Yet their experience, adaptability, and honesty still offer valuable insights. Diverse leadership is crucial, but sidelining veterans risks losing industry-shaping wisdom.
Pinterest designer Vicki Tan's new book, "Ask This Book A Question," explores the complexities of decision-making and how to make more intentional choices. Tan, who has a background in behavioral science, argues that decisions are influenced by emotions, habits, and cognitive biases rather than just logic. She aims to "redesign" how we think about decision-making, making it more intuitive and engaging.
Thumb Zone is a feedback tool that uses user personas, interactions, and emotions to deliver clear insights, helping researchers and designers make smarter decisions.
WUI.AI uses AI to turn your long-form videos into viral short video clips. It's ideal for channels like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and more.
The Royal Opera House has been renamed the Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) as part of a comprehensive rebranding effort by DesignStudio. The new identity aims to balance the organization's physical and digital presence with a focus on accessibility, friendliness, and welcomingness. It features a new wordmark based on a traditional letterpress typeface, a bespoke ampersand, and two custom typefaces. The extended color palette includes a range of vibrant colors that can be adapted for different contexts, including social media.
Taxi Studio, a Bristol-based agency founded in 2002, has grown into a globally recognized powerhouse without ever trading its South West roots for a London postcode. The studio's success is rooted in its commitment to great design, independence, and a deep respect for the industry. With a focus on strategic design thinking and challenging the brief, Taxi Studio has built long-lasting relationships with clients and produced award-winning work.
Sound design shapes how we experience technology, guiding emotions and interactions. At Microsoft, audio teams craft immersive, meaningful soundscapes that connect users, enhance usability, and reflect brand identity. From iconic tones to voice design and the Figma Sound Library, their work elevates sound as a core element of digital design.
Its minimalist style and graphic depth mark a refreshing return to thoughtful film poster design.
Despite AI-driven fears, many believe human creativity, problem-solving, and strategy will keep designers relevant alongside evolving AI tools.
Known for its flat-pack furniture and modern design, Ikea has launched a new line of AI-powered planning tools to help customers visualize and customize their home spaces.
ARR is dying - not because subscription software is over, but because what counts as "ARR" has become a joke. Companies are shoving usage-based pricing, experimental AI spending with terrible retention, and traditional contracts all into one metric, then making critical decisions based on numbers that no longer mean what they used to. If you're blending revenue with 85% margins and 5% churn alongside stuff with 50% margins and 40% churn, you're fooling yourself. Break apart your revenue streams, measure each one properly, and in this uncertain landscape, focus on CAC payback - how quickly you get your money back matters more than ever when you can't predict how long customers will stick around.
Despite escalating trade tensions with China threatening "to fight to the end" over new tariffs, markets rebounded strongly today - but is this genuine recovery or just a dead cat bounce? The tariff impacts are playing out in stark contrast across sectors: hardware companies like Framework are pausing US sales after being forced to sell laptops at a loss, while software firms face more indirect challenges through rising data center costs and customers becoming more hesitant with their budgets.
Wing's Enterprise Tech 30 survey reveals VCs are highly interested in AI startups, with Browserbase leading the early stage list. The list highlights promising startups across stages, emphasizing AI infrastructure, coding tools, and generative AI applications. Notable mid-stage companies include Clay, Decagon, and Granola, while Cursor tops the late stage list.
Smart startups don't attack incumbents head-on - they commoditize their complements through three powerful strategies: nuking pricing power, reducing switching costs, or eating the complement entirely. The approach works especially well in today's Vertical AI landscape, where startups can use LLMs to weaken incumbent lock-in - but beware the pitfalls: don't commoditize complements critical to your own product's stickiness, and ensure your product is positioned to capture the value flow once complements become commodities.
Here's the thing most founders miss - those VC meetings aren't just about getting a check. Every investor you pitch has seen hundreds of startups, and that experience is yours to tap if you ask the right questions. Don't waste your entire slot running through slides. In a 30-minute meeting, talk for 8 minutes and listen for 22. Ask things like "How would you describe this to your partners?" or "What risks am I not seeing?" or "Have you seen companies like mine crash and burn?" These questions turn investors into free consultants and show you're confident enough to handle tough feedback.
Figma Slides' success was driven by prototyping, open collaboration, and a strong team culture. Encouraging direct user engagement and fostering a startup mindset helped maintain agility and innovation. Empowering every team member as a product owner and finding passionate believers were key strategies in effectively launching new products.
Code review for the AI era.
Colossal is a platform that helps developers find and integrate pre-built AI agents into LLM applications.
Lanceboard is a freelance platform that matches tasks to freelancers using an AI-powered ticketing system.
Market disasters are "only passing episodes" in our march forward. Remember this is temporary. Choose "alive time" over "dead time" by using crises to experiment and grow.
Arcade, an AI marketplace for jewelry design, is expanding into home goods with a rug creation tool and a "Match My Room" feature. The company announced a $25 million Series A round for growth and platform development. Founded by Mariam Naficy, Arcade leverages Midjourney and Stable Diffusion and plans to introduce new categories like ceramics and apparel.
Goldman Sachs and Lightspeed hosted an intimate dinner for gaming and AI leaders during the Game Developers Conference. The event focused on candid discussions about professional challenges and opportunities among key industry executives. It aimed to foster meaningful connections and deeper partnerships in the gaming industry.
The 3Ps framework shows how companies must evolve their go-to-market strategy through three distinct phases: Problem-Market Fit (exploration, experimentation), Product-Market Fit (focus on best customers, coordinated teams), and Platform-Market Fit (customer expansion, scaled operations).
Startups should secure the rigging and get ready for heavy weather.
Consider making "market ending moves" – ones that decisively win a market.
The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) is being sued by current and former employees for enabling a pharmacist to conduct cyberstalking due to a lack of security practices. The pharmacist used a keylogger and installed spyware on at least 400 computers in UMMC to obtain employees' usernames and passwords to access the accounts of about 80 female co-workers for nearly a decade. The hacker hacked victims' cloud accounts to steal private information and used internet-connected cameras to watch the victims in their homes.
A threat actor known as ToddyCat has exploited a vulnerability in ESET's antivirus scanner. The vulnerability could allow privileged attackers to plant a malicious DLL and execute it through the antivirus scanner. The attackers in this campaign are using a tool dubbed TCDSB, which seems to be an extension of EDRSandBlast, to alter key components of the OS and disable alerts.
On February 11, the OCC, the US's banking regulator, discovered unusual activity between a system admin account and user mailboxes. Unknown attackers had accessed over 150,000 emails since June 2023. Security analyst David Shipley called the intrusion "massively serious," posing a potential threat to national banking infrastructure. The OCC, which regulates all national banks, has hired third-party cybersecurity experts for a full investigation while asserting that its security controls meet or exceed NIST standards.
This post ranks key logs for cloud incident readiness as must-have, should-have, and nice-to-have for Microsoft, AWS, and Google. It uses real-life incident response cases to highlight the importance of enabling and retaining the right logs for security monitoring and analysis.
This article examines DLL Sideloading and using Direct Syscalls as evasion techniques to bypass Antivirus and EDR solutions by loading malicious DLLs via legitimate applications. Using hijacking and Direct Syscalls, the author shows how to create and execute a malicious DLL that evades static detection and executes shellcode on a victim machine. Elastic YARA rules and Havoc C2 are used for generating and testing shellcode, enhancing evasion against security defenses.
Cisco Talos is tracking an ongoing campaign targeting users in Ukraine with malicious LNK files that resemble war-related files to eventually download the Remcos backdoor. The LNK files run a PowerShell command to launch a decoy file and download the second-stage zip file containing the backdoor. The second stage payload then uses DLL side-loading to execute the Remcos payload. Cisco believes that this campaign is associated with Gamaredon.
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The attest-build-provenance action generates signed build provenance attestations for workflow artifacts. These attestations associate an artifact with its digest to SLSA build provenance predicate in the in-toto format, accompanied by a verifiable signature from a short-lived Sigstore certificate. The attestation generation differs based on repository visibility: public repositories use the public Sigstore instance, while private repositories utilize GitHub's private Sigstore.
ghidraMCP is a Model Context Protocol server that allows LLMs to autonomously reverse engineer applications. It exposes numerous tools from core Ghidra functionality to MCP clients.
lnav is a terminal log file viewer that supports decompressing files, detecting file format, merging files based on timestamp, tailing files, and building an index of errors and warnings.
A joint investigation by the Tech Transparency Project and the Financial Times found that at least five VPN apps present in both the App Store and Google Play store had links to a company associated with the Chinese military. Three of the apps have racked up more than a million downloads. The five apps cited were Turbo VPN, VPN Proxy Master, Thunder VPN, Snap VPN, and Signal Secure VPN (unaffiliated with the messaging app).
Python pickles are a serialization format that is commonly used in AI/ML workflows in Python. Pickles that come from unsafe sources can result in arbitrary code execution due to invalidated object loading, corrupt models, exposure of sensitive data, or lead to sensitive information disclosure due to a lack of encryption. One strategy for scanning pickle files using static code analysis is to generate a list of all Python libraries that are used in your environment, validate any pre-built rules in existing static code analysis tooling, and write custom rules in tools like Semgrep to identify pickling and unpickling methods.
A security flaw (CVE-2025-30401) in WhatsApp for Windows allowed hackers to send malicious files to users, posing a risk to those interacting with attachments. The vulnerability could trick users into opening harmful code disguised as harmless files. To stay safe, users should update WhatsApp to version 2.2450.6 or later and be cautious when opening file attachments.
The Medusa ransomware gang targeted NASCAR, demanding a $4 million ransom and threatening to release internal data if unpaid.
AWS has implemented ML-KEM, a post-quantum algorithm, to strengthen TLS connections against potential quantum computing threats.
HellCat ransomware hit four companies in the US and Europe by exploiting stolen Jira credentials obtained through infostealer malware.
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Pet influencers are seen as more trustworthy than human influencers on social media. Ads featuring animals like Nala the Cat or Bunny the button-pressing dog perform better in terms of reach and engagement compared to those featuring people. Viewers perceive pet endorsements as more sincere, especially when the messaging is aligned with immediate gratification. This is due to rising influencer fatigue and the belief that pets have no hidden agenda.
AI can translate content quickly, but it often misses local preferences. For instance, a US retailer's European expansion suffered due to a lack of cultural context. Campaigns perform better when trust signals align with local values. While AI handles tasks like translation and pricing, human insight is still key for tone and cultural nuances.
Emailing an apology with a benefit after a trivial mistake increases revenue, email open rates, and click-through rates. One study showed an apology email generated 126.9% more revenue than a non-apology one (€628.74 vs €277.13). Apologies are most effective for small technical issues and for brands not already seen as warm. This strategy backfires for major mistakes or when overused.
Many products fail not due to poor quality, but because they don't capture enough attention. A strong go-to-market strategy and well-timed launch are critical in standing out, especially in markets filled with similar AI-generated offerings. Ten common mistakes include launching too early or too often, failing to enable sales and CS teams, lacking clear differentiation, and using one-size-fits-all GTM playbooks. Phased rollouts and involving both PMs and PMMs early can reduce risk and misalignment. A successful launch depends on clear storytelling, targeted outreach, and ensuring the product solves top-priority customer problems.
Marketing teams that face tighter budgets and limited headcount should prioritize smarter workflows and tools to maintain impact. This article shares 10 efficiency-focused tactics, such as using AI for content ideation, automating routine reporting, repurposing user-generated content, and aligning teams around a shared ‘north star' metric.
AI avatars are becoming more realistic, combining facial expressions, lip sync, and body movement. Early models were limited, but newer ones like Hedra and OmniHuman can animate full characters from a single image and audio. These avatars are used by consumers for storytelling, by SMBs for ad creation, and by enterprises for training, localization, and scaling executive presence. Tools like Synthesia and ElevenLabs help make these avatars more expressive and useful across languages and use cases.
Reddit's user base is predominantly Gen Z and Millennials, with 73% of users under 44. While the platform is notoriously skeptical of marketing, 46.6% of surveyed users say they welcome brand engagement when done authentically, and another 31.1% are fine with it if it's non-intrusive. Brands that win on Reddit avoid “shilling”, share helpful expertise within relevant threads, and build their reputation on the platform over time. By doing so, they are able to effectively tap into the platform's high engagement and rich discussions for both visibility and voice-of-customer research.
Rather than sending PR packages to influencers, Tubi's marketing team focuses on superfans and niche online communities to build brand affinity. The team actively monitors social channels in real-time to identify organic brand advocates and rewards them with personalized gifts like custom Snuggies, projectors, and handwritten notes. This low-budget approach helps to promote Tubi as a fan-first brand and makes it stand out in a competitive landscape.