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AI's real value lies beyond flashy outputs like art or essays. It can optimize business decisions by processing unstructured information flows. AI enables better decision-making and scalability by enhancing how organizations capture, share, and interpret information. Businesses should use AI to augment expertise, not just generate content.
More than just a design step, prototyping is a mindset of exploration and learning. In this post, Charlota Blunarova demonstrates how prototypes can test ideas, spark feedback, and shape life decisions. She highlights how low-fidelity tools and curiosity help guide choices before committing to a final version, from cardboard artifacts to AI-assisted brand sprints.
Web SVG is a collection of excellent SVG images and resources to help you create beautiful designs.
Readdy helps you turn your product requirements into beautiful, professional designs in minutes.
Transform any webpage into a GeoCities-style page from the 90s with a pinch of AI.
Wildish & Co. developed a warm, neighborly brand identity for Ding, a home repair service, using a house-shaped mascot, vibrant colors, and friendly typography. The design aims to make home maintenance feel approachable and personal, setting Ding apart from competitors.
Mid-Century Modern Designers is a new book profiling 300 iconic and lesser-known figures who shaped the midcentury movement.
Dropcity has opened with Prison Times, a provocative exhibition revealing how design shapes prison life.
Koto rebranded Beaconstac as Uniqode, positioning it as an enterprise-ready leader in QR technology.
The US trade deficit hit near-record levels in February (-$123B) as businesses rushed imports before new tariffs took effect. This surge is likely temporary - once tariffs are implemented, expect a big reversal as higher prices dampen demand for foreign goods. For startups, this economic shift presents both challenges and opportunities: supply chains will face disruption and imported components will become more expensive, potentially creating inflation pressure across sectors.
High-profile IPOs from fintech Klarna and ticket marketplace StubHub have been paused following market turmoil caused by Trump's new tariffs. Both startups aimed to raise over $1 billion but delayed investor roadshows as public markets tumbled.
Lost deals aren't dead forever - they're often just waiting for the right moment to reopen. First, understand why each opportunity died through CRM data or call recordings, then watch for triggers like new decision-makers, funding rounds, or changing business needs that make timing right. When ready, execute a structured 25-day outreach: start with day 1's triple-touch across LinkedIn, phone, and email, then progress through educational content about new features on day 6, expand to other buying committee members by day 8, send personalized video demos by day 15, and finish with an open-ended goodbye that keeps the door ajar for when they inevitably return to the market.
The difference between failing "low price" strategies and wildly successful ones like Amazon, Costco, Southwest, and Vanguard isn't just charging less - it's creating a comprehensive strategic system where "low price" emerges naturally from deliberate trade-offs. These companies didn't just cut margins. Instead, they built unique business models with intentional weaknesses that competitors couldn't copy.
Most startups treat analytics like firefighting—only analyzing data when metrics break. Instead, founders should shift to proactive "offensive analysis," regularly identifying what's working, why, and how to amplify it, turning insights into strategic growth initiatives. To embed more “offense” into your culture, reserve dedicated team time weekly, elevate data teams as strategic partners, and intentionally celebrate proactive wins.
The Open Source AI Toolkit for TypeScript by Vercel.
Digits is an AI-powered accounting platform with real-time insights, automated bookkeeping, and seamless bill pay.
Skarbe is a CRM-free sales platform that automates deal tracking, follow-ups, and meeting insights.
The Enterprise Tech 30 list highlights Browserbase, Clay, Cursor, and Databricks as top companies. This discussion covers notable snubs, newcomers, and lessons from past lists. Check out the full conversation with Wing's Peter Wagner for detailed insights.
Business skills are honed through practical experience, not just by consuming content. You improve by actively hiring, building products, and engaging in business activities. Similar to learning music or sports, success in business requires hands-on practice to build muscle memory.
Nexthop AI has secured $110 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others. The company provides custom networking solutions and AI-powered network operating systems for hyperscalers. This funding round enables Nexthop AI to strengthen its partnerships with cloud companies to enhance infrastructure efficiency.
Paris-based VC firm Founders Future, which manages €300 million in assets, has sold a 25% stake in its holding company to investors like MACSF and the Dassault family.
Your buyer's boss will never use your app, so how will they know it's worth the $100K they spent?
This downturn may feel different from previous ones, but the winning strategy remains the same - identify specific patterns affecting your business, and improve what's in your control while accepting what isn't.
This Gartner report [4] provides critical guidance for navigating today's WAAP landscape, including:
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Modern applications and APIs are fueling rapid digital transformation—but they're also expanding attack surfaces. As threats evolve, enterprises must rethink their web application and API
The Port of Seattle experienced a ransomware attack in August 2024 that disrupted its websites and phone systems, including Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The breach affected the personal data of 90,000 individuals, prompting the Port to offer free credit monitoring and notify those impacted. The responsible group, Rhysida, has previously targeted multiple industries and organizations.
Oracle is warning customers that a hacker broke into a computing system twice in one month. Customer data, including login data, was stolen from a legacy environment that has not been used for eight years. However, customer log-in credentials from as recently as 2024 were stolen.
Researchers from Socket have discovered a malicious PyPi package called disgrasya. The tool abuses legitimate WooCommerce sites to validate cards using an attacker-controlled site masquerading as CyberSource. This package is particularly notable in that it does not abuse typosquatting or any other evasion technique but is instead overtly malicious.
Google launched a stable version of its model-signing library with NVIDIA and HiddenLayer to secure the machine learning supply chain. The library enables users to verify that a model used in an application is the one created by developers using digital signatures like those from Sigstore. This counters security threats from the multi-stage ML development (training, fine-tuning, and deployment), where malicious actors can tamper with models via weight alterations, backdoors, or code injection.
PowerUserAccess is a broad managed permission for AWS that explicitly restricts a user's access to some actions related to IAM, Organizations, and Account. Attackers can often accomplish one-time goals such as crypto mining or ransomware with PowerUserAccess but would require AdministratorAccess to establish persistence. However, in practice, attackers can often find an overly permissive resource to exploit to escalate privileges due to PowerUserAccess violating the principle of least privilege.
Signature verification and image signing enhance supply chain resiliency by ensuring image integrity. DataDog created a signing service for signing images to facilitate adoption across varied CI/CD processes that stored signatures in an OCI-compliant registry and verified these signatures. It managed signature verification during image pulls as a containerd plugin rather than through an admission webhook to prevent cluster-level dependencies in the Kubernetes control plane's hot path.
Google has launched Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental AI model that boosts cybersecurity. It merges advanced features with real-time knowledge, outperforming other models in key benchmarks. Sec-Gemini v1 empowers defenders with detailed threat analysis and vulnerability insights.
Enola is a Golang CLI tool that helps you find accounts by username across social media services.
Detectraptor is a repository to share detection content and queries for Velociraptor.
A researcher used ChatGPT-4o to quickly create a fake passport realistic enough to fool automated KYC systems. This raises concerns about the security of relying solely on photo-based verification methods. Experts suggest upgrading to digitally verified identity solutions to combat the growing threat of identity theft.
Microsoft has credited EncryptHub for uncovering Windows security flaws, highlighting a conflicted figure in cybersecurity and cybercrime. EncryptHub, or SkorikARI, was linked to multiple malware campaigns against high-value targets. Despite its technical skill, EncryptHub's inadequate security practices ultimately led to exposure and arrest during the Russo-Ukrainian war.
China's National Internet censor just announced new rules requiring all AI-generated content to include clearly visible or audible watermarks to indicate that it is AI-generated. Users can omit the label in some circumstances, but the AI generator must warn users of the requirement and log any requests to ignore it. These regulations will go into effect on September 1.
OpenAI is experimenting with a watermark feature for its Image Generation model in ChatGPT-4o to prevent unauthorized use of images.
The security report details a recent malware attack in which North Korean threat actors used fake recruitment emails from Dev.to to distribute BeaverTail and Tropidoor malware, which steals information, downloads additional payloads, and provides backdoor access.
International cybersecurity agencies, including the NSA and FBI, warn about the national security threat posed by Fast Flux, a technique used to hide malicious server locations.
Trump has granted a second 75-day extension to TikTok's US sell-off deadline despite the app technically being banned under existing law. The proposed deal would spin off TikTok's US operations while leasing its algorithm. The new ownership structure would leave ByteDance with a 19.9% stake. China has already rejected the terms.
Tariffs targeting Chinese imports won't hit digital goods directly, but they're already impacting digital advertising. Meta, Amazon, and Google are expected to lose ad revenue as Chinese advertisers retreat amid new 54% tariffs. Meta alone generates an estimated $10B from foreign advertisers targeting US users, much of it from China.
Wiz launched a fake toy store called "CISOtopia" for cybersecurity professionals on April Fools' Day 2023. It attracted 46K+ visitors in 24 hours and reached Reddit's homepage with 500K views. Over 3.5K people tried to buy the fictional toys, and more than 10 CISOs shared it organically. The campaign's success pointed to a clear marketing approach - use a familiar format tailored to a niche audience with insider humor.
Maturity models help companies shift from product feature selling to value-based conversations by outlining clear stages of customer growth and business outcomes. When used properly, they drive executive engagement, improve cross-team alignment, and become powerful demand generation tools. Case studies from BEA Systems, MeridianLink, and Marketo show that maturity frameworks can increase qualified leads, accelerate adoption, and deepen C-suite conversations. Companies using this approach report 35% higher average contract value, 30% shorter sales cycles, and double the likelihood of account expansion.
Spotify is expanding its ad tools with the full launch of its ad exchange, SAX, which supports programmatic buying of audio, video, and display ads. Podcast ads will follow later this quarter. A new generative AI tool lets advertisers create audio ads, already used by 4 in 10 audio ad creators. Spotify also introduced enhanced targeting, tracking, and lower-funnel options like App Installs and Website Traffic Objectives.
Performance alone isn't enough to get promoted in product marketing - you need strategy, visibility, and timing. Build influence by mapping key stakeholders, understanding their goals, and aligning your work to solve their problems. Actively share your impact throughout projects using a structured "socialization strategy." Don't wait for review time - promotion decisions are made months in advance, so align with your manager early and regularly. When you ask, back it with proof, timing it around major wins or new responsibilities to strengthen your case.