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GENERATE STUDIO-QUALITY EXPLAINER VIDEOS

Lunair is the fastest way to add a video to your landing page. It's as easy as writing, and users have total creative control.

AI DESIGN AGENT FOR PRODUCT TEAMS

Figr is the first design agent that actually understands your product. Drop in context like industry benchmarks, user feedback, product flow, and design systems to get production-ready UX backed by real app patterns.

THE NEXT RENAISSANCE: WHY CREATIVITY IS THE CURRENCY OF THE AI AGE

As AI automates repetitive tasks, human creativity, imagination, and the ability to ask better questions are becoming the most valuable professional assets. The World Economic Forum projects 92 million jobs displaced by 2030 but 170 million new roles created, with creative thinking among the fastest-growing skills in demand. Rather than competing with machines, the next decade will reward those who leverage AI for analytical tasks while applying uniquely human qualities like intuition, empathy, and visionary thinking.

BUILD SOMETHING SILLY

AI tools now let non-developers build custom software. This author rebuilt a website and created a personal invoicing tool using Cursor and Claude, replacing paid SaaS subscriptions. Wall Street has taken notice too, with SaaS stocks losing $285 billion after Anthropic released new AI tools, signaling a shift in how individuals and small businesses approach software. The key takeaway isn't any specific tool, but the mindset shift from "what should I subscribe to?" to "could I build this myself?" — a muscle best developed by starting small.

FILL YOUR OWN CUP WITH WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY

To balance creativity with performance demands, intentionally protect two or three high-energy time blocks each week for meaningful, focused work—shielding them from meetings and inbox noise—so creativity becomes a structured priority rather than an indulgence, ultimately improving both impact and productivity.

FROM APPLE TO YOUTUBE: THESE LOGOS ARE A LESSON IN LONGEVITY

Brands like Twinings, Coca-Cola, Nike, Apple, and YouTube prove that the most powerful logos endure by resisting change rather than chasing trends.

HOW EARLY ACCESSIBILITY SOLUTIONS EVOLVED INTO CORE UX DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Many widely used innovations — from typewriters and audiobooks to touchscreens and GPS — originated as accessibility solutions for people with disabilities before gaining mainstream adoption.

FROM DOCTOR WHO TO STAR WARS, HOW ARTIST MATTHEW SAVAGE HAS SHAPED STRIKING ON-SCREEN WORLDS

Concept designer Matthew Savage built his career from entry-level film roles to major productions like Alien: Romulus and Star Wars by grounding imaginative sci-fi designs in real-world function, embracing 3D workflows, and developing a distinctive creative voice shaped by broad life experience.

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I INTERCEPTED 3,177 API CALLS ACROSS 4 AI CODING TOOLS. HERE'S WHAT'S ACTUALLY FILLING YOUR CONTEXT WINDOW.

Four AI coding tools had their context windows and token usage analyzed while fixing a specific bug in Express.js. Despite all tools successfully solving the bug, their token consumption varied a lot, with Gemini Pro using up to 350,000 tokens compared to Claude Opus's 23,000. Each tool used a distinct strategy: Opus was surgical but carried high tool definition overhead, Sonnet was methodical, Codex efficiently used Unix-like commands, and Gemini aggressively dumped vast amounts of data into its context.

YOUR AGENT FRAMEWORK IS JUST A BAD CLONE OF ELIXIR: CONCURRENCY LESSONS FROM TELECOM TO AI

Modern AI agent frameworks in Python and TypeScript are similar to the Elixir/Erlang BEAM virtual machine, which solved similar concurrency and fault-recovery challenges for telecom in 1986. The BEAM's actor model has features like isolated lightweight processes, message passing, and supervision trees, well-suited for the long-lived, non-deterministic interactions of AI agents.

THE END TO A 7.5-YEAR CAREER

This DevRel engineer is ending a 7.5-year career at Google after being forcibly re-organized onto a new team focused on AI products, which conflicted with her moral values and long-standing dedication to Firebase. This new role also involved a manager with whom she felt psychologically unsafe and untrusting. She took severance to leave.

STOP THINKING OF AI AS A COWORKER. IT'S AN EXOSKELETON

AI should be conceptualized as an exoskeleton that amplifies human capabilities, rather than an autonomous coworker. Physical exoskeletons enhance strength, reduce injuries, and improve endurance in fields like manufacturing and military, without replacing the human operator. AI should be used the same way.

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GEMINI 3.1 PRO: A SMARTER MODEL FOR YOUR MOST COMPLEX TASKS

Google has released Gemini 3.1 Pro, an upgraded core intelligence model designed for complex problem-solving and advanced reasoning. This new version has more than double the reasoning performance of Gemini 3 Pro, and it is specifically built for tasks where simple answers are insufficient.

CMUX

cmux is a native macOS terminal application built with Swift and AppKit that extends the Ghostty experience with vertical tabs and GPU acceleration. It has an intelligent notification system that visually alerts users when AI coding agents require attention, along with a sidebar displaying vital context like git branches and listening ports.

STEP 3.5 FLASH

Step 3.5 Flash is a frontier open-source foundation model by StepFun that offers efficient, high-speed reasoning and agentic capabilities with tool use, long context, and local deployment.

MEASURING AI AGENT AUTONOMY IN PRACTICE

Anthropic's research analyzed millions of human-AI agent interactions across Claude Code and its public API to understand how agents are used in real-world contexts. It found that agents like Claude Code operate autonomously for longer periods, and experienced users grant them more independence (auto-approving more). Claude Code also proactively pauses for clarification more often than humans interrupt it on complex tasks.

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE

AI systems like Aristotle solve complex mathematical proofs, while tools like OpenClaw reduce software development tasks from days to minutes. This exponential feedback loop is similar to the Industrial Revolution, requiring a fundamental rethink of economic structures to manage rapid automation.

WHEN CHANGE BECOMES CHEAPER THAN COMMITMENT

AI accelerates software divergence, making change cheaper than commitment.

AI MAKES YOU BORING

Relying on AI for creative and intellectual work bypasses the deep engagement and prolonged thought processes necessary for originality, ultimately leading to shallow ideas and uninteresting projects.

FAREWELL, RUST

A solo founder recounts his decision to migrate his web application from Rust to Node.js due to Rust's current limitations in web-specific features, ecosystem maturity, and compilation speed.

FFF.NVIM

fff.nvim is a Neovim plugin that is a fast file finder, using a dedicated Rust backend for typo-resistant fuzzy search, live grep, Git status integration, and image previews.

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FUNDRAISING STARTS BEFORE YOU NEED CAPITAL

Most founders lose the fundraising game by waiting until they need money to start pitching. The real process begins with building an investor prospect list and seeking feedback rather than capital to establish early relationships. By sending monthly updates and executing publicly, founders create scarcity and FOMO, often securing commitments before a round even officially opens.

POWER IN THE AGE OF INTELLIGENCE

Tech companies like Stripe, SpaceX, and Base Power illustrate the "winner takes more" trend, where firms leverage technological advancements to dominate industries. The focus shifts from protecting software moats to identifying industry constraints, breaking them, and seizing "High Ground" for expansion. As technology progresses, companies controlling scarce assets benefit the most, driving increased economic concentration and growth opportunities.

THE SOFTWARE SHAKEOUT: WHAT IS DURABLE AND WHAT IS NOT IN THE AGE OF AI?

$1T in software market cap evaporated in three weeks. This framework sorts the survivors from the dead. Software in the path of doing work (CrowdStrike, Stripe, Shopify) is durable. Software that generates paperwork about work (DocuSign, Monday.com, Zendesk) gets replaced by AI that just does it. The scary middle - Atlassian, Salesforce, HubSpot - is eroding slowly but the cliff is coming. If you're building a product that humans fill out so other humans can read, rethink the entire premise before your next board meeting.

HIRING FOR A NEW ROLE/FUNCTION FOR YOUR FIRST TIME? DO THIS FIRST.

A bad first hire in a new function costs you a year. The fix takes one week. Before you write the JD, do 5-10 calibration calls with people who already hold the role at companies one stage ahead of yours. You'll learn what "great" actually looks like, what comp is real, and which interview questions actually separate the best from the mediocre. Most founders skip this step and end up hiring on vibes. Don't be that founder.

ADVICE WE REJECTED TO BECOME ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING START-UPS EVER

Deel co-founder Shuooo Wang details how the company scaled by ignoring traditional startup "best practices," such as hiring a VP of Sales early or focusing on the SF talent pool. Instead, Deel prioritized founder-led sales to maintain customer context, hired for traits over pedigree, and invested in 100+ local entities to build a moat around compliance and reliability. By favoring frugality and vertical M&A over high burn, the company leveraged first-principles thinking to become one of the fastest-growing startups.

AGAINST “AGAINST TASTE”

Taste is informed judgment built through experience rather than passive curation. True taste is exercised during the creation process through invisible, compounded decisions that lead to elegance and coherence. While AI can generate outputs, humans remain the essential definers of quality, setting the standards and directions that tools cannot shortcut.

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LAYERS

AI marketing agents that analyze your product and run growth campaigns.

CONWAY

Autonomous AI agent infrastructure layer.

THERE IS NO PRODUCT

If you remove the difficulty, you remove the product. If it only takes a weekend to build a product, then anyone else could do it in a weekend, too. You can't just add features and hope the market comes back, because there's no core product. Some software will still be an asset, but most of it will become inventory, and every model generation will push that line further.

IN DEFENSE OF VERTICAL SOFTWARE

The industry is currently asking why vertical software needs to exist when AI companies are pouring billions of dollars into building the most powerful general-purpose AI systems in the world. Enterprise software is just code, but that's not where the value of software comes from. The value of enterprise software comes from understanding the process and the organization well enough to make the software do exactly the right thing. Process engineering will continue to be the foundational advantage or vertical software.

WHY CEOS' AI HYPE REALLY ISN'T LANDING WITH EMPLOYEES

Business leaders are struggling to translate AI enthusiasm into effective organizational change as employee skepticism grows.

THE SAAS RESET: WHY SAAS IS CHANGING, NOT GOING AWAY

The traditional build vs. buy equation has flipped as AI drastically reduces software creation costs.

THE BEST COMPANIES YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF

A portfolio company went from zero to $30M+ run rate in two years.

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ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE: JAVA DESERIALIZATION THROUGH BROKEN CRYPTO IN OPENTEXT DIRECTORY SERVICES

Searchlight Cyber (Assetnote) discovered an unauthenticated Java deserialization vulnerability in OpenText Directory Services (OTDS) exploitable in its default configuration, stemming from a flawed HMAC signature verification where attacker-controlled length fields allowed truncating the signed message to begin at an injected payload. Exploitation required building a custom Deflate compressor with tailored Huffman codes to produce output restricted to valid modified UTF-8 bytes (0x01-0x7F) while remaining incompressible by zlib, enabling the payload to survive a double-compression pipeline intact. Organizations running OTDS should patch immediately, as a compromise could affect all integrated OpenText applications that rely on it for authentication.

FRENCH GOVERNMENT SAYS 1.2 MILLION BANK ACCOUNTS EXPOSED IN BREACH

France's Ministry of Economy disclosed that attackers used stolen official credentials to access FICOBA, the national bank account registry, exposing data on 1.2 million accounts, including IBANs, names, addresses, and some tax IDs. Operational banking access and balances were not exposed, but authorities warn of heightened phishing and scams.

CRITICAL INFRA HONEYWELL CCTVS VULNERABLE TO AUTH BYPASS FLAW

CISA warned of CVE-2026-1670 (CVSS 9.8), a missing authentication flaw in multiple Honeywell CCTV models that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely change the password recovery email address, enabling full account takeover and unauthorized access to camera feeds. Affected models include the I-HIB2PI-UL and several SMB NDAA-compliant PTZ cameras deployed in commercial and critical infrastructure environments. Organizations should isolate these devices behind firewalls, restrict network exposure, and contact Honeywell for patch guidance.

RED VULNS RISING: EXAMINING CHINESE NATIONAL VULNERABILITY DATABASES

Bitsight analyzed China's two national vulnerability databases—CNNVD, overseen by the Ministry of State Security, and CNVD, operated by CNCERT—and found that while they largely mirror CVE publication, approximately 1,400 entries were published in Chinese databases before becoming public in CVE, often by several months. China's 2021 RMSV regulations tightened domestic vulnerability disclosure controls, including mandatory 48-hour reporting to the government and prohibitions on sharing PoC exploits. There was a notable decline in non-CVE vulnerability publications from CNVD after the regulation, although CNNVD has recently seen a resurgence. Security leaders should account for potential blind spots in Western vulnerability ecosystems, as some Chinese database entries lack CVE equivalents and may represent vulnerabilities unknown to Western defenders.

CLINEJECTION — COMPROMISING CLINE'S PRODUCTION RELEASES JUST BY PROMPTING AN ISSUE TRIAGER

A prompt-injected GitHub issue title could drive Cline's Claude-based triage bot to execute arbitrary commands in CI, then use GitHub Actions cache poisoning to hijack nightly build workflows and steal VS Code Marketplace, OpenVSX, and npm publishing tokens. This chain could have enabled a massive supply-chain attack on millions of developers via malicious extension or CLI updates.

DECRYPTING MULTIDESK PASSWORDS

MultiDesk RDP client's password encryption was reverse-engineered, revealing RC4 encryption with per-user keys stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MultiDesk\key registry hive across both legacy (v3.16) and modern (v14.0) versions. Version 3.16 used base64-encoded RC4 ciphertext with rdtsc-generated keys, while version 5+ introduced a salted key derivation scheme using CryptGenRandom, but remained fundamentally RC4-based. Pentesters should add MultiDesk.xml, MultiDesk.multidesk, and the associated registry keys to their internal recon checklists, as credential recovery is trivial with local admin or user-level access to the target machine.

THE MIMIKATZ MISSING MANUAL

Carlos Perez (DarkOperator) has publicly released "The Mimikatz Missing Manual," a comprehensive guide originally developed as private training material with direct input from Mimikatz author Benjamin Delpy, covering Windows identity, Kerberos, and PKI research. The manual spans seven parts, including LSASS credential extraction, Kerberos ticket forgery, DCSync/DCShadow persistence, and DPAPI abuse, with guidance tailored for red teams, blue teams, and security researchers. Available as a GitHub Pages site, it emphasizes not just command references, but the underlying Windows Security Authority internals being manipulated.