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Albabat ransomware is evolving to target Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. Retrieving components from a GitHub repository, it now harvests system information, encrypts files across multiple operating systems, and tracks infections in a PostgreSQL database.
This post compares DryRun Security's contextual scanner to Snyk Code, GitHub Advanced Security, Semgrep, and SonarQube in finding vulnerabilities in the intentionally vulnerable RailsGoat. The test PR included SQL injection, XSS, SSRF, IDOR, user enumeration, and hardcoded token vulnerabilities. DryRun was the only tool that found all the vulnerabilities, whereas Semgrep found 3/6, GitHub and Snyk found 2/6, and SonarQube found none.
The UK's NCSC aims to adopt post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by 2035, with key milestones including completing discovery and planning by 2028 and high-priority migrations by 2031.
China-linked APT Weaver Ant infiltrated an Asian telecom provider's network for over four years, using web shells for persistence and stealthy control of compromised systems.
23andMe filed for bankruptcy and will sell its assets - customers should delete their DNA data for privacy.
The pandemic reshaped consumer behavior, with many diverting spending to experiences and bringing new expectations to retail. Retailers struggled initially but are now adapting to meet demands for better in-store experiences. Consumer power has returned stronger than before. However, inflation, tariffs, and economic uncertainty have kept sentiment low, with confidence dropping 22% since December.
In November, Google said it would conduct a test in 8 European countries that would omit results from EU-based news publishers for a small percentage of users. The company is now reporting that the news has no meaningful monetary value for the company. Google saw no change in ad revenue and only a 0.8% drop in usage. European copyright law says the company must pay publishers for using snippets from articles, but Google will likely use these results to try to limit news outlets' negotiating leverage.
Audience on third-party platforms doesn't translate to ownership, as brands are constrained by platform rules, limited access to user data, and the constant threat of reduced visibility or account issues. By shifting to owned communities, brands gain full control of engagement, enable peer-to-peer interaction, and build resilient, high-retention spaces. This approach has been adopted by brands like Gymshark, YETI, and Jeep to drive loyalty and lower CAC.
Top-performing products often go under-leveraged in ad accounts because marketers focus on volume rather than efficiency metrics. The hero product strategy flips this by prioritizing products that deliver the best return per click based on conversion rate, margin, and ad engagement. Once identified, these products are pulled into isolated campaigns with specific keyword targeting, custom ad creative, and remarketing flows to drive both acquisition and retention more efficiently than broad catalog strategies.
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TechSmith Snagit is a screen capture and recording tool that lets users take screenshots, record videos, and edit images. It includes features like annotation, text recognition, GIF creation, and the ability to capture scrolling screens. It's commonly used for creating tutorials, documentation, and presentations.
These free tools help writers find words, improve clarity, and generate ideas. Related Words, Reverse Dictionary, and Power Thesaurus expand vocabulary, while Hemingway and Text Ranch refine writing. Answer The Public and Copywriting Examples offer inspiration, and other tools assist with rhyming, comparisons, and crafting compelling headlines.
Boathouse surveyed 150 CEOs and found that 24% gave their CMOs an A, while 71% gave As or Bs. Concerns remain about trust and alignment between CMOs and marketing overall. CMOs improved in soft skills, with 65% of CEOs saying they understand business goals and 61% calling them performance-minded. However, 49% of CEOs said CMOs are “on the periphery” of growth strategy, and grades dropped in areas like trust with the C-suite and driving innovation.
Vague CTAs like “Learn More” and “Start Now” don't drive meaningful conversions. Strong CTAs reduce friction by solving a problem, feeling intuitive, and clearly guiding the next step. For example, “Compare Pricing Options” is clearer than “See Plans,” and “Test Your Skill Level for Free” is more compelling than “Start Now.”
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IKEA's Severance spot works because it's not just timely - it feels personally tailored to the viewer.
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Verifying customers and offering a great user experience are often seen as competing goals, but you can find a happy medium with risk-based segmentation and verification [4].
A model can be flawed in its explanation of reality yet still make accurate predictions, as seen in the Mayan eclipse calculations and quantum mechanics. The best models embrace complexity and asymmetry, reflecting real-world unpredictability rather than prioritizing simplicity or aesthetic appeal.
Product managers and product designers play crucial roles in empowered teams, especially with generative AI. Product managers ensure solutions are valuable and viable, while product designers create optimal user experiences. Both roles are essential for building products that customers love and that work for the business.
AI-generated code is abundant but lacks the structured reasoning of human engineers, leading to inefficiency and complexity. While humans balance simplicity and abstraction, AI thrives on brute-force redundancy. Embracing its raw computational power, rather than fitting it into human conventions, may unlock its true potential in software development.
A cluttered backlog overwhelms teams, hindering innovation. Keeping it lean, goal-oriented, and regularly cleaned fosters clarity, alignment, and value creation.
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Many teams fall into "OKR Theater," creating busy work instead of real progress by adopting rigid frameworks and setting objectives they can't control. Effective OKRs focus on measurable, influenceable metrics and evolve based on real impact, not strict templates.
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Building AI agents as products requires rethinking user experience, pricing, and organizational structure. Replit sees this as a groundbreaking shift, comparable to the mobile revolution, opening exciting possibilities for product innovation.
Leaders often forget previously acknowledged risks due to cognitive overload and optimism bias, making consistent communication essential. Reinforcing strategy and trade-offs throughout a project prevents misaligned expectations and protects team credibility.
YouTube TV offers a superior multiview experience for March Madness by integrating all cable games, unlike Max, which is limited by its content rights. While YouTube TV's broader strategy aims to become a dominant TV aggregator, Google's slow progress in expanding its streaming partnerships raises concerns about its execution.
Money flows toward the biggest problems affecting the most people, much like water follows gravity.
Real customer calls are a goldmine for content that resonates as they offer authentic insights into user pain points, language, and real-world wins.
Microsoft recently announced the porting of the TypeScript compiler from JavaScript to Go, promising a 10x performance improvement. However, the performance increase applies specifically to the compilation process, not the execution speed of TypeScript code itself. The shift to Go allows for better utilization of concurrency through goroutines, addressing the limitations of JavaScript's single-threaded event loop, which struggles with CPU-intensive tasks like compiling.
Understanding CPU architecture can lead to huge performance improvements in code. This article goes over concepts like instruction pipelining, memory caching, and speculative execution. Optimizing code to align with these hardware behaviors (like data structure layout, memory access patterns, and branch prediction) can make execution time much faster.
This is a complete, visual-focused article on important algorithms used in real-world applications. It covers various algorithms from sorting and searching to graph, compression, and encoding, as well as optimization, machine learning, security, and cryptographic algorithms. Each algorithm is explained with a brief overview, examples, and references to external resources.
AI will allow programmers to focus on business problems rather than replace them. AI-generated code should be treated as a level of abstraction, similar to video drivers, helping devs recall common patterns and accelerate initial experimentation. Human oversight is still very important in AI-driven development, as relying solely on AI-generated code without review can lead to bigger issues down the road.
Key-Value databases are overused, as they are too primitive and require devs to build data models from scratch. Relational models have much better longevity since queries are written against a logical schema and abstracted from physical storage details. A possible middle ground is an embedded database with typed records and distinct logical and physical schemas, allowing explicit query plans without a complex query planner.
Using "data" as a variable name in programming is a bad practice due to its lack of specificity. It is too generic, doesn't indicate the type or structure of the information, and encourages lazy naming.
This plugin brings the full Tanstack Query DevTools experience to Expo and React Native applications, allowing for real-time monitoring, debugging, and manipulation of queries. It supports multi-device connections, letting developers view device information, manage queries, and simulate network/error states across iOS, Android, and web Expo apps.
Usertour is an open-source user onboarding platform that provides tools for creating in-app product tours, checklists, and surveys. It integrates with various frameworks, has customizable design, and provides detailed analytics for tracking onboarding effectiveness.
Rsdoctor is a build analyzer for both Rspack and webpack ecosystems that offers visualization and intelligent analysis to optimize build processes. It provides features like compilation visualization, build artifact analysis, build-time analysis, and custom rule support.
Many programmers express a desire to leave their desk jobs for more hands-on work like carpentry or farming, often driven by dissatisfaction with the impact and perceived meaninglessness of their work. This yearning is fueled by a romanticized view of agrarian lifestyles. While the reality of such work is actually much tougher, it shows the disillusionment and meaninglessness many feel in tech currently.
A dev asks about estimating projects properly, and commenters recommend using ranges instead of concrete numbers, adjusting estimates over time as the project progresses, and creating smaller deliverables.
Recommendation and search systems are using LLMs to improve model architectures, data generation, and training, improving performance in areas like cold-start recommendations, multimodal understanding, and aligning user-item interactions.
This is a React Native library that automatically generates skeleton loading indicators for existing UI components, with customizable properties like shimmer speed and background color.
When encountering undocumented, yet perfectly functional legacy code that has survived years of technological changes, devs should fix it, document it, and let it continue running.
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Tesla aims to start producing Optimus this year. The company plans to produce enough parts to make 10,000 to 12,000 Optimus robots this year and 50,000 units next year. The product is totally new, so Tesla's measure of success is to produce at least 5,000 robots. The article includes a video of Tesla's Q1 2025 All-Hands Meeting, during which Elon Musk discusses the project.