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Critics of the points farming strategy that has been employed by many protocols lately say that protocols are basically farming users rather than the other way around. These platforms incentivize farmers, with farmers often ending up being exploited. In light of this, users should be diligent in researching tokenless protocols, engaging with team members, and not blindly trusting influencers shilling ways to farm the protocol.
A mystery buyer reportedly purchased 26,200 Bitcoin for $1.3 billion, sparking speculation on who it could be that would take such a large swing so suddenly.
This thread attempts to analyze the extent to which flows into the BTC ETFs might be redirected to ETH ETFs upon approval and what effects that would have on ETH.
Peter Brandt has revised his Bitcoin price forecast to $200,000 by September 2025, up from $120,000, amid a bullish breakout according to his charts.
Riot Platforms and CleanSpark have been escalating hash rate and efficiency efforts ahead of the Bitcoin halving, with significant mining machine purchases and facility expansions.
Samsung revealed a new wearable called the Galaxy Ring during the 2024 Mobile World Conference. The device gathers data on the wearer with advanced sensor technology to provide comprehensive health insights. It uses AI to make personal wellness recommendations and tailor health experiences.
In its latest funding round, Photoroom, an AI-based photo-editing startup from Paris, has secured $43 million at a $500 million valuation. Unlike most startups, Photoroom is training its models from the ground up. This requires a lot of computing power and constant negotiation for image rights with agencies and creators. The company plans to use the funding to double its staff and continue investing in R&D and infrastructure.
The LA Clippers have introduced a new logo and wordmark that pays homage to the team's legacy while infusing a modern and timeless aesthetic. It features a clipper ship and a circular badge emblem to symbolize forward momentum and a refreshed focus. This redesign, shaped by fan input, represents a significant glow-up from the previous version. Its navy blue motif and refined wordmark maintains the team's traditional colors but presents a classier, less cartoony appearance.
Years of layoffs have resulted in leaner teams, allowing experienced designers to focus on their craft instead of management. Design's return to craft is essential and unavoidable. Craft is about knowing how to use tools to go deep and specific. It helps you make good decisions and sweat the small details.
The authors of this report spoke to 25 leading creative agencies of all sizes to find out how they use AI in their day-to-day work. The answers were unanimous: so far, the agencies have used AI for art direction, storyboarding, humor, research, summarizing, consistency, coding, and to explain ideas.
A premise is a foundational belief that shapes a user’s behavior. Premises can normalize actions that people otherwise might not take due to being held back by existing norms. For example, Airbnb’s original premise was 'it’s ok to stay in strangers’ homes'.
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A curated collection of stunning colors that can be used to create user-friendly component-based systems for theming and color inspiration. It includes more than 10 color themes and over 80 color swatches.
Layers is a website where you can share your work, connect with other designers, discover jobs, and get hired.
A Figma plugin that allows designers to curve text upward, downward, or into a circle.
Color Charts is a book about the tools people have developed since the 15th century to organize and catalog color. With over 200 color charts, it explores how painters, naturalists, doctors, and industrial designers have cataloged colors throughout history.
Designed by Oslo-based Grape Architects, reMarkable's new workspace offers a unique collaboration and individual focus environment. Across eight floors, the renovated headquarters include breakout areas, focus zones, and even a Japanese Zen garden-inspired area. The central campus library's multipurpose space can hold up to 550 people under 7m ceilings and features art installations, reading nooks, and lamplit desks.
Dominican Republic-based artist Mad Kobra creates unique cyberpunk art using vivid colors, gritty textures, and bold lines. A design expert for well-known companies like Nintendo, Lego, Discord, and Adidas, he draws inspiration from Japanese aesthetics, pop culture, movies, video games, and vintage anime, especially the 1988 masterpiece Akira.
The city of Berlin has a new alphabet.
Personal biases influence design decision-making - recognize and mitigate these biases to create more inclusive, effective, and innovative designs.
overflow: hidden shouldn’t be used in scroll-driven animations because it creates a scroll container. overflow: clip should be used instead because it hides overflowing content without creating a scroll container.
Nvidia achieved the significant milestone of surpassing Intel in annual revenue and established itself as the leader in AI computing by ending the fiscal year with $60.9B in revenue. This article delves into the market dynamics that enabled Nvidia to overtake Intel and explores whether Intel can make a comeback.
Microsoft recently announced a multiyear partnership with a French AI startup called Mistral. The partnership aims to bring Mistral's AI models to market and involves the companies collaborating on R&D for government applications in Europe. Microsoft will invest an undisclosed amount into Mistral as part of the agreement. Mistral is the second company to provide LLM services on Microsoft Azure.
Zip grew from $0 to a $1B+ market cap in 18 months. In this article, VCs share what initially compelled them to invest in Zip. Reasons include the founder's established success, the presence of a sizable market with underperforming incumbents, opportune timing that addresses a growing and complex issue, Zip's improved product experience through technical innovation, and robust market demand for the offered solution.
Have you ever wondered how Zapier manages to dominate search engines with its integration pages? This case study reveals the SEO strategy behind driving 5M+ monthly visits. Zapier has established a strong position in a category that it defined by targeting long-tail keywords aggressively and creating pages for every possible integration.
Early-stage founders often mention "lack of trust" as a reason for losing potential customers, but what does trust mean? Patreon created a Trust Score to quantify trust after controversies threatened creator relationships. Though not flawless, the score enabled the company to make focused changes that turned negative responses into positive feedback. Patreon's framework provides an instructive case study for founders struggling to build trust.
The sales process becomes more consultative and technical integrations become more complex as you go up-market. To address this, many companies create a solutions engineering team to help sales close a deal. In this interview, Snyk's Global VP of Solution Engineering dives into how the company built its team to ensure they work effectively with sales.
Generate user interfaces from a simple text prompt, image, or Figma mockup.
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GroupMe was initially an SMS-only application that could’ve been billed as a “thin wrapper” around Twilio. To reduce costs, the company migrated off Twilio, negotiated bulk pricing, and transitioned users to a mobile app – and it worked. GroupMe's challenges were similar to to current challenges faced by companies that rely on large language models made by companies like OpenAI. Founders must plan to use multiple models, understand prompt routing, develop business relationships with model providers, and secure additional funding for unexpected costs.
Conventional startup wisdom says having both a technical and business founder is the recipe for long-term success. However, there are many examples of highly successful companies like Google, Microsoft, Coinbase, and NVIDIA that were founded solely by technical experts. Instead of searching for a complementary co-founder, gaps can be filled by hiring experienced senior team members early on in the process.
Behavioral interviews aren’t fun, but when designed correctly, they can be the biggest indicator of future candidate success. Here is a framework that covers how to design, run, and evaluate a behavioral interview.
Numerous layoffs have happened this year, even at well-performing companies. Instacart went public and crushed the last quarter, with $800M of revenue and $200M of EBITDA, and yet still laid off 7% of employees. This would have been shocking a few years ago, but today it feels like the norm.
Learning to become a founder or to run a business is more like learning a sport or an art than something theoretical. It's not a skill that can be acquired in a classroom. You cannot become a great quarterback or tennis player without stepping onto the field and practicing. For those aspiring entrepreneurs, it's time to take action and get started.
Valuable frameworks for product management, including the (R)ICE Framework, Eisenhower Matrix, and Opportunity Scores.
Hugging Face's Safetensors service can be compromised to hijack user models, enabling supply chain attacks via malicious pull requests to other repos masquerading as the conversion bot. Hijacked conversion models allow changes to any repo on the platform.
Tornado Cash enables users to make transactions on the Ethereum network without leaving a trace. However, it was recently discovered that a developer snuck a snippet of malicious code into a governance proposal on January 1st that funneled deposit notes to an attacker-controlled server. The exploit only affects transactions made through an IPFS gateway.
Pharmaceutical giant Cencora, formerly AmerisourceBergen, experienced a cyberattack where data was stolen from its IT systems, potentially including personal information. The company contained the breach and is collaborating with authorities and cybersecurity experts to investigate further. No ransomware groups have claimed responsibility for the breach yet but Cencora has clarified that this isn't related to the Optum Change Healthcare ransomware incident.
This is the official release of version 2.0 of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), the first major update since the framework's creation a decade ago. The CSF 2.0 is designed to help all organizations reduce risks, regardless of sector, size, or level of security sophistication.
Part 1 in a 3 part series on attacking Okta. The first part is a thorough introduction to Okta terminology and the Okta environment, covering primitives as well as a focus on authentication methods. It has a slight attacker perspective but could be useful for defenders looking to increase their Okta knowledge as well.
This post discusses a recent customer engagement that entailed responding to an AWS ransomware attack. The attacker deleted several S3 buckets and then left a ransom note (included in the post) and a recovery binary. The post goes through the CloudTrail actions taken by the attackers as well as an analysis of the recovery binary. It concludes by noting that the binary does not make any connections to AWS (or the internet in general) and would not be able to recover the data.
The Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT) is an open-access automation framework that empowers security professionals and machine learning engineers to proactively find risks in their generative AI systems.
modpot is a modular web application honeypot framework written in Golang. It allows users to deploy simple HTML/JS honeypots that mimic web applications in order to detect requests and form entries that are related to attacks.
Security logging solutions vendor RunReveal introduced pql to offer an open-source alternative to proprietary languages used by major security vendors. The language is designed to easily integrate with existing products supporting SQL, allowing security teams to query logs efficiently. pql aims to become a standard query language for security professionals, providing an alternative to established platforms.
The LockBit ransomware group has relaunched its leak site just a week after a major coordinated takedown by global law enforcement on Feb. 19. The takedown operation seized infrastructure, code, stolen data, keys, and arrested affiliates. LockBit's backup systems remained untouched, enabling the operation to bounce back quickly.
Near was a data broker that specialized in location data. It claimed that it had the location data of 1.6B people across 44 countries. Sen. Ron Wyden requested that the FTC prevent the sale of this data when Near filed for bankruptcy, which they granted. This incident brought many to question who can acquire and license data from data brokers.