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Redis servers are under attack by new malware that deploys rootkits and cryptominers. The attackers are disabling Redis protections and loopback policies to open doors for the Migo malware payload and fetching XMRig miners from GitHub.
The FTC has ordered Avast to pay $16.5 million and banned it from selling users’ web browsing data or licensing it for advertising purposes. Avast collected a staggering amount of personal data amounting to more than 8 petabytes between the years of 2014 to 2020 while marketing its products as protecting users from browser tracking.
An AI threat security diagram and guide from OWASP around AI security threats.
Reddit and Google have reached a deal to allow Google to scrape Reddit posts to train AI models. Google will also provide Reddit with tools to improve its internal search.
Crooks stole almost $10 million from Jeff "Jihoz" Zirlin, co-founder of the video game Axie Infinity, and the Ronin Network.
Increasing use of generative AI in social media platforms is enabling automated content creation. While these tools provide practical benefits, there are concerns about their impact on genuine social interactions. AI-generated content risks diminishing the authenticity of human input. It potentially erodes the value of social media as a platform for meaningful connection.
Reddit’s filing for an IPO acknowledges the potential risks posed by user protests and changes to third-party apps. The company admits that negative publicity, such as that stemming from API policy changes, could adversely affect user engagement and loyalty. Despite reporting an increase in daily average unique visitors, Reddit faces challenges in monetizing logged-out users and plans to focus on advertising for revenue growth.
Midjourney selects the best images created by its users and puts them into its own print magazine every month. This type of UGC gallery isn’t overly promotional, but it keeps users engaged. Users want the chance to be featured, which leads them to keep using the product. Zoom, Shopify, and Monday also have their own versions of a UGC gallery.
The adoption mentality of users in each market stage is often forgotten. This post explains how to approach messaging for B2B products from the early market stage to the mainstream market stage. These insights should be used to make strategic decisions about positioning and messaging. Early adopter messaging should explain the technology and the potential for game-changing outcomes. Positioning for late majority adopters should show how much success existing pragmatic customers are having with your use cases.
Diversity marketing is crucial for organizations aiming to resonate with increasingly diverse customer demographics and meet the demand for social sustainability. Marketers are advised to align campaigns with diverse customer segments, recognize nuances within these segments, and prioritize social responsibility. This article outlines 6 steps to create a diverse marketing strategy, including committing to internal D&I initiatives, using inclusive language and imagery, and tailoring content for different cultural contexts.
This article walks through how to use ChatGPT to build out a customer journey. First, prompt ChatGPT for user motivations when searching for your business. Next, ask the tool to provide specific pain points for each motivation. You can then map this information to user stages and milestones, which should guide your content strategy.
Meta's Creator Marketplace tool enables brands to search and connect with relevant platform influencers based on a range of qualifiers, including focus topics, follower counts, and location. The tool first launched in the US back in 2022 and is now being released in other regions. It will be available in Canada, Australia, NZ, the UK, Japan, India, and Brazil. Chinese export brands will be invited to connect with creators outside of China.
This guide covers top Instagram stats to help inform your social media strategy. Interesting insights include Feed ads having a higher CTR than Stories ads, the average CPC of Instagram ads ranging from $0-$0.25, and 70% of shoppers looking to Instagram for their next purchase.
Boast.AI reached $10 million in revenue by harnessing the power of community-led growth. There are 3 types of communities, each serving distinct needs: communities of practice, communities of product, and communities of play. Designing unforgettable experiences for your community, ideally in person, leads to stronger connections and business impact. Making the community “sticky” with internal variable rewards keeps users engaging with the group.
B2B marketers can leverage social listening to tap into online conversations to shape content strategies based on authentic insights from prospects and customers. Tools like Oktopost and Sprout Social enable scalable social listening, providing valuable intel on competitors, brands, and industry events. It is important to work across social platforms, actively engage on a micro level, and leverage influencers to enhance content relevance and credibility.
This article documents an experiment where the author exclusively consumed news from TikTok for one week. They found it challenging to identify misinformation and verify sources. The experiment sheds light on the importance of media literacy and corroborating information from multiple sources as TikTok tends to prioritize engaging content over factual accuracy.
A table with 100 captivating power words and phrases that can be used for writing headlines. It is organized into 5 columns: attention grabbers, emotional appeal, authority, exclusivity, and impact.
Direct message marketing doesn’t rely on cookies, yet it tends to lead to strong engagement and low ROAS.
Brands should promote self-gifting all year round with messaging around the ‘importance of you’ and help lessen any potential guilt in people treating themselves.
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If you’ve ever been curious about Sentry [6] or application performance monitoring, Launch Week [7] is for you. Tune in to Sentry’s YouTube and Discord daily from March 18-22nd, at 9am PT to hear the latest scoops — new features, new products, and all things developers.
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This article explains how GPT is built and then proceeds to implement it in SQL. Yes, SQL. ChatGPT itself couldn’t figure out how to implement GPT in SQL, but the author builds it step-by-step in about 500 lines. Each part of the implementation is explained, including the tokenizer, embeddings, and the attention mechanism.
In 2024, JavaScript bundles on modern websites are much bigger than they need to be, even for simple functionalities. Popular websites, like ChatGPT and YouTube, have a high amount of client-side JavaScript bloat that doesn’t always match the functionality the page offers. However, certain websites, like adult websites, prioritize fast loading speeds and have small JavaScript bundles.
Well-structured behavioral interviews can be highly effective in evaluating candidates. They should have a clear rubric to evaluate specific skills and target up to three core skills to understand deeply. The most important part of a behavioral interview is getting the candidate to explain situations in detail. The more details, the harder it is to fabricate a compelling answer. The criteria for success for an interview should be determined in advance so the subjectivity of a gut feeling is removed later.
Many developers feel pressured to constantly ship side projects. Abandoned projects are common and that’s okay. The process of building a side project, even without ultimately shipping a finished product, still provides a valuable learning experience.
Scaling yourself is crucial to multiplying your impact across your team. The best ways to scale yourself are increasing your influence through helping others, building tooling that improves the efficiency of your team, and sharing your knowledge through tech talks, writing, and code reviews.
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Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. On top of searching local apps and files, it lets you complete tasks [13], calculate, share common links, expand text, manage windows, and much more. Install extensions [13] for Jira, GitHub, Google Workspace, or other tools that you use every day, and control them without ever
Functional UI Kit is a design system that provides the core components needed in every project, focusing on accessibility, development experience, and a unified designer-developer experience. It makes sure that Figma variables and CSS variables work together effortlessly by sharing the same names, usage, and inheritance structure. Each Figma variable has a direct counterpart in CSS.
Perspective is an interactive analytics and data visualization component that is well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets. It can be used to create user-configurable reports, dashboards, notebooks, and applications. Perspective is deployable stand-alone in the browser or in concert with Python/Jupyter Notebooks.
A simple utility for exploring the PATH environment variable in both Windows and Linux.
FedEx’s legitimate SMS and email messages contain numerous red flags typical of scams: typos, strange capitalization, no currency info, and suspicious domain names for payments. Its payment site allows users to change tracking numbers and amounts via simple URL manipulation, making it feel like a phishing site.
Google, despite initially championing and benefiting from the open RSS protocol, has systematically undermined it. It has removed RSS features and has displayed inconsistent support for RSS. The company has strategically used RSS to gain market share, just to limit it later.
Traditional approaches to software quality assurance often fail, leading to a "death by a thousand cuts". Instead, quality should be everyone’s job, so each person involved in a product’s lifecycle needs to care about a product’s quality. Understanding the broader system (company, market, and customers) is essential to building a high-quality product. Strictly linear design-to-production processes lead to compounding risk as errors and delays accumulate. Feedback loops are important to have.
Reddit users have built Discord bots to tell stories to their kids, scripts to find movie subtitles automatically, simple todo apps, and more.
Skeleton screens provide a preview of the page layout instead of a blank page or simple animation, creating a sense of progress and making wait times feel shorter. Good skeleton screens maintain layout consistency, use subtle motion effects, and focus on loading larger structural components rather than small details.
Making table headings sticky to remain visible when scrolling improves the user experience of navigating large tables.
Nvidia recorded the largest-ever single-day jump in market value a day after it announced its quarterly earnings and a sales outlook that exceeded analysts' expectations. The company's value rose 16.4%, adding $272 billion to its market cap. Its market cap now stands at $1.94 trillion. The previous record was set by Meta just two weeks ago - Meta added $205 billion to its market cap after it beat earnings forecasts and announced its first dividend.
Reddit has filed an IPO with the SEC after a yearslong run-up. The social media site plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT. This will be the first major tech IPO of the year and the first social media IPO since Pinterest went public in 2019. Reddit had $804 million in annual sales in 2023, up 20% from the previous year. Its core business is reliant on online advertising sales from its website and mobile app. Reddit moderators will be allowed to participate in the IPO through the company's directed share program.
Varda Space Industries' in-space drug manufacturing capsule has finally returned to Earth after more than eight months in space. The capsule landed in the Utah desert, marking the successful conclusion of Varda's first experimental mission to grow pharmaceuticals in orbit. This was the first time a commercial company landed a spacecraft on US soil. The mission launched in June last year and was supposed to just be a month long, but it was extended due to issues obtaining a commercial reentry license.
Space Perspective could begin test flights of its luxury high-altitude balloon within the next couple of months. The company plans to fly its pressurized capsule unmanned over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Canaveral using a giant high-altitude balloon. Space Perspective plans to start building its second capsule for human test flights during the test program. The company's aim is to eventually offer regular commercial flights carrying paying customers to 100,000 feet, above 99% of the Earth's atmosphere, where the sky will be black.
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The container landscape is changing, with many organizations exploring innovative technologies such as serverless containers and GPU-based computing. Datadog [9] examined more than 2.4 billion containers [9] run by tens of thousands of customers. This report distills their 10 key findings [9] on container usage, security, and implementation patterns. Download 10 Insights On Real-World Container Usage (PDF) from Datadog
JSR is a new package registry from the team behind Deno. It has several significant technical divergences from npm. JSR is specifically built for Deno and its content is controlled to prevent squatters and abandoned modules from taking up namespace. Access to JSR is still restricted to a waiting list.
Pages CMS is an open-source content management system built for static websites. It allows developers to edit website content directly on GitHub via a user-friendly interface. Pages CMS is intended to be deployed with Cloudflare Pages using Cloudflare Workers for the serverless code.
S-curve products are fueled by novelty. This is why there is a rush of new users without much marketing effort whenever there are major tech releases. There is both high growth and high churn in the early stages of an S-curve. The skills needed to succeed in a late S-curve market are very different. Investors will be looking for products that are radically different. A good design can help differentiate late S-curve products.