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WHAT DOES THE NEW SORA AI MEAN FOR VFX ARTISTS?

VFX artists have expressed concerns over the capabilities of OpenAI's Sora, an AI model that can generate sophisticated video content based on simple text prompts. Many fear that the new model will endanger their careers, but others welcome it and want to integrate it into their practices.

2024.02.21
creativebloq.com1 min readTLDR Design

404 CREATIVES: EXPLORING THE ARTISTRY OF 404 ERROR PAGE DESIGN

A list of beautiful, artistically crafted 404 pages for when a website's content can’t be found. These seemingly mundane digital dead-ends have evolved into captivating showcases of artistic expression, reflecting the ingenuity and personality of their creators.

2024.02.21
medium.muz.li6 min readTLDR Design

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YOUR COMPANY’S STORY?

Every startup needs a Hemingway. A Don Draper. A David Ogilvy. But those kinds of writers are, as you probably know, hard to find.

2024.02.21
uncommonlybold.comSponsorTLDR Founders

FIRST NEURALINK PATIENT CONTROLS COMPUTER MOUSE THROUGH THINKING

Elon Musk announced that a patient implanted with Neuralink's brain technology can control a computer mouse through thinking. Neuralink has been working on developing a brain implant technology that allows humans to utilize their neural signals to control external devices. This breakthrough marks a significant step towards Neuralink's ultimate goal of restoring lost capabilities such as vision, motor function, and speech.

2024.02.21
cnbc.com1 min readTLDR Founders

DISNEY STAR TURNED SPACE TECH CEO

Former Disney Channel star turned MIT PhD graduate Bridgit Mendler secured $6.3 million from major VC investors like Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz for her space satellite startup Northwood Space. Northwood Space aims to build satellite ground stations designed for mass production and customer flexibility, with a vision of creating a data highway between Earth and space.

2024.02.21
cnbc.com2 min readTLDR Founders

SORA, GROQ, AND VIRTUAL REALITY

A few years ago, the concept of the metaverse seemed like it was just a fiction from Ernest Cline's book, and Facebook's metaverse push seemed ill-fated. Today, things feel different. Sora generates complex video scenarios and Groq's deterministic chips reduce machine-learning algorithms for faster processing. Together, the convergence of these advancements push closer to achieving real-time video simulation and true virtual reality.

2024.02.21
stratechery.com6 min readTLDR Founders

HOW COGNISM GENERATED $441K IN REVENUE WITH MONEY KEYWORDS

Bottom-funnel content converts; awareness is overrated. In this article, Cognism shares how it shifted its focus towards using targeted "money keywords" that appeal to bottom-of-the-funnel buyers instead of top-of-the-funnel visitors. This strategic move, which optimized high-intent terms for the company's product fit, backlinks, and conversion lifts, resulted in a revenue of $441K+ last year.

2024.02.21
moz.com8 min readTLDR Founders

YOU SHOULD BE PLAYING WITH GPTS AT WORK

You should experiment with customer GPTs at your startup. This article shows how to build a custom GPT and shares 20 examples of how to use them to boost productivity.

2024.02.21
lennysnewsletter.com12 min readTLDR Founders

TAM IS WHY I HAVE TRUST ISSUES

Market sizing is a crucial task for any founder when evaluating markets they plan to launch into, assessing potential product demand, or presenting figures to investors. However, many get it wrong - do you go bottoms-up or top-down? This article examines the drawbacks of total addressable market analyses and provides insights on how to approach market sizing with a more critical mindset.

2024.02.21
mostlymetrics.com9 min readTLDR Founders

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BLOCK THREATS, UNWANTED CONTENT, AND ADS ON ALL YOUR COMPANY’S DEVICES

You didn’t start a company to worry about DNS — but ignoring it leaves you open to malware, harmful content, and tracking. Control D [14] is a modern DNS service [14] that makes it super-easy to block malicious domains and unwanted content. Browse faster [14], remove risks, and keep your team focused on building, starting from $2/mo [14].

2024.02.21
controld.comSponsorTLDR Founders

THE STATE OF SALES IN 2024

An analysis of over 4.2 million opportunities revealed that economic turbulence had a negative impact on B2B sales. This was evident with falling win rates, lengthening sales cycles, and shrinking deals. In 2024, sales teams not only need to be more efficient - they need to be more effective.

2024.02.21
ebsta.com10 min readTLDR Founders

COMPRESSING SWITCHING COSTS IN SOFTWARE

The cost of switching software can be prohibitively high in large companies. The process could take years to complete and even more time to see the payback. Often, executives are aware that the effects of this decision will continue even beyond their time in office and therefore avoid making changes. AI will significantly reduce the costs and timeframes associated with switching systems, which could lead to more innovation in large companies.

2024.02.21
akashbajwa.substack.com4 min readTLDR Founders

WHY VENTURE CAPITAL IS THE BEST ASSET CLASS

Despite the bad rap that venture capital often gets, the world benefits from the innovation generated by venture capital, both from successful and failed investments, as it essentially gets all of that innovation for free.

2024.02.21
notboring.co6 min readTLDR Founders

NOBODY KNOWS: BLOCKCHAIN & STEEL

Many people are unaware of the underlying technology behind today's apps, just as they might not know the construction materials of their office building. Existing platforms like Instagram and Salesforce will likely transition to web3 infrastructure seamlessly once the benefits of web3 become clear, with users remaining oblivious to the underlying changes.

2024.02.21
tomtunguz.com1 min readTLDR Founders

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EXPOSING ORGANIZATIONS TO RISK

The 7th annual Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report [6] identifies how customers globally are developing, using, and securing cloud-native applications and environments. The report is based on data from thousands of global accounts and millions of containers [5] scanned by Sysdig’s CNAPP [7]. Among other findings, the data reveals:

2024.02.21
sysdig.comSponsorTLDR InfoSec

DUSTING OFF OLD FINGERPRINTS: NSO GROUP’S UNKNOWN MMS HACK

ENEA, a Sweden-based telecom security firm, claims that it has reproduced a previously unknown hack disclosed by the NSO Group that uses an "MMS Fingerprint" attack. This term is new to the industry and was not present anywhere online except in the court case. The attack reveals the target device and OS version through an MMS sent to the device without user interaction, engagement, or message opening.

2024.02.21
enea.com9 min readTLDR InfoSec

SEIZED RANSOMWARE NETWORK LOCKBIT REWIRED TO EXPOSE HACKERS TO WORLD

Enforcers from the US and UK disrupted a ransomware group they say has targeted more than 2,000 victims and taken over $120 million in ransom payments. The NCA and FBI have come up with decryption strategies that they believe could help hundreds of victims globally regain access to systems that were attacked by LockBit.

2024.02.21
theguardian.com2 min readTLDR InfoSec

RECENT ZERO-DAY COULD IMPACT UP TO 97,000 MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVERS

Over 28,000 internet-facing Microsoft Exchange servers are vulnerable to a recent zero-day that enables pass-the-hash attacks. 68,000 additional servers are possibly vulnerable, totaling up to 97,000 possibly exploitable instances. The 9.8 CVSS privilege escalation flaw stems from Exchange 2019 lacking default NTLM relay protections.

2024.02.21
securityweek.com3 min readTLDR InfoSec

CLOUD CRYPTOGRAPHY DEMYSTIFIED: AWS

A helpful breakdown of the various AWS cryptography services. The services are divided into client-side services, which run in a client’s application, and cryptography services that AWS manages, such as KMS. The post includes a summary of each option that breaks down when you might or might not use it.

2024.02.21
blog.trailofbits.com7 min readTLDR InfoSec

THE THREE TYPES OF REMEDIATION PLATFORMS

This post breaks down the different types of remediation platforms. The space is divided into remediation platforms, data platforms, and workflow builders. An emerging category of Code Fixer platforms proposes fixes for vulnerabilities.

2024.02.21
latio.beehiiv.com4 min readTLDR InfoSec

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IS IT TIME FOR A BETTER SIEM? #SWITCHSIEM

How about a SIEM that saves you $$$, offers real-time log & threat detection, while also monitoring your entire infrastructure (AD, inventory, performance, network monitoring and more)? Make the switch to EventSentry [15]. Compliance & validation scripts enhance your security baseline and help you be proactive. Start your 30-day

2024.02.21
eventsentry.comSponsorTLDR InfoSec

RECONIC

Reconic is a network scanning and discovery tool designed to empower cybersecurity professionals and bug hunters in mapping, analyzing, and securing digital infrastructures.

2024.02.21
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR InfoSec

MAGIKA

Magika is a novel AI-powered file type detection tool that relies on recent advancements in deep learning to provide accurate file type detection. Under the hood, Magika employs a custom, highly optimized Keras model that only weighs about 1MB that enables precise file identification within milliseconds, even when running on a single CPU.

2024.02.21
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR InfoSec

LIVING OFF THE FALSE POSITIVE

Living Off the False Positive (LoFP) is a new autogenerated collection sourced from popular rule sets. The data is categorized along with ATT&CK techniques, rule source, and data source. This repository can be used by red teams to blend in with false positives or blue teams to assess weak spots across their detections.

2024.02.21
br0k3nlab.com2 min readTLDR InfoSec

GOOGLE LAUNCHES AI CYBER DEFENSE TO IMPROVE CYBERSECURITY

Google has announced a new initiative aimed at fostering the use of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity. Google believes that AI is pivotal for digital security as it has the potential to provide defenders with a definitive advantage over attackers and upend the Defender’s Dilemma.

2024.02.21
blog.google5 min readTLDR InfoSec

KEEP YOUR PHONE NUMBER PRIVATE WITH SIGNAL USERNAMES

Signal has released the ability for users to sign up with usernames as a method of hiding their phone numbers. It has also hidden phone numbers by default, allowing users to connect without sharing phone numbers, and added controls to control phone number privacy.

2024.02.21
signal.org4 min readTLDR InfoSec

OWASP TOP 10 FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL APPLICATIONS

Developed by the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications team, this checklist is a valuable resource for leaders in technology, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and legal to strategize and secure their AI initiatives effectively.

2024.02.21
owasp.org30 min readTLDR InfoSec

YOUTUBE DOMINATES TV STREAMING IN US

YouTube has reclaimed its position as the top streaming service in the U.S., with 8.6% of viewing on television screens. Meanwhile, Netflix saw 7.9% of TV usage. The platform’s daily average of over 1 billion hours watched on TVs suggest a preference for UGC, particularly among Gen Z viewers. YouTube creators are experiencing a significant increase in TV viewership, with top YouTubers witnessing a more than 400% surge in watch time.

2024.02.21
techcrunch.com1 min readTLDR Marketing

WALMART ISN’T BUYING VIZIO FOR ITS HARDWARE. IT WANTS THE TV MAKER’S AD BUSINESS

Walmart is acquiring Vizio for $2.3B in cash. This transaction will give Walmart a foothold in the smart-TV advertising business, allowing it to more directly compete with Amazon, Roku, and Google. Walmart wants to operate Vizio as a fully owned brand and closely integrate it with its Connect advertising business. This strategy mirrors Amazon’s strategy of leveraging its e-commerce platform and Fire TV devices for advertising revenue generation.

2024.02.21
fastcompany.com4 min readTLDR Marketing

12 LOW BUDGET B2B MARKETING TACTICS

This post contains 12 low-cost B2B marketing tactics, including 4 that cost $0. Make a list of 20 accounts, then record and send personalized Loom videos with a free audit. Start a weekly newsletter on Substack to build your email list. Partner with 3 B2B micro-influencers in your industry. The post also contains 9 rules for early-stage B2B growth.

2024.02.21
linkedin.com2 min readTLDR Marketing

USING SOCIAL PROOF TO INFLUENCE USER BEHAVIOR

Social proof is a shortcut people take to determine how to act by relying on what others are doing. It can manifest in different ways, including word of mouth, social equity from experts, certification, or approval by an authority. This case study discusses how different brands like Masterclass, Amazon, and Arc Browser are using it to influence customer behavior.

2024.02.21
growth.design4 min readTLDR Marketing

REPOSITIONING: HOW TO TURN YOUR STRENGTHS INTO PROFITABLE GROWTH

Repositioning is the process of refocusing the capabilities on the right challenge and redefining the value proposition. This article shares Swatch's origin story. The Swiss watch industry faced a crisis in the 80s due to the rise of Japanese quartz technology that threatened its traditional mechanical watches. Swiss watchmakers responded by repositioning their capabilities and creating the Swatch — a colorful, disposable fashion accessory that appealed to a new market segment. This successful repositioning, achieved by refocusing internal capabilities and offering a compelling value prop, saved the Swiss watch industry from collapsing.

2024.02.21
fronterabrands.com5 min readTLDR Marketing