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Visual Electric is an AI image generator for designers that offers photorealistic results, strong prompt adherence, and seamless Framer integration with 20 free images per month.
Helix is an AI-powered MVP development partner that helps you build and launch functional prototypes.
This public archive of typography indexes fonts by typeface, format, industry, and period. It documents and examines graphic design to improve typographic literacy and appreciation.
Pentagram designed a new identity for Grow to Know, a non-profit using guerrilla gardening to foster community around Grenfell Tower. The design reflects growth, healing, and hands-on engagement, featuring cyanotype prints of local plants.
Great posters often align with great films, but the Oscars still lack a Best Poster category. In this post, designers praise this year's standout posters, including The Brutalist's Bauhaus-inspired design, The Substance's eerie imagery, and Anora's striking simplicity. Experts highlight how posters capture a film's essence, creating lasting impressions beyond the theater.
The sublime emerges from vast scales, whether in Rothko's immersive paintings, towering cities, or John Cage's overwhelming soundlessness. It transcends visual experience, stirring emotions beyond comprehension. Taste, shaped by culture and history, defines aesthetic judgment, while AI challenges artistic originality. In an era of algorithmic curation, creativity risks homogenization or reinvention.
Fern Choonet is an illustrator who embraces maximalism, creating vibrant, messy compositions inspired by her experiences in Bangkok, Toronto, and Tokyo.
Mark Rielly of ARRCC shares insights on Dopamine Décor, a design trend using bold colors, patterns, and personal expression to create uplifting, joy-filled spaces that enhance emotional well-being.
A floating crosswalk in Iceland slowed traffic using an optical illusion.
A blunt reality check: many startups that soared to $1B valuations in 2021 haven't raised another round, sold, or shut down. They remain “unicorns” in name only—without big follow-on funding or traction. Some were acquired or got new investments, but most are stuck. This reminds today's founders that easy money doesn't last, and that real growth and solid business results matter more than inflated headlines.
Everyone now carries a camera that could rival what Spielberg once dreamed of, yet we're not all blockbuster filmmakers. In the same way, upcoming AI tools will let people build software with minimal effort, but that doesn't mean everyone suddenly becomes a pro engineer. What it does mean is a flood of smaller, personalized “apps”—like social media content today—created by users who once relied on one-size-fits-all solutions.
CoreWeave has announced plans to acquire Weights & Biases for $1.7B. The integration aims to accelerate AI innovation by combining CoreWeave's cloud infrastructure with Weights & Biases' AI tools for model training and evaluation. The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2025, pending regulatory approval.
For founders struggling to get sales, marketing, and customer success on the same page, these nine rules show how to pull every team into a shared plan. It starts with the CEO claiming all of go-to-market, setting a single GTM dashboard, and avoiding siloed goals. Instead of chasing “marketing = leads, sales = deals,” the focus stays on the entire business outcome. The result: a more unified path to real growth and less confusion among teams.
If you've seen giant AI funding deals but want a more direct road to profit, check out “seed-strapping.” Rising founders are raising only a small seed, making quick revenue by solving a clear niche problem, and pouring that money back into the business—often reaching serious ARR before needing a big round. Lower AI costs and easy-to-integrate APIs allow small teams to scale fast without burning through millions up front.
Even the smartest strategies can fail if basic tasks slip through the cracks. It's easy to forget a follow-up or ignore a customer question in the rush of daily work. However, small misses add up fast, eroding trust. Top operators build systems so that routine items—like callbacks, contract renewals, and support tickets—never get lost. It's not glamorous, but it's how consistent leaders win in the long run.
Presentation 2.0 handles slides, scripts, and memorizing for you, so you can get ready for presentations in minutes.
Tool Finder is a software discovery platform that helps find reviews, filter tools, search instantly, and discover the best tools for smarter work.
Chatbase is the complete platform for building & deploying AI Agents for your business to handle customer support and drive sales.
Ever feel overwhelmed by shifting goals, daily chaos, and a flood of new ideas? This piece lays out four pillars—context, possibility, intent, and action—to help you design weekly or monthly rituals that keep everyone on track. By mixing in short review cycles, you link big dreams (“possibility”) with the real limits you face (“context”), forming consistent processes that boost momentum for your startup.
AI agents might complement but won't fully replace SaaS platforms, as they still require a robust infrastructure for data and functionality. While AI agents offer automation and insights, they'll need human oversight for nuanced decision-making and innovation. The future likely involves a hybrid model that enhances SaaS through AI capabilities while addressing challenges related to integration, trust, and accountability.
Fixing a problem you personally have doesn't guarantee a winning startup. Just because you felt the pain doesn't mean there's a big, urgent market. The real test is making sure many customers share that pain, will pay for the solution, and see it as a must-have. Many founders miss this reality check and stay stuck in a personal bubble. Focus on broader proof, honest pricing tests, and user feedback beyond your own story.
For founders eyeing the booming creator economy, YouTube stands out for how little money it makes per viewer hour—especially compared to older platforms.
Justworks expanded into payroll services by launching a separate entity, Justworks Labs, to innovate and test quickly.
Prioritize daily tasks by setting three main goals and use tools like Wispr Flow for efficient email responses.
Researchers have uncovered a dark web operation involved in collecting facial ID images and government-issued identity documents. The threat actor bypasses Know Your Customer (KYC) identity verification systems using these biometrics. iProov recommends the use of multi-layered verification systems to defend against these threats.
Cybercriminals have targeted Internet service providers through a campaign involving information stealers, cryptocurrency miners, and data exfiltration tools. These brute-force attacks aim to compromise systems, disable security features, steal cryptocurrency, and deploy malware.
Microsoft discovered five Paragon Partition Manager BioNTdrv.sys driver flaws, one of which was actively used by ransomware gangs in zero-day attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges in Windows. The drivers are signed by Microsoft, so they can also be used in Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks. Microsoft recommends enabling the Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist to prevent BYOVD attacks.
German IT firm ERNW observed that an attacker compromised a customer who acted as a service provider that used RDP to connect to its customers' machines. ERNW extracted the Bitmap cache files from the RDP server to partially reconstruct the attacker's RDP sessions utilizing open-source tools. The post features screenshots displaying some of the images that ERNW managed to reconstruct.
Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) is a default-enabled service on Active Directory domain controllers that allows clients to interact with the local LDAP service using SOAP messages without requiring user authentication. A group of interns from X-Force Red implemented the protocol stack in a tool and Python library named SoaPy. Before this, interactions with ADWS were limited to Microsoft or .NET tools, restricting protocol usage to Windows hosts.
Google DeepMind's AI security Team has developed an evaluation framework to test an AI system's susceptibility to indirect prompt injection attacks. The framework employs a hypothetical scenario where an AI agent receives a fictitious email conversation. It uses three prompt injection methods: actor-critic, where a model generates and refines injections based on success probability; beam search; and Tree of Attacks with Pruning, which aims to make the AI violate safety protocols.
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Rogue is an advanced AI security testing agent that uses Large Language Models to discover and validate web application vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional scanners, Rogue analyzes application behavior, generates test cases, and validates findings through autonomous decision-making.
Singulr AI enables customers to discover every generative AI and obtain information on its use within the organization, identify risky AI services, approve safe AI services, and enforce AI-related policies.
RogueApps is a collection of TTPs associated with OIDC/OAuth 2.0 application attacks.
Let's Encrypt is adding a 6-day certificate option alongside the default 90-day certificate to support automation and improved certificate management.
CISA has announced that it will maintain its defense against Russian cyber threats despite a temporary pause on offensive actions by the Trump administration. The agency confirms its commitment to protecting U.S. Critical Infrastructure from cyber threats, including those from Russia.
Report on the best product that uses AI to create fixes for issues discovered in SAST.
Twitch stars Valkrae, Cinna, and Emiru were chased down in public, while Amouranth was robbed at gunpoint on the same night.
Microsoft reversed the buggy update that caused the Microsoft 365 outage and will review change management.
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Users are clicking through to websites less often as AI-generated summaries are delivering answers directly on results pages. Brands should optimize content for AI crawlability by prioritizing semantic search and high-intent, long-tail terms while avoiding PDFs and gated content to maintain visibility. Expanding content formats to include video and interactive media can further enhance visibility. The measure of success should shift from clicks to search impressions and AI reach.
Influencer marketing spending hit a record $24 billion in 2024, with 70% of U.S. brands investing or planning to invest in creators. Short-form video dominated, and social media became the world's largest advertising channel, surpassing paid search with $247.3 billion in global ad spend. Agencies played a crucial role, with 42% of creator managers securing over $500K in brand deals and 47% of agencies relying on 25 or fewer brand partners for their revenue. AI and automation are reshaping talent management, while brands are shifting focus from vanity metrics to engagement and brand alignment. The creator economy is growing rapidly and M&A is accelerating as agencies and brands scale their operations.
Lovable, an AI tool for no-code app creation, uses a UX trick to boost sign-ups by making users feel the product is ungated. A prominent chat box on the homepage invites visitors to enter a prompt, building emotional investment. However, when they hit enter, a signup pop-up appears, converting casual visitors into high-intent users. While effective for increasing conversions, this tactic should be tested before full implementation.
Longer ranked lists (e.g., Top 20 instead of Top 5) make products appear more desirable, leading to higher ratings, increased sales, and willingness to pay more. In a study with 1,172 participants, people were willing to pay 10.9% more for a top-ranked catering service on a Top 20 list than on a Top 5 list. Eye-tracking showed people spent 40.9% more time looking at the top-ranked items in longer lists. Products ranked highly in longer lists seem better because they appear to have outperformed more competitors. This effect weakens when other factors like cost, availability, or customization needs influence decision-making.
The head of growth at Default launched a $17,900 campaign that sent 100 champagne bottles to customers, prospects, partners, and influencers - this generated an 11x ROI. The gift was thoughtfully selected to match the brand, follow a clear theme, and create a “wow” factor. Logistics were streamlined with a form that captured addresses and synced with Salesforce. Recipients were contacted three times before and after launch, resulting in 40+ demos and influencing over $225K in open pipeline.
Readers spend an average of only 8.97 seconds on an email, making accessible language critical for engagement. Best practices include using concise copy, active voice, plain language, and structured content to enhance readability for all audiences, including those with cognitive disabilities or non-native speakers. Accessibility tools, such as readability tests and screen reader previews, can help marketers test emails to ensure they are clear, inclusive, and easy to navigate.
Meta is piloting Business AI, an AI-powered tool that interacts with users through voice or text to answer their questions. Designed like a chatbot, it helps small businesses access AI without significant investment. Business AI can handle inquiries about best-selling products, available promotional codes, and more. It can be trained using a brand's existing content, product catalog, and guidelines while also being programmed to avoid certain topics.
Netflix is expanding its 'Moments' feature, which lets users clip and share parts of shows, potentially integrating it more deeply into the platform. A new job listing suggests it may develop more social-sharing tools to boost engagement and brand loyalty. Experts speculate Netflix could leverage user-generated content and fandoms to create an internal social ecosystem, similar to platforms like TikTok. With its recent success in advertising and password-sharing crackdowns, Netflix may see social engagement as its next major growth strategy.