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Firedancer, the long-awaited new client developed by Jump, is now partially live on testnet. Jump has rewritten three major functional elements of the existing Solana Labs client with the aim of overhauling the software. This will bring scalability improvements for Solana. Early simulations show a potential for almost linear scaling as bandwidth and hardware capabilities increase. The full Firedancer is set for a testnet launch in H2 2024.
ZetaChain, a California-based startup, aims to include Bitcoin in the booming DeFi sector via its Layer 1 blockchain. Developers can build apps and get access to other networks without needing bridges or wrapped coins on ZetaChain. Notably, Zetachain enables the deployment of smart contracts that interact with native Bitcoin. Recently, it announced native Bitcoin support on decentralized exchange Sushi, enabling users to swap Bitcoin across 30 networks.
In this open letter, ENS criticizes Unstoppable Domains for patenting blockchain domain technology despite advocating for open innovation, urging them to legally commit to open standards in web3.
ProtonMail is developing a blockchain-based email authentication feature to enhance privacy and security, automating recipient verification using public key encryption.
South Korea's National Pension Service bought $19.9 million worth of Coinbase shares, marking its first foray into the digital asset space.
CoinShares has reportedly secured an option to buy Valkyrie Investments' ETF unit, potentially securing a US presence amid expectations of SEC approval for a bitcoin ETF.
Figma's VP of Legal discusses their efforts to explain Figma's role to regulators and how the collaboration with Adobe aims to enhance product design and development. The shared future includes leveraging Adobe's assets and tools like FigJam for improved collaboration and innovation in the design industry.
Figma's next annual conference will be held in San Francisco and virtually on June 26-27, 2024. Approximately 8,000 people are expected to attend Config 2024, which will host 75 speakers and 50 sessions. The website is live and offers 75% off for very early bird tickets.
Miro has acquired Invision's Freehand, a visual collaboration platform. Jeff Chow, its former CEO, is moving to Miro as Chief Product and Technology Officer, along with several Freehand Technical and Sales team members.
As technology advances, small motors and sensors can be placed in more products, resulting in better-feeling devices. Designers and engineers at Google outline the processes and experiments they use to create innovative and pleasing haptic experiences on devices like Pixel and Nest.
UX micro-interactions are subtle system responses to user actions or system events (e.g., updating the order status, or receiving a new message). Usually, they are small visual or sound effects that follow some action and can help display the current system status, capture and hold attention, provide hints and guidance, and prevent errors.
Copy or download the most popular SaaS company logos in SVG format.
This collection features over 100 versions of ribbon-shaped elements that only use CSS.
Design awards aren’t handed to designers and companies based on being scouted by someone. Designers have to submit their designs and pay fees of up to $2,250 to be considered for an award. An “award-winning” designer today means someone who’s invested in marketing, not necessarily someone great at design.
Packaging has been moving toward simplicity in recent years. Data now supports this trend. According to an analysis of more than 1,000 consumer goods, products with simple packaging tend to have higher retail prices. However, products from generic brands fail to reap the same premiums as minimalist packaging.
Designers should learn to use behavioral analytics to help see what users do in the long term, define objectives to prevent being overwhelmed by the amount of data, understand the UX goals using the HEART framework, and balance the analytics data with qualitative insights.
The NASA Worm logo was designed by Richard Danne in 1975. It succeeded NASA’s Meatball logo, which was created in 1959. The Meatball ousted the Worm once more in 1992, only for the Worm to be revived in 2020.
Coca-Cola's logo, which has undergone only minor changes since 1886, is a testament to the power of strong, consistent branding. This breakdown explores each shift the logo has seen over the years.
97.4% of websites don't meet accessibility standards. This article will cover the first step to cleaning up the accessibility mess: performing an accessibility audit.
With most top-of-the-line consumer devices reaching peak feature sets and high ticket prices, a new wave of companies are being funded that take “old” gear and repurpose it with a warranty.
Casetext just sold to Thomson Reuters for $650M in what looks like an acquisition swept up in the AI craze. However, this was no overnight success with the company having started in 2023. A walk down memory lane along with what it took to persevere.
Reviewing the details of common queries to an LLM across the different models reveals that it is really cost-bound at the moment. With the latest OpenAI announcements and advancements with the open source models, that may be set to change.
Most startups have fallen into the random acts of marketing trap. Picking channels randomly off a checklist and failing to ensure you have the right fuel and content to do the channel justice is a common mistake. This guide offers a framework for choosing marketing channels wisely.
A walkthrough of where corporate politics come from and ways to potentially root it out by undermining the incentives to do it. Figuring this out for any size organization could be a serious competitive advantage.
Scalable usage metering for AI and DevOps communities.
Discover and book top creators to promote your product.
A pinboard for your analytics.
This podcast shares insights, strategies, and real-world experiences for mastering all things product ops. In particular, it explains the benefits of introducing product ops into your startup sooner rather than later.
This is a slide-heavy post from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit that takes a data approach to looking at the growth of AI. We all hear it constantly, but the data backing it up is pretty immense. Most interesting is the growth and subsequent collapse of developer interest.
Marc Randolph makes the case comparing learning how to skateboard with learning to fail starting a company. The analogy is pretty on-point and always a refresher for those thinking about starting (or failing) at something new.
Analysts are seeing a pullback in software spending by restaurants, retailers, and other local and regional businesses, which are responding to weaker consumer trends.
You will sometimes have to make key decisions. These opportunities are few and far between, and it’s much easier to let them pass you by. It’s all about having the courage to make a decision, right or wrong, and to do it with conviction.
Google TAG discovered an exploit in the Zimbra email server 0-day (CVE-2023-37580) in the wild. It was used by 4 groups to steal emails, credentials, and tokens even after a public fix was released. This post-disclosure activity shows that delays leave orgs vulnerable. It urges rapid patching and updates to protect against ongoing exploits of known bugs.
Royal Mail’s parent company has revealed the infrastructure cost associated with the LockBit attack in January will cost the business £10 million ($12.4 million). The total costs related to the attack are likely to be higher, but no figures have been shared.
The is_user_admin function of the WP Fastest Cache plugin extracts the username from cookies to check if a user is an admin. However, the username is not sanitized and thereby can lead to SQL injection. A patched version of the plugin has been released. WPScan will be releasing its proof-of-concept exploit on November 27, 2023.
This blog post series offers a gentle introduction to Rego, the policy language from the creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) engine. The series goes over basic Rego concepts and how to get started with OPA, intermediate Rego syntax, and types of values and rules.
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released an advisory about Scattered Spider, a hacking collective that collaborates with ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware. Scattered Spider uses social engineering tactics and phishing to gain initial network access. It is a network of individuals with different threat actors participating in each attack.
Amazon ECS allows for the use of EC2 instances as a container host to increase user control over the ECS environment. This tutorial from AWS walks through the process of setting up an EC2 Image Builder pipeline that begins with an Amazon ECS Optimized AMI and then applies the CIS Docker host benchmarks to the AMI. It then goes through how to use a Lambda step function to update the ECS fleet with the new AMI. The walkthrough includes a CloudFormation stack to deploy the infrastructure automatically.
Aikido is an all-in-one solution that brings together multiple aspects of application security in one platform, including SAST, DAST, SCA, and CSPM.
AI Exploits is a collection of exploits and scanning templates for responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities affecting machine learning tools. Each tool has subfolders that contain metasploit modules, nuclei, or CSRF templates.
Turbo Intruder is a Burp Suite extension that allows for sending large numbers of HTTP requests and analyzing the results. It takes a Python script and thus allows for highly configurable payloads and analysis. Turbo Intruder can also be used to enable high-speed Intruder usage on Burp Community edition.
Thomas Kennedy McCormick, aka ‘Fubar’, a 30-year-old from Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in running Darkode. Investigators said Fubar was involved in the distribution of malware, hacking websites, as well as the theft and sale of personally identifiable information, payment cards, and bank account credentials.
Researchers from security firm GitGuardian this week reported finding almost 4,000 unique secrets stashed inside a total of 450,000 projects submitted to PyPI, the official code repository for the Python programming language. Nearly 3,000 projects contained at least one unique secret. Many secrets were leaked more than once, bringing the total number of exposed secrets to almost 57,000.
An in-depth look at the three young cybercriminals behind the Mirai botnet. While none of the cybercriminals involved fit the mold of traditional cybercriminals, they successfully took down large swaths of the internet.
Rhysida - a ransomware-as-a-service - that has compromised organizations in education, manufacturing, and information technology, has been released by the CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC as an advisory.
Following a lack of direct response from MeridianLink, AlphV, who has claimed to have breached Meridian Link, filed a complaint to the SEC alleging that MeridianLink did not disclose a breach of customer data. MeridianLink claims that no production data was accessed.
A report from Datadog analyzing the security posture data from a sample of thousands of organizations using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud found that many cloud workloads are excessively privileged. Specifically, long-lived credentials, MFA for cloud access, and IMDSv2 are not sufficiently enforced.
TikTok's news consumption among users has risen to 43% while established platforms are witnessing a decline in news reliance. Overall, there's an increasing preference for digital devices over TV for news, with social media significantly influencing news consumption patterns.
Google's DeepMind has introduced Lyria, a new AI music generation model, and Dream Track, designed for YouTube Shorts, enabling creators to make 30-second AI-generated soundtracks in various artists' styles.
Activation means your users have reached their ‘aha’ moment and developed a habit of engaging with your product. The first step is to map your entire funnel from signup to activation – which requires you to define the point at which a user is activated. Next, invest in UX writing, identify power users, gamify your product, and onboard users in a nurturing loop.