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WILL ARGENTINIAN PRESIDENT MILEI'S CRYPTO 'FIASCO' BE A DEATHBLOW FOR MEMECOIN CRAZE?

The LIBRA token, which resulted in approximately $4.5 billion in retail losses, has become an international political crisis as allegations emerged that key player Hayden Davis had claimed to have bought access to Milei's inner circle through payments to the president's sister. This accusation led to impeachment threats and a 6% drop in Argentina's stock market. The controversy, which resulted in the resignation of Solana DEX Meteora's co-founder, has dealt a significant blow to the memecoin sector's reputation, with industry analysts suggesting it may be the saturation point for memecoin trading following the TRUMP and MELANIA launches.

MILLIONS WORTH OF STOLEN FUNDS FROM PHEMEX HACK ARE ON THE MOVE, SOME TO TORNADO CASH CRYPTO MIXER

Hackers behind the $85 million Phemex exploit are actively moving stolen funds through various crypto platforms, including the sanctioned mixer Tornado Cash, to obscure their tracks. Investigators suspect the attack was carried out by an experienced group, possibly linked to North Korea, as Phemex tightens its security measures.

INTRODUCING UNIVERSAL AND UASSETS

Universal solves the chain fragmentation by introducing uAssets – 1:1 wrapped tokens for trading native assets on any chain. Users can connect their wallet to the universal website to trade over 80 tokens on their preferred chain, and the Universal relayer ensures that assets are properly redeemed and minted. It's currently live on Base, Polygon, and Arbitrum, with more chains and DeFi integrations coming soon.

ETHEREUM ANNOUNCES CROSS-CHAIN INTENTS

The Open Intents Framework is a modular, open system designed to improve cross-chain interoperability on Ethereum by making intent-based asset transfers seamless and efficient. It allows developers to mix and match components for solving and settlement, accelerating adoption across L2s, wallets, and infrastructure providers.

THE FUTURE OF CRYPTO AND AI AGENTS: RIDING THE WAVES OF INNOVATION

Despite a significant downturn in AI x crypto projects, industry developments continue at a rapid pace. The sector's evolution is supported by favorable government policies, like initiatives for AI innovation and crypto-friendly regulations, while technical progress accelerates through deepened integration with DeFi. Similar to DeFi's growth pattern in 2021, the AI x Crypto space is undergoing a necessary maturation phase, with this next wave of innovation bringing autonomous systems and smart decision-making applications.

STABLECOIN MARKET MAP

The stablecoins market map categorizes key players into various sectors, including exchanges and on-off ramps (e.g., Coinbase, MoonPay), stablecoin issuers (e.g., Tether, USDC), wallets (e.g., Trust Wallet, Phantom), cross-border payments and remittances (e.g., Triple A, DolarApp), and yield-bearing platforms (e.g., Aave, Ethena) to name a few.

NEXT WAVE OF WEB3 INNOVATION IN AFRICA

The African Web3 ecosystem lies in the rise of local currency stablecoins. These stablecoins will improve financial accessibility and streamline payments, driving a more efficient digital economy.

EFFECTS OF SIMD 96 ONE WEEK AFTER GOING LIVE

One week after SIMD 96 went live on Solana, inflation has increased from 3.6% to 4.7%, while token holders' share of network revenue dropped from 67% to 46%, benefiting validators instead. Despite expectations, median priority fees have remained unchanged, suggesting the upgrade hasn't yet impacted transaction costs.

BINANCE RESUMES USD DEPOSIT, WITHDRAWAL SERVICES FOR US CUSTOMERS

After nearly 18 months of restrictions following a lawsuit from the SEC, Binance US has resumed US dollar deposits and withdrawals and appears to be moving toward full operation yet again.

SANCTIONED JURISDICTIONS ACCOUNT FOR 39% OF ILLICIT CRYPTO TRANSACTIONS IN 2024

The jurisdictions and entities sanctioned by the US OFAC received $15.8 billion in crypto transactions in 2024.

TGE EVENT RED FLAGS

This image shows the red flags for token generation events (TGEs), highlighting risks like no vesting for insiders and having no live product.

CURVE FINANCE FOUNDER WORKING ON NEW PROJECT YIELD BASIS

Michael Egorov, founder of DeFi protocol Curve, is building a new project targeting impermanent loss in DeFi by using 2x leverage and Curve's AMM technology.

FIVERR WANTS GIG WORKERS TO OFFLOAD SOME OF THEIR WORK TO AI

Fiverr has introduced AI tools that let freelancers train models on their work and monetize AI-generated content. Its Personal AI Creation Model costs $25 monthly, allowing gig workers to retain ownership of AI-generated assets. Fiverr also launched an AI assistant and a stock-sharing program for top-performing freelancers.

NIKE TEAMS UP WITH SKIMS ON A NEW WOMEN'S BRAND

NikeSkims merges Nike's innovation and athlete insights with Skims' style and inclusivity to launch a new women's brand this spring. The collection includes apparel, footwear, and accessories, expanding Skims into sportswear while strengthening Nike's athleisure presence. This partnership empowers women and marks a shift beyond traditional performance wear.

SUPERHUMAN INTRODUCES AI-POWERED CATEGORIZATION TO REDUCE SPAMMY EMAILS IN YOUR INBOX

Superhuman's new AI-powered Auto Label feature categorizes emails into predefined or custom labels, such as marketing, pitch, and social. It also enhances reminders with AI-driven follow-ups, surfacing unanswered emails, and drafting responses in the user's tone. Superhuman plans to integrate personal knowledge bases and automate email workflows for smarter inbox management.

“BEWARE THE BLUE APPLE” – UNIVERSAL DESIGN VS CULTURAL NUANCE

Language and culture shape perception and influence design choices, affecting how users interact with products and services. Designers must consider cultural nuances, language differences, and localization to create effective, user-friendly designs.

HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT COMPONENTS TO WORK ON?

Prioritizing design system components requires an impact vs effort matrix, identifying missing elements, ensuring completeness, tracking usage, and running prioritization planning. Confidence in estimations improves decision-making. Adoption tracking helps assess component usage. Prioritization balances new, completed, and improved components based on team goals and maturity level, ensuring an effective design system.

THE ROLE OF CLARITY IN CREATIVE PROJECT BRIEFS

A well-defined project brief ensures clarity and aligns teams toward shared goals. It prevents miscommunication, enhances collaboration, and streamlines workflows. Key elements include clear objectives, audience insights, timelines, and feedback loops. Emphasizing design constraints, expectations, and visual communication fosters creativity within practical limits, resulting in more effective and impactful design outcomes.

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Customize your form and easily share it with the world. Perfect for collecting leads, signups, or feedback.

PATTERN CLUB

A curated collection of patterns, textures, and visuals from designers and illustrators.

PALETTE LIST

The Lospec Palette List is a database of palettes for pixel art, with palettes for old hardware that can only display a few colors and others created by pixel artists specifically for making art.

INCLUSIVE SANS MAKES THE CASE FOR ACCESSIBILITY BEING STANDARD, NOT SECONDARY

Inclusive Sans, designed by Olivia King, is a highly readable, open-source typeface focused on accessibility. Available on Google Fonts, it offers a 10-style family with five weights and matching italics for diverse applications.

TELGEA'S NEW BRANDING: CONNECTING CONTINENTS WITH A UNIFIED VISUAL IDENTITY

Telgea's new branding, designed by Signifly, features a minimalist sphere logo called "The Dot" to symbolize global connectivity. This refreshed identity balances professionalism with creativity, using vibrant visuals and intuitive data representation.

REIMAGINING FLUID TYPOGRAPHY

Fluid typography should respect user preferences without relying on fixed assumptions. Using em and rem maintains internal harmony, but viewport-relative units introduce scaling issues. Browser defaults often differ, making pixel-based conversions unreliable. The best approach is to avoid setting a root font size, allowing user-defined preferences to control text scaling naturally.

ILLUSTRATOR POAN PAN ON EMBRACING CHANGE, COMMUNITY, AND THE UNEXPECTED

Poan Pan has evolved from a freelance illustrator into a multidisciplinary artist that embraces creative exploration, new mediums, and collaborations while challenging industry norms.

THE DARK SIDE OF UX: LESSONS FROM ONLYFANS' ADDICTIVE DESIGN

OnlyFans' UX blends accessibility and exclusivity to foster addictive engagement.

THE SUPERB GAME CONCEPT ARTWORKS BY YINZHENG

Yinzheng, a Chinese illustrator created the concept art for the game Naraka: Bladepoint, showcasing impressive artistic skills in game design.

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AN UPDATE ON FAKE UPDATES: TWO NEW ACTORS, AND NEW MAC MALWARE

Proofpoint identified two new cybercriminal actors operating web injection campaigns, alongside a new macOS malware called FrigidStealer. The campaigns serve as a traffic distribution service for FrigidStealer.

HUNDREDS OF DUTCH MEDICAL RECORDS BOUGHT FOR POCKET CHANGE AT FLEA MARKET

A Dutch man bought five HDDs for €5 each at a flea market and discovered 15GB of unencrypted medical records from 2011 to 2019. He then purchased ten more drives containing healthcare data from a defunct IT company called Nortade ICT Solutions, which violated Dutch law requiring the certified erasure of medical data storage devices.

PALO ALTO NETWORKS TAGS NEW FIREWALL BUG AS EXPLOITED IN ATTACKS

Palo Alto Networks is reporting that a new file read vulnerability is being chained with two previously disclosed vulnerabilities to breach PAN-OS firewalls in active attacks. AssetNote released a proof-of-concept exploit the same day as the vulnerabilities were disclosed and GreyNoise has reported seeing active exploitation of the attack chain.

BREAKING AMSI: HOW MALWARE AVOIDS WINDOWS SCRIPT SCANNING

AMSI is a Windows component that serves as a middleman to pass consumer content to a security solution such as Crowstrike or Microsoft Defender. The first method that is discussed in the post is to patch the prologue of the security provider's DLL to disrupt AMSI initialization. The second method is to intercept the AMSCI scan process by looping through the list of scan functions provided by the providers in CAmsiAntimalware and patching their scan functions to return immediately.

THE ART OF LINUX KERNEL ROOTKITS

This comprehensive guide to Loadable Kernel Module (LKM) rootkits begins by introducing how modern rootkits work and the different hooking techniques used. The guide then explains detection techniques utilizing the filesystem, proofs, logs, and eBPF Tracepoints. Finally, the guide concludes with some advanced techniques for defenders to expose or render rootkits useless as well as some advanced techniques for attackers to establish persistence or defend against LKM rootkits hunters.

SIGNALS OF TROUBLE: MULTIPLE RUSSIA-ALIGNED THREAT ACTORS ACTIVELY TARGETING SIGNAL MESSENGER

Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has discovered that Russian-aligned threat actors are targeting Signal Messenger through phishing campaigns exploiting the app's "linked devices" feature. These actors use malicious QR codes and altered group invites to trick victims into linking their Signal accounts to actor-controlled devices. Multiple threat actors, including UNC5792 and UNC4221, are actively involved in these operations, along with efforts to steal Signal database files from Android and Windows devices.

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HARPOON

Harpoon is a precision tool for Seccomp profiling and function-level tracing by leveraging the power of eBPF. It captures syscalls made by defined functions, providing detailed visibility compared to traditional tracing tools. Installation options include downloading the latest release or building manually with specific steps.

AWESOMEUSERFINDER

AWeSomeUserFinder is an AWS IAM username enumeration and password spraying tool. It can use IAM, S3, or SMS for username enumeration.

TUXTAPE

TuxTape is an ecosystem for generating, compiling, deploying, and installing Linux kernel live patches. It is a toolchain to simplify the workflow around kpatch.

CAN AI ACTUALLY FIND REAL SECURITY BUGS? TESTING THE NEW WAVE OF AI MODELS

The author of ai-security-analyzer decided to test the new generation of reasoning LLMs for their ability to detect vulnerabilities in a test project. A comparison of OpenAI o1, o3-mini-high, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking and Pro, and Deepseek R1 is presented, with the reasoning models all successfully identifying some issues while Gemini 2.0 Pro mostly identified false positives. The author concluded that the AI models are promising tools but still imperfect and also compared the test against Semgrep and found that they both identified different vulnerabilities

US ARMY SOLDIER PLEADS GUILTY TO AT&T AND VERIZON HACKS

US Army soldier Cameron Wagenius pled guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon for phone records and faces up to 20 years imprisonment and $500,000 in fines. His case connects to the major 2024 Snowflake hacks that affected over 160 companies including Santander Bank and Ticketmaster.

HOW PHISHED DATA TURNS INTO APPLE & GOOGLE WALLETS

Brian Krebs dives into how Chinese cybercrime groups are turning phished card data into mobile wallets for Apple and Google Pay. These stolen wallets are loaded onto phones controlled by scammers and sold for profit. The phishing kits used by these groups exploit vulnerabilities to convert stolen card details into digital images for easy enrollment into mobile wallets.

SANS AI CYBERSECURITY HACKATHON

Global virtual AI Cybersecurity Hackathon from February 15 to March 15 with the goal to secure systems, protect data, and tackle emerging cyber threats.

CRACKED GARRY'S MOD, BEAMNG.DRIVE GAMES INFECT GAMERS WITH MINERS

A malware campaign named "StaryDobry" targeted gamers with infected versions of popular games like Garry's Mod and BeamNG.drive, spreading through torrent sites and impacting users in several countries.

HARD DRIVE SCAM: FRAUDSTERS PEDDLE OLD DRIVES AS NEW ONES

Fraudsters in Germany are selling used hard drives as new, deceiving buyers with fake packaging and warranty information, as well as reset SMART values.

GOOGLE'S NEW POLICY TRACKS ALL YOUR DEVICES WITH NO OPT-OUT

Google's latest tracking policy now fingerprints all connected devices, allowing it to collect hardware and software data without user control. Google claims this method helps advertisers reach users on platforms like smart TVs and consoles, where cookies are less effective. However, privacy groups have condemned the move, arguing that it grants unchecked surveillance capabilities while limiting user control over its data.

27% OF CMOS REMAIN RELUCTANT TO ADOPT GENERATIVE AI

27% of CMOs have limited or no adoption of generative AI, while 47% of users see significant benefits in campaign evaluation and reporting. Among high-performing organizations, 84% use it for creative development and 52% for strategy. Despite the hype, over a quarter of CMOs see little impact on cost reduction, customer service, and scalability. Only 4% of marketing teams have fully integrated generative AI.

DIGITAL TO PHYSICAL: THE SHIFT FROM URL TO IRL

The shift from URL to IRL is redefining brand connections, as audiences crave immersive experiences over passive engagement. Consumers want to share their real-world moments online, making everyday touchpoints key to brand impact. Instead of massive activations, smart brands enhance what people already love—like branded coffee sleeves at local cafes, co-working workshops, or digital-first events. Limited-time experiences drive immediate participation and lasting social buzz, proving that impact matters more than scale.