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Apple and Google removed 20 apps containing SparkCat malware discovered by Kaspersky researchers. The malware, active since March 2024, used OCR to scan for cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases and personal data throughout the phone.
Google's Play Protect will now automatically revoke permissions from apps that it detects to be potentially malicious. Users will be able to re-enable the permissions but will need to acknowledge an additional warning. This is part of Google's push to increase Play Protect's capabilities along with capabilities to automatically block known malicious apps.
AWS has updated AWS Identity Center to now emit logs to CloudTrail for provisioning errors to aid in troubleshooting. Users can also build automated monitoring and auditing for these log messages.
After January's deluge of patches, February's Patch Tuesday included 57 updates addressing various vulnerabilities in Microsoft products with two critical Windows issues were actively exploited, with additional vulnerabilities expected to be targeted in the next 30 days.
Threat intelligence firm that investigated claims of millions of breached OpenAI accounts has concluded that these accounts came from existing infostealer malware logs rather than a direct breach.
Gcore's latest report shows a 56% increase in DDoS attacks, with the largest hitting 2 Tbps with as well as financial services saw a 117% rise in attacks.
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Brands are reallocating budgets to balance customer acquisition and brand awareness. Paid social and search remain priorities but face increasing costs, algorithm shifts, and new restrictions, pushing teams to diversify. TV advertising is gaining traction alongside influencer marketing. AI is streamlining media buying, ad copy, and audience segmentation. Key tactics include retargeting website visitors via TV ads, leveraging ad-supported streaming platforms, and integrating conversational AI for customer engagement.
TikTok now offers its Android app as a direct download from its website, allowing users to sideload it as an APK file instead of relying on the Google Play Store. This move helps the company bypass the ongoing app store ban while the US government's restrictions remain paused.
Broken sentences and sentence fragments can add impact and emotion to informal writing, despite being frowned upon in traditional style guides. Authors use them to create a modern, conversational tone that enhances flow and precision. Techniques include starting with conjunctions, emphasizing emotion with short sentences, and creating staccato rhythms or quickened pacing. These fragments can mimic thought patterns or present lists for dynamic storytelling. However, overuse can feel forced, so writers should use them intentionally, paying close attention to rhythm and flow.
To build a LinkedIn presence for a CEO from scratch, optimize their profile with a clean headshot, banner, and a headline explaining the company's value. Schedule a meeting to record the conversation for 10 posts, then pair each with relevant media. Review and refine posts, create a list of 15-20 accounts to engage with daily, and connect with 20 new prospects using Sales Navigator. Track profile metrics weekly, respond to comments, and personalize outreach to profile visitors with valuable resources.
A hard paywall, which blocks access to an app unless users start a free trial or subscription, can help focus on high-intent users, improve conversion signals for ad algorithms, and simplify analytics. However, it limits the user base, reduces opportunities for nurturing potential subscribers, and can hurt app store rankings due to higher uninstall rates. To mitigate its downsides, companies can implement tactics like capturing email addresses, using push notifications, offering backup discounts, or providing a preview during onboarding.
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Magic Grab lets you move objects in a photo without affecting the background. Keyboard shortcuts like typing "T" for text or "C" for a circle speed up workflow. The background blur tool helps subjects stand out, while the color picker ensures perfect matches. The Brand Hub saves time by storing logos and fonts. You can also copy and paste between designs, do voiceovers and screen recordings, and upload and edit PDFs.
Writing effective product descriptions requires focusing on customer benefits, optimizing for search engines, and incorporating psychological triggers to increase conversions. Businesses that shift from merely listing features to addressing customer pain points see higher engagement, while structured, mobile-friendly formatting and multimedia elements improve readability.
Tilting text or logos upward (bottom-left to top-right) signals energy and activity, while tilting downward (top-left to bottom-right) conveys calmness and relaxation. Experiments showed people were 44.5% more likely to buy exercise-related products with upward-tilting logos. Resorts marketed as adventurous saw a 20.6% higher likelihood of booking with upward-tilted ads, while relaxing resorts were preferred 17.7% more with downward-tilted text. The effect works for both text and logos but not for images. Horizontally flat logos are best if neither energy nor relaxation is emphasized.
Poppi's Super Bowl vending machine campaign generated over 35M organic views, but generated backlash as consumers criticized it saying it was ‘wasteful'. Experiential gifting, where brands provide influencers with over-the-top experiences instead of traditional sponsorships, makes marketing spend highly visible, potentially sparking negative sentiment. As customer-first marketing gains traction, brands prioritizing real consumer engagement over influencer spectacle may better align with shifting expectations.
Digital products like templates and scripts are quick to create but have lower perceived value, while courses can sell for more but need stronger marketing.
The debate around AI models centers on whether "better" models are truly better or simply more advanced approximations.
Strong customer communications follow the same formula as great ads: hook first, value second, context last.
Systematic pessimism is an approach to quality engineering that focuses on automated failure discovery. Traditional testing methods often focus on "happy paths”, which test how the product is used under ideal conditions. On the other hand, AI can be useful in brainstorming and generating edge cases outside of happy paths, which leads to better quality overall.
Meta's planetary-scale computing infrastructure is built with a culture of speed, openness, and research integrated with production. It uses continuous deployment and serverless functions a lot, having its own internal infrastructure to handle and scale serverless functions. To reduce hardware costs, Meta uses hardware-software co-design at a global scale, automatically optimizing resource allocation across its datacenters.
A company called Dagger replaced its React-based cloud UI with a Go and WebAssembly (WASM) implementation to improve performance. The previous dual codebases (Go for the terminal UI and React for the web UI) made it hard to maintain and move fast. Migrating to Go and WASM allowed code reuse between the two interfaces.
Tech companies that fire devs in favor of AI will face three major problems: a less prepared new generation of devs reliant on AI, regretted layoffs as AI-generated code leads to security holes and other issues, and a shortage of experienced devs over time. As junior devs will lack experience with real-world problem-solving, companies will struggle to fix AI-generated code, and the remaining skilled devs will become expensive.
“Boring” technology is mature, predictable, and better than new, flashy options in systems. This is because predictable behavior reduces surprises and incidents, especially during critical situations.
WebAssembly (WASM) will replace containers as the primary method for deploying software. WASM offers a "write-once-run-anywhere" experience, which is much better than containers' current complexities and limitations. Unlike containers, WASM has the efficient benefit of running multiple modules within the same runtime environment.
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A0 is a React Native app generator designed to reduce development time. It's an AI-powered platform that generates custom React Native apps from user prompts, with instant live previews and code that can be integrated into existing projects. It also supports various complexities, from single components to full applications, and includes features like a UI Expert model and an iOS preview app.
Ohm is a JavaScript library and domain-specific language that uses parsing expression grammars to build parsers, interpreters, compilers, and more.
Go 1.24 has been released. It features improved generics, performance enhancements (including a new map implementation), tool updates (including dependency tracking and a test analyzer), standard library additions (FIPS 140-3 compliance and new packages), and enhanced WebAssembly support.
A private AI computer runs LLMs locally. This article goes over the specs of one built in a more cost-effective way by buying secondhand high-end GPUs (Nvidia Tesla P40s) and repurposing an existing workstation, resulting in a system with 48GB of VRAM for approximately €1,700. The build required additional components due to compatibility issues and the need for a dummy GPU for BIOS compatibility.
Local-first software development prioritizes offline functionality and user data control. The developer of the open-source project Tinybase created a webpage about local first that quickly gained traction. It's now a full-fledged community, with hundreds of members actively developing and discussing local-first software.
Jujutsu is a Git-compatible version control system with features like automatic rebasing, conflict resolution, and a working-copy-as-a-commit model.
Hand-coding blogs in HTML is much more time-consuming than just using a static site generator.
A catalog, with commentary, on various papers about generating Static Single Assignment (SSA) form, a program representation used in compilers.
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A group of investors led by Elon Musk offered $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, but the offer was quickly rejected. OpenAI's structure ensures that no individual can take control of the company. Sam Altman and Musk co-founded OpenAI as a charity in 2015. Musk left the company in 2019 and has since filed a series of legal complaints against OpenAI accusing the company of betraying its original nonprofit mission by creating a for-profit arm and colluding with Microsoft to dominate the development of AI.
T-Mobile's Starlink-powered direct-to-cell satellite messaging service is now open for anyone in the US to try for free. Verizon and AT&T customers can also try the service for free. T-Mobile customers will pay $15 per month after the free testing period ($10 for customers who participated in the beta trial) while other customers will pay $20 a month per line. The service will be included in T-Mobile's Go5G Next plan.
Anello Photonics and OSCP showcased their gyroscope-based navigation systems at CES earlier this year. Anello's devices, which can fit in the palm of a person's hand, deliver high precision for multiple applications. OSCP's multi-gyroscope inertial measurement units provide location accuracy to within centimeters. These systems are designed to work alongside GPS as a fallback in case GPS interference is detected.
Scientists in China have unveiled a new method for breeding mice with two male parents - the resulting babies can survive to adulthood. It is not the first time scientists have bred mice with two dads, but previous attempts did not result in mice that could live to adulthood. The resulting mice had deficits, including shorter lifespans and infertility. The research could result in a better understanding of imprinting disorders, potentially paving the way to treatments that use gene editing to fix them in humans.
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Cursor has a powerful feature called Cursor Rules. It allows developers to build out a standard library of thousands of prompts rules and then compose them together like Unix pipes. Cursor itself can be used to write and update rules. This article goes over how to use Cursor Rules with examples.
Realtime features share changes triggered by one user to other users as the changes are happening. This typically means servers need to send data to a set of clients that don't know they are missing data. This post contains a collection of patterns for building realtime features that rely on a connection between the client and server, where the server can notify the client of some data. The connection can be anything that allows the server to send data to the client without the client knowing that there is new data.
The Anthropic Economic Index is an initiative aimed at understanding AI's effects on labor markets and the economy over time. The Index's reports provide data and analysis based on millions of anonymized conversations on Claude.ai. It paints a clear picture of how AI is being incorporated into real-world tasks across the modern economy. Usage is concentrated on software development and technical tasks. AI use leans towards augmentation - its use is more prevalent for tasks associated with mid-to-high wage occupations but lower for both the lowest- and highest-paid roles.
The intelligence of an AI model increases with the resources used to train and run it - it appears that it is possible to spend arbitrary amounts of money and get continuous and predictable gains. The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months. The socioeconomic value of linearly increasing intelligence is super-exponential.
OpenAI plans to send its chip designs to TSMC for fabrication within the next few months.