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THORChain's experimental lending protocol froze $200M in user funds as validators scrambled to prevent a death spiral triggered by its flawed leverage model. While its core DEX remains operational, the protocol now faces a 90-day race to restructure debt and salvage trust, exposing yet another DeFi experiment gone wrong.
The most prominent crypto AI agent platform and investment DAO, ai16z, is rebranding to ElizaOS following trademark concerns from Andreessen Horowitz.
Jermone Powell, US Fed chair, states that banks are perfectly capable of serving crypto customers as long as they can manage the risks.
Hackers compromised UFC's Instagram account to promote a fake UFC memecoin, which has already reached a $3M FDV.
Coinbase has expanded its Global Advisory Council with four strategic appointments, including Trump's 2024 co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita, former Senator Kyrsten Sinema, ex-NY Fed President Bill Dudley, and former Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Moreno.
Adobe's Project Concept is an AI-powered mood-boarding tool with a non-linear canvas for flexible image creation and collaboration. Now in private beta, it integrates with Adobe apps and includes enhanced sharing and AI-guided inputs. With Adobe's industry backing, it aims to streamline creative workflows and compete with similar AI tools.
DeepSeek's open-source AI model, Janus Pro, surpasses DALL-E 3 in benchmarks with strong prompt comprehension and versatility but falls short in image quality. While it excels in spatial awareness and multimodal capabilities, it struggles against specialized models in execution. DeepSeek's open-source approach and innovative framework could make it a significant disruptor in the AI industry.
Apple has defended its Watch bands' design during a lawsuit claiming they contain harmful PFAs, insisting that they are safe to wear. The lawsuit highlights the use of fluoroelastomer bands in Apple and other brands and cites research on potential health risks. While Apple has acknowledged concerns, it emphasized its rigorous safety testing and a long-term plan to remove PFAs from its materials.
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, stands out with its friendly blue whale logo, which breaks away from the industry's typical abstract aesthetics. Symbolizing depth, intelligence, and exploration, this design may signal a new branding direction for AI companies.
Many creative professionals are leaving their fields, exhausted by the tension between authenticity and algorithm-driven work. Burnout stems from constant change, abstract success metrics, and an industry that prioritizes optimization over meaning. Some are shifting to careers with tangible impact, highlighting a broader need to rethink engagement, value, and sustainable work.
Now essential for UI design, Dark Mode enhances accessibility and reduces eye strain. Effective implementation requires balancing contrast, colors, readability, and usability. Poorly designed dark mode interfaces create visual fatigue and readability issues. Following accessibility guidelines, optimizing media, and testing in real-life conditions ensures a better user experience across different devices and environments.
A database of best-in-class handpicked crypto designs.
Generate color palettes from a hex with up to 24 colors. You can also shift hue, saturation, lightness, and more.
UNCUT.wtf is a free typeface catalog that focuses on somewhat contemporary types. It features 160+ typefaces.
More than aesthetics, design integrates utility, usability, desirability, and accessibility to create meaningful experiences. Utility is paramount, ensuring a product serves its purpose before refining usability, emotional appeal, and inclusivity. True design balances function and form, prioritizing purpose to deliver visually compelling and highly functional solutions.
UI component libraries built for React and Tailwind can speed up workflows. Designers can leverage pre-built components instead of creating static designs in Figma, ensuring consistency and efficiency. Mobbin provides curated UI inspiration and streamlines research. Clever use of these tools simplifies development while maintaining high design standards.
Traditional design thinking frameworks like the Double Diamond face challenges in an AI-powered world due to AI's ability to analyze data and generate solutions at scale. The Stingray Model, developed by the Board of Innovation, introduces the Train, Develop, and Iterate phases to leverage AI while raising concerns about the potential loss of user understanding and superficial solutions.
Plymouth illustrator Beth Bennett's Snakes with Legs reimagines classic art with snakes.
Mark James' Silk Icon Set has been a web design favorite for 20 years.
The creative industry is shedding overused buzzwords like “purpose-led,” “strategy,” and “authentic.”
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British engineering giant Smiths Group has disclosed that it detected unauthorized activity in its network. Smiths reported that it isolated the affected systems as soon as the unauthorized activity was detected. Smiths has not disclosed if any customer data was accessed at this time.
US engineering firm ENGlobal reported that hackers accessed sensitive personal information during an attack in November 2024. ENGlobal did not disclose details of what data was accessed. The filing also implied that the attack may have involved ransomware and that some systems were offline for six weeks.
This blog post from Google Threat Intelligence Group explores how state-sponsored threat actors attempted to misuse Google's AI assistant Gemini. The research found that while threat actors from countries like Iran, China, North Korea, and Russia used Gemini for tasks like research, coding, and content generation, with Iranian actors being the heaviest users, they have not developed novel capabilities or successfully bypassed security controls. The report concludes that while AI can be a useful tool for threat actors, it has not yet proven to be the game-changer some feared, though Google emphasizes continued vigilance through robust security measures and responsible AI development practices.
AI-powered cyber threats are rapidly increasing, with 67% of phishing attacks using AI in 2024. Adversaries are targeting endpoints months in advance, using generative AI to scale attacks. Organizations are struggling to keep pace, taking 277 days on average to identify and contain breaches. This post dives into how companies can deal with these threats.
This benchmark framework aims to evaluate static application security testing (SAST) tools. It provides objective criteria for organizations to select appropriate tools, focusing exclusively on static code analysis while excluding dynamic testing methods and non-code scanning tools.
Palo Alto's Unit 42 has observed that threat actors often reuse infrastructure. Using a Graph Neural Network, Unit 42 has demonstrated that it can discover new malicious infrastructure before it is weaponized. The post walks through three case studies where the team was able to apply this technique.
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Nepenthes is a “tarpit” that captures web crawlers by generating an endless sequence of pages with dozens of links per page.
Frenos is an AI-native platform designed to assess, prioritize, and protect mission-critical environments without the risk of causing operational disruption. Customers are shown exactly which combinations of TTPs and vulnerabilities can pose the greatest risk to their specific setup and then provided with tailored recommendations for reducing risks.
ExtensionHound is a tool that helps security teams track DNS queries made by browser extensions. It can analyze Chrome profiles, correlate requests with extensions, and provide detailed network activity analysis. Users can install ExtensionHound from the GitHub repository and run scans to detect suspicious activities with optional VirusTotal integration for domain reputation checking.
LetsEncrypt has announced that it will be ending support for sending certificate expiration notices on June 4. It made this decision as retaining emails creates a privacy risk for LetsEncrypt and sending expiration emails costs LetsEncrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year and complicates their infrastructure. At this point, LetsEncrypt is confident in the automated renewal tools that the community has built.
MGM Resorts will pay $45 million to settle class action lawsuits stemming from two cyberattacks in 2019 and 2023 that exposed the personal data of over 37 million customers. The 2023 ransomware attack cost MGM $100 million in damages. Affected customers could receive up to $75 each after legal fees.
Google worked to keep the Google Play and Android app ecosystems safe in 2024 by investing in AI-powered threat detection and privacy enhancements. It prevented millions of policy-violating apps from being published and banned thousands of bad developer accounts. Google also introduced new security features like enhanced fraud protection and app badging to help users find trustworthy apps easily.
Hackers compromised DogWifTools on Windows, draining users' wallets on the Solana blockchain.
The FBI seized cybercrime forums Nulled.to and Cracked.to along with marketplaces Sellix.io and StarkRDP.io in Operation Talent, which targeted illegal online activities.
The Lazarus Group, a North Korean threat actor, uses a web-based admin panel built with React and Node.js to control global cyber attacks.
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Target, Walmart, and McDonald's, are scaling back their DE&I initiatives in response to right-wing pressure, while Costco and Ben & Jerry's remain committed. Target recently ended its DE&I goals and REACH initiatives, stopped sharing diversity data, and lost its sponsorship of Twin Cities Pride. Meta and McDonald's have also retreated from DE&I, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasizing “masculine energy” in hiring. Apple and JPMorgan are pushing back against anti-DE&I efforts.
Meta dismantling its fact-checking program allows posts that previously violated guidelines to remain online. Advertisers worry this could lead to more offensive content, similar to what drove brands away from X. Meta has reassured advertisers by offering tools to manage ad placements.
Most brands fail at customer loyalty because they focus only on transactions instead of long-term relationships, missing the financial impact of trust-driven engagement. Research shows that strong customer relationships lead to lower acquisition costs, higher customer lifetime value, and increased revenue, yet many companies do not deliver a personalized and consistent experience. The key to success lies in AI-driven insights to anticipate customer needs, optimize messaging, and engage at the right moments to build trust and loyalty in the long run.
A common startup mistake is having fragmented messaging, where marketing, sales, and product teams each tell a different story to the customer. Keeping core messages in hidden documents or team-specific tools leads to misalignment and missed opportunities across teams. The homepage, as a highly visible and cross-functional asset, is the best place to house these messages for both internal and external clarity.
This report compiles insights from 130 email professionals, offering benchmarks and best practices for email marketing. The survey covered topics such as deliverability, design, strategy, AMP emails, and AI adoption, with responses tailored to participants' expertise. Industry-wide benchmarks reveal an overall email open rate of 29.2%, a significant increase from the previous year.
Google made Meridian, its open-source marketing mix model, available to all advertisers after testing it with hundreds of brands worldwide. Unlike traditional models that oversimplify impressions and fail to measure digital channels accurately, Meridian incorporates real-world experiments and Bayesian causal inference for deeper insights. With direct integration into Google's MMM Data Platform, marketers gain more precise measurement of their Google Ads performance.
Flowdrafter is a tool for generating first drafts. It prevents editing as you go in order to help you write more productively. Flowdrafter is free to use.
Slack's early success can be explained by the Trigger-to-Outcome Journey. Slack originally positioned itself as a group chat app but struggled to convince decision-makers to pay for it. Customers actually valued the tool for reducing meetings, emails, and stress. The company repositioned its product as a new way of working rather than just another chat app, which significantly increased its perceived value and led to significant business growth. Strong brand positioning requires understanding customer triggers, problems, objections, and desired outcomes.
Labeling a product as “AI-powered” does not increase trust, justify higher pricing, or improve customer perception. While companies often emphasize AI in marketing to appeal to investors and boost SEO, most users care more about tangible benefits than the underlying technology that powers it. Successful messaging focuses on clear outcomes, such as time saved or improved productivity rather than relying on AI as the key selling point.
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