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Figma has introduced three updates to frame presets in UI3 to improve design efficiency: new frames on blank canvases now start at the (0,0) origin point, frames remember the dimensions of the last-used frame, and a Quick-add feature allows easier insertion and duplication of frames. These updates streamline workflows and provide greater flexibility when working with frames.
In the evolving technology landscape, emotional resonance is emerging as the new competitive advantage for software, surpassing traditional features. Apps that deliver emotional engagement can create meaningful experiences, while those focused solely on functionality may fall short. With a projected doubling of applications by 2028, prioritizing emotional design will be essential to distinguish products in a crowded market.
Michael Bierut, a celebrated American graphic designer and Pentagram partner, reflects on his illustrious career, including designing iconic logos for Mastercard and Hillary Clinton. Named an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry in 2024, Bierut discusses his transition to an advisory role at Pentagram, emphasizing curiosity, collaboration, and the evolving landscape of graphic design.
Many designers rely on ineffective arguments that hinder progress.
Combining arrow icon variants with a "direction" property harms discoverability, increases memory usage, and complicates developers' tasks.
A major data breach at Gravy Analytics threatens millions of people's smartphone location data, collected through app advertising networks. The hacker leaked 30 million location points from various apps, including sensitive locations. The breach occurred via a compromised Amazon cloud key, prompting investigations by data protection authorities.
Nominet discovered a network intrusion through Ivanti VPN software's latest zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-0282). While domain systems remain operational and no data theft is confirmed, this marks the first public case of this exploit.
Apple patched a macOS vulnerability that allowed hackers to bypass System Integrity Protection and install malicious kernel drivers by exploiting a flaw in the Storage Kit daemon. This flaw, designated as CVE-2024-44243, could be abused by local attackers with root privileges to compromise Mac systems without physical access, potentially leading to the installation of persistent malware and data theft. Microsoft emphasized the importance of SIP in protecting macOS systems and highlighted the need for robust security solutions to detect and prevent such threats.
FunkSec ransomware group emerged in late 2024, claiming 85+ victims in December. Analysis suggests they use AI-assisted malware development despite apparent inexperience and that many of their leaked datasets appear to be recycled from previous hacktivist campaigns.
This post dives into the landscape of OSS, which in 2025 faces increased supply chain attacks and regulatory demands. Key trends include AI's dual role in cybersecurity (both helping and hindering), the impact of the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, and the growing emphasis on continuous monitoring.
This article discusses a critical security issue with AWS OpenID Connect (OIDC) integrations where missing or incorrectly configured conditions in IAM role trust policies could allow unauthorized access to AWS accounts. The article explains that while the "sub" condition is commonly known to be required (especially for GitHub Actions), different vendors may require different or additional conditions, such as Microsoft Defender requiring "sts:RoleSessionName" or some vendors using custom conditions. The key recommendation is that AWS customers should ensure all their OIDC integrations have both "aud" and "sub" conditions (unless vendor documentation specifically indicates otherwise) and investigate any exceptions carefully, as there are many vendors that work differently and some even recommend additional security measures like IP address restrictions.
Social Analyzer is an API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing and finding a person's profile across over 1,000 social media/websites. It includes different analysis and detection modules, and you can choose which modules to use during the investigation process.
burpference is a Burp Suite extension that captures in-scope HTTP requests from Burp's proxy history and sends them to an LLM in JSON format.
MEGR-APT is an APT hunting system that discovers suspicious subgraphs matching an attack scenario published in Cyber Threat Intel (CTI) reports.
Plaid launched an effort to build its own Key Management System (KMS) to curb bespoke cryptographic processes across different teams and services. It chose to build its own system over using a vendor-provided solution to avoid API limitations that would hamper scalability, lower costs, and be self-service. The migration process proved to be the most challenging part of building the system.
This post enumerates the many different ways that an attacker might be able to obtain credentials in an AWS environment. The AWS SDK looks for hard-coded credentials, followed by environment variables, followed by AWS credential files, and lastly IMDS. The post concludes by listing out more specialized ways that certain services can obtain credentials.
Source Code Red claims that NPM packages were deployed to target Cursor.com by a user named sn4k-s3c from Snyk. These packages collected sensitive data from systems and exfiltrated it to an attacker-controlled web service. It is essential to be cautious when installing NPM packages and look for suspicious signals like limited files in the package.
The National Cyber Security Centre and international cyber experts urge critical infrastructure operators to integrate security into procurement processes to defend against cyber threats.
Azure and Microsoft 365 experienced a four-hour outage for multi-factor authentication that affected users in Western Europe, Chile, and the US.
CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch a command injection bug in BeyondTrust software within three weeks to protect against ongoing attacks.
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News organizations anticipate a decline in search referrals as social platforms deprioritize news and AI-generated summaries become standard in search. News has long been a trusted space for advertising, dating back to the rise of newspapers and TV. Despite concerns about traffic, publishers are investing in AI and focusing on social video platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram to adapt.
AI branding dominated this year's CES, often masking a lack of meaningful innovation. Many products repackaged existing features as AI, from “smart” remotes to laptops with basic chat-based settings. Smart glasses and AI PCs promised more but delivered limited practical applications. Amid the AI hype, genuine hardware advancements stood out, including Samsung's cutting-edge display technology and improved laptops with better battery life.
WHOOP found its niche in the wearable market by targeting elite athletes with data-driven insights on recovery, strain, and sleep. Its growth strategy includes partnerships with top athletes, a content-driven media presence, and a subscription-based model that prioritizes analytics over hardware. By positioning itself as a data-first company, WHOOP created a sticky product that thrives on community and performance-focused innovation.
BabyBillion grew its YouTube channel to 1.5B monthly views in a year by leveraging YouTube analytics to refine videos, focusing on metrics like CTR and audience retention. It created 40-50 sec shorts teaching values like sharing through rhymes and stories, using a structured approach that included music selection, lyrics, sound design, and storyboarding. Weekly data reviews guided content decisions. The team also nurtured young talent, focusing on genuine emotional expression in performances, which significantly improved kids' acting and overall skills.
RedNote, known as Xiaohongshu in China, surged to No. 1 on Apple's US App Store as TikTok users get ready for a potential US ban. With 300 million monthly users, RedNote combines Pinterest-like layouts and Instagram-style content, emphasizing short-form videos for beauty tutorials and shopping.
Notepad Online is a free browser-based tool for creating and storing notes. It offers plain text, rich text, and markdown editors and autosaves notes locally within your browser. It ensures privacy with no data shared or synced across devices.
Autodesk's success began with AutoCAD, a cost-effective CAD program for engineers and architects that was priced at a fraction of its competitors. By addressing a specific audience's needs, Autodesk grew into a $5B revenue company with a $60B market cap. Narrowing focus enhances expertise, uncovers opportunities, and strengthens messaging. In contrast, companies that try to serve everyone often fail to stand out and grow.
US consumer sentiment remains low despite economic strength. Spending exceeds pre-pandemic levels, driven by a "value now" mindset, where consumers focus on immediate value. They're splurging on experiences like dining while cutting back on low-value items like cars. Middle and low-income groups are under financial pressure, but their spending increases as they select purchases that offer both good value and quality within their budgets.
New marketing mix modeling solutions use Bayesian techniques. They offer granular insights across campaigns and geographies and adapt to changing business contexts with time-varying models. Designed for speed and transparency, they enable quick data preparation, automation, and real-time insights through AI.
18 social ads from companies like Ruggable, Levi's, and Dove.
The homepage of Rows.com is a spreadsheet with a full in-app tutorial of its product.
SEO strategies fail due to weak authors, an isolated-channel approach, and a lack of automation.
A bulletproof PM combines soft skills (leadership, communication, drive, and flexibility) with hard skills (business acumen, experimentation, and data analytics). Five key differentiators set exceptional PMs apart: having a strong sense for detecting inefficiencies, the courage to challenge norms, an entrepreneurial mindset focused on value creation, a results-driven approach, and the ability to let go of failed initiatives.
Box's IPO a decade ago showcased the SaaS business model of acquiring customers at high initial costs to maximize LTV, a strategy that shaped modern SaaS dynamics and emphasized cohort-based growth despite significant aggregate losses. Similarly, the rise of digital advertising redefined targeting and conversion but exposed challenges for traditional brands, paralleling how AI advancements like OpenAI's o3 model may disrupt entrenched businesses by enabling task-based automation that newer, more agile companies will adopt faster than established corporations.
Great storytelling builds human connections through four key elements: connecting with your audience by addressing their interests, crafting compelling narratives that are more memorable than facts alone, choosing the right medium for your story's delivery, and evoking emotional responses that create lasting impact and inspire action.
Most companies fail at pricing by relying on executive opinions, qualitative data, or single inflexible price points. Success requires measuring comprehensive metrics, conducting regular price sensitivity tests, experimenting with new users first, and making isolated pricing changes rather than bundling them with other updates.
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To become an AI PM, focus on mastering key skills such as understanding AI fundamentals, customer obsession, prototyping curiosity, learning from successful AI products, and evaluating AI performance. AI tools empower PMs to build and iterate rapidly, shifting focus from documentation to solving real-world problems, with evaluations playing a critical role in measuring and improving AI product effectiveness.
Founders should act as product managers early on, hiring a PM only when the workload grows too large. The type of PM depends on the product's stage - Pioneers for early development, Town Settlers for growth, and City Planners for scaling. For multi-product expansion, focus on adjacent opportunities with proven demand, treat new teams like startups, and prioritize a few high-potential bets to maximize impact.
The product mindset - identifying root causes rather than just symptoms - can transform challenges beyond the workplace. This approach helps create lasting solutions in both professional and personal spheres by combining curiosity, empathy, and systematic problem-solving.
Turn "maybe later" clicks into conversions by capturing emails and sending strategic reminders, leveraging users' mental commitment to eventually consider your offer. The implementation is straightforward: add an email capture after "maybe later" clicks, automate a reminder sequence, simplify the conversion action, and optimize timing.
Align your team's work with business goals, prioritize high-value initiatives, and ensure the value created is clearly communicated and celebrated as team accomplishments, not personal wins.
Product storytelling flows from positioning (how you want to be seen) to messaging (what to say) to copy (how to say it).
React's first animation API, `ViewTransition`, is built upon the browser's View Transition API. It offers animation capabilities previously unavailable in React. The View Transition API has limitations like uninterruptible animations and complex pseudo-element management. `ViewTransition` fixes these by integrating deeply with React's render cycle and using asynchronous updates.
Shopify successfully transitioned all its mobile apps to React Native over five years. This decision resulted in blazing-fast and stable apps, exceeding its performance goals. While it still had common React Native challenges like debugging and updates, Shopify found the benefits of React Native, like hot reloading and Typescript's contribution to talent flexibility, very useful.
Many tools today natively support TypeScript, including frameworks (e.g., Next.js, Astro), runtimes (e.g., Deno, Bun), and bundlers (e.g., Vite, Parcel), reducing the need for custom configuration. With Node.js soon supporting TypeScript by default, the ecosystem is shifting toward making TypeScript integration a standard.
Consumers should have the “right to root access,” which means they have the freedom to install any software on devices they own outright regardless of the device type. Currently, manufacturers often lock bootloaders and restrict software installation for “security reasons.”