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Jack Kubinec's latest thread polls founders to get their opinion on a variety of topics, including the enduring shadow of FTX, the growing respect for Solana's innovations, and the untapped potential in payments and AI agent infrastructure.
A stablecoin bank could disrupt Visa and Mastercard's duopoly by offering lower fees and new incentives for merchants and consumers, paving the way for a more integrated, cost-effective payment system.
In 2021, Windows 11 introduced a centered Start menu, Taskbar, and modernized interfaces. Microsoft has been exploring the possibility of dynamic wallpapers featuring gentle animations, particularly for educational users, but this feature has not yet been released. Initial plans for a rollout in 2023 were delayed, leaving its future uncertain. However, thanks to Sergey Kisselev, a former Microsoft designer on the Windows team, we now know what these dynamic wallpapers might look like.
AI is making strides in the car industry, particularly in the design of electric vehicles, where it can potentially reduce costs and speed up the design process. Designing cars involves numerous iterations and substantial investments, with recent design controversies such as the Tesla Cybertruck and Jaguar Type 00 concept illustrating the challenges. MIT researchers have developed an open-source database aimed at using AI to design the ideal electric car.
Generative AI tools like Firefly are integrated into Adobe software, balancing innovation with copyright protection. Initiatives like Content Credentials ensure transparency, safeguard artists' rights, and track ownership. While challenges persist, Adobe collaborates with creators and policymakers to promote responsible AI use, emphasizing support for creativity and fostering trust in the digital ecosystem.
Confirmation dialogs ensure deliberate user actions, prevent mistakes, and respect user rights. They are crucial for irreversible actions, impactful changes, or situations requiring acknowledgment. Best practices include clear language, distinct options, and visually prominent designs. Alternatives like undo features and inline warnings can minimize unnecessary dialogs.
A new FDA rule restricts "healthy" food labels to products meeting strict nutritional criteria, addressing misleading claims. Starting February 2025, foods must include recommended food groups, limit added sugars, fats, and sodium, and emphasize nutrient-dense options like fruits and whole grains. Experts highlight the need for public education to maximize label effectiveness.
The iPhone SE 4, which may possibly be renamed to the "iPhone 16E," is expected to feature the biggest upgrade in its history, including a major design refresh and a $499 price tag. This rebranding aims to position it as a more premium product, differentiating it from the iPhone 16 while potentially boosting sales.
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A simple, fun game where you can finally punch those annoying clients who often ask for the same annoying things.
Colorspace is a tool for generating consistent and predictable color swatches for design systems. It uses the OKHSL color space model to create perceptually uniform and harmonious color palettes inspired by Matthew Strom's insights on color palette generation.
Luke Bracken's journey from digital marketing to UX design at IBM showcases the impact of continuous learning. Studying with the UX Design Institute provided him with flexible, university-accredited training, practical portfolio projects, and career support. His dedication, combined with these resources, helped him land his role at IBM and thrive professionally.
Julia Lohmann's innovative design integrates ethics, sustainability, and nature. She pioneered seaweed as a sustainable material, creating works like Oki Naganode. As a regenerative designer and Aalto University professor, Lohmann promotes ecological responsibility. Her projects explore bio-materials, sustainability, and our connection to nature, inspiring conversations about inclusivity and environmental impact.
Value is subjective and multifaceted, shaped by personal emotions and professional priorities, often requiring alignment between stakeholders' perspectives and an organization's goals. Beyond monetary terms, understanding customers' ethical, emotional, and psychological drivers is essential for delivering meaningful, innovative experiences.
Jun Cen, winner of Booooooom's Illustration Awards for Product & Packaging, combines quiet aesthetics with thoughtful motion in his collaborations with A24, The New Yorker, and Apple.
Future Arts, a Seattle nonprofit, aims to establish artist residencies in every tech company within a decade, promoting cultural vibrancy through interdisciplinary projects, education, and community engagement.
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If you are building a B2B app, at some point you'll want to start selling to enterprises. You can expand your market size, decrease churn, and accelerate revenue growth.
With tech leaders increasingly moving into government positions, there's a growing push to run government more like a startup. However, as Obama noted, government and business have fundamentally different balance sheets - while businesses can choose their markets and optimize for returns, the government must serve everyone and tackle problems no private company would touch. While bringing tech talent to government could help modernize certain functions, trying to run government purely on business metrics would mean ignoring critical public goods like education and veteran care that don't fit a VC's return timeline.
While Palantir trades at 50x revenue (vs industry median of 6.2x), revenue multiples alone don't tell the full story. Three key factors justify its premium: strong revenue growth with government stability, high free cash flow margins at 39%, and low dilution relative to growth. However, at current valuations, Palantir needs nearly perfect execution for many years to justify its price.
2024 celebrated general AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. 2025 will be the year of specialized AI trained on private industry data. These domain-specific models will excel in fields requiring deep expertise like protein engineering and supply chain optimization, where general models fall short. The shift marks the beginning of enterprise AI, where companies develop models specifically for their unique needs.
Most founders fail at the critical transition that comes after product-market fit. The shift requires changing from an "explore" mindset (rapid testing, accepting failures, questioning everything) to an "execute" mindset (standardization, reliability, predictable processes). However, founder arrogance often gets in the way - they want to keep doing what worked before, not realizing that scaling demands an entirely different approach. Making this transition requires a fundamental culture shift that many founders struggle to accept.
A podcast hosted by Lenny Rachitsky with Ayo Omojola, Chief Product Officer at Carbon Health, on product differentiation, team building, and thinking from first principles.
Managers should anticipate high-performers leaving their team and should have a succession plan in place. Their goal should be to help these employees grow, even if that means they eventually outgrow their current roles. This mindset can help create a positive culture where people feel supported and empowered. Managers should maintain an open dialogue about career aspirations with their team members, help them develop a roadmap to achieve their goals, and build a strong pipeline of talent to ensure continuity when someone leaves.
Screen recorder for macOS. Create engaging product demos, courses, tutorials, and social media.
WebWhiz allows you to create an AI chatbot that knows everything about your product and can instantly respond to your customer's queries.
The paradox of enterprise software lies in its buyers not being its users. While employees despise Jira's clunky interface and complexity, management keeps buying it because it serves their needs for control and customization. However, this dynamic is shifting - modern startups now target users directly, building tools people actually want to use and forcing IT to adopt them through bottom-up growth.
While "being strategic" is often equated with bold, decisive moves, the most effective strategies might actually involve being deliberately indecisive about many things. Most successful companies operate with less decisive strategies than the romanticized stories suggest, often keeping multiple options open while focusing decisively on just a few key areas. Strategy isn't about having all the answers, but knowing which questions truly need them.
Stock-based compensation (SBC) is a controversial topic in SaaS. In the 2010s growth era, SBC fueled hiring with less scrutiny. However, as the market cooled, dilution's impact on returns became a headline concern. SBC often exceeds 20% of revenue, rivaling other major expense categories. CFOs must thoughtfully balance SBC's benefits (alignment, less cash burn) with dilution impacts. Having a clear SBC philosophy is essential, not optional. SBC isn't inherently good or bad - it's a strategic tool to wield intentionally.
Steve Jobs argued that pure perseverance accounts for half of entrepreneurial success.
Not being "good enough" by others' standards can free you to define success on your own terms.
Vertical AI startups are innovating in voice automation, unstructured data parsing, verticalized search, and content generation.
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Security researchers from Check Point's open-appsec tested the efficacy of several leading WAF solutions using a comprehensive dataset: 1,040,242 legitimate HTTP requests from 692 real websites [4], and 73,924 malicious payloads from common attack vectors.
Researchers discovered 33 compromised Chrome extensions affecting 2.6 million devices during the holiday season. The incident began when Cyberhaven's extension was hijacked through a phishing attack on Christmas Eve, leading to malicious code that stole sensitive data including Facebook and ChatGPT credentials.
MyGiftCardSupply's unsecured server exposed over 600,000 customer ID documents and selfies belonging to around 200,000 customers. After researcher JayeLTee discovered the breach, the company secured the server and promised better data handling, but wouldn't commit to notifying affected individuals or explain the delayed response.
Volkswagen Group's software subsidiary Cariad exposed sensitive data of 800,000 EV owners through a misconfigured Amazon cloud storage system. The breach revealed vehicle locations, contact details, and addresses across multiple European countries, affecting various VW brands. The issue was fixed after ethical hackers reported it.
Cybersecurity budgets are expected to increase for 90% of organizations in 2025, with leaders facing pressure to demonstrate ROI. While 35.9% of CISO budgets go to software, automation of SOC workflows and patch management offers clear returns. Gartner predicts industry spending will grow from $184B (2024) to $294B (2028), with cloud security leading growth.
The blog discusses the risks of unsafe archive unpacking in software development due to vulnerabilities in handling archive files across different programming languages. The author demonstrates vulnerable implementations and provides safe alternatives, along with Semgrep rules, to automatically detect and mitigate these risks. The research aims to help developers identify and address security vulnerabilities in archive extraction methods to prevent potential attacks like path traversal.
Managed Identities as Federated Identity Credentials for Microsoft Entra allow secure access to cloud resources without using secrets or certificates. This new approach improves security by reducing the risk of credential leaks and simplifies resource access setup. Apps can now trust managed identities, eliminating the need to manage app secrets or certificates for accessing Entra-protected resources.
Ephemeral, zero-knowledge sensitive data sharing with end-to-end encryption and seamless UX - no sign-up, just secure and instant sharing.
Amitai Cohen built this Pivot Atlas as an educational tool to help cyber analysts understand various pivoting strategies. This website contains simple reference material for how to make the best use of various threat activity observables, such as IP addresses and file hashes. Mermaid diagrams are also included for easy and clickable navigation between artifact types.
Pytune is a post-exploitation tool that enrolls devices into Microsoft Intune.
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri inadvertently recorded private conversations. US users who had Siri-enabled devices between 2014-2024 and can swear their private conversations were accidentally recorded could receive up to $20 per device, pending judicial approval.
Akamai will end its China CDN services by June 30, 2026, with content requests to be served from neighboring countries unless a partner solution is activated. It has partnered with Tencent Cloud and Wangsu Science & Technology to offer high-performance content delivery and security solutions in mainland China. Existing China CDN customers must transition to the partner solutions by the deadline to avoid service interruptions.
macOS has become more private over the last five years, with a significant increase in Private Frameworks. The percentage of Private Frameworks has risen from 76% to 84% from 2019 to 2024. Apple's Private Frameworks are not accessible to third-party developers and are crucial for app approval in the App Store.
A lawsuit by Youtuber LegalEagle claims that PayPal's Honey extension is diverting earnings from creators by substituting affiliate links, accusing the company of undermining the affiliate marketing system.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Integrity Technology Group, a Beijing-based cybersecurity company, for supporting a Chinese state-sponsored cyber group called Flax Typhoon that targeted U.S. critical infrastructure sectors.
49 Videos from FIRSTCON 24, an event that focused on the issues of incident response and security teams.
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PayPal is facing a class action that accuses its Honey browser extension of replacing affiliate links from influencers with Honey links, diverting commissions. The lawsuit claims that Honey intentionally interfered with contracts and seeks over $5M in damages. Influencers argue that Honey's last-click attribution unfairly redirects revenue, harming the creator economy. The case could lead to greater regulatory scrutiny on practices that impact content creators' income from advertising, sponsorships, and affiliate deals.