A significant update to Google Maps added features that make the app even more powerful. The new Immersive View for Routes now uses AI to provide detailed previews of planned journeys. You can also get directions to a new destination with Lens in Maps, which uses AI and augmented reality. There are now more detailed navigation maps for a smoother ride and additional charging station info for drivers of electric vehicles.
Designers at Slack initiated a major evolution of its user interface, aiming to make the platform more personal, approachable, and easier to use without sacrificing its iconic look or information density. This included a two-week design sprint where a team proposed updates to the visual language, customization options, and new information preview paradigms.
The Apple Journal app is a simple one-screen journaling tool with basic features. It allows users to create entries with text, photos, videos, voice memos, and location data. The app uses machine learning to recognize and suggest essential moments in a user's life.
When AI is harnessed correctly, it can elevate creativity at a rate unmatched by any other tool. Ten experts discuss how to use AI in the development of creative technologies and to shape more human-centered experiences.
Various genres of movies and TV shows have been featuring imaginary interfaces for fake apps for quite some time now. Five pioneers in the industry reveal how these fictional products operate as part of the plot and what they say about our technological habits.
2023.10.30·wepresent.wetransfer.com·33 min read·TLDR Design The Nielsen Norman Group conducted a large-scale survey with more than 800 respondents to understand how UX professionals use generative AI in their day-to-day work. 92% of the respondents claimed they had used at least one generative AI tool. Among those who used these bots for work, 63% used them at least several times per week (if not daily). The most common type of activity is text content generation and editing.
Calculate the perfect line height automatically for any text and grid combination.
2D animation is made simple with Procreate Dreams, which contains lots of innovative features and tools that simplify the entire process of creating animations.
Neurascapes is a free collection of AI-generated images and prompts curated by humans.
The majority (50%) of branding projects fall between the $500 and $5,000 range and 80% of branders price their projects based on the time and effort it takes. The primary methods for acquiring clients are referrals and word of mouth (86.1%). 70.4% of branding professionals believe AI will make their work easier and are open to integrating AI tools like ChatGPT, Adobe Software, and Midjourney into their branding processes.
German stock photographer Robert Kneschke wanted to put Midjourney’s new upscaler to the test so he generated an AI picture on Midjourney in the standard 1024x1024 resolution and then ran it through Midjourney’s 4x upscaler. He was impressed with the results. However, the problem with Midjourney’s upscaler is that the user can only run AI images generated on Midjourney through it so users can’t upload their low-resolution photos to the platform. There are other drawbacks too: Namely, the price.
Toast components are easy to miss, stay near the end of the DOM, and make users anxious. Does it make sense to use them?
Google has created a quiz to test your ability to distinguish between human-created images and images generated by artificial intelligence.
Microsoft is introducing new changes to Windows Ink in Windows 11, allowing users to write anywhere they can type. This includes handwriting-to-text conversion in search boxes and other input fields. The update is currently available as a preview through Windows Update, with improved handwriting recognition and new gestures for editing text.
The select element gets a small upgrade in Chrome 119, with a feature that also landed in Safari 17. Now, you can add horizontal rule elements to the list of select options. They will appear as separators to help visually break up the options for a better user experience.
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Odoo Experience, starting on October 8, promises to reveal Odoo 17, thought to disrupt the industry landscape once again. Anticipate innovative features, including a new website builder and a game-changing point of sale system adapted for restaurants. Odoo's legacy of innovation is set to reach new heights, offering businesses enhanced applications to boost operations and improve customer experience.
The Lean Startup approach has been a powerful framework for founders for over a decade. Build MVPs, test, experiment, and iterate. Moving fast has been a guiding mantra. How relevant is this methodology in 2023 and beyond? Eric Ries, the founder of the Lean Startup methodology, dives in.
From helping you to write code to checking the quality of that code and adding repeatability to your content generation, AI is going to impact how we think about leverage in the daily operations of our software companies. This article explores the common areas where you should be thinking about adding AI to your operations.
Global deal count in Q3’23 slipped well below pre-pandemic averages to its lowest point since 2016. What does this mean for you? Nothing we haven’t heard before–funding is harder to get and VCs are making decisions more slowly, prepare accordingly.
Thinking about a free trial or freemium offering? Here are some questions to ask yourself. It ultimately comes down to how easy your product is to use without any guidance and the value that the customer represents.
Do things that don’t scale your time but do scale your understanding and revenue.
It’s always hard to know when to go into Europe but if you have a universally interesting product, get there sooner and put boots on the ground. Landing in London usually helps as you’re close to pretty much every major brand on the planet and in their timezone.
A priority inbox for product teams that reduces information overload, prioritizes work, gives instant context, and augments core workflows using AI.
Layer cuts your research time by 40% with AI-powered summarization, information extraction, and more.
Realtime UI personalization, powered by AI.
No doubt as a founder, you consume a lot of content on a weekly basis. Articles, blog posts, tweets, this newsletter. With AI, the amount of user-generated content is going to increase exponentially. The systems you build to defend your attention will be more important than ever.
The implosion of Convoy was hard to miss last week but VCs have a long history of screwing it up when it comes to trucking. They forgot about the most important part about trucking: the driver. This is a great breakdown of the state-of-the-state and things to come.
The price of doing business on the blockchain is only getting cheaper and will continue to do so. Does that mean meaningful business can finally be done on these platforms? The outcome of this crypto craze will likely be a wildly boring and insanely huge blockchain business, but it’s still another 5-10 years out.
Your ability to aggregate and understand customer data is improving, allowing you to have a better understanding of your customers, predict their future behavior more accurately, offer scaled customer support, and curate messaging that resonates more accurately.
Consensus rarely proceeds innovation.
Tim Ferris breaks down the best way to start your morning.
Three new vulnerabilities related to the NGINX ingress component in Kubernetes (CVE-2023-5043, CVE-2023-5044, and CVE-2022-4886) were reported on October 27th. These vulnerabilities allow attackers who can control the configuration of the Ingress object to steal secret credentials from the cluster, including credentials for the Kubernetes API server with very high privileges.
Apple introduced a feature in iOS 14 that claimed to display a unique, private MAC address for each SSID an iPhone connected to. Two security researchers discovered that this feature doesn’t work on iOS 17.1. They then tested all versions of the feature since it was released and learned that it had never worked. The researchers discovered that the iPhone would send the private MAC address in the source field in multicast messages upon joining a network but the real MAC address would still be sent in a different field.
Citrix warns all admins of Netscaler ADC and Gateway appliances to immediately secure their systems from an actively exploited vulnerability dubbed Citrix Bleed (CVE-2023-4966). The 9.4 vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to launch a low complexity attack to remotely disclose session tokens and hijack authenticated sessions with no user interaction. This article includes commands to kill all sessions and details of the patched versions.
This little blog post walks through how you can turn a simple script that moves folders or files into a privilege escalation on a Mac.
This blog post goes into depth into how you can exploit an OAuth callback URL to create a zero-click account takeover.
This study looked at the behavior of human defenders against two different attack strategies, Beeline and Meander, and how it affected the emergence of defense strategies. The results showed that although human defenders initially had more difficulty stopping the Beeline adversary, they were able to learn to stop it by taking advantage of their attack strategy.
Postleaks is a tool to search for exposed secrets in public Postman collections.
MalwareBytes has launched a new product, Identity Theft Protection, that is meant to help secure digital identities and defend against identity and online threats. It does this through identity monitoring and alerting, credit monitoring, breach analysis, and identity recovery tools.
Gsec is a web security scanner based on custom vulnerability scanners and Nuclei. It can do passive scans (DNS enumeration, subdomain generation) and aggressive scans (http code, web crawler, http traversal scan, and more).
The StripedFly malware was first discovered by Kaspersky researchers in 2017 and was initially believed to be a cryptocurrency miner. Researchers discovered that the miner was actually a cover for a highly sophisticated spy platform. The malware uses a custom TOR client to transmit communication and siphoned data between infected systems and the attackers' command and control server and has a ransomware component that has infected a small subset of victims.
Amazon has released a notice that most Amazon RDS and Aurora SSL/TLS certificates will expire in 2024. After rotating the rds-ca-2019 CA certificates, the new CA certificates will expire in either 40 or 100 years. This article contains a tutorial on how to identify and rotate affected instances.
Researchers at Censored Planet and Google’s Jigsaw have been tracking internet blackouts by governments, which impacted 35 countries across 187+ instances in 2022. Outages lasting hours to weeks cut access to vital information for work and family. This post outlines how the researchers built the analysis dashboard and data pipelines to understand the impact of these blackouts.
After Okta’s recent breach, its shares slumped more than 11% - reducing its market cap by more than $2 billion.
Many organizations' expanding attack surfaces, from digital transformation and hybrid work, drive cyber risk, with threats rapidly evolving. Quantifying security solution efficacy through metrics like catch rate is challenging with the variables involved. This piece examines what catch rate indicates about financial risk mitigation.
A study of how generative AI chatbot “hallucinations”, or false information generated by AI chatbots, are harming search results. The study focuses on an example in which a researcher wrote a blog post that was meant to test how an LLM could be tricked into generating a summary using a fictional article. The researcher discovered that their fictional article was highlighted in Bing search results even after they added explicit text in the blog post to try and dissuade the Bing search results.
The no-code integration enables HubSpot customers to deploy lead-generating ads on TikTok and automatically sync leads to HubSpot’s Smart CRM in real-time. Brands can then engage leads with personalized campaigns across channels using HubSpot's Marketing Hub and leverage HubSpot's robust AI-powered reporting. The integration is currently only available in the U.S. and Canada.
This report looks at how over 4,000 global leaders are thinking about the benefits and pitfalls of AI’s evolving role in marketing and the creative process. It’s broken down into 4 categories: measuring generative AI adoption in creative fields, how it’s disrupting creative workflows, the potential and pitfalls, and future outlook.
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