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Figma's top VCs are sitting on $24 billion worth of stock after massive IPO pop

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-12-20 06:48:28

Figma Inc. signage during the company's initial public offering (IPO) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. You can almost smell the bubbly wafting across Silicon Valley. Following Figma's blockbuster market debut on Thursday, four of the most iconic names in venture capital — Index Ventures, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia — are collectively sitting on roughly $24 billion worth of the design software vendor's stock. Until recently, there's b

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I made a website that makes you cry

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:19:37

Thank you for visiting! Come back in a week to cry again. ‍ Enter your email for our free eBook on crying's benefits and exclusive updates on future projects. Thank you for visiting! Refresh the page to try again. ‍ Enter your email for our free eBook on crying's benefits and exclusive updates on future projects.

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How to Join the Battlefield 6 Open Beta: Early Access Sign Up and Weekend Dates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 04:49:00

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and players will soon get to join the fray themselves. A Battlefield 6 public beta is coming on two consecutive weekends starting Aug. 9 -- and if you're lucky enough to get in Early Access, to play starting Aug. 7 -- and here's how to join. The Battlefield 6 open betas will be the first chances for players to get to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release Oct. 10. The first

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The 28 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Angela Watercutter 2025-12-20 03:00:00

When it comes to originals, Netflix and Amazon have the deepest libraries of prestige movies. But ever since CODA won the Best Picture Oscar, it’s become clear that some of the best movies are on Apple TV+. As with any streaming service, not every film on the roster is a winner, but from the Billie Eilish documentary to Sundance darlings, Apple’s streaming service is building up a strong catalog to run alongside its growing slate of beloved TV shows. Below are WIRED’s picks for flicks you shou

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Iconiq’s Will Griffith explains how his firm celebrated Figma’s IPO and why investors sold shares

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-20 11:01:00

Will Griffith had only been two months in his job as a venture investor for Iconiq when he met a 19-year-old college dropout named Dylan Field. This would lead to one of his signature seed investments, in a startup called Figma. On Thursday, Figma went public with the stock popping from the $33 IPO opening price to close at $115.50 and a $47 billion market cap. And Griffith could not be more effusive in his praise for the company. “You go to one of these user conferences and you’re like, there

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Battlefield 6 gets an October 10 release date

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 16:01:50

Fall is often first-person shooter season, and looks like this year's release calendar will include the next entry in the Battlefield series. Battlefield 6 is launching on October 10, and will be available to play on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC via Steam, Epic Games and the EA Play app. The previous trailer for the first-person shooter only showed content from the game's single-player campaign. While there have been some solid stories in the Battlefield franchise, the main draw for ma

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Paint.NET is a free and flexible image editor for Windows

techspot.com Unknown 2025-12-20 21:04:00

Paint.NET is an image and photo editing application for Windows. It features an intuitive user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is now maintained and developed by Rick Brewster. Originally intended as a free replacement for the

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August's Full Sturgeon Moon Lines Up With Perseids, Saturn, Venus and Jupiter

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 20:07:36

As long as you're looking at the night sky, August has a ton of cool stuff going on this year. Among those is the full moon, also known as the Sturgeon Moon. It's the last full moon of the summer, and it's coming on Aug. 9. Per The Farmer's Almanac, the full moon will reach its peak brightness at 3:55 a.m. ET on Saturday, Aug. 9. Thus, if you want to see the moon at its brightest, you'll want to look up the evening of Aug. 8 and on into the next morning. It's not a big deal if you miss it, as t

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The sequel to ‘The Social Network’ may have just found its lead actors

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-20 21:36:41

In Brief Over a decade after “The Social Network,” director Aaron Sorkin is reportedly working on a sequel, possibly with two leads in mind. While the 2010 original film focused on Mark Zuckerberg’s rise, “Social Network Part II” is said to draw from Jeff Horwitz’s “The Facebook Files,” which exposed Facebook’s harmful effects on teens and its role in spreading misinformation. According to Deadline, Jeremy Allen White from “The Bear” is being considered for the role of Horwitz, while Mikey Ma

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Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-21 02:10:52

Figma 's stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, a day after the design software company sold shares at $33 in its IPO. The big opening pop is the latest indication that the tech IPO market has reopened following a multi-year lull that began in early 2022, when inflation was soaring and interest rates were on the rise. So far this year, online bank Chime , stablecoin issuer Circle and artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave have hit the market

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Microsoft to disable Excel workbook links to blocked file types

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-21 02:26:25

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout, Excel workbooks referencing blocked file types will display a #BLOCKED error or fail to refresh, eliminating security risks associated with accessing unsupported or high-risk file types, including, but not limited to, phishing attacks that utilize workbooks to redirect targets to malicious payloads. This change is being introduced

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How to clear the cache on your Windows 11 PC (and why it greatly improves performance)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-21 02:35:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET If your computer desktop looks a little chaotic and you're noticing some performance slowdown, it might be time to do a cleanup. The best way to keep things running smoothly is to ensure you're running the most updated version of Windows (you'd be surprised how many folks' devices are several updates behind). But if you're up-to-date, there are other things you can do to optimize. Also: A decade of Windows 10: Chaos, Cortana, and conspiracy theories that never panned

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Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Mens 2025-12-20 22:24:05

Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace, you can also run UniFi Identity on UniFi OS Server, which was not possible with the self-hosted UniFi Network server, for example. Let’s take a look at how to install and configure UniFi OS Server. Requirements The currently known requirements for UniFi OS Server a

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Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network sequel might recast Mark Zuckerberg

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-21 02:10:40

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a follow-up to The Social Network, and Jeremy Strong is reportedly the lead candidate to play Mark Zuckerberg. According to Deadline, “Sources say no formal offer has been presented but that he is the top choice to play the Facebook founder.” Jesse Eisenberg played Zuckerberg in the first film. Deadline reported on the new film, The Socia

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Figma’s stock soars in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hits $45B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-21 02:15:35

Figma began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after a long delay. It soared so quickly that trading was halted for a short time due to market volatility. The price is currently bouncing between $101 and $112 with a mid-day market cap of $45 billion, Yahoo Finance reports. The company and existing investors sold shares at the IPO price of $33 per share. Quite the pop. There has been so much demand for this stock that people on X are posting funny pictures of their orders being

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Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 06:21:07

LWN wrote an article which opens with the assertion "Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September". This is, depending on interpretation, either misleading or just plain wrong, but also there's not a good source of truth here, so.First, how does secure boot signing work? Every system that supports UEFI secure boot ships with a set of trusted certificates in a database called "db". Any binary sig

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James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Just Passed a Major ‘Man of Steel’ Milestone

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-21 06:00:54

Superman vs. Man of Steel. It’s the greatest Superman vs. Superman showdown since 1983’s Superman III. In that film, Superman had to fight himself. In 2025, that battle is between James Gunn’s new film and records set by Zack Snyder’s 2013 film. Snyder’s Man of Steel grossed about $291 million at the domestic box office, but as of earlier this week, Gunn’s Superman soared by it, now sitting at almost $297 million domestic as of Wednesday, July 30. That makes the new film the highest-grossing dom

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Advanced Rust macros with derive-deftly

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:21:34

derive-deftly is a Rust package that you can use to define your own derive macros without having to write low-level procedural macros. The syntax is easy to learn, but powerful enough to implement macros of significant complexity. Just below is a simple example, to help you get a feel for the system. There is also comprehensive and rigorous reference material: Suppose you want to add accessor functions for the fields in your struct . You could do it by hand, like this: #![allow(unused)] fn

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Ubiquiti Launches UniFi OS Server for Self-Hosting

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Mens 2025-12-21 10:24:05

Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace, you can also run UniFi Identity on UniFi OS Server, which was not possible with the self-hosted UniFi Network server, for example. Let’s take a look at how to install and configure UniFi OS Server. Requirements The currently known requirements for UniFi OS Server

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I tried Servo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 04:56:21

"Everything is chrome in the future" was a line said by SpongeBob SquarePants in an episode from 1999, and it turned out to be a prophecy about web browsers. Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and most of its competitors are based on the same Chromium code: Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and Arc, just to name a few. The main exceptions are Safari and Firefox. It wasn't always this way. At the start of the millennium, Internet Explorer used its own Trident engine on Windo

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Chillin' by the Fire is a relaxing, co-op campfire sim that's out today on Nintendo Switch 2

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 16:00:09

Thursday's Nintendo Direct showcased some interesting games, but none seemed more relaxing than one called Chillin' by the Fire. This is a campfire sim from Oink Games in which you'll build and grow a fire. You'll split and stack firewood, dry out wet logs before adding them to your blaze and fan the flames by blowing on 'em. It's important not to have too little or too much wood in a fire at any given time, and you might have to deal with elemental factors like low temperatures on a snowy mount

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GCP CloudQuarry: Searching for Secrets in Public GCP Images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 15:55:34

This guest post by Eduard Agavriloae and Matei Josephs, two expert cloud security researchers, was developed through Truffle Security’s Research CFP program . We first connected with Eduard and Matei after their well-received DEF CON 32 talk, AWS CloudQuarry: Digging for secrets in public AMIs , where they used TruffleHog to identify hundreds of live secrets in public AWS Images. In this follow-up, they expand their research to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). TL;DR We scanned 8,400+ public GCP ima

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Netflix Is Hungry to Turn ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Into Its Next Everything Franchise

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-21 16:00:04

It’s been a little over a month since Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix released KPop Demon Hunters, but you wouldn’t be able to tell given how much staying power the movie has had online. Now, as if answering fans’ hanging questions on when the streamer will announce a sequel, a new report has revealed that Netflix and Sony intend to strike while the iron is hot on KPop Demon Hunters‘ meteoric acclaim with plans to expand the film in the early stages. According to a new report from The Wrap,

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Dropbox is shutting down its password manager next month – here are the best alternatives

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-21 21:18:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In a nutshell: Dropbox will discontinue its password manager on October 28, permanently (and hopefully securely) deleting any credentials still stored on that date. The company recommends switching to 1Password because it supports importing data directly from Dropbox; however, other options are also worth considering. Dropbox will begin a phased winddown of its password manager next month, and data

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Figma CEO says AI superintelligence is not a looming threat to the company

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-21 21:30:57

Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field said Thursday that artificial intelligence doesn't pose a serious threat to the future of the design software company, which is on the verge of debuting on the public markets. "We're in this moment where you might, if you're singularity-pilled, go, 'Hey, superintelligence is coming and it'll be able to do things that no human can do," Field told CNBC's "Squawk Box." "I have a harder time believing that we're going to approach that really quickly right now, b

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Inside a Real Clickfix Attack: How This Social Engineering Hack Unfolds

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-21 21:05:15

An inside look at a ClickFix campaign and a real-world attack, its next iteration (FileFix), and how to prevent it in its tracks, before device compromise. ClickFix: Silent Copying to Clipboard ClickFix, a deceptive social engineering tactic, is used by threat actors to manipulate unsuspecting users into unwittingly allowing a web page to silently populate the clipboard. Ultimately, the attacker is attempting to get a user to (unknowingly) execute malicious code, gathered from the browser and

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'The Thursday Murder Club,' 'My Oxford Year' and More New Netflix Movies You Shouldn't Miss in August

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 20:00:00

As we enter the dog days of summer, Netflix's August slate of movies is giving us something to look forward to. This month, the platform is dropping dozens of new films, including some great originals like the romance My Oxford Year, starring Sofia Carson, and the ensemble mystery The Thursday Murder Club. The streamer is also premiering a few exciting new documentaries this month, including The Truth About Jussie Smollett?, in which the actor speaks out about the assault he's accused of stagin

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How Scientific Empires End

news.ycombinator.com Ross Andersen 2025-12-22 00:47:15

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, he studied the thermonuclear reactions that occur inside of stars. A few lab tables away, Andrei Sakharov was developing the hydrogen bomb. The Soviet space program would soon astonish the world by lofting the first satellite, and then the first human being, into orbit. Sagdeev can still rememb

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Google will soon fix a security loophole in Chrome’s password autofill

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 17:30:38

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google Chrome on Android will let you require biometric authentication before autofilling passwords, adding a much-needed layer of security. This feature closes a loophole, as the existing biometric protection for autofill in Google Password Manager currently only applies to apps, not the browser. A newly discovered setting explicitly states this protection is “coming soon to Chrome,” finally preventing password autofill without user verification. Man

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I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 16:56:21

"Everything is chrome in the future" was a line said by SpongeBob SquarePants in an episode from 1999, and it turned out to be a prophecy about web browsers. Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and most of its competitors are based on the same Chromium code: Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and Arc, just to name a few. The main exceptions are Safari and Firefox. It wasn't always this way. At the start of the millennium, Internet Explorer used its own Trident engine on Windo

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