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Hello everyone,
We are planning a scheduled downtime Saturday (March 27th) from 9:00am PST until 11:00am PST.
We are polishing the infrastructure for an important new beta launch in April.
You can follow live updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/feedly
Thank you for your patience.
Have a wonderful weekend!
-Seb, Oliv, and Edwin
We are looking for a Head of Product Marketing with a proven track record of driving growth in an early stage B2B SaaS environment. You will be responsible for developing and executing the Feedly marketing strategy. It is a unique opportunity to significantly impact the growth trajectory of an exciting startup that is transforming how 15M+ curious minds research and consume information.
A major focus for this role is to accelerate the growth of Feedly Pro+ and Feedly Enterprise and increase the awareness of Leo (Feedly’s new AI research assistant) with analysts, influencers, and the press.
Manually keeping up with the topics and trends you care about is tedious and overwhelming.
Feedly is an AI-powered research tool that allows individuals and organizations to track key industry trends, without the overwhelm.
We serve 15 million individuals and 2,000 organizations.
Feedly is a remote-first, self-funded, fast-growing, and profitable startup, located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
We’re a small and ambitious team that works closely in sync while each taking real ownership of our respective areas.
Our mission is to make Leo the world’s most helpful AI research assistant.
Keeping up with the most critical threats, vulnerabilities, and threat actors can be time consuming and overwhelming.
We have been working with some existing Feedly for Cybersecurity customers to create a trending dashboard that offers an at-a-glance overview of the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.
Today, we are excited to launch a beta of the Cybersecurity Trending Dashboard to all the Feedly for Cybersecurity customers.
Here is a quick demo!
The first component of the Trending Dashboard is a list of the trending threats reported across 1,200 different cybersecurity sources (new sites, blogs, or twitter accounts).
It allows you to get a quick overview of what are the critical threats that are being reported across all the cybersecurity sites the Feedly community is reading. You can think of this as a TechMeme for Cybersecurity.
The model producing this dashboard is focusing on the news published in the last 24 hours.
Behind the scene, Leo is reading all the articles across all the cybersecurity sources and twitter accounts, dismissing the ones that are not about cybersecurity threats, clustering the ones that are reporting the same threat, and ranking them using different “features”.
The initial model we are pushing to beta is a global model. This means that your personal priorities and mute filters are not affecting this model (yet!)
The second component is a list of the trending vulnerabilities that are being discovered or discussed across Cybersecurity sources.
You can click on a specific vulnerability and drill down to a page that captures all the mentions and chatter around that vulnerability.
The last component is a list of trending threat actor mentions. It allows you to get an overview of which threat actors are being covered in the news.
You can click on a specific threat actor and get a “Search across the Web” overview of the mentions.
Every component has a “Less Like This” down arrow button that you can use to provide feedback to Leo. The feedback is going to be reviewed by the product team during the beta to understand how to improve the relevant, deduplication, and prioritization. Leo loves candid feedback.
We look forward to listening to your feedback and continuously improving the Cybersecurity Trending Dashboard over the next 8 weeks.
We also want to thank the customers who suggested this feature and worked with us during the Alpha. You know who you are!
Not in the current version. Once we have the core model optimized, we will look at ways to allow you personalize the dashboard by industry, product, threat types.
If you have feedback regarding specific articles or CVEs, please use the Less Like This down arrow button to submit your feedback. If you have ideas on how to improve the concept, please email leo@feedly.com
If you are part of a cybersecurity team and want to get a demo of how Feedly for Cybersecurity can help you streamline your open source intelligence, you can request a demo and a free trial here.
Not yet. The beta is only available in the Feedly Web application. We will integrate this feature into the mobile experience once the beta is complete.
Yes. If you go to your Leo preferences (https://feedly.com/i/account/leo) and scroll to the bottom of that page, you will see an option to hide the Trending Dashboard.
Feedly for Cybersecurity includes an API that allows cybersecurity teams to share the intelligence they collect in Feedly with other applications
150,000 cybersecurity professionals use Feedly to collect intelligence about the evolving threat landscape.
Threat research and collection are one step of the overall threat intelligence, investigation, and response.
The Feedly Cybersecurity API allows security teams to easily integrate the insights they collect in Feedly into other systems and applications. Some teams use the API to extract data about threats and vulnerabilities and feed larger machine learning threat-prioritization models. Some teams use the API to create Jira tickets based on the content of the Feedly boards to make sure that critical vulnerabilities are reviews and patched in a timely manner.
Access to the Feedly API (up to 200,000 requests per month) is an add-on included in the Enterprise Edition of the Feedly for Cybersecurity package.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the Feedly API to access the content of your security feeds, your boards, and your Leo priorities.
When you subscribe to Feedly for Cybersecurity Enterprise Edition, we will provide you with a special Feedly access token associated with your account. That token will allow you to access the content of your feeds, boards, and priorities and perform up to 200,000 requests per month.
The JSON representation of an article combines some of the open-source content included on the RSS or on the website, CVE/CVSS/Exploit information aggregated from vulnerability and exploit databases, as well as the results of the Leo cybersecurity models.
The title, content, and visual information give you access to the core of the content of the articles:
The commonTopics array represents Leo’s topic classification. The entities represent CVEs, products, or companies Leo has identified in the article. The CVE entity includes CVSS and exploits information extracted from vulnerability databases.
The estimatedCVSS represents the result of Leo’s CVSS scoring model. This is useful for zero-days and articles which do not mention a CVE explicitly. In those cases, Leo reads the content of the article and computes an approximative CVSS score based on the terminology used in the article or the tweet.
Pro tip: When you have an article open in the Feedly web application, you can use the Shift+D keyboard shortcut to see and inspect the JSON of the article.
Let’s imagine that you have a “Security News” feed which contains a list of known and trusted security sources you want to follow.
The Feedly API allows you to query Feedly and ask for the last 100 articles aggregated in that feed. The articles are normalized in a JSON format which includes the title, the content, the source information, as well as all some cybersecurity metadata (Leo topics classification, CVE metadata, CVSS metadata, exploit information.
You can use the Stream endpoint to get the last 100 articles published in a feed:
The most important parameter is the streamId. Each feed in your Feedly account has a unique stream id. When you select the feed in the left navigation bar, you see the streamId as part of the URL. The stream id is formatted as `enterprise/xxxx/category/xxxx` for team feeds and `user/xxxx/category/xxxx` for personal feeds.
The count parameter defines the number of articles the server will return. We recommend that you select a number between 20 and 100. If you need access to more than 100 articles, you can use the continuation parameter returned by the response to chain the requests and ask for the next 100 articles.
Finally, the importantOnly parameter allows you to get the list of articles in the stream that has been prioritized by Leo.
Troubleshooting tips:
Security teams use boards to bookmark critical articles everyone in the team should be aware of. They also often use boards to bookmark articles they want to share with other applications.
You can use the same Stream endpoint to access the last N articles manually bookmarked by your team to a board.
The only difference will be the streamId. Team Board streamIds are formatted as `enterprise/xxxx/tag/xxxx`. Personal Board streamIds are formatted as `user/xxxx/tag/xxxx`.
If users have annotated the articles with some notes and highlights while saving the article to a board, those notes and highlights will be included in the article JSON structure.
Here is an example of how you can streamline the integration between the research and collection work of your threat intelligence team and the analysis and patching work of your operations team.
The research team creates a Feedly board called Critical Vulns where why bookmark articles related to critical vulnerabilities they want the operations team to be aware off and review.
Each time the research team finds a critical insight, they save that article in the Critical Vulns board, adding a note about why they think the vulnerability needs to be reviewed and patched.
Instead of asking the research team to manually create a ticket in your ticketing system (Jira, Service Now, etc.), you can write a small app which every 5 minutes connect to the Critical Vulns board, requests the last 20 articles bookmarked in that board, and for each new article, used the API of your ticketing system to create a new ticket. The app can enrich the ticket with the URL of the article saved in the board, the CVE information, and the notes and highlights from the researcher.
This is a powerful way to break the silos between your research team and your operations team and make sure that critical vulnerabilities are patched faster.
Pro tip: there is a simple solution to finding the new articles saved in a board. When your app processes a list of articles, it should save the first article in the list and the next time it uses the Stream Feedly app to get the latest articles bookmarked to a board, your app can use the newerThan parameter of the /v3/stream/content and pass that article id instead of a timestamp to get newer articles.
The Feedly web application and mobile applications are built on top of the Feedly API. This means that every piece of information available in the application and every action taken in the application is available in the API.
For more information about the Feedly API, please visit the Feedly Developer Website.
We are excited to see many security teams use the Feedly API to streamline their open-source threat intelligence process. Sign up today and discover what Feedly for Cybersecurity can do for you!
If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!
The internet is a cavernous place. Opinion and insight can emerge from anywhere. Whether you’re new to Feedly or not, you want good, trusted publishers to teach you more about a certain topic, market or industry.
Feedly already digests and presents updates from the sources you value. But to really stay ahead of the curve, it pays to search beyond the publishers you already follow – to the blogs, articles, reports, and debates that are turning heads, but almost buried among the noise online.
That’s why we’ve given Feedly the ability to look further with Power Search across the web. It drills down into the specific information you want to find beyond your existing feeds and sources.
In this way, you can learn something new, discover new sources for future reference and easily share reputable insights with your colleagues and social network. It intersects the exact content you’re looking for with super-specific topics and publications.
Here’s what Power Search across the Web does, and how to use it.
Search is a relevance game. It’s easy to lose time in the wormhole of search engines. Meanwhile, the low hit rate of typical news aggregators and alert features can leave you pulling hairs out.
Feedly gets around this with a carefully vetted database of more than 40 million trusted web sources. Collectively, they publish 110 million articles, journals, and videos. on a daily basis.
But that’s still a crazy amount of info and analysis. So we help you refine this down with buckets – categories of publications that make a search super granular.
You can think of each bucket as a list of trusted publications that focus on a specific industry, function or topic. They tell the search exactly what to filter. You get hyper-relevant content that can be saved to a Feedly board and shared with your team or out into the wider world. Six popular buckets are surfaced automatically yet other, more narrow buckets can be chosen – we’ll show you how to do this later in our guide.
Discover what trade publications are saying about a company. Track topics on strategy sources. Bring up the conversation around a product in business magazines. The knowledge is yours to shape and tinker with.
Okay, let’s imagine you’re part of the Innovation Hub at Aéroports de Paris. You’re looking for ground-breaking stories and reports about the airline industry.
First, click on the search icon to open Power Search, select the new Across the web tab, and search for the airlines topic.
You get instant access to highly relevant articles from expert and trusted sources.
You can also search for companies, people, products, or other keywords you are interested in.
The initial search is performed against a set of default buckets: strategy magazines, trade publications, business magazines, and tech blogs.
But you can narrow your search to a specific slice of the web. Click on +PUBLICATIONS and lookup energy for example. This is a powerful way to find articles about airlines across a broad set of energy publications.
You can refine your query by adding additional parameters (topics or business events) using the +AND operator.
For example, you can easily search for product launches related to the airline industry by combining the airlines smart topic and the product launch business event
Okay, now let’s remove some results you 100% don’t want to find. For instance, any mention of COVID-19…
The Exclude feature allows you to filter out specific topics or keywords from the search results. Click on Exclude > +Topic and enter COVID-19.
If you are a power user, you can use the Title Only knob to let Feedly know if you want to search only in the title of articles or the entire content.
The where on the web feature also includes a funnel button gives you more control over which publications should be included in the buckets. Pick leading publications if you are searching for a popular term and pick all publications if you are searching for a niche topic and you want your search to be as broad as possible.
Once you’ve discovered a great new article, you can click on the source name and see the other articles that the source has published. This is a powerful way to find new sources for niche topics.
If the content is highly relevant, you can use the +FOLLOW button to add that new source to one of your Feedly feeds and receive the next articles published by that source.
15 million users are already using Feedly for their own trade and market analysis. Ready to join them?
Cut to the heart of what matters. Set up your Feedly account today.
You may know your way around our Feedly Boards already. They’re a place to save useful insights you’ve found in Feedly or around the web, and share them as newsletters with your teammates.
But insights can come from many kinds of media, including market reports, conference brochures, presentation decks, or whitepapers packed with industry knowledge. Typically, these exist in a PDF format.
Now, you can save PDFs to your Feedly Boards, so nothing is left out for a deep-dive understanding of a subject.
Let’s suppose you’re an analyst for JP Morgan, learning about breaking developments in financial services. Here’s how to add the PDFs you find to your Boards.
Say you come across a fantastic online market report. In this case, it’s all about the technologies set to disrupt financial services in the near future.
Copy the URL.
Then, return to your Feedly Board, choose + ADD STORY, and paste the URL.
Feedly will extract the PDF’s title automatically from metadata or the name of the file. You can also shorten and change the title yourself.
Before you can save a story to a Board, add a summary.
Summaries show your team what they’re about to read and why it matters. They’ll also show up your Team Newsletter.
Write your own, or do as we’ve done here and copy the first paragraph of the report’s summary.
Once you’re done, click ‘Save To Board’.
The Board should now have your PDF at the top.
It’ll stay there for anyone in your team to view and comment on. Add as many PDFs as you want to populate the Board, so you can easily access all the reference points you need in one place.
If your board is configured with a team newsletter or a Slack or Microsoft Teams notification, the PDF link will be automatically included and shared with your teammates.
Follow these steps to add slides, brochures, guides, market reports and more to your Boards. Now that you can save any insights you come across, you can be sure that crucial information never escapes you or your team when building a fuller picture of a topic.
Get more out of Feedly now with Team Newsletters when you upgrade to our Business plan. You’ll also get additional Boards, sources and sharing functionalities.
One of our goals for 2020 is to make board newsletters more customizable. Some teams use notes and highlights as internal collaboration tools and would like the options to NOT include those annotations in the newsletters they sent to their executives, partners, or customers.
Now admins can configure their board newsletters to exclude their notes, their highlights or the Leo summarization.
Reading through a large number of articles every day can be time-consuming, especially if those articles are long.
Helping you save time is a problem we are very passionate about, so we are excited to release today a new Leo skill called Summarization.
We have taught Leo to read and summarize the articles in your feeds so that you can more efficiently scan through articles and determine which ones are relevant.
Leo automatically reads all the articles in your feeds and summarizes them.
Articles lists showcase those Leo summaries as articles descriptions
When you open an article, Leo also highlights the key sentences which are part of the summary. The goal is to help you get to the key insights more efficiently.
Board newsletters and slack integration also take advantage of the Leo summaries for the article descriptions.
The Leo Summarization skill is available now to all users in the Pro+ and Business plans.
If you prefer not to see the blue highlights, you can turn them off via the Leo Summary Highlights preference.
If you have feedback about the Leo Summarization skill, you are welcome to join the Feedly Lab slack channel and discuss it with the product team.
Broad business and tech publications produce hundreds of articles per week. Not all those articles are relevant to the topics, companies, or products you care about. Manually filtering out the noise can be overwhelming and time-consuming.
Relevance is a problem we are very passionate about. We have spent the last two years designing and building Leo, your AI research assistant to help declutter your feeds and save time.
Unlike black-box recommendation engines, Leo has a set of skills that let you define and control what is relevant to you.
We are excited to show you how the Leo Topic skill lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds.
Let’s get started!
Leo knows about all the companies, people, and products listed in Wikipedia and in the news. You can ask Leo to look for any of those named entities (and their known aliases) and prioritize articles that are a match.
You can, for example, look for mentions of your competitors or prospects in your industry or tech feeds.
Leo understands how to recognize articles about hundreds of “smart” topics (like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, blockchain, energy, health, etc..). He’ll be looking for thousands of different terms related to that smart topic. We designed smart topics because an article can be about artificial intelligence without including the term “artificial intelligence”.
We continuously teach Leo new smart topics. If there is a specific topic you would like to sponsor, please email leo@feedly.com
You can also ask Leo to look for exact matches of a keyword you are interested in. In this mode, Leo behaves like a saved search.
You can design more sophisticated priorities by combining multiple topics using AND and OR. AND means that both of the topics need to be present. OR means that either of the topics needs to be present.
The topic skill can be composed with all the other Leo skills allowing you, for example, to easily prioritize articles that reference a product launch (business event skill) while also being related to #artificial intelligence (topic skill)
Or high severity software vulnerabilities (cybersecurity skill) related to docker (topic skill)
You can use the Leo “less like this” down arrow to correct Leo when a topic detection is incorrect. This feedback is channeled to the Feedly ML Team and to the datasets used to train Leo, making topics increasingly more accurate and relevant over time.
The Leo Topic skill is available now on both Web and Mobile for both Feedly Business and Feedly Pro+ users. We look forward to seeing how you train your Leo and how much time you can save.
If you have feedback about the Leo topic skill, you are welcome to join the Feedly Lab slack channel and discuss it with the product team.
Have you ever wished Google Assistant could read you the articles in your Feedly? Now it can. Nick Felker has created a Google Assistant Action that integrates Google Assistant and Feedly.
Thanks to the Feedly action, Google Assistant can list the headlines in your feeds, read specific articles, and even save articles into boards for later access.
We are looking for fifty users to test drive the beta experience and provide Nick feedback on what works and what could be improved. If you are curious about how listening to your Feedly feels, join the beta program!
Industries are changing at a faster pace than ever. Keeping up with new threats and opportunities can be overwhelming and time consuming.
Today, we are excited to announce a new Leo skill that lets you easily track key business events like funding events, product launches, or partnerships.
Here is a quick demo
We have trained Leo to detect and understand funding events. This means that you can now ask Leo to read your tech, business or industry specific feed and prioritize articles related to funding events – saving you a tremendous amount of time.
We have also trained Leo to detect and understand product launches.
This means that if you are part of a sales or sales enablement team, you can ask Leo to read TechCrunch or New York Times and notify you each time one of your customers or prospects launches a product. You can leverage that product launch event to create a warm approach and engage in a smart conversation.
Finally, you can also easily prioritize the fraction of articles referencing partnership announcements.
The business event skill can be composed with all the other Leo skills allowing you, for example, to easily prioritize articles referencing a product launch (business event skill) and related to #artificial intelligence (topic skill).
Different industries use different vocabulary to describe these business events so we trained Leo across 24 different industries.
You can use the Leo prompt or the “less like this” down arrow to correct Leo when the event detection is incorrect. This feedback is channeled to the Feedly ML team and to the datasets used to train Leo.
The Leo business event skill is available on Web and Mobile now for Feedly Teams users. Because we have been getting a lot of Leo requests from non-Team users, we will also be launching a $12/month Pro+ plan in October which will include Leo, a Twitter integration, and all other Pro features.
If you have feedback about the Leo business event skill, you are welcome to join the Feedly Lab slack channel.
As part of the redesign of the Left Navigation bar, we are going to change the theme system on the Web to be more consistent with the theming on mobile: offering users the choice between a white theme and a dark theme.
Here is a preview of what the dark theme might look like
And here is the sister white theme
If you want to participate to the design review, please join the Feedly Lab Slack.
-Edwin, Gregoire, and Eduardo
Some of the sources you follow in Feedly are broader than the topics and trends you care about. That additional noise can add up and become overwhelming or result in you wasting precious time.
We believe that noise is the enemy and we have been building a new Leo skill called Mute Filters to let you cancel that noise.
In this article, we will show you how to use Leo mute filters to mute keywords, companies, people, topics, authors, sites, and more.
Let’s get started!
Want to avoid a spoiler about Game of Thrones until you have finished reading all the books or tired of hearing about Pokemon Go or the latest Apple monitor?
You can train Leo to mute specific keywords and remove all mentions of those keywords from your feeds, temporarily or permanently.
Note: with Leo Mute Filters, you no longer need to use quotes around phrases with spaces. Leo will take care of converting the input into the right query.
Curating content to share on Social Media and want to avoid mentions of your competitors?
You can train Leo to mute each of your competitors and automatically remove all the articles mentioning those competitors.
Want to avoid articles about specific celebrities, politicians, or executives?
Creating a Leo mute filter for a celebrity, politician or executive will automatically remove all the articles that mention that person from your feed.
Following a broad source like TechCrunch, Wired and Forbes but do not care about topics like gaming? Or following a keyword alert for a public company but do not care about financials or market reports?
With Leo mute filters, you can mute topics and increase the focus of your feeds. Leo ships with 1,000 pre-trained topics.
Do not like a specific author from one of the sources you follow?
With the author: operator, you can train Leo to look for specific authors and mute all the articles from that author in your feed. (Sorry Katherine, we actually love your work!)
Want to remove articles which have a specific keyword in their title?
With the title: prefix, you can train Leo to look for a mention of a keyword in the title of the article and mute the matches.
Finding some of the sources referenced in Google News Keyword Alerts irrelevant?
With the site: prefix, you can train Leo to mute specific sites from your keyword alerts.
When you create a Leo mute filter, you can specify a duration.
Once you have trained Leo with a mute filter, you can easily remove, pause or resume that filter via the Train Leo page.
Like with all the other Leo skills, it was important for us that you always feel in control and can continuously refine your Leo as your needs evolve.
When reading articles, Leo will highlight the most salient entities mentioned in the content. This makes it easy to click on them and priorities or mute those entities.
You can also highlight any snippet of text and mute that phrase
Finally, when reading an article, you can click on the Less Like This button and easily mute one of the topics Leo has associated with the article
The Leo mute filter skill is available both on the Web and on mobile (version 65+).
You can train Leo to mute topics and keywords on mobile.
From a feed
From an article
From less like this (long swipe from right to left)
Curious about trying Leo Mute Filters on some of your feeds? Join the Leo program
Pro users will be able to continue to use a more basic version of mute filters. The syntax of those mute filters have changed to the v2 syntax to allow more efficient processing on the back end.
Some of the v1 mute filters using advanced queries can not be migrated to v2 will remain active as legacy filters until user delete them.
One of the benefit of the Leo mute filters is that they can be processed more efficiently by our back-end. As a result, we are increasing the limit of Leo mute filters for Teams user from 100 total to 100 per feed.
We will be offering Leo to non-team users later this year via a Feedly Pro+ priced at $12/month. You can request early access to Pro+ here.
No. Mute filters can target a list of sources (what we call a feed) or all your feeds.
We are excited to launch a new version of the Feedly Web UI that improves the navigation and add support for a cool dark theme. Here is a quick demo.
The profile and add content are now more visible in a left band. Teams users will also be able to more easily add new teammates and share feeds and boards.
You can continue to pin or unpin the navigation bar
You can right click on a feed, a source, a board, or a priority and use the contextual menu to quickly manage your resources.
Renaming your feeds, sources, or boards is going to become a lot easier.
Drag and drop and easily re-order your categories.
This impacts both the order in the left navigation and the order of the sections in the Today page.
The day/night icon on the left band makes it easy to switch from the default white theme to the new cool dark theme.
We would like to thank Gregoire Vella for leading the design of these two projects. We are very excited to have Gregoire as part of the design team. He has a really sharp eye and he is a pleasure to work with.
We would also like to thank the Feedly Lab community and Twitter community for all the bugs and suggestions reported during the beta.
We are continuously shifting to a more open and collaborative process. If you are actively using Feedly and want to share ideas or frustrations, please join the Feedly Lab Community on Slack or Twitter.
Happy reading!
-Edwin
Do you need to keep up with the latest vulnerabilities and threats but do not have the time to read all your security feeds? We can help.
In 2018, fifteen thousand vulnerabilities were discovered, the number of exploits doubled and more than four security articles were published every minute. Keeping up with all these trends can be time-consuming and overwhelming.
This is a problem we are very passionate about and have been researching with two of the largest security teams in Silicon Valley.
Today, we are excited to announce a new Leo skill called Security Threats.
We have been teaching Leo to read security articles and find or assess the severity of the software vulnerabilities they mention so that he can help you focus your attention on the most critical threats in your feeds first.
Here is a demo!
Let’s look at how you can train your Leo to prioritize articles mentioning critical vulnerabilities related to Microsoft, WordPress, or Docker.
Leo continuously reads your feeds and short-lists the most critical vulnerabilities in the priority tab.
For example, you might have a cybersecurity feed connected to niche security experts, vulnerability databases, keyword alerts, etc. with thousands of new articles per month.
You can train Leo to read those 1,000+ articles and prioritize the 30 or so referencing high severity threats (CVSS > 8) and related to vendors you care about (Microsoft, WordPress, Docker in the example above).
Leo is not an opaque recommendation engine. Instead, Leo has a set of skills that gives you control over defining what information is important to you.
The new Security Threat skill allows Leo to read an article, lookup CVE, CVSS, and exploit information from multiple open source databases and determine how critical a vulnerability is.
The new Security Threat skill also includes a sophisticated machine learning model that allows Leo to assess the severity of a threat based on the vocabulary used to describe the software vulnerability. This is particularly useful for zero-day vulnerabilities which might not have a CVE or CVSS.
Training Leo to prioritize vulnerabilities is very simple.
The first layer of the model captures the severity threshold. High means CVSS > 8 or CVSS > 5 but with an exploit.
The second layer of the model captures the list of vendors.
Control and transparency are core Leo design principles.
All the articles prioritized by Leo have a green priority marker. Clicking on that marker offers an explanation of why the article was prioritized and the opportunity to refine, pause or remove that priority.
When an article is related to a CVE, you can also click on that CVE to get additional information about the vulnerability: description, CVSS score, exploits, patches, etc.
Leo learns from his mistakes. When a recommendation is wrong, you can use the “Less-Like-This” down arrow button to correct Leo.
You can let Leo know that he misclassified a vulnerability, miscalculated the severity, or misidentified a vendor.
Leo learns from your feedback and gets continuously smarter.
We are excited to see many security teams declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the vulnerabilities that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Feedly for Cybersecurity can do for you!
If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!
Pro and Team users rely on notes and highlights to enrich the articles they read with valuable insights and make sure that teammates can quickly zoom into what is interesting and important.
This morning, we pushed an update that allows you to search for notes and highlights.
If you select Annotated in the power search section picker, the search engine will look for the search term in notes or highlights you have added to the document.
This is a simple way to quickly find a specific article or a list of articles you have “tagged” for specific research you are working on.
The integration between annotations and power search is available both on the Web and on version 63 of Feedly Mobile.
Happy reading (and research)
One million Feedly users rely on Feedly Mini to quickly add new sources to their feeds and save essential articles to their boards.
Saving insightful articles to your boards allows you to share and shine with your team and train Leo. The more articles you save to a board, the greater the accuracy of Leo’s like board priorities.
We are excited to announce a new version of the Feedly Mini Chrome browser extension that makes following sources and saving articles even easier.
One of the popular feature requests for Feedly Mini was the ability to add a note to the article being saved to a board.
In version 5, if you have access to the annotation features, you will be able to add a note to the article you are saving to your boards.
If you are part of Feedly Teams and have connected Feedly Teams with Slack, you will be able to mention a teammate or a Slack channel directly in Feedly mini and quickly notify your teammates.
We are also bringing the power of our new discovery experience to Feedly Mini v5.
Let’s imagine that you are browsing the Web and you discovered a new source you want to follow in Feedly.
When you click on the Feedly Mini icon, Feedly Mini will automatically discover the RSS feed for the page you are reading and show you a popup with information about that source.
You can click on Follow in Feedly to preview the RSS in Feedly and add it to one of your feeds.
You can also click on Explore to tap into the collective wisdom of the Feedly community and determine what are the sources that user often co-read with the source you are looking at.
No more having to look at the source page to find an RSS URL and manually searching for that URL to be able to add it to one of your feeds.
This is the first step for us to bring some of the work we are doing with Leo and discovery to Feedly Mini. Let us know what you think by joining the Feedly Lab Slack community and expect to see more in the next three to six months as Leo matures
We pushed Leo 0.5 to a limited beta in early March and collected lots of interesting feedback. The team is listening and crunching through all that feedback and adapting Leo to improve UI/UX as well as the relevance of the underlying machine learning models.
Here is a summary of the changes we are pushing out today as part of Leo 0.6 Beta
One of the feedback we collected was that the difference between mentions and topics was not clear. So in 0.6, we merged these two concepts into a single one we call Smart T
Sometimes you are interested in a company, product, or topic and you want to see every article mentioning that topic. Sometimes, for more popular topics, you are only interested in reading an article if the article is truly about that topic or company.
Leo 0.6 exposes a “level of aboutness” knob that gives you more control over the model so that you can cut out low salience matches.
For example, if you are interested in NLP or BERT, you can train Leo to only prioritize research articles that are prominently about those topics (as opposed to articles which only briefly touch on those topics).
This is a particularly powerful feature when combined with Google News Keyword alerts.
Some Leo 0.5 beta customers mentioned that it was critical for them to be able to define priorities that span across multiple feeds. For example, you might be doing research about Stablecoin and want to prioritize that topic across both your Tech feed, your Business feed, or all your personal or team feeds.
In Leo 0.6, the priority designer allows you to pick “All Team Feeds” or “All Personal Feeds” as the scope of the priority.
This change reduces the total number of priorities you need to create and manage when researching topic and trends across multiple of your feeds.
Some users mentioned that they would like to be able to navigate their content by priority. If you are interested in a specific topic like Docker, it makes sense to be able to quickly see if there are new Docker related articles in your Feedly and easily access those articles.
In Leo 0.6, we added a new Priorities section to the left navigation bar that surfaces all your priorities and gives you quick access to all the article Leo has flagged as important.
We added two settings in the Leo settings to let you personalize this feature. You can decide if you want to see priorities in your left navigation. If you want to see all the priorities or all the global ones (default). If you want to see all the priorities or only the ones which
Your interests and priorities are continuously evolving. Often, you discover a new company, product, or topic while reading an article and you want to be able to teach Leo about it.
In Leo 0.6, the most prominent topics mentioned in an article are highlighted so that you can quickly prioritize them (or mute them)
As part of Leo’s Cyber Security skill, you will also see highlights of CVE entities. More to come soon.
Like for the Quick Access feature, there is a Leo setting that allow you to turn off Inlined Entities if that is your preference.
The ML team is spending time understanding how you are engaging with your priority feeds (which articles are saved to a board, which articles are being Less Like This’ed) and tuning the underlying ML models to improve accuracy. You should expect to see the quality of your priority feeds improve over the next 8 weeks.
A lot of Feedly Pro and Feedly Teams customer rely on power search to find specific articles in their feeds and boards. In Leo 0.6, we are expanding power search and let you search with your priority feeds.
For teams using Leo to discover and track trends, opportunities, and trends across industries, the combination of Leo priorities and Power search is a powerful way to quick find the most crucial information
We want to thank all the beta customers who have been working very closely with us over the last few weeks (and sometimes months). We are very grateful for your time and precious feedback. This open collaboration is not only powerful and efficient but it is also very fun. We look forward to the next 3 months!
Edwin, Remi, and Victoria
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Sometimes you want to follow high volume publications like The Verge, NY Times, or VentureBeat because you trust them but you are only interested in narrower topics, trends, or mentions.
Reducing noise and information overload is a problem we care passionately about. We have been working over the last 12 months on a new feature called Leo. You can think of Leo as your non-black-box research assistant – an easy-to-control AI tool which helps you reduce noise in your feeds and never miss important articles.
Here is a quick overview of the Leo 0.5 Beta feature set.
If you are part of the Leo 0.5 Beta Program, each of your feeds has now 2 tabs.
The All Tab includes all the articles published by the sources you follow.
The new Priority Tab includes the subset of articles flag by Leo as important – based on the priorities you defined for your Leo.
Leo 0.5 ships with three core skills: mentions, topics, and like-
The mentions skill allows you to prioritize articles based on mentions of people, company or keywords which are important to you.
For example, you can ask Leo to prioritize all the articles that mention “JP Morgan”
The topic skill allow you to prioritize articles which are about a specific topic you are interested.
For example, you can ask Leo to analyze your tech feed and prioritize articles which are about artificial intelligence, quantum computing, or gaming.
Leo ships with one thousand pre-trained topics. If the topic you are interested in is part of that list, the topic skill is a powerful tool to let you focus your feed on what really matters to you.
Sometimes, the topic you are interested in a very niche. This is where the Like Board skill is very useful and powerful.
For example, if you are in the Sports industry, you might be interested in the emerging Smart Venue trend. Leo does not know out of the box about Smart Venue but if you can create a board and save 30-50 articles about Smart Venue, you can use the Like Board skill to teach your Leo a new personalized topic and ask Leo to prioritize future articles which are similar to the ones you save in that board.
Once you have defined the priorities of your Leo, he will continuously read your feed and flag articles which are aligned with those priorities.
The Like Board is particularly powerful because the more articles you save to that board, the more accurate Leo’s recommendation will become.
Finally, you can easily define more sophisticated priorities by combining multiple skills/layers.
When Leo makes a back prioritization, you have the control to provide him feedback via the Less Like This button.
There are 5 different classes of feedback you can offer to your Leo:
A very important aspect of the Leo promise is that it is a fun, non-black-box AI you fully control and can easily collaborate with.
Transparent because each time Leo makes a prioritization, he will explain why the article was prioritized and give you the opportunity to refine that prioritization.
Control because you explicitly define all the priorities of your Leo and you can at anytime go in the Train Leo section and remove or refine a priority. No black box. No lag.
Leo 0.1 Alpha customers saw 40-70% noise reduction on their feeds. More targeted feeds mean that you can save time while reducing the risk of missing important articles, or being the last to know about an important risk or market opportunity.
We look forward to seeing how your will be training your Leo!
-Edwin, Remi, and Victoria