Netflix is hiring for a ‘brand-new AAA PC game’

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix wants to make more than just mobile games. As spotted by Mobilegamer.biz, the company recently put up job listings for a game director, art director, and technical director at its newly announced Los Angeles games studio, alongside roles like producer and engineer, for a project described as … Read more

Microsoft says attackers are hacking energy grids by exploiting decades-old software

Microsoft has warned that malicious hackers are exploiting a discontinued web server found in common Internet of Things (IoT) devices to target organizations in the energy sector. In an analysis published on Tuesday, Microsoft researchers said they had discovered a vulnerable open-source component in the Boa web server, which is still widely used in a … Read more

This cube can control your smart home

Aqara Cube T1 Pro | Image: Aqara The smart home still needs buttons. Or — in the case of the new $22.99 Aqara Cube T1 Pro — gestures. Voice control and sensors, while useful, aren’t always the best way to turn the lights on, open the shades, or kick off routines or scenes. Sometimes you … Read more

Top 3 riskiest misconfigurations on the Salesforce platform

Andrew Davis Contributor Share on Twitter Andrew Davis is senior director of methodology at Copado. He is a Salesforce DevOps specialist focused on the next generation of DevOps on the Salesforce platform. Gartner estimates that by 2025, 70% of enterprise applications will be built on low-code and no-code platforms such as Salesforce and ServiceNow. But … Read more

Nest Wifi Pro review: better, faster, shinier

A big upgrade over its predecessors, Google’s Nest Wifi Pro adds Wi-Fi 6 and 6E, bringing faster speeds, and improved reliability. It’s not a ‘Pro’ router — for top throughput, look elsewhere — but it packs a lot into an affordable package. Continue reading…

Bank engagement startup Flourish Fi leans into concept of ‘banks aren’t going anywhere’

Developing better financial habits is something we can all benefit from, and Flourish Fi wants to be the engine driving those efforts in Latin America. The San Francisco-based startup, co-founded by Jessica Eting and Pedro Moura in 2018, licenses technology to banks and fintechs so that they can provide better customer engagement and loyalty while … Read more

KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa

Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. Today, one of the players in that space, the feature phone operating system startup KaiOS, is getting a small financial injection that both speaks … Read more