Month: August 2022
99 percent of Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet
As Netflix continues to build out its portfolio of games, the streamer’s seeing less than 1 percent of its subscribers interact with them on a daily basis. According to data obtained by CNBC from app tracking group Apptopia, Netflix’s games average 1.7 million users per day, a sliver of Netflix’s…
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What we bought: This LED desk lamp gave me the best lighting for video calls
Over the past two years, my work-from-home situation morphed from temporary to permanent, and I’ve had to reconfigure my home office as a result. I purchased a standing desk, a monitor, and spent countless hours rearranging my furniture. One of my primary concerns is that I have a relatively small…
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Hackers are using this classic technique to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts
Audio player loading… Open redirects, a classic weakness found in many of the world’s biggest web pages, are reportedly being used to steal login credentials (opens in new tab) for Microsoft 365 accounts. According to experts from security firm Inky, the method was used to send more than 6,800 phishing…
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Netflix’s Locke and Key ends with a whimper in final season
When it debuted in 2020, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Locke and Key got off to a pretty good start. Based on the brilliant comic series from Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, the show tells the story of the Locke family and their sprawling ancestral home in Massachusetts that also happens…
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Blaseball: birthing hope through chaos
Disaster. We had been so arrogant — we wished to spite the god itself. So we took its snacks, its so-called “gifts,” and we sacrificed them to our dead — 100 million tributes in all. How could we have known that it would return with its progeny to crush our…
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Twitter accounts exposed in major security snafu
Audio player loading… A flaw in Twitter’s code allowed threat actors to link accounts with the email addresses registered against them, potentially exposing the identities (opens in new tab) of their operators, the social network has confirmed. Late last week, the company disclosed the flaw in a blog post (opens…
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