Can’t a tech bro catch a break?

A live dating show that has made stops in Seattle sheds a little bit of light on how tech workers in the city are received, according to a new report from Axios Seattle.

Allison Goldberg, comedian and host of “Love Isn’t Blind,” says that when she introduces a contestant who is a software engineer, the audience boos.

“I’m sorry, are we booing a man with a job?” Goldberg said in the Axios story. “I live in Los Angeles, where I would love to meet a man with a job and benefits.”

The insight offers unscientific, but at least anecdotal proof that Seattle has never really come to terms with its tech-fueled identity crisis.

Decades into the city’s growth into a tech hub, the tension between Seattle’s blue-collar, artsy roots and the high-earning tech influx remains palpably unresolved. Even as software engineers and Amazonians make up a massive slice of the local population, the cultural friction lingers.

Tech workers are an easy, almost reflexive punchline for local audiences who still harbor a little resentment over skyrocketing rent, gentrification, and shifting city vibes. GeekWire witnessed another version of tech roasting several years ago when the comedy show “Socially Inept” was in town. And we’ve documented anti-tech messaging in graffiti and stickers across the city.

“Love Isn’t Blind” is aimed at singles who are tired of swiping. “F*** the apps,” it says on its website.

Men compete on stage for one “lucky bachelorette” — but the men are not allowed to speak. Instead, Axios reports, “Goldberg searches their phones, calls their moms and rifles through their Notes and AI apps while the audience waves literal green flags to show approval.”

Goldberg, whose show tours the country, also said the contestants and audience members in Seattle skew smarter than average, with more software engineers and Ph.D.s than most cities. Maybe that just means more booing.

Tech workers, or any other brave singles, can apply to be on the show or nominate a friend. “Love Isn’t Blind” returns to Seattle this Friday at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center.

Go cheer for a geek!

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The sun is setting on Washington state’s aging diesel-powered ferry fleet as work begins on new hybrid-electric vessels.

Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Panama City, Fla., has started building the state’s first new ferry since the Suquamish launched in 2018. The hybrid ferries will use batteries and diesel engines to cut emissions, with the first vessel scheduled for delivery in 2030. Eastern will complete the second and third ferries in 2031 and 2032.

Washington State Ferries is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases among state agencies. In 2018, then-Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order to begin electrifying the fleet.

The state has since developed a long-term plan to deploy 16 new hybrid ferries and convert six existing boats into plug-in vessels by 2040.

In 2019, the state struck a deal with Vigor, a Seattle shipyard, to build up to five hybrid-electric ferries, with the first due within three years. Negotiations between Washington State Ferries and Vigor over price and contract terms broke down, and the state ultimately relaunched a competitive bid for the project.

The three 160-car ferries under contract with Eastern will cost $714.5 million to build, plus additional costs for owner-furnished equipment, construction management, crew training, and risk contingencies. All told, the total price tag is $1.15 billion.

The Wenatchee, a 202-car ferry converted to hybrid-electric by Vigor, began sailing the Seattle-Bainbridge route last summer, making it the largest battery-powered ferry in North America. Two additional Jumbo Mark II-class ferries await conversion, but the state’s supplemental transportation budget adopted in March did not fund their upgrades.

The system has 21 vessels, 11 of which are more than 40 years old. State leaders say 26 ferries will eventually be needed. Washington operates the largest ferry system in the U.S., which transported more than 20.1 million passengers last year.

Construction began in Florida with a ceremonial steel-cutting event early Wednesday. Gov. Bob Ferguson did not attend because of Washington’s wildfires but recognized the milestone.

“In the past decade, we lost four ferries to retirement,” Ferguson said in a statement. “Today signifies a critical step in rebuilding our fleet with modern vessels that will allow us to provide more dependable service.”

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In the teensy Midwestern town of Braham, homemade pie capital of Minnesota, something unusual in the municipality’s computer systems knocked the city’s entire water supply offline last week.

Within a few hours, dozens of other Minnesota cities discovered that their water and wastewater utilities, too, had been compromised, most likely as part of a massive Iranian cyberattack, the kind that US officials have been warning about since the war began.

At least a dozen states have been affected by the attack, which briefly led to a flurry of small-town service disruptions, boil-water notices, and local flooding. Water wells, dams, sewers, and pipelines are some of America’s oldest and creakiest pieces of infrastructure, built long before the internet existed, and certainly long before AI made hacking much easier. While you may assume most hackers are in it for the money or for data, some have targeted critical infrastructure like water systems or energy grids in ploys for control or disruption — or worse still, as acts of war.

And, as last week’s attacks show, the nation’s water system is woefully unprepared. But how worried should you be that the very infrastructure that keeps our water taps running is, apparently, hackable?

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When we say the water supply got hacked, what we really mean is that someone, somewhere has broken into the computer that controls a local water treatment plant or reservoir, and is now pulling the levers, like the one that decides how much of a corrosive chemical can safely go into cleaning the water that comes out of your tap.

These levers were once manual buttons and knobs operated in-person by real live humans, meaning that — barring a natural disaster, bomb, or break-in — protecting them was about as simple as building a fence and hiring guards. Increasingly, however, these levers have gone digital, meaning that they are now remotely operable from anywhere in the world.

Those upgrades have been convenient, allowing technicians to monitor and troubleshoot problems in real time. But, in the process, they have exposed at times centuries-old infrastructure to distinctly modern vulnerabilities. Most local water systems are operated by local authorities, don’t have a dedicated IT team, and lack the money or resources to thoroughly protect themselves without some extra help. Hackers know this, which is why they’ve increasingly targeted local agencies in such attacks.

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“With great connectivity comes great responsibility,” said Joshua Corman, founder of I Am The Cavalry, a nonprofit focused on helping critical infrastructure withstand hackers. And yet, even when it comes to critical services like water, “our dependence on connected technology is growing faster than our ability to secure it.”

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About 97 percent of water systems are small, run by local agencies that often barely lock the proverbial front door. America’s water system is like an expensive heirloom bicycle that’s been left on a busy street, protected by only the flimsiest of padlocks. And that very vulnerability has made tiny towns like Braham prime targets for faraway adversaries. Accessing the computers that operate most water systems — known as programmable logic controllers or PLCs — is often as simple as entering a username and password on a public-facing webpage. Sometimes, there is no real password at all, because PLCs were initially intended to be accessed only within locked, secure facilities, not on the open internet. If the US wants to avoid a far more severe version of what happened last week, then it will need to start taking the security of tiny water systems like Braham’s seriously.

“Any sociopath from anywhere in the world can see these things on the internet,” said Corman. And in the case of last week’s attacks, “these were devices with no password, no firewall or VPN shielding them — they just had to log in” as whoever the intended operator was, and just like that, they were inside a local water plant.

How did this happen at all?

When municipalities began hooking up their old water and wastewater systems to the internet — a trend that accelerated during the pandemic as water operators, like everyone else, adapted to remote work — cybersecurity was rarely front of mind, neither for individual utilities nor for regulators as a whole.

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“We have more cybersecurity regulations for your credit card than we have for the nation’s water supply,” said Corman. Only recently have some municipalities begun to take steps to decrease the exposure of their water plants to hacks. In March, New York state, for example, launched a set of grants and basic cybersecurity regulations mandating security training for all water operators.

Basic cybersecurity hygiene isn’t always enough. More than half of all credit card holders have been hacked, even with the help of mandatory firewalls and data encryption. You can imagine how vulnerable our water must be without the assistance of such guardrails. In a worst-case scenario, a malicious actor could quite literally open the floodgates, as Russian hackers did to a Norwegian dam last year. They could poison the tap water, as a still unidentified hacker almost did in Florida in 2021, dialing up the levels of sodium hydroxide used at a water treatment plant by over 100 times its normal levels. In a severe scenario, they could indefinitely cut off access to all water entirely.

The good news is, none of this happened last week. Nobody died, nobody lost water for more than a few hours, no fire hydrants ran dry, and no hospitals were forced to cut off their dialysis machines (which can use more than a hundred gallons of water per treatment session). There’s no need to panic, and your drinking water is almost certainly still safe to drink, assuming it was safe before. Even the city of Braham, within a few hours, was able to bring its water tower back online, pumping groundwater back to its 1,800 residents.

How do we avoid cyber-armageddon?

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If you’ve watched the Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali-starring thriller Leave the World Behind, in which a cyberattack apocalyptically spoils a family vacation, then you might have some idea of where this story could go.

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure can be extraordinarily dangerous, but thankfully, none have directly cost lives or severely disrupted services in this country so far. If the US wants to keep it that way, that will mean doing more to help small cities like Braham adapt and better monitor for potential threats. As it stands, of the roughly 151,000 water facilities in the US, only about 420 participate in voluntary information sharing on their own cybersecurity practices, says Corman, who has been leading his own project that recruits volunteers to give free cybersecurity support to water utilities in the nation’s roughly 6,000 hospital towns, where a disruption could be particularly deadly.

Cybersecurity experts like Corman believe that hackers from other nations like China have already quietly established cyber intrusions in countless local US utilities, water systems, and power grids, lying in wait to attack or act as leverage if a conflict arises.

Unfortunately, the Trump administration has hardly treated last week’s attacks as symptoms of a system in need of much broader strengthening, at least in its public statements. “I think Minnesota is behind it. You know who’s behind it? Minnesota,” the president baselessly claimed during a Cabinet meeting last Friday. “I think the governor is behind it. I don’t think there was an Iranian cyber attack.”

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Just a few months ago, he proposed $707 million in cuts to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the agency responsible for protecting the nation’s infrastructure from cyberattacks. He did so, at least in part, out of anger over the agency’s role in confirming the validity of the 2020 election results. If Iran is, indeed, responsible, for the recent water system intrusions, all of this means that Trump has effectively made us more vulnerable to the consequences of a conflict he initiated.

At the end of the day,“nation-state hackers do not respect the jurisdictional lines separating federal, state, and local responsibility,” Jen Easterly, who led CISA under the Biden administration, wrote in the New York Times this week. “They search for the most vulnerable way to disrupt American life, and too often they find it in small communities that lack the resources to defend themselves.” Easterly’s role has remained vacant for the past 18 months.

Kurt Gaudette, a senior vice president at the cybersecurity firm Dragos, told me that water systems have got to get into the habit of monitoring their networks for suspicious activity. Most power utilities have begun doing so in recent years, with some bipartisan backing from Congress.

In some cases, however, the most cost-effective and safest way to avoid a repeat of last week’s mess might be to unplug the most vital controls — like the one that decides the chemical levels in a water treatment plant — from the web entirely.

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As Corman puts it, “if you can’t protect it, disconnect it.”

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Amazon’s Disaster Relief team responds with emergency supplies to support victims of crises around the world. Recent efforts have provided aid following a hurricane in Jamaica, earthquakes in Venezuela and wildfires in France.

Devastation from wildfires on the eastern side of Washington hit especially close to home — for Amazon and number of companies in the state.

The Seattle-based tech giant announced this week that it is donating a range of supplies to assist nearly 65,000 people who have been evacuated from their homes in the Spokane area, as crews battle three major wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses.

“Washington is home to Amazon and to tens of thousands of our employees. As the situation evolves, we remain committed to supporting our employees and the wider community affected by the Spokane wildfires,” Abe Diaz, Amazon’s head of Disaster Relief, said in a statement.

Through its work with the American Red Cross, Save the Children, and local nonprofits in Spokane, Amazon is helping to donate and deliver more than 26,000 emergency supplies, including air purifiers, masks, diapers, and hygiene kits for displaced families. Heavy-duty gloves, boots, and hydration packets for firefighters are also arriving this week, and a second wave of donated supplies will follow.

Amazon relies on 12 Disaster Relief hubs across seven countries, and aid for Spokane is coming from a hub that opened in California’s San Bernardino Valley in 2024.

The global network first launched in the U.S. in 2021 and enables the company to respond to natural disasters in just a couple of days or less. The company says that since 2017, it has donated and delivered more than 30 million essential supplies in response to over 200 disasters around the world. 

In a post on LinkedIn on Wednesday, Kara Hurst, chief sustainability officer at Amazon, said the fires created “a living nightmare” in Eastern Washington.

“Every natural disaster is one too many, but the latest one hits especially hard,” she wrote.

Amazon is not alone in providing aid.

Boeing announced that it’s donating $250,000 from its Charitable Trust to assist those impacted by Washington wildfires.

The aerospace company said the funding will support the Innovia Foundation of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, to help nonprofits, businesses and community organizations provide relief. 

Boeing employs more than 65,000 people in Washington. The company said it will match qualifying employee contributions made to charitable gift match programs in support of relief efforts.

F5 is assisting its employees and others in the broader Spokane community impacted by the fires, the company told GeekWire Wednesday.

The Seattle-based networking and security giant has a significant presence in Spokane Valley.

“The safety and well-being of our team members are our highest priorities during this challenging time of rapid evacuations and profound uncertainty,” an F5 spokesperson said, adding that the company is committed to ensuring employees have the resources they need to recover and rebuild.

To assist those directly affected, F5 said it is actively mobilizing support through two primary avenues:

• Direct Employee Assistance: Offering immediate aid to impacted employees through the F5er Emergency Relief Fund. Fully sustained by F5, the fund delivers direct financial relief to employees facing hardships, emergency evacuations, and long-term recovery efforts due to natural disasters.
• Community Donation Matching: F5 launched dedicated donation campaigns to nonprofits actively providing on-the-ground relief and matches employee donations and volunteer time — up to $5,000 USD annually per employee. 

Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab is putting its technology to use in the form of a building damage visualizer that uses satellite imagery to show the effects of the Spokane fires.

The lab supports HASTE (High-speed Assessment and Satellite Tracking for Emergencies), an open-source, no-code platform that turns vast amounts of data into actionable insights. Responders can assess destruction faster and more accurately, supporting relief and recovery efforts.

So far in the Spokane area, 16,171 buildings have been analyzed, with 624 buildings (3.9%) identified as damaged. Another 49 (0.30%) could not be analyzed due to smoke, haze, or clouds. Microsoft stresses that the results are considered preliminary and on-the-ground validation will be needed for an accurate understanding of the full impact.

T-Mobile is providing a range of services to help keep communities, customers, and first responders stay connected in the wake of the disaster. These include:

• Free Wi-Fi, device charging and supplies at its Five Mile Plaza Experience Store at 1910 W. Francis Ave. in Spokane.
• Unlimited talk, text and data to T‑Mobile, Metro by T‑Mobile, USCellular, Assurance Wireless, Mint and Ultra customers in impacted areas who don’t already have it. 
• Activation of T-Satellite with Starlink in impacted areas, enabling compatible devices to send basic text messages and text-to-911 if traditional connectivity is disrupted, while also delivering Wireless Emergency Alerts. 
• Wi‑Fi, device charging support and power packs at the Spokane Convention Center.

The Bellevue-based wireless provider, which is relaying updates online at its Emergency Response Hub, said it is also working to ensure that cell tower sites remain in operation after having restored service at each site. And T-Mobile is coordinating with state and local agencies to assess community needs and identify additional opportunities to support first responders and residents.

Starbucks is providing support through its foundation to the American Red Cross and World Central Kitchen, and the Seattle-based coffee giant said it’s continuing to assess additional opportunities to support recovery efforts in Spokane. 

Customers at Starbucks coffeehouses across Washington are invited to join in giving to the Red Cross’s Washington Wildfires 2026 campaign, a spokesperson told GeekWire.

Starbucks partners (employees) who are looking to help during times of need, or year-round, can contribute to the Caring Unites Partners (CUP) Fund, a financial assistance program funded by partners, for partners.

The company is also offering a double match for donations made to American Red Cross – Disaster Relief; Feeding America – Disaster Response; and World Central Kitchen – Disaster Relief Efforts.

Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs announced that his office has activated its Disaster Relief Center (DRC) to encourage donations for communities hit by wildfires across Central and Eastern Washington.

The DRC operates as a specialized program under the Office of the Secretary of State’s Combined Fund Drive (CFD). The portal aggregates verified, registered crisis-relief nonprofits so state employees, retirees, and the broader public can quickly connect with vetted organizations providing immediate aid.

“In times of crisis, I know Washingtonians’ first thought is ‘How can I help?’” Hobbs said in a statement. “Anyone looking for a way to support our neighbors in Eastern Washington can feel confident their donations will go directly to organizations doing life-saving work on the ground.”

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown’s office is also encouraging people to take precautions to ensure wildfire relief donations go to reputable charities.

“The destruction in Spokane is heartbreaking, and generous people across our state want to help,” Brown said in a news release Wednesday. “It’s important to give safely to ensure your hard-earned money is helping those in need.”

The city of Spokane is accepting donations through its H.O.M.E. Starts Here Fund, which had attracted $234,000 from more than 1,100 donors by Wednesday.

The AG’s office is providing online tips to guide those giving to non-profits or charities.

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Adobe

At the end of last year, Adobe leveraged OpenAI’s Apps SDK to bring Photoshop, Acrobat and Adobe Express to ChatGPT. Now, the company is bringing nearly its entire suite of creative apps to ChatGPT with the introduction of the Adobe plugin. All told, once you’ve added the extension to your account, you’ll have access to more than 70 of Adobe’s tools, including Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, Lightroom, Illustrator and InDesign.

To add the extension, open ChatGPT’s settings menu and navigate to the plugins section, then select the Adobe one. You can then invoke it by typing @Adobe into ChatGPT’s prompt bar, followed by your request. Adobe says the plugin works best inside of OpenAI’s Codex coding app and recently released Work suite. Moreover, while you can use the integration without logging into your Creative Cloud account, signing in allows you to save your work across sessions and access any files you have saved on the cloud. Signing in also allows you to make use of the company’s generative models through Adobe Firefly.

Adobe envisions people using the new integration to do things like edit photos, make marketing videos and generate PDFs. However, the company is quick to point out its existing tools are still there for finer grained control. “We want Adobe’s pro-grade tools for creativity and productivity to be available wherever people work,” said Forest Key, the company’s vice president of Adobe Firefly and agentic AI. “The Adobe plugin in ChatGPT isn’t a replacement for our flagship apps that creative professionals rely on every day. Our flagship apps go deeper when projects call for hands-on precision and creative control.”

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If you want to try the plugin for yourself, it’s available starting today worldwide.

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Rockstar Games

It’s easy to argue the biggest media event of the year will be the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI this November. Netflix, keen to get in on the action, has teamed up with Rockstar Games to announce it will be the exclusive home of an extended look at the new game on August 27. Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look will debut at 3pm ET and will remain a Netflix exclusive for, uh, six hours. At 9pm ET, the same feature will arrive on Rockstar’s official YouTube channel, allowing non-subscribers (and people who can’t watch Netflix at work) to whet their appetites.

Even in the broader context of Netflix looking to beat broadcasters and rival streaming services, it’s an interesting move. After all, YouTube has become the default home for pretty much every company looking to release teasers, trailers and promotional clips of their wares. If Netflix paid money for the privilege of gaining a six hour head-start over YouTube, then it shows just how competitive the streaming market is going to become in future.

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Zillow Group’s revenue rose 18% to $772 million in the second quarter, beating its own forecast, but a $36 million restructuring charge from severance and other costs stemming from this week’s layoffs pushed it to a $4 million net loss.

The Seattle-based online real estate company, which on Tuesday laid off more than 500 people, or 7% of its workforce, expects the restructuring to cost $59 million to $64 million in total, with the rest recorded in the third quarter, according to the company’s 10-Q regulatory filing.

Zillow also announced a series of executive changes, including expanding CFO Jeremy Hofmann‘s role to include chief operating officer. Jun Choo, who became COO in 2024, is stepping down to focus on his health, serving as an advisor through the end of the year.

The company created a chief legal and policy officer role and hired Cassandra “Sandi” Knight, a Google vice president of litigation and discovery, who was previously PayPal chief litigation counsel. Knight starts next week.

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Zillow and Redfin are set to go to trial Aug. 24 as defendants in an antitrust case brought by the FTC and five state attorneys general over the $100 million rental listings deal between the two companies. Zillow has spent $26 million on the case so far this year, including $10 million in the second quarter.

In addition, Zillow promoted Kathleen Berroth to senior vice president of strategy and operations, and Eric Wilson to senior vice president and GM of mortgages.

For the second quarter, Zillow said the residential real estate industry grew 6%, while industry-wide lending for home purchases was roughly flat compared with a year ago. The number of people visiting real estate sites and apps declined overall as mortgage rates rose, the company said, citing Comscore. Zillow’s own traffic fell 2%, to an average of 239 million monthly users.

Most of the revenue growth came from Zillow’s newer businesses. Mortgage revenue rose 75% to $84 million as Zillow directed buyers on its site to its own lending arm, and rentals revenue rose 31% to $209 million. Residential revenue, from advertising sold to real estate agents, grew 7% to $465 million.

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As a home security editor, I consider Abode Home Security one of my top picks for third-party smart home compatibility. On Wednesday, the company announced its first entirely new sensors in some time, and they reflect a trend I’m only beginning to see in the security world.

Abode has released both an Outdoor Contact Sensor ($50) and a Garage Tilt Sensor ($35), available now to work with its security hubs, like the Abode Smart Security Kit, starting at $120.

The Outdoor Contact Sensor is very similar to the indoor door/window sensors found in virtually every security system.

It comes in two parts, one to connect to the door or window and one to attach to its frame. When the two parts are disconnected, the sensor can send a warning alert, sound an alarm or take other action.

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The sensor has an IP66 weather-resistance rating, meaning it’s completely protected against dust and can withstand heavy rain and powerful water jets. That means you can use it outdoors (with the included adhesive strips) to guard gates, shed doors, fence entries and similar spots you may want to watch. It has a wider detection range than indoor models to accommodate the varying shapes of outside gates.

The garage version is even more interesting. It’s a single sensor with a battery that can last up to 10 years while measuring orientation. That means it can sense when a garage door, or a similar object, moves out of position, and notify you with an alert. I’ve tested plenty of smart garage systems, but this is one of the only sensors I’ve found that could offer similar functionality and replace them as part of a larger security setup.

Both sensors come with anti-tampering technology too, which means you’ll receive alerts if it appears someone is trying to remove the sensors. Both sensors are designed to work with an Abode hub up to 500 feet away. Keep in mind that most of Abode’s features are free to use, so you won’t need a subscription to take advantage of these new add-ons.

Multi-purpose, versatile sensors like this are becoming more common in the home security world this year. Notably, Aqara’s P100 sensor can detect open and closed states, tilting, vibration, tampering, and more without requiring any additional components.

Aqara’s sensor can also work with Matter hubs and connect to Apple Home, Google Home, or Alexa for some tasks, so it’s more capable than these sensors, but the technology is arriving in multiple ways.

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“Break-ins usually don’t start at the front door. Unlocked side gates or garages present vulnerable access points often left unmonitored by homeowners,” Chris Carney, CEO and founder of Abode, said in a statement. “We built these sensors because the perimeter of a home deserves the same protection as the inside of it.”

A representative for Abode didn’t immediately respond to a request for additional comment.

A new engine for deeper smart home routines

Since Abode has broad support for third-party smart devices compared with other security systems and a hub that can handle routines, these new sensors also allow users to create their own customized automations. When paired with a smart garage device, the sensor could automatically close the garage door if it’s accidentally left open. With the outdoor access sensor, customers could also configure a visible smart light to turn red whenever the sensor detects an open state, providing a clear indication that a gate or shed has been left open or has been opened unexpectedly.

I’ll be testing these sensors soon to evaluate their performance in real-world conditions and share my findings. Both sensors are somewhat larger than typical security sensors, so I’ll be looking closely at how easily they can be installed and integrated into the average home environment.

Tyler Lacoma

Editor / Home Security and Smart Home

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Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security technology for over a dozen years, explaining the latest features, privacy tricks, and top recommendations.

With degrees in Business Management, Literature and Technical Writing, Tyler takes every opportunity to play with the latest AI technology, push smart devices to their limits and occasionally throw cameras off his roof, all to find the best devices to trust in your life. He always checks with the renters (and pets) in his life to see what smart products can work for everyone, in every living situation.

Living in beautiful Bend, Oregon gives Tyler plenty of opportunities to test the latest tech in every kind of weather and temperature. But when not at work, he can be found hiking the trails, trying out a new food recipe for his loved ones, keeping up on his favorite reading, or gaming with good friends.

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