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Hard to believe but Congress just approved an IoT security law and it doesn't totally suck

Secure coding, identity management, patching, configuration controls, what madness is this?

18 Nov 20:51 | 19

Halt don't catch fire: Amazon recalls hundreds of thousands of Ring doorbells over exploding battery fears

What happens when you mix up the wood and metal screws provided for installation? Heeeeat

11 Nov 13:00 | 74

Rise of the Machines

Are you seeing this, Amazon? British military steps up robot tech tests with drone capable of carrying 60kg payloads

Aerial ammo deliveries – always handy when you're storming a beach

05 Nov 17:01 | 28

Internet of Things

Backdoorer the Xplora: Kids' smartwatches can secretly take pics, record audio on command by encrypted texts

It was just code left over from a prototype, says hardware maker

12 Oct 21:21 | 9

Canalys Forum 2020

Why is IoT locked in 'proof-of-concept hell'? Stakeholders don't talk to each other, and return on investment is hazy

Private equity funding stalls amid COVID-19

09 Oct 16:30 | 16

Internet of Things

Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

Users fear hack – really the 'processing infrastructure was running behind'

01 Oct 18:33 | 86

Internet of Things

Burning down the house! Consumer champ Which? probes smart plugs to find a bunch of insecure fire-risk tat

Yep, plugs. The things that pick up electrickery from the wall

01 Oct 07:57 | 70

Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it

Right, we own cloud, shipping, what's next? The home

28 Sep 22:35 | 59

Internet of Things

We want weaponised urban drones flying through your house, says UK defence ministry as it waves a fistful of banknotes

£150k up for grabs if you can help create the dystopian future of warfare

16 Sep 13:02 | 61

Internet of Things

Drone firm DJI promises 'local data mode' to fend off US government's mooted ban

Protectionist public policy prompts fresh focus on infosec fears

10 Sep 17:47 | 20

Internet of Things

Keeping them for a rainy day? Arm decides against spinning off cloudy IoT businesses to parent Softbank – report

Right as the Japanese mega-corp seeks to flog the Brit CPU design house

26 Aug 07:56 | 1

Internet of Things

MediaTek pings Italy with '5G' Internet-of-Things data beam from geostationary satellite 35,000 kilometres up

That's a spicy meatball

19 Aug 15:33 | 11

Internet of Things

SoftBank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong-Arm some more money out of your customers?

Failing mega-group discovers again it didn't buy the right biz

16 Jul 06:34 | 72

Internet of Things

Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale

Insider suggests company doesn't charge enough in royalties to satisfy Japanese giant

14 Jul 13:48 | 48

Internet of Things

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Nationwide network operator gets into tizzy with chimney owners

10 Jul 08:30 | 56

Internet of Things

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Not anymore. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Microprocessor core designer says it just wants to focus on designing microprocessor cores

07 Jul 21:08 | 1

Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home'

HomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction

24 Jun 05:54 | 27

Internet of Things

Tens of millions of Internet-of-Things, network-connected gizmos at risk of remote hijacking? Computer, engage shocked mode

Collection of bugs, dubbed Ripple20, sink widely used TCP/IP stack

17 Jun 05:04 | 27

Internet of Things

Couple wrongly arrested over Gatwick Airport drone debacle score £200k payout from cops

Add that to the £790k wasted on Xmas 2018 shutdown investigation

15 Jun 12:00 | 65

Internet of Things

Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies

It crashed the same day it went missing despite 3-day closedown and hunt

22 May 11:15 | 37

Popular

Bloated middle age beckons: Windows 1.0 turns 35 and is dealing with its mid-life crisis, just about

Red trousers and a Porsche or respectable middle age for Windows?

Manchester United working with infosec experts to 'minimize ongoing IT disruption' caused by 'cyber attack'

No data leaked, says football club

Linus Torvalds worried Linux kernel might get messy around Christmas

LTS release 5.10 is currently unruly and looks like colliding with the holiday season

'Unmute' named one of Oxford Dictionary's words of the year

Stop doomscrolling through Blursday and take a Workation

China offers world its COVID QR Code movement passport at G20 Leaders' Meeting

Declaration puts a handbrake on global digital currencies, includes usual 'let's use the internet and AI to make the world a better place' stuff

It's always DNS, especially when a sysadmin makes a hash of their semicolons

Remember the days when 'we made it up as we went along'?

The GIMP turns 25 and promises to carry on being the FOSS not-Photoshop

Image Manipulation Program spawned GTK, which begat GNOME

Head thumping, heart racing? Here’s how not to panic when you’re under cyber attack

No incident response plan? We can help you there…

USA and Taiwan make semiconductors their top trade priority at first-ever 'Economic Prosperity Dialogue'

Do you see what I TSMC?

Artificial Intelligence

Pretty fly for a SharkEye: Salesforce sponsors AI drones to spot sharks before they attack California swimmers

Plus: A new web app from Google to generate AI monsters

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Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

25kV + lots of wiggly amps = big local magnetic field

21 May 09:55 | 68

Internet of Tardiness: Microsoft puts on a brave face as IoT boat prepares to set sail

Lots of previews and coming-soons, but is it too little, too late?

21 May 08:15 | 8

Internet of Things

Latvian drone wrests control from human overlords and shuts down entire nation's skies

Please phone us if you see our missing 26kg aircraft, say authorities

04 May 13:29 | 48

Internet of Things

Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin

Ubiquitous consumer kit maker EOLs netcam. Oh, AND the cloud services that make it work

29 Apr 15:58 | 49

Happy birthday, ARM1. It is 35 years since Britain's Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time

Somewhere in your phone, something is blowing out candles on a cake

27 Apr 15:50 | 45

Internet of Things

Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’

Plans to connect and observe all the things as-a-service, from low-Earth orbit, while building 500 sats a year

27 Apr 05:31 | 22

Internet of Things

Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft

The Civil Aviation Authority giveth the CAA and taketh away

20 Apr 16:30 | 19

Internet of Things

The 'IoT' in Microsoft IoT Hub means Internet of Trying-to-kill-off-whiffy-crypto-protocol: TLS 1.0/1.1 spared axe again

Stay of execution granted after customer 'feedback'

15 Apr 17:17 | 4

Internet of Things

Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks

And you can still open its improved version with a strong magnet

06 Apr 21:39 | 52

Internet of Things

Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair

Alleges anticompetitive behaviour in the walled garden. There's no party like a third party, eh?

02 Apr 16:30 | 5

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is a security nightmare, latest real-world analysis reveals: Unencrypted traffic, network crossover, vulnerable OSes

And the best part of it? Hospitals are most at risk

11 Mar 06:07 | 38

Internet of Things

Computer, deactivate self-destruct system requirement, says Sonos... were it on a starship in space, and not a smart-speaker slinger

Audio gear maker drops 'recycle mode' aka 'e-waste mountain candidate'

06 Mar 02:09 | 46

Internet of Things

Drones must be constantly connected to the internet to give Feds real-time location data – new US govt proposal

'Does it have its own satellite dish, sir?' 'You can tell your son it has its own satellite'

02 Mar 21:55 | 99

Dear makers of smart home things. Yeah, you with that bright idea of an IoT Candle. Here's an SDK from Amazon

Management software for smart devices to ease entry into ecosystem

26 Feb 09:58 | 12

Internet of Things

Hey, remember Microsoft's IoT Linux gear? After two years, Azure Sphere is finally here

Internet of Security is the name of the game, instead of that other 'S' word

24 Feb 17:11 | 5

Internet of Things

Ring in the changes: Mandatory two-factor authentication, login alerts, targeted ads opt-out after punters voice privacy gripes

Smart-home kit slinger does the right thing... under commercial duress

19 Feb 06:03 | 30

Internet of Things

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying solar panel: BAE Systems' satellite alternative makes maiden flight in Oz

Spindly thing claimed to stay airborne for a year with 15kg payload

17 Feb 12:30 | 76

Ding-dong. Who's there? Any marketing outfit willing to pay: Not content with giving cops access to doorbell cams, Ring also touts personal info

And yes, Facebook is involved, as ever

28 Jan 22:39 | 41

Internet of Things

Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all

Punters can still run old and new gear on same network, for now

24 Jan 16:18 | 60

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