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Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that

IoT still needs its lightbulb moment

29 Nov 09:15 | 84

Phone jammers made my model plane smash into parked lorry, fumes hobbyist

Illegal irritant raises its head again after drone investigation

15 Nov 14:02 | 92

Behold, Eclipse's open-source software defined vehicle project

Microsoft is involved. What could possibly go wrong?

28 Oct 13:31 | 17

Executive exodus from Intel depth and tracking tech arm RealSense continues

Former CTO leaves for car tech biz

Celonis and Software AG target IoT and streaming process mining as firms grapple with data overload

Newcomer specialist and elderly data integration generalist make their pitches

UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones

Project wins £50k from government

22 Sep 07:45 | 23

Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like

Making sense of blurry lines

21 Sep 09:15 | 11

Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown

Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man

15 Sep 10:01 | 81

RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils

There's no council tax infringement a Brimstone missile can't punish

10 Sep 16:26 | 69

EU to formally probe Nvidia's $54bn takeover over British chip designer Arm – report

Hot on heels of 'significant concerns' from the UK

27 Aug 16:58 | 28

European Commission airs out new IoT device security draft law – interested parties have a week to weigh in

Mirroring UK, US efforts to crack down on cheap 'n' cheerful internet gadgets

23 Aug 16:22 | 13

Edgy: HPE's first message from the International Space Station to Microsoft's Azure? 'hello world'

Supercomputing above the clouds

19 Aug 11:45 | 10

Will it bend? That is the question: Arm boffins boast of first flexible 32-bit chip

Plastic-backed TFT part positioned as perfect for the Internet of Things

21 Jul 16:01 | 18

Pub landlords on notice as 'Internet of Beer' firm not only pulls pints, but can also clean the lines

El Reg hacks selflessly volunteer to taste-test before and after

23 Jun 10:45 | 52

UK product safety regulations are failing consumers online, in the IoT, and … with artificial intelligence?

So the National Audit Office found in report on the Office of Product Safety and Standards, anyway

17 Jun 10:01 | 16

An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha

Hotshot snotbot shows grotty terror plot buzzbots what's what

10 Jun 09:15 | 73

In this round of 'Real life or Black Mirror episode', drones that hunt down humans by listening to their screams

Plus: UAVs that can smell your poop – both for benign purposes, mind

09 Jun 13:02 | 29

Need some chips? The Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 is heading to a channel near you

40k units now, but 'serious volume' to arrive after the summer

01 Jun 08:31 | 18

Sony makes a play for edge compute chores with smart sensors

$18bn investment plan also calls for 160 million entertainment customers to become a billion

27 May 06:59 | 3

OK, so we don't have a flying car yet, but this is possibly even better: The Internet of Beer

Killer IoT app finally arrives: Keg-tracking tech to tackle light-fingered miscreants

23 Apr 17:19 | 34

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Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

Parachute snagged on ship's bows

Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it

There's always Use Another Browser

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)

Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6

Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers

Patches available for 150 affected products

AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers

Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis

Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in

What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

Can we just postpone these changes to next year?

It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected

And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified

Lloyd's of London suggests insurers should not cover 'retaliatory cyber operations' between nation states

And they might attribute cyber attacks if governments won't

If at first Amazon doesn't let you succeed, try, try again: Warehouse workers given second chance at union vote

US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed

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South Africa's state-owned energy firm to appeal after court rules Oracle does not have to support its software

Eskom disputes results of Big Red audit

08 Apr 17:03 | 48

Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB

And ponders whether to let itself be bought by private equiteer CVC for $20bn

08 Apr 02:45 | 1

Bad news for automakers: That fire at the Renesas chip plant was worse than expected

Estimate of damaged fab equipment revised upwards by 54%

29 Mar 14:46 | 18

That's a bit harsh: Lenovo adds 2 new toughened boxen to ThinkEdge edge computing line

Feeds growing market for edge kit with gear rated for temps below freezing

02 Mar 12:16 | 9

Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed

Goodwood Festival of Speed took a nasty turn in 2019, finds AAIB

19 Feb 23:28 | 107

Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage

Turning smart homes into dumb ones

03 Feb 19:04 | 79

Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger

Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report

26 Jan 16:22 | 56

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking

You might want to wash the rolling pin first

22 Jan 10:32 | 164

Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released

AOSP effort could help bring GUIs to industrial, IoT, embedded gear

21 Jan 18:58 | 22

Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button

Another unfortunate UAV episode for Sussex cops

19 Jan 10:20 | 122

Under that pile of spare keys and obsolete cables is an IoT device: Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones

Er, we mean 'distinguished', 'seasoned', 'battle-tested'

12 Jan 16:03 | 44

Stony-faced Google drags Android Things behind the cowshed. Two shots ring out

No new hobbyist projects from January, everything deleted the following year

17 Dec 14:35 | 48

Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out

Ring, Echo owners get emails explaining how to switch off incoming functionality

24 Nov 20:46 | 115

Vodafone launches platform that promises to play nicely with dusty legacy IoT kit

What untold treasures could these primitive technologies hold?

24 Nov 15:43 | 4

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 | 20

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 | 71

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

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

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 | 84

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 | 58

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

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

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 | 66

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

Planned obsolescence strikes again

21 Jan 20:53 | 278

Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites

Surely only a matter of time before the Matrix has you?

15 Jan 11:30 | 30

Ring of fired: Amazon axes multiple workers who secretly snooped on netizens' surveillance camera footage

This Internet of Things in the cloud is working out so well, so, so well, so well

09 Jan 02:26 | 46

Beset by lawsuits over poor security protections, Ring rolls out 'privacy dashboard' for its creepy surveillance cams, immediately takes heat

Platform makeover declared a 'total joke' by internet activists

07 Jan 01:52 | 43

The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards

The bad news: You may have to buy all new kit if you want things to work

18 Dec 19:41 | 104

Internet of crap (encryption): IoT gear generates easy-to-crack keys

Poor entropy in embedded devices leading to weaker certificates: study

16 Dec 14:00 | 18

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

From 'boy genius' to 'oh boy'

03 Dec 14:37 | 188

Amazon straightens up its IoT house, complete with virtual Alexa, ahead of Las Vegas shindig

Coffee machines will listen to you if vendors implement it

26 Nov 14:46 | 13

Heads up from Internet of S*!# land: Best Buy's Insignia 'smart' home gear will become very dumb this Wednesday

Alexa! Turn off my lights. Alexa! Alexa? Oh FFS

05 Nov 02:26 | 191

Talk about a killer feature: Home, Home Mini gear replacements promised after fatal update bricks gadgets

Web giant insists 'small number' of voice-controlled gizmos killed by firmware bug

24 Oct 21:42 | 32

Samsung on fridge cert error: Someone tried to view 'unsavoury content' in middle of John Lewis

At least it'll wipe clean

21 Oct 09:06 | 97

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Behold the Samsung Family Hu- oh, bugger

15 Oct 08:06 | 282

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

Geoblocking, weaponisation and more in Parliamentary committee's sights

11 Oct 08:10 | 145

Second MoD Airbus Zephyr spy drone crashes on Aussie test flight

Delicate thing doesn't like turbulence, apparently

09 Oct 14:12 | 41

Chinese sleazeball's 17-year game of hide-and-seek ends after drone finds him on mountain

Back to jail for people trafficker

01 Oct 11:30 | 33

In 21st-century tech dystopia, smart TV watches you, warns Princeton privacy prof

You make de-legitimising targeted advertising as a business model sound easy

01 Oct 10:00 | 37

Sussex Police gives up on £790k Gatwick drone shutdown probe

No new arrests, no idea what happened

27 Sep 14:20 | 37

Those furious gun-toting Aussies were just a glitch. Let's try US drone deliveries, says Wing

Prepare for aerial droppings, Virginians

20 Sep 14:20 | 73

Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos

It's 2019 and, like, duh, insecurity comes as standard

05 Sep 22:45 | 32

Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards

Live footage of runway and grass verge more compelling than actual flight instruments

29 Aug 10:11 | 97

Even tech giants find themselves telling folk not to use default passwords on Internet of S**t kit

Top tips to defend against nation-state network intrusion

06 Aug 11:19 | 40

You'll never guess what US mad lads Throwflame have strapped to a drone (clue: it does exactly what it says on the tin)

America. Fsck yeah

19 Jul 19:00 | 57

We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers

You can monitor your child – and their bowels – 24 hours a day! Which is… great?

18 Jul 19:09 | 132

Philips kills dependence on its Hue hub, pointing to a Bluetooth world

Popular smart bulbs get an interesting upgrade

28 Jun 14:05 | 41

Drone fliers are either 'clueless, careless or criminal' says air traffic gros fromage

He's only in charge of fitting them into UK airspace

27 Jun 15:40 | 79

The Great IoT Protocol War may have been won: Thread's 1.2 release aims at business

Meanwhile in the home, it's all Google, Amazon, Apple…

25 Jun 07:04 | 27

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

Read this for 2 seconds. Pause 8 seconds. Read for 2 seconds. Pause 8 seconds...

20 Jun 19:05 | 299

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