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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

Edge + IoT19 Feb 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT17 Feb 2020 | 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

Updated And yes, Facebook is involved, as ever

Edge + IoT28 Jan 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT24 Jan 2020 | 60

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

Updated Planned obsolescence strikes again

Edge + IoT21 Jan 2020 | 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?

Edge + IoT15 Jan 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT09 Jan 2020 | 46

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

CES Platform makeover declared a 'total joke' by internet activists

Edge + IoT07 Jan 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT18 Dec 2019 | 104

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

Poor entropy in embedded devices leading to weaker certificates: study

Edge + IoT16 Dec 2019 | 18

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

Exclusive From 'boy genius' to 'oh boy'

Edge + IoT03 Dec 2019 | 188

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

re:Invent Coffee machines will listen to you if vendors implement it

Edge + IoT26 Nov 2019 | 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

Edge + IoT05 Nov 2019 | 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

Edge + IoT24 Oct 2019 | 32

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

At least it'll wipe clean

Edge + IoT21 Oct 2019 | 97

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

Behold the Samsung Family Hu- oh, bugger

Edge + IoT15 Oct 2019 | 282

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

Geoblocking, weaponisation and more in Parliamentary committee's sights

Edge + IoT11 Oct 2019 | 145

Second MoD Airbus Zephyr spy drone crashes on Aussie test flight

Delicate thing doesn't like turbulence, apparently

Edge + IoT09 Oct 2019 | 41

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

Back to jail for people trafficker

Edge + IoT01 Oct 2019 | 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

Edge + IoT01 Oct 2019 | 37

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

No new arrests, no idea what happened

Edge + IoT27 Sep 2019 | 37

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

Updated Prepare for aerial droppings, Virginians

Edge + IoT20 Sep 2019 | 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

Edge + IoT05 Sep 2019 | 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

Edge + IoT29 Aug 2019 | 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

Edge + IoT06 Aug 2019 | 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

Edge + IoT19 Jul 2019 | 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?

Edge + IoT18 Jul 2019 | 132

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

Edge + IoT28 Jun 2019 | 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

Edge + IoT27 Jun 2019 | 79

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

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

Edge + IoT25 Jun 2019 | 27

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

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

Edge + IoT20 Jun 2019 | 299

Spits out coffee £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

Comment And guess who picks up the bill

Edge + IoT19 Jun 2019 | 109

TPM now stands for Tiny Platform Module: TCG shrinks crypto chip to secure all the Things

Don't wanna be a security id-IoT: Trusted hardware extends beyond computers

Edge + IoT17 Jun 2019 | 7

Mirai botnet malware offspring graduates from uni, puts on a suit, slips into your enterprise

Isn't that what we all want for our kids, after all?

Edge + IoT14 Jun 2019 | 1

Now Chinese-made drones rubbing US govt up the Huawei: 'Strong concerns' DJI kit threat to national security

Memo warns of regime having access to American data – remind you of anything?

Edge + IoT21 May 2019 | 65

OK, Google, please do a half-hearted U-turn: Stay of execution for smart home APIs after Big G goes cuckoo in the Nest

Plan to force everyone onto Assistant stalled after customers say: Mess with the Nest, die like the rest

Edge + IoT16 May 2019 | 32

Sign of the times: Mirai botnet strain fine-tunes itself to infect digital signage, projectors

Notorious code puts on suit and tie, goes after business kit

Edge + IoT19 Mar 2019 | 13

We don't want to be Latch key-less kids: NYC tenants sue landlords for bunging IoT 'smart' lock on their front door

Updated Residents claim net-connected, app-controlled system is harassment, surveillance

Applications18 Mar 2019 | 44

Don't be too shocked, but it looks as though these politicians have actually got their act together on IoT security

Analysis Actual bipartisan legislation in the US, with industry backing, reemerges

Edge + IoT13 Mar 2019 | 32

Smart home owner? Don't make your crib easy pickings for the smart home pwner

Consumer IoT PITA to secure but not impossible, report warns

Edge + IoT05 Mar 2019 | 21

Don't mean to alarm you, but Boeing has built an unmanned fighter jet called 'Loyal Wingman'

RoTM Unarmed, but let's be real – it's only a matter of time, isn't it?

Edge + IoT27 Feb 2019 | 123

Azure IoT heads spacewards to maintain connectivity at the edge, courtesy of Inmarsat

Microsoft: 20 billion connected devices by 2020. Voda, Arm: How about 1 trillion by 2035?

Edge + IoT25 Feb 2019 | 5

EPIC demand: It's time for Google to fly the Nest after 'forgetting' to mention home alarm hub has built-in mic

Ad giant must divorce IoT subsidiary, privacy warriors tell sleepy watchdog

Edge + IoT22 Feb 2019 | 33

'We don't want a camera in everyone's living room' says bloke selling cameras in living rooms. Zuckerberg, you moron

Also: Letting people pay to stop FB snooping wouldn't be fair on the poor, apparently

Edge + IoT21 Feb 2019 | 60

Just do IoT? We'd walk a mile in someone else's Nike smart sneakers, but they seem to be 'bricked'

Updated Owners having a connection 'mare in the Internet of Trainers

Edge + IoT20 Feb 2019 | 63

The Lance Arm-strong of performance-enhanced CPUs: Armv8.1-M arch jams vector math into super-microcontrollers

Neon-style tech pumps Helium balloon in future gadgets

Edge + IoT14 Feb 2019 | 7

From Firefox to fired cocks: Look who's out to save you being shafted by insecure Internet of Dingalings – it's Mozilla!

Secret-keeping screw-ups bedevil amorous appliances

Edge + IoT06 Feb 2019 | 18

Hands up who reuses the same password everywhere, even with your Nest. Keep your hand up if you like being spied on by hackers

OK, you, yes, you: You need to read this the most

Edge + IoT06 Feb 2019 | 22

Amid polar vortex... Honeywell gets frosty reception after remote smart thermostat tech freezes up for a week

Just use manual control, says biz. Then why did we buy 'smart' controls, ask customers

Edge + IoT04 Feb 2019 | 96

Good news! Only half of Internet of Crap apps fumble encryption

Updated Android apps for TP-Link, LIFX, Belkin, and Broadlink kit found with holes, some at least have been repaired

Edge + IoT04 Feb 2019 | 24

Oh cool, the Bluetooth 5.1 specification is out. Nice. control-F master-slave... 2,000 results

Can't let go of that old terminology we see. Plus, it now tells you where a nearby device is located

Edge + IoT01 Feb 2019 | 108

Arm wants to wrestle industry into a seat on the UK.gov's £70m hardware security train

We're taking it seriously, says chief architect

Edge + IoT28 Jan 2019 | 29

Germany has a problem with the entire point of Amazon's daft Dash buttons – and bans them

Sour Krauts aren't wrong: Tap-to-order gizmo is really dumb

Edge + IoT11 Jan 2019 | 121

It's a Christmas miracle: Logitech backs down from Harmony home hub API armageddon

It was The Reg wot won it?

Edge + IoT21 Dec 2018 | 36

A year after Logitech screwed over Harmony users, it, um, screws over Harmony users: Device API killed off

Updated You know that Hub that we forced you to buy? Yeah, we've messed with that one, too

Edge + IoT19 Dec 2018 | 112

Edgelord of the Things: HPE waggles its one line to bring them all and on the edge bind them

HPE Discover 2018 Edgeline boxen bang operational tech and IT heads together

Edge + IoT27 Nov 2018 | 3

Real talk: You're gonna have to get real about real-time analytics if you wanna make IoT work

Backgrounder A gentle intro to design considerations for a large-scale internet-connected web of sensors

Edge + IoT21 Nov 2018 | 6

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

Second MoD Airbus Zephyr spy drone crashes on Aussie test flight

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

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

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

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

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

Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

TPM now stands for Tiny Platform Module: TCG shrinks crypto chip to secure all the Things

Mirai botnet malware offspring graduates from uni, puts on a suit, slips into your enterprise

Now Chinese-made drones rubbing US govt up the Huawei: 'Strong concerns' DJI kit threat to national security

OK, Google, please do a half-hearted U-turn: Stay of execution for smart home APIs after Big G goes cuckoo in the Nest

Cert authority Sectigo whisks infosec biz Icon Labs into IoT security kit

Docker raises Arm to make itself handier for IoT edge data pushing

MoD plonks down £2m on table in exchange for anti-drone tech ideas

Sign of the times: Mirai botnet strain fine-tunes itself to infect digital signage, projectors

We don't want to be Latch key-less kids: NYC tenants sue landlords for bunging IoT 'smart' lock on their front door

Don't be too shocked, but it looks as though these politicians have actually got their act together on IoT security

Smart home owner? Don't make your crib easy pickings for the smart home pwner

Don't mean to alarm you, but Boeing has built an unmanned fighter jet called 'Loyal Wingman'

Azure IoT heads spacewards to maintain connectivity at the edge, courtesy of Inmarsat

EPIC demand: It's time for Google to fly the Nest after 'forgetting' to mention home alarm hub has built-in mic

'We don't want a camera in everyone's living room' says bloke selling cameras in living rooms. Zuckerberg, you moron

Just do IoT? We'd walk a mile in someone else's Nike smart sneakers, but they seem to be 'bricked'

The Lance Arm-strong of performance-enhanced CPUs: Armv8.1-M arch jams vector math into super-microcontrollers

From Firefox to fired cocks: Look who's out to save you being shafted by insecure Internet of Dingalings – it's Mozilla!

Hands up who reuses the same password everywhere, even with your Nest. Keep your hand up if you like being spied on by hackers

Amid polar vortex... Honeywell gets frosty reception after remote smart thermostat tech freezes up for a week

Good news! Only half of Internet of Crap apps fumble encryption

Oh cool, the Bluetooth 5.1 specification is out. Nice. *control-F* master-slave... 2,000 results

Arm wants to wrestle industry into a seat on the UK.gov's £70m hardware security train

Germany has a problem with the entire point of Amazon's daft Dash buttons – and bans them

It's a Christmas miracle: Logitech backs down from Harmony home hub API armageddon

A year after Logitech screwed over Harmony users, it, um, screws over Harmony users: Device API killed off

Edgelord of the Things: HPE waggles its one line to bring them all and on the edge bind them

Real talk: You're gonna have to get real about real-time analytics if you wanna make IoT work

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Spits out coffee £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

Oh cool, the Bluetooth 5.1 specification is out. Nice. control-F master-slave... 2,000 results