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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

Edge + IoT16 Sep 2020 | 62

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

Protectionist public policy prompts fresh focus on infosec fears

Edge + IoT10 Sep 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT26 Aug 2020 | 1

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

That's a spicy meatball

Edge + IoT19 Aug 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT16 Jul 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT14 Jul 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT10 Jul 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT07 Jul 2020 | 1

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

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

Edge + IoT24 Jun 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT17 Jun 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT15 Jun 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT22 May 2020 | 37

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

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

Edge + IoT21 May 2020 | 68

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

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

Edge + IoT21 May 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT04 May 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT29 Apr 2020 | 49

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

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

Edge + IoT27 Apr 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT27 Apr 2020 | 22

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

The Civil Aviation Authority giveth the CAA and taketh away

Edge + IoT20 Apr 2020 | 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'

Edge + IoT15 Apr 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT06 Apr 2020 | 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?

Edge + IoT02 Apr 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT11 Mar 2020 | 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'

Edge + IoT06 Mar 2020 | 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'

Edge + IoT02 Mar 2020 | 99

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

Updated Management software for smart devices to ease entry into ecosystem

Edge + IoT26 Feb 2020 | 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

Edge + IoT24 Feb 2020 | 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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