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
24 Jun 2020 | 27
Edge + IoT
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 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
15 Jun 2020 | 65
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 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
21 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?
21 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
04 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
29 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
27 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
27 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
20 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'
15 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
06 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?
02 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
11 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'
06 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'
02 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
26 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
24 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
19 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
17 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
28 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
24 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
21 Jan 2020 | 277
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 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
09 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
07 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
18 Dec 2019 | 104
Internet of crap (encryption): IoT gear generates easy-to-crack keys
Poor entropy in embedded devices leading to weaker certificates: study
16 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'
03 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
26 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
05 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
24 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
21 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
15 Oct 2019 | 282
Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands
Geoblocking, weaponisation and more in Parliamentary committee's sights
11 Oct 2019 | 145
