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
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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
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
Popular smart bulbs get an interesting upgrade
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
Cert authority Sectigo whisks infosec biz Icon Labs into IoT security kit
Secure boot, local CA for your network o' widgets, and more
Edge + IoT09 May 2019 |
Docker raises Arm to make itself handier for IoT edge data pushing
Container biz cuddles with chip whiz in quest for kismet
Edge + IoT24 Apr 2019 |
MoD plonks down £2m on table in exchange for anti-drone tech ideas
Slingshots? Hawks? Anything that will stop airports grounding planes during holibobs, really
Edge + IoT09 Apr 2019 | 67
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
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