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Latest news from the Internet of Things and the edge-of-network world

Philips to replace bricked Hue Bridge Pro devices

Company releases a fresh firmware update. Go on, install it, we dare you...

O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date

It's not just old phones – many smart meters and telecare alarms still use the ancient technology

Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors

MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system

Illustration of a generic white electric car charging at a connected power charger

Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers

Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhere

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, shake hands after a joint press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 16, 2025

Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine

Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems

Skyhammer. Supplied by Cambridge Aerospace

UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies

MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroad

The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope

Ukraine's battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware

man hangs onto lamppost to prevent wind from sweeping him out to clouds

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

A wearable sensor designed to monitor intestinal gas suggests the average person may let rip around 32 times a day

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps

Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal

CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes

Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes

Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors

To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required

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Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'

Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections

Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all

Owner reverse-engineered his ride, revealing authentication was never properly individualized

A 'connected' TV watches over its owner. Pic via shutterstock

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it

From buried settings to geopolitical risk, the business model is surveillance

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

Talk about enshittification

Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports 'sooner or later'

Skies are open for mischief as hard-to-trace drones and fast-moving cyber raids promise new wave of disruption

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos

Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones

Space sensors and UAVs at sea top MoD's list in new wave of cutting-edge projects

Munich Airport chaos after drone sightings spook air traffic control

Overnight shutdown leaves thousands stuck as Oktoberfest crowds stretch city security

Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning

GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency

Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth

It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet

Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser

Majority of exposures located in the US, including datacenters, healthcare facilities, factories, and more

UK bans game controller exports to Russia in bid to ground drone attacks

Moscow likely to respawn elsewhere

ATMs in the Amazon: Edge is crossing its tipping point, says SUSE CTO

Sending Kubernetes and AI into orbit as devices move from 'glorified sensors' to 'decision-making'

Axiom Space’s Data Center Unit-1 (AxDCU-1) on a bench with AXIOM in the background

Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit

To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while

HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'

Tech and people behind IoT brooch that reviewers instantly hated will one day pep up printers

closeup of a wireless router and a man using smartphone on living room at home office

Netgear fixes critical bugs as Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge

International security squads all focus on stopping baddies busting in through routers, IoT kit etc

Garmin pulls a CrowdStrike, turns smartwatches into fancy bracelets

Blue Screen of Death becomes the Blue Triangle of Doom for your wrist

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Image of different versions of the US Cyber Trust Mark

Look for the label: White House rolls out 'Cyber Trust Mark' for smart devices

Beware the IoT that doesn’t get a security tag

Iran-linked crew used custom 'cyberweapon' in US critical infrastructure attacks

IOCONTROL targets IoT and OT devices from a ton of makers, apparently

A new city springs from the rainforest to become Indonesia's tech hub

Jakarta who? Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is packed with tech

Chinese engineers wire Raspberry Pi into 600-meter railway tunnel to find any holes

The GPIO turns out to be a handy tool if you want to measure the conductivity of concrete

Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em

How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?

Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia team for software-defined cars, IoT integration

Turn on home aircon and maybe peer inside the fridge or oven – all from behind the wheel

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Capita wins £135M extension on much-delayed UK smart meter rollout

Outsourcing firm has been building network for over a decade now – how's that going?

From windfarms to Amazon Prime, UK plans to long range test six drone services

BVLOS operations to modernize airspace

Backscatter brainwave could make IoT comms even more energy efficient

How does sub-0.6 mW sound?

Handling inference at the edge

One way to minimise AI latency is to process ML models closer to end users and the data being ingested

UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords

New laws mean vendors need to make clear how long you'll get updates too

Smart Meter keeps you on top of your spending

Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed

UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware

Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause

Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert

CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely

Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app

Internet of Things - conceptual illustration

Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices

Plus: Qualy punts a 'micro-power' Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit

A mock-up of keys on a keyboard for Roma, the 'industry’s first native RISC-V development laptop.'

Imagination licenses RISC-V CPU cores for smart TVs, IoT, embedded stuff

Chip designer legging it after Arm

India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock

Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly

Datacenter at the top of a remote mountain

Here's another thing AI can do: Spark a boom in edge infrastructure spending

IDC forecasts spend to grow 15.4% in 2024 to $232B – then add another $100B in three years

The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things

All too many 'smart' devices are security stupid

China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry

Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi

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Doom running on a Husqvarna NERA robomower

Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not, thankfully, its chainsaws

Seminal game runs on everything, so why not pay €2,199 to run it on a tiny screen?

Microsoft retires Azure IoT Central retirement announcement

And fails to clear up end-of-life debacle

Wyze admits 13,000 users could have viewed strangers' camera feeds

Customers report feeling violated following the security snafu

Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink

After March, devs won’t be able to create new application resources, in 2027 the system will be shut down

Is critical infrastructure prepared for OT ransomware?

As extortion tactics evolve, operational shutdowns are the next step

White goods giant fires legal threats to unplug open source plugin

'Substantial increase in AWS calls' triggers takedown notice

BlackBerry squashes plan to spin out its IoT biz

Board and incoming CEO decide reorganizing is better than splitting

India's $20B Smart Cities Mission isn't, and has hardly scratched the surface after eight years

Many projects really about basic services, or don't integrate well. Charge ahead and extend it anyway, think tank recommends

A group of people hold out mobile phones in a circle. Photo by Shutterstock

Qualcomm in recovery position following annus horribilis

Smartphone sales not nearly so bad and just think of the AI potential for margins

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

Public Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far...

China requires any new domestic Wi-Fi kit to support IPv6 and run it by default

Beijing set big targets for next-gen networks, but adoption stats suggest it's falling short

Mirai reloads exploit arsenal as botnet embarks on another expansion drive

With 13 new payloads it's the biggest update to the botnet in months

Illustration of a UFO / alien spaceship beaming up a person and cow

Never mind SETI and NASA, if your Ring somehow snaps ET, Amazon might give you $1M

Fly light-years to our planet and get the real Earth experience: Privacy invaded by doorbell cam

You've just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription

Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn't making quite enough money...

BlackBerry to split into two companies, foraging for tastier fare for shareholders

Hopes to float IoT biz and keep infosec ops, then make a second pressing

Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges'

Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now

If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea

You're just giving manufacturers carte blanche to profit off personal data

2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones

Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink

Why these cloud-connected 3D printers started making junk all by themselves

Message brokering software blamed for dumping backed-up print jobs on idle devices

Graphene foam is the future of IoT power, maybe

An electrically charged spring in your step