Custom AI Behaviors, the natural-language automation feature Philips Hue announced at IFA in September, are now live. They arrive with version 6.4.0 of the Hue app, which Hueblog reported on October 29, 2026 as available in Apple's App Store, with the Google Play release expected soon. Last week Hue shipped Bridge Pro firmware that prepared the bri
Nordic Semiconductor said on October 29, 2026 that it is the first company to prove Bluetooth High Data Throughput (HDT) in silicon. HDT is an upcoming addition to Bluetooth Low Energy that raises the top speed from 2 Mbps to as much as 7.5 Mbps. The Bluetooth SIG expects to release it in late 2026, so for now this is a working demo of a draft feat
TP-Link's Tapo brand has launched the C550WS, an outdoor pan/tilt camera with a 4K sensor. It was announced on 28 October 2026 and is listed in the Tapo UK store at £84.99, with shipping from mid-November. Amazon UK lists it at £89.99 with a release date of 20 November.
CloudSEK published a report on 28 October 2026 about a botnet it calls Doorway. In October its researchers found two identical open directories left exposed by the operators, holding about 41 GB of working data: source code, scan results, logs and notes. That gives an unusually direct look at how a campaign against home and small office network gea
Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) published details on 28 October 2026 of a denial-of-service flaw in several Intelbras IP cameras. Intelbras is a Brazilian brand, and its Mibo Smart app has more than 4 million downloads. Most users are in Brazil, followed by Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay
LILYGO has a new handheld development kit, the T-Display K230, which CNX Software covered on 28 October 2026. Unlike most LILYGO boards it is not built on an ESP32. It uses Canaan's Kendryte K230, a Linux-capable RISC-V processor with an AI accelerator, and pairs it with a LoRa radio on the main board and optional cellular connectivity in a keyboar
Amazon announced five new Alexa devices on 28 October 2026: a new Echo Dot, Echo Studio with Home Camera, Echo Time, Alexa Photo Frame and a redesigned Echo Show 16. For smart home users the Dot is the interesting one, because it is the first Echo Dot with a built-in smart home hub.
On 26 October 2026 CERT Polska published 11 vulnerabilities in boneIO products, CVE-2026-77052 to CVE-2026-77062. They affect the boneIO Black controller software and the black_debian_images system image, and boneIO fixed them in version 1.6.0. The flaws were reported by Mateusz Włodarczak (s3ga), and CERT Polska coordinated the disclosure. The adv
Cirkit Designer, a browser-based tool for drawing circuits, writing firmware and simulating them, now emulates the original ESP32 and the ESP32-S3 at the instruction level. Its founder, Austin Small, described how it works in a post on Espressif's developer portal on 26 October 2026. The point for ESP32 tinkerers: you can test a sketch with a displ
