On November 3, 2026 Nordic Semiconductor announced the nRF71 Series, its first system-on-chip that puts Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, Thread and an application processor on a single die. Until now Nordic's Wi-Fi parts (the nRF70 Series) were companion chips that needed a separate host MCU. Nordic says the nRF71 uses up to 20 times less power in standby than
Seeed Studio announced two assembled e-paper displays on 3 November 2026, built together with the open-source OpenDisplay project. The OpenDisplay 4.26" Mono Kit costs $39.90 and the 7.3" Color Kit costs $75.90. Both are sold in Seeed's own store and on AliExpress.
ESPHome 2026.10.2 came out on 2 November 2026, six days after 2026.10.1. It is a short patch release with six fixes, and two of them matter to people running ESPHome devices day to day.
Two days after Zephyr 4.5.0, the project put out a maintenance release for an older branch. Zephyr 4.3.2 was published on the evening of 30 October 2026 as a bugfix release for 4.3.1, and its security section is long: 225 CVE entries. For 121 of them the notes give a description and a GitHub security advisory. The other 104 are marked as under emba
NXP presented two new wireless microcontrollers on 27 October 2026: the MCX W70 for industrial and IoT products and the KW43 for cars. Both support Bluetooth Channel Sounding, the Bluetooth 6.0 feature that measures the distance between two devices. The MCX W70 is the one smart home makers will look at, because its radio also runs Zigbee, Thread fo
TTLock, the Bluetooth lock platform from the Chinese company Sciener, has a new high-severity vulnerability on record. CVE-2026-112345 was published on 26 October 2026, with VulnCheck as the assigning authority and the researcher Yassine Damiri credited with the find. It covers the TTLock Android app before version 9.8.260718 and the lock firmware
Most smart lock problems start at the door, not in the app. A lock that does not fit the cylinder, cannot be opened from outside while a key sits in the inside, or needs a hub you do not own will annoy you every day, whatever its feature list says. The checks below go in the order that saves money: the door first, then the radio, then the way you w
NearMeter Technologies has put NINASENSE nRF on Crowd Supply as an upcoming campaign. It is a small open hardware board for battery-powered sensors, with Bluetooth LE for short range and LoRa for long range. Hackster.io wrote about it on 29 October 2026.
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
