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
Nanoleaf, known for light panels and bulbs, announced its first fan on November 2, 2026: the Smart Air Circulator Fan (model W9502500), launched in Australia through the Nanoleaf AU store. It runs on a built-in battery or mains power and joins Matter controllers over Wi-Fi.
Kaspersky published research on November 2, 2026 showing that several Intelbras home Wi-Fi cameras accepted firmware update requests from anyone on the local network, without a password and without checking the file. Each request rebooted the camera and took it offline for about a minute. Sent in a loop, the requests kept it offline for as long as
Banana Pi has put the BPI-M8 on sale, a credit card-sized single-board computer built around the Allwinner A733 and pitched as an alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5. CNX Software covered it on 2 November 2026. It comes in two versions: the BPI-M8A with 64GB of eMMC storage and the BPI-M8B with 16MB of SPI NOR flash. In the Banana Pi shop they cost $
Synology published a warning on 29 October 2026: attackers are exploiting a vulnerability the company patched in December 2024 to break into NAS drives running outdated versions of DSM, its operating system, then encrypt the data and demand a ransom. On 2 November BleepingComputer linked the attacks to the C3RB3R ransomware. Synology rarely issues
On 2 November 2026 Google Threat Intelligence said that last week it and its partners dismantled XCPE, a botnet built from more than 1.3 million Android set-top boxes in over 200 countries. The partners were Japan's National Police Agency, Lumen, HUMAN Security, Plume, Synthient and Trend Micro's TrendAI. Google says with high confidence that the b
On 1 November 2026 the National Electricity Market (NEM), the grid that covers Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, started the main release of its Flexible Trading Arrangements. From now on an EV charger, a home battery or another controllable device can be metered and settled separately from the rest of th
FRITZ! GmbH, the Berlin company formerly known as AVM, announced on 2 November 2026 that its FRITZ!Smart Energy 201 smart plug is now in shops. The recommended retail price is €49. It is an indoor plug, small enough to fit into a power strip, with a single combined LED and button.
Supermarkets in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland found their fridges and freezers warming up on the night of 1-2 November 2026. Inside some cabinets the temperature climbed to 50°C. It is the second wave in three weeks: on 11 October up to 700 supermarkets in France were hit the same way, with losses put at
