DJI released Local Data Mode for its ROMO 2 robot vacuums on 29 October 2026. With the mode switched on, the DJI Home app stops talking to the internet, and the maps, images and other data the robot uses for navigation and obstacle avoidance are stored and processed on the device itself instead of in DJI's cloud.
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
A smart radiator thermostat replaces the head on a radiator valve with a small battery-powered motor that opens and closes the valve on a schedule or on command. It is a simple way to give each room its own schedule, and some models are now very cheap: IKEA's Thread-based LILJEBAGGE already sells in Sweden for 199 kronor, and heise reports a German
Most home cameras are sold as a pair: the camera and the manufacturer's app, with clips stored in the vendor's cloud. That works until the subscription price goes up, the service shuts down or someone finds a hole in it. In October 2026 CERT-UA warned that attackers were reaching Dahua cameras through the Easy4IP cloud feature by guessing serial nu
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
