Anker's eufy brand has put the SoloCam E50 on sale in the US. The outdoor camera was first shown in late September, and MacSources reported its official launch on 29 October 2026. eufy's store sells it as the "S340 Next-Gen" for $229.99, and positions it as the outer perimeter layer of the company's Edge 5.0 security system: a camera meant to watch
Anyone who points Home Assistant at its own SSL certificate, instead of putting it behind a reverse proxy, will see a new repair after updating to 2026.11. It offers to switch the HTTP server to a newer set of TLS rules. On 29 October 2026, a day before the second beta, the developers changed which set that repair recommends: Intermediate v6, which
ecobee, the smart thermostat maker owned by Generac since 2021, announced Home Summary on 29 October 2026. It is an opt-in feature in the ecobee app that uses AI to turn a day of activity from the thermostat, security devices and home energy system into one short written summary. The rollout to customers starts the same day.
Bitdefender and NETGEAR published their 2026 IoT Security Landscape Report on 28 October 2026. It is based on telemetry from roughly 10.4 million home routers protected by the two companies, collected from January to September 2026: 5.4 billion security events and about 1.2 billion vulnerability observations.
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.
ADT, the US home security company that claims the country's largest network of smart home security professionals, announced on 29 October 2026 that it will be acquired by Thrive Holdings. The deal is all cash: $10.00 per share, which values ADT at about $7.6 billion in equity value and $15.3 billion in enterprise value. That is a 45.6% premium over
The National Vulnerability Database published CVE-2026-59177 on October 28, 2026. It covers a flaw in ESPHome Device Builder, the dashboard behind the ESPHome add-on for Home Assistant, which let any device on the local network open the dashboard with no credentials. The bug is not new. ESPHome fixed it in June and published the advisory (GHSA-vv4j
Two CVEs published on October 22 and 27, 2026 describe buffer overflows in the firmware of AiDot smart home devices, sold under the Linkind and OREiN brands. CVE-2026-78846 lets any device on the local network corrupt a plug's or bulb's memory with one crafted discovery reply. CVE-2026-78845 gives remote code execution to an attacker who controls o
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
