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
ESPectre, the component that turns an ESP32 and an ordinary Wi-Fi access point into a motion sensor, can now be tuned from Home Assistant while it runs. Francesco Pace's pull request was merged into the ESPHome dev branch on 2 November 2026 (just after midnight Warsaw time), with the documentation update merged alongside it. It is not in a stable r
Seven OS command injection vulnerabilities in WAVLINK routers, mesh units and access points were published on 1 and 2 November 2026. All of them came through VulDB, each links to a proof-of-concept write-up on GitHub (six of the seven by a researcher using the name pipiyyb), and each record says the exploit is public. The records say WAVLINK was co
Banana Pi has released the BPI-RT2, a bare router board for home networks, wireless access points and small office routers. CNX Software reported it on 30 October 2026. It sells for $26 in the official Banana Pi store and $25.20 plus shipping on AliExpress. That puts it among the cheapest ways to get a Wi-Fi 6 board with Gigabit Ethernet for a home
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
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.
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
