smart devices Fridge sends annoyed email to owner Annie Rauwerda

chastity device Hackers could lock your junk in this web-connected chastity cage Andrea James

internet security Hackers say they breached Russian contractor, got details on IoT hacking project for Russia spy agency Xeni Jardin

ccpa New app helps you identify IoT devices around you, tells you what data they collect Thom Dunn

diapers MIT's "Smart Diaper" alerts caregiver when it's wet David Pescovitz

spycams Google 'disabling Xiaomi integrations on our devices' after Nest Hub user picked up random pics from strangers' feeds Xeni Jardin

dystopia watch Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs's plan to build a surveilling "smart city" in Toronto Cory Doctorow

high-tech feudalism Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow

pecksniffs Cop says Amazon told him they had "partnered" with 200 US police forces to sell and tap into Ring surveillance doorbells Cory Doctorow

google home Like Amazon, Google sends voice assistant recordings to contractors for transcription, including recordings made inadvertently Cory Doctorow

internet of things that are wrong Unintentionally funny video instructions for factory resetting GE light bulbs Mark Frauenfelder

internet of things Amazon cancels Dash buttons Mark Frauenfelder

internet of things Scientists equip bees with tiny environmental sensors Mark Frauenfelder

passwords suck Arizona realtor surprised to find Canadian "white hat" hacker talking to him through his smart doorbell Cory Doctorow

cybernetics Bees wearing wireless sensors create a "living Internet of Things platform" David Pescovitz

plenty of room at the bottom Machine learning may be most useful in tiny, embedded, offline processors Cory Doctorow

adam greenfield's Radical Technologies An important, lyrical, critical book about the future of "Smart Cities" Cory Doctorow

internet of things Good deal on an Echo Dot: $38 Mark Frauenfelder

juicero The Juicero is an impressive piece of over engineered hardware Mark Frauenfelder

DRM lifestyle A juicer that won't make juice unless the produce is marked with special code [Updated] Mark Frauenfelder