Browsing: Smart Home

Apple is reportedly building a home security device, codenamed J450, that captures images at a low frame rate and sends written descriptions instead of video. It also reportedly uses facial recognition to tell which household member walked in. Apple’s Welcome Home event is October 13, but the camera’s timing is disputed and may be 2027 or later.

Apple has confirmed a Welcome Home event for Tuesday, October 13 in Tribeca, and confirmed nothing else. The expectation is a countertop hub with a small square screen, a faster Apple TV 4K, and the HomePod mini’s first replacement in six years. The hardware was never the hard part. The new Siri is.

An IT professional found his parents’ Keurig K-Supreme SMART had uploaded 1,008 GB in just over ten days and knocked their Wi-Fi flat. The headline sounds like a spying scandal. The follow-up is stranger and more useful: almost none of that traffic ever reached the internet. Here is what actually happened and what it means for every smart appliance in your house.

Amazon’s About You page lists the conclusions its personalization model has drawn from your purchases, searches and Alexa conversations, and people are finding entries about their family, their diet and their body. It went live in May. Here is exactly where to find yours, what feeds it, what you can delete, and the one thing you cannot switch off.

Meta’s Muse agent rolled out nationwide this month with access to email, calendars, payments and smart home devices, and Zuckerberg just doubled down on it at Connect 2026 with a holiday hardware launch. The catch is convincing people to hand that much control to a company with an $18 billion privacy settlement still fresh on the books.

Google is letting outside AI agents, not just Gemini, read device states and control Google Home through a new Model Context Protocol server. Here is what changes and what to watch.

Galaxy owners across four countries woke up to the same message: account deactivated due to a security issue. Wallet, SmartThings and Samsung Find went with it. Changing the password does nothing, and Samsung has not explained the trigger. Here is what has actually worked so far.

A Taiwanese man opened his robot vacuum’s app to talk to his wife, found a live camera feed and another man, and hit record. The footage won him NT$500,000 in civil damages and a five month sentence for unlawful recording. Most robot vacuum owners have never checked who can still log in.

After the FBI and NSA disrupted a Russian GRU network of hijacked home routers, everyone was told to reboot. A restart genuinely helps, but the specific attack in that advisory is one a reboot does not touch. Here is the difference.

Nine current robot vacuums for 2026, from budget self emptying models to premium flagships, plus iRobot’s new ownership and what features matter.