Buying a Smart Smoke Detector Turns Out to Be a Little Dumb
…Kidde is another fire safety brand that has partnered with a smart home ecosystem to make a smart smoke detector. Designed for Amazon's Ring ecosystem, this is a great option if…
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Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
…For its part, Firefox's Holley says his team has relationships across the open source ecosystem and is working both formally and informally with as many maintainers as it can to share…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…Wiz’s Read recommends safeguards such as “age-gating” updates to open source tools—vetting and installing security updates but otherwise holding off on immediate updates to code that’s been newly…
Here’s the Smart Lock for Every Door in Your Home
…Specs Smart home ecosystem: Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, IFTTT Power source: Four AA batteries (included), backup USB-C power Entry options: Keypad, fingerprint reader, NFC, smart home connection, mechanical key…
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what…
I’ve Tried Every Smart Speaker From Amazon, Google, and Apple—These Are the Ones Worth Buying
You likely already have a favorite ecosystem. Maybe it's the one that works with your phone, as an Apple or Android user, or maybe it's Amazon's Alexa, in the…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when activated, alerts the…
I’ve Been Testing the New Sonos Play for Weeks. It’s My New Favorite
…Every Sonos speaker (or soundbar or amp) is built to connect as part of a greater ecosystem, the same way an ant or bee is part of a colony. So when a…
Garmin’s Latest Training Features Fend Off the Advances of the Apple Watch
…Garmin decided it was time to step up its update game. The likes of the Apple Watch Ultra-esque Venu X1 ($700), Fenix 8 Pro ($1,889), and Forerunner 970 ($750) were…
The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop
…Sometimes, burner accounts, comments, and whole ecosystems of interactions can be fabricated out of digital cloth, stoking—and in some cases, completely manufacturing—discourse around an artist. These ginned-up interactions push…