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Well, the ESP32 Bluetooth bridge experiment was a complete failure. Not the radios themselves, they’re actually pretty cool, but there’s just no way I could get the Yale locks to be reliably operated by them. At a guess, BLE is a bit too passive to detect state changes, and unless it was awake and communicating, it just had no idea what was happening with the locks. So, I’ve now silenced all lock-related alerts and am focusing on making the wifi network as reliable as possible in the hope the locks actually become responsive. If that doesn’t work, those Aqara U400s…
Robot vacuums are only worth it when they actually reduce the number of times you have to think about cleaning. A lot of models still need babysitting: empty the bin, refill the water, wash the mop, dry the pads, repeat. The Dreame L10s Ultra is built to cut that routine down dramatically. It’s $299.99 for a limited time, down from $519.99 (42% off). If you want floors that stay consistently cleaner without turning it into a weekly project, this deal is the right kind of upgrade. What you’re getting The L10s Ultra is a robot vacuum and mop combo that…
How can artificial intelligence step out of a screen and become something we can physically touch and interact with?That question formed the foundation of class 4.043/4.044 (Interaction Intelligence), an MIT course focused on designing a new category of AI-driven interactive objects. Known as large language objects (LLOs), these physical interfaces extend large language models into the real world. Their behaviors can be deliberately generated for specific people or applications, and their interactions can evolve from simple to increasingly sophisticated — providing meaningful support for both novice and expert users.“I came to the realization that, while powerful, these new forms of intelligence still…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 17, 2026Enterprise Security / Artificial Intelligence New research from Microsoft has revealed that legitimate businesses are gaming artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots via the “Summarize with AI” button that’s being increasingly placed on websites in ways that mirror classic search engine poisoning (AI). The new AI hijacking technique has been codenamed AI Recommendation Poisoning by the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. The tech giant described it as a case of an AI memory poisoning attack that’s used to induce bias and deceive the AI system to generate responses that artificially boost visibility and skew recommendations. “Companies are embedding hidden…
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today.Let’s start with the bad news.There’s a decent chance, perhaps as high as 11 percent if you’re unvaccinated, that some time over the course of this winter, you’ll be overcome with chills, followed by extreme fatigue, body aches and cough, and culminating in a sudden spike in fever. Congratulations: you have the flu.Every winter in the US has its share of flu cases, but this season is shaping up to be particularly bad. Early this week…
A short drive from London, the town of Potters Bar is separated from the village of South Mimms by 85 acres of rolling farmland segmented by a scribble of hedgerows. In one of the fields, a lone oak serves as a rest stop along a public footpath. Lately, the tree has become a site of protest, too. A poster tied to its trunk reads: “NO TO DATA CENTRE.”In September 2024, a property developer applied for permission to build an industrial-scale data center—one of the largest in Europe—on the farmland. When locals caught wind, they started a Facebook group in hopes…
Overview of Private Cloud Hosting Quick Summary What is private cloud hosting and why is it important? Private cloud hosting provides cloud‑like computing resources within a dedicated, enterprise‑controlled environment. It combines the elasticity and convenience of public cloud with heightened security, compliance and data sovereignty—making it ideal for regulated industries, latency‑sensitive applications and AI workloads. Private vs Public vs Hybrid In a public cloud, customers rent compute, storage and networking from providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Resources are shared across customers, and data resides in provider‑owned facilities. A private cloud, however, runs on infrastructure dedicated to a…
Apple continues to double down on its Formula 1 programming, following up on the box office success of its blockbuster movie by adding a dedicated channel for the racing league to the Apple TV app. This section of the streaming service hints at some of what may be coming when the F1 season begins with the kickoff event in Australia next month. The F1 channel has placeholders for practices, qualifying and the grand prix as well as a weekend warm-up show.Although it announced the five-year deal to host F1 broadcasts in the US back in October, we still haven’t heard…
Meta Platforms Inc.’s agentic artificial intelligence unit Manus said today it’s going to integrate its platform with popular messaging applications, including Telegram, WhatsApp, LINE and Slack. To kick things off, it’s launching Manus Agents in Telegram, giving users of that app the opportunity to create their own personal AI agent. Unlike traditional chatbots, Manus is designed to perform complex tasks on behalf of users, such as searching for an apartment to rent, booking a hotel, building a website and ordering food from a restaurant. The idea of a personal agent that can do these kinds of things inside messaging apps isn’t…
You are counting on lots of security measures to keep your network safe. The truth is that these measures can still have secret passages that bad people can use to sneak around without being noticed. You can have things like firewalls and special software, on your computers to watch for problems and still not catch people moving around inside your network taking data slowly or doing weird things that are not supposed to happen because these things do not always look like the problems you are expecting.This is a problem because bad people know about it and they use it…