@zephyr RTOS is no longer just a contender, it’s the future of embedded 
5x growth in contributors over 8 years
Built for modern DevSecOps workflows
Seen all over Embedded World 2025
Read more: https://www.beningo.com/the-biggest-takeaways-from-embedded-world-2025/
#LinuxFoundation #IoT #Zephyr
Jeff Geerling won't connect his dishwasher to your stupid cloud [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_hmwBBPnc
#ycombinator #bosch #home_connect #wifi #iot #internet_of_things #internet_of_shit #enshittification #planned_obscolescence #consumer #rights #privacy #data #app #iphone #android #service #cloud #connected #devices #goods #dishwasher #adora #500 #800 #benchmark #consumer_reports #testing #review #installation
BSI-Bericht: Erhebliche Schwachstellen bei #Fitnesstrackern & Co.
https://www.heise.de/news/BSI-Bericht-Erhebliche-Schwachstellen-bei-Fitness-Trackern-Co-10285313.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag
"Die Experten wählten demnach zehn Produkte für "eine detaillierte Sicherheitsuntersuchung" aus. Darunter waren sechs vernetzte Uhren wie #Smartwatches, drei #FitnessTracker und ein #SmartRing. Die Forscher deckten dabei insgesamt 110 Schwachstellen auf, die sie als "mittel" oder "hoch" einstuften. Keines der Geräte war komplett frei von #Sicherheitslücken."
Ist doch vollkommen egal, wohin man seine persönlichsten (Gesundheits-)Daten schickt. Oder? 
@davidaugust nodds in agreement
The sad part is this isn't even absurd, and I'm convinced people want this garbage since people buy shit worse than #juicero!
@FreeCAD
I made a simple two-part reed switch holder to smartify my gas meter 
Novel Smart Glove for Ride Monitoring in Light Mobility
Zwecks Auffindbarkeit ein paar Hastags dazu:
Untersuchte Hersteller: #Huawei #Sungrow #GinlongSolis #Goodwatt #GoodWe #SMA
Allgemein: #PV #WR #Wechselrichter #Solar #Inverter #SunDown #Forescout #China #Hacker #SmartHome #IoT
https://www.forescout.com/research-labs/sun-down-a-dark-side-to-solar-energy-grids/
@bsi
Recommendations
Manufacturers
Development • Devices: holistic security architecture including secure boot, binary hardening, anti-exploitation features, permission separation etc
• Applications: proper authorization checks on web applications, mobile applications and cloud backends
Testing • Regular penetration testing on applications and devices • Consider bug bounty programs
Monitoring Web Application Firewalls Remember that a WAF does not protect against logical flaws
Users
Residential and commercial users • Change default passwords and credentials • Use role-based access control • Configure the recording of events in a log • Update software regularly • Backup system information • Disable unused features • Protect communication connections
Commercial and utility installations (in addition) •
Include security requirements into procurement considerations
• Conduct a risk assessment when setting up devices • Ensure network visibility into solar power systems • Segment these devices into their own sub-networks • Monitor those network segments
GIVEAWAY ALERT!
Win a FriendlyElec NanoPi R3S – a dual Gbps router powered by Rockchip RK3566! 
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#Microsoft used its #AI-powered #SecurityCopilot to discover 20 previously unknown vulnerabilities in the #GRUB2, #UBoot, and #Barebox #opensource #bootloaders.
GRUB2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default boot loader for most #Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, while U-Boot and Barebox are commonly used in embedded and #IoT devices.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-uses-ai-to-find-flaws-in-grub2-u-boot-barebox-bootloaders/ #ITSec
Banana Pi BPI-CM6 with SpacemiT K1 8 core RISC-V chip,8/16G RAM and 8/16/32G eMMC
https://www.banana-pi.org/en/core-board-and-kit/197.html
#riscv #bananapi #raspberrypi #cm4 #orangepi #iot #industry #automobile
OH on Slack:
PSUs are basically pressure vessels for magic smoke
#maker #hardware #electronics #iot @makers @maker @electronics @iot
Open Source Framework Aims to Keep Tidbyt Afloat - We recently got a note in the tips line from [Tavis Gustafson], who is one of the ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/29/open-source-framework-aims-to-keep-tidbyt-afloat/ #customfirmware #softwarehacks #homehacks #tidbyt #hub75 #iot
"Usefulness is only a byproduct of privacy invasion."
On the "The candid naivety of geeks" by @ploum
"[A] team of researchers recently set out to determine just how much companies like Amazon, Apple and Google are using the data gathered through their voice assistants to profile us –– track and monitor our behavior –– across the internet.
(...)
The study focused on the behaviors of the three biggest voice assistant platforms: Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant. What researchers found was that how concerned you should be about your smart assistant profiling you varies greatly depending on which device you use.
But in order to figure this out, they had to essentially trick voice assistants into profiling them.
They downloaded publicly available information that Google compiles on every user based on their searches, like gender, age range, relationship status and income bracket. Using those labels, they were able to design questions that could easily convince the platforms that they were, for example, married, had children or were a homeowner not a renter.
The researchers then recorded themselves asking these questions and replayed the audio to voice assistants over and over again. Over the course of 20 months, they conducted 1,171 experiments involving nearly 25,000 queries.
(...)
What they ended up finding was that Alexa exhibits the most straightforward kind of profiling behavior: It’s all based on your interest in products.
(...)
However, with Siri and Google Assistant, things are more complicated.
After reaching out to Apple to get their data, the company insisted “they had no data on us,” Choffnes says, “which means we couldn’t even test anything or prove any hypothesis about whether there was any profiling happening.”
(...)
Meanwhile, Google Assistant was the strangest of the bunch. The researchers found that it was clearly profiling its users but often incorrectly."
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/17/voice-assistant-profiling-research/
The internet of things is truly a wonder. 
#dishwasher #parody #iot
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#dotnet #ai #csharp #javascript #dotnetmaui #sqlserver #podcasts #windev #xaml #devops #IoT #agile #m365
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