‘Our vulnerability makes us strong’ – team LoRa urged to embrace fight and paranoia of open IoT

Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN group The Things Network (TTN) has instructed the IoT community at large to draw strength, as a collective working with open technologies, from its apparent weaknesses as a “vulnerable” loose-knit faction locked in innovation projects.   Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at TTN, said IoT connectivity – along with IoT sensors and IoT…

New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over A Billion Devices

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability residing in the widely-used Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress—apparently powering over a billion devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, routers, and IoT gadgets. Dubbed ‘Kr00k‘ and tracked as CVE-2019-15126, the flaw could let nearby remote attackers intercept and decrypt some wireless network packets transmitted over-the-air…

Industrial alliance forms around telegram-splitting LoRaWAN and NB-IoT-rival MIOTY

A band of research organizations and industrial companies have formed the MIOTY Alliance to promote telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB), commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative  low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology to the likes of LoRaWAN and NB-IoT in the industrial IoT and smart cities markets. MIOTY (a portmanteau of MY IOT) uses the recent TS-UNB specification from…

Virgin Galactic keeps bleeding cash — but says demand for spaceflights has doubled

Virgin Galactic’s latest earning reports confirmed it still doesn’t make any money. But, eager space nerds looking to be shot into (sub)orbit by Richard Branson can now pay a $1,000 deposit, so that’s something. The Mojave-based firm only made $529,000 revenue last quarter, leading to a loss of $55 million, higher than analysts anticipated. The quarter previous…

TOZO T10 Truly Wireless Review

The control scheme on the TOZO T10 is bad. The single button on both buds does the same action and the only music playback controls you get are to pause/play a track. The rest of the controls are related to phone calls and allow you to answer/hang up, reject a call, or redial. This is…