Tag: smart home

• Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home

  August 9, 2025

  For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and… more ›

• Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

  March 15, 2025

  If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that… more ›

• What matters about Matter, the new smart home standard

  November 21, 2022

  Matter is a common language for smart home devices designed to simplify everything about the smart home, from purchase to setup and everyday use. Its biggest promise is making smart… more ›

• Matter Takes Shape with Launches from Amazon, Samsung, and More

  November 3, 2022

  The Connected Standards Alliance and its members took to Amsterdam Thursday to showcase Matter, a newly-released universal smart home standard that promises to simplify the connected home. https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/matter-takes-shape-with-launches-from-amazon-samsung-and-more/ more ›