A small white light decides whether Meta’s camera glasses can be sold in Germany. Yet Meta’s own documents describe AI modes in which the camera works while the LED stays off. Asked by WeSpeakIoT, the Bundesnetzagentur said it cannot currently communicate an assessment of these functions.
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and security firm Fuzzware showed at USENIX WOOT 2026 that a SIM card can issue commands directly to a device’s modem through the standardised Proactive SIM feature. Nine of 26 devices tested expose this interface – among them six of eight IoT modules.
Anthropic will mark text generated by Claude with an invisible watermark, driven by the EU labelling obligation in force since 2 August 2026. So far none of it is live: no current Claude model meets the commitment. This piece sets out what the technology can do, where it stops, and how Google and OpenAI compare.
A 4G environmental sensor from Seeed Studio, an IoT SIM from Norwegian full MVNO IXT, and a self-built dashboard running on the SenseCraft API: the SenseCAP Combo 5-in-1 measured my greenhouse from mid-May to early August 2026. What held up, where the documentation falls short, and what happened during two brief outages.
The European Commission has published 84 pages of guidance on the Cyber Resilience Act. It clarifies when a cloud backend counts as part of the product, who is liable for embedded open-source components, and when a firmware update triggers the obligations afresh. Six weeks before the reporting duty starts, however, the platform for filing those reports is still missing.
Soracom is rolling out Soracom Agent, an AI assistant meant to support the full IoT project lifecycle, as a technology preview. WeSpeakIoT asked which language model powers it, where customer data is processed, and how GDPR compliance looks for European customers. CTO Kenta Yasukawa responds.
A radio module costing a few euros is enough: security researchers have shown that Hoymiles microinverters in balcony and rooftop solar systems can be detected, switched off, and permanently disabled from several hundred metres away. The cause is an unencrypted radio protocol. An announced patch raises new questions.
A systems architect looks back on three years of production operation for an NB-IoT dog collar: hanging modems, GPS cold starts, risky OTA updates. WeSpeakIoT summarizes the original English-language field report and links to it.
1NCE offers API access to 17 AI models like Claude and Llama with 1NCE AI. Our hands-on test shows: data stays within the EEA, but German-language PII redaction still has gaps — for example with city names like “Halle.”
Anthropic has pushed back the end of free Fable 5 access again, now to July 19, 2026. At the same time OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 Sol at half the input token price. What Anthropic gives as its reason, how the deadlines unfolded, and what the price gap means for developers and IT decision-makers.
