Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes(arstechnica.com)

416 points by vintagedave 3 years ago | 154 comments

Ars Technica article on Chamberlain blocking third-party smart home access to its MyQ garage door opener while adding ads to its app.

Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another(arstechnica.com)

200 points by benkan 3 years ago | 138 comments

Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life(arstechnica.com)

93 points by nickthegreek 1 year ago | 24 comments

Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges(arstechnica.com)

216 points by nonfamous 1 month ago | 218 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that a firmware update bricked Samsung smart fridges, leaving owners with spoiled food.

Highly invasive backdoor snuck into open source packages targets developers(arstechnica.com)

6 points by carride 3 years ago | 0 comments

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware(arstechnica.com)

108 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 91 comments