Wenn #Amazons - Ring-Kameras Daten an die amerikanische Behörden - u.a. #ICE - zur #Überwachung liefern: wie fühlt sich dann eine #Alexa in Eurer Wohnung an?

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon

@9to5Mac

that's an absolute nightmare scenario that will likely result in the same outcome as the rude individuals watching videos or talking to someone on speaker, in public. 🤦 🤮

#VoiceAssistant #VoiceControl #Apple #Siri #Amazon #Alexa

If for some reason you have one of Bezos' Li'l Snitches in your house and it's rolled out the new voice (a lot younger-sounding, kinda creepy), turn to it now, say its name and tell it to "turn off follow-up mode." The new voice wasn't the only change (of course); it now listens actively to the conversation and inserts comments where no one asked for feedback.

Ideally, you'd throw the hockey puck out the window, but maybe you're staying with a relative and just need to shut the thing up without destroying it. This should do the trick.

#Echo #Dot #Amazon #Alexa #spyware

If for some reason you have one of Bezos' Li'l Snitches in your house and it's rolled out the new voice (a lot younger-sounding, kinda creepy), turn to it now, say its name and tell it to "turn off follow-up mode." The new voice wasn't the only change (of course); it now listens actively to the conversation and inserts comments where no one asked for feedback.

Ideally, you'd throw the hockey puck out the window, but maybe you're staying with a relative and just need to shut the thing up without destroying it. This should do the trick.

#Echo #Dot #Amazon #Alexa #spyware

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.

When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

https://disconnect.blog/a-tech-critics-guide-to-holiday-gift-giving/

#tech #christmas #blackfriday #gifts #giftguide #holidays #alexa #generativeai #meta #ring

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.

When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

https://disconnect.blog/a-tech-critics-guide-to-holiday-gift-giving/

#tech #christmas #blackfriday #gifts #giftguide #holidays #alexa #generativeai #meta #ring

Reddit posts with others having the same problem here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/comments/1kzw3nh/tradfriphilips_hue_hardware_incompatibility/

And here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/s/3mOJATMxtM

Seems to have been going on for a couple of years, now. I bought my initial batch of Tradfri GU10s to go with my existing Hue kit about 6 years ago, and they’ve only just started failing (as have the second hand Hue lamps I bought before that).

#ikea #tradfri #zigbee#Hue#Alexa#homeAssistant

I read a forum post that suggested the overnight automatic firmware update from the Hue hub may be the problem, but disabling this hasn’t improved matters at all.

I’m desperate for a solution, as this has effectively broken my smart lighting setup. I can’t afford to replace all the Tradfri bulbs with Hue, but am considering ditching the Hue hub and the last few Hue bulbs I have (unless they can be connected to a Tradfri hub?)

#ikea #tradfri #zigbee#Hue#Alexa#homeAssistant

Headline: #Amazon annihilates #Alexa #privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading

Snippet: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing:

Source: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/#telescreen