Agents at Home
The $1.87 Billion Blind Spot in Your Nursery
A massive security audit at DEF CON 34 reveals that your smart camera isn't just watching your home-it's broadcasting it to anyone with a wildcard.
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The Skeleton Key in Your Router: How ENDLESSDOORS Turns Every Smart Home Device Into a Liability
A factory-shipped backdoor in 100,000+ consumer routers proves the smart home trust model has an infrastructure problem no software update can fix.
◆ Mila Cohen
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Agents at Home
When Hackers and AI Agents Share the Same Trick: The Trust Paradox Behind the Brinks Home Breach
ShinyHunters exploited voice-based trust to steal 4.9 million records. Now the industry is building AI calling features that depend on the exact same vulnerability.
◆ Mila Cohen
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Agents at Home
The Death of the Advanced Toggle: Why Your Smart Home is Finally Coming Home
Home Assistant 2026.8 is ditching the complexity, betting that the future of your living room isn't in the cloud — it's on your local network.
◆ Mila Cohen
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The Permission Gap: Why Your AI Agent Is Still an Uninvited Guest
We are being told the AI agent revolution is a feature problem. It isn't. It's a consent problem, and the market is already pushing back.
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The Roomba’s Glass Ceiling: How the FCC’s New Robot Ban Hits iRobot’s Chinese Ownership
The 4.4-pound wall: How the FCC's new foreign robot ban turns America's most recognizable home robot brand—now Chinese-owned—into a legacy device with an expiration date.
◆ Mila Cohen
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Agents at Home
Apple’s Home Hub and the Ambient Biometric Trap
As Apple prepares to launch its new smart home display, a looming legal tension threatens to turn its privacy-first philosophy into a liability nightmare.
◆ Mila Cohen
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Agents at Home
Your Doorbell Is Collecting Faceprints From Everyone Who Walks By — And Three Lawsuits Say That’s Illegal
Three class-action lawsuits target AI faceprint collection from doorbell cameras — and the consent gap means every delivery worker, neighbor, and stranger gets scanned without opting in.
◆ Mila Cohen
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Agents at Home
Google Just Put a Price Tag on Your Camera’s Ability to See
The new 'Ask Home' video search feature is locked behind a $20/month subscription, establishing the first major pricing proxy for agent perception—and raising fresh questions about who gets to see, who gets to search, and what the tiering structure reveals about how Google is monetizing agentic awareness.
◆ Mila Cohen
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Agents at Home
Amazon Is Turning Your Living Room Into a Checkout Counter
Alexa+ adopts the Model Context Protocol and Wallet voice checkout, transforming smart home devices into frictionless commerce surfaces—and raising fresh questions about trust, control, and the cost of convenience.
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