Episode 563 - Auto-Man

On this week’s show: Ring’s Super Bowl ad fallout keeps getting worse as Search Party, Flock, Axon, and leaked emails raise bigger surveillance questions, Fire TV gets its biggest UI update ever, Eufy promises five-year motion sensors, and Third Reality drops new Zigbee gear. Ubiquiti goes industrial with a new Cloud Gateway, Shelly leaves garage doors wide open (literally), and OpenAI picks up the founder of OpenClaw. All of this, a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!
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Show Notes

• After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions - The Verge (theverge.com/news/881339/after-search-party-ba…)
• Definitely Only for Dogs: Ring's Superbowl Commercial (Parody) (youtube.com/watch?v=ROFblZ_-9q4)
• Ring’s Flock breakup doesn’t fix its real problem - The Verge (theverge.com/report/879320/ring-flock-partners…)
• Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash - The Verge (theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnershi…)
• Ring’s AI-powered Search Party won’t stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows - The Verge (theverge.com/tech/880906/ring-siminoff-email-l…)
• HomeTech Headlines• Fire TV's biggest update ever is here. - amazon.com (amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=215778692011)
• Eufy reveals new smart home motion sensors with incredible battery life - The Ambient (the-ambient.com/news/eufy-reveals-new-smart-ho…)
• Smart Water Leak Sensor WL2 - thirdreality.com (thirdreality.com/product/smart-water-leak-sens…)
• Smart Button ZB2 (x.com/thirdrealityinc/status/2022717475352129809)
• Cloud Gateway Industrial - Ubiquiti Store United States - Ubiquiti Store United States (store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-cloud-gateways…)
• Smart Home Flaw Lets Hackers Open Your Garage Door - TROYPOINT (troypoint.com/smart-home-flaw-lets-hackers-ope…)

• Pic of the Week: Frisbee or Ubiquity? (reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/1qtu283/frisbee…)
• OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI - The Verge (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/879623…)