Episode 568 - Smart Home, Dumb Ads

On this week's show: Josh.ai takes smart homes to a whole new level of language learning, Amazon’s Alexa+ crosses the pond with a serious accent, Telus launches an all-Canadian AI butler, and Hisense decides you need ads with your HDMI inputs. The FCC bans foreign-made routers (so, almost all of them), and Brava joins the long list of smart gadgets that got cooked by their own cloud. All this, a pick of the week, project updates, and so much more!
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Show Notes

• HomeTech Headlines• Josh.ai Keynote 2026: Home in Harmony Showcases a New Era of Adaptive Home Control - josh.ai (josh.ai/stories/joshai-keynote-2026-home-in-ha…)
• Amazon's Alexa+ Assistant Launches in the UK - thurrott.com (thurrott.com/a-i/334071/amazons-alexa-assistan…)
• Telus Launches New AI Smart Home Assistant to Control Thousands of Devices | iPhone in Canada - iphoneincanada.ca (iphoneincanada.ca/2026/03/20/telus-launches-ne…)
• Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing | Tom's Hardware - Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/hisens…)
• Another smart oven shuts down. - The Verge (theverge.com/tech/897277/another-smart-oven-sh…)
• The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US | The Verge - theverge.com (theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ba…)

• Pick of the Week GitHub - danielwoz/ubiquiti-protect-onvif-event-listener: A binary that listens to the configured third party cameras for detection events and sets up ubiquiti protect events with thumbnails. · GitHub - github.com (github.com/danielwoz/ubiquiti-protect-onvif-ev…)