Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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Apple launches its own smart home line with LG and Schneider after 12 years of HomeKit
Apple has launched its own smart home line with LG and Schneider, with products starting at $200, The Verge reports. The Verge also says Apple is not addressing cost, a barrier shoppers rank high.
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Schneider Electric reported third-quarter revenue of €11.46 billion, up 16.9% organically, and raised its 2026 targets for the second time. Data-center orders are now about 30% of the total, so more of the outlook rests on hyperscaler budgets.
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Apple introduced six Apple Home devices co-developed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, its first hardware for the platform. Third parties still manufacture them, and The Verge says it has not tested any.
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Apple announced a fourth-gen Apple TV 4K at $299 with far-field microphones and Siri AI, shipping November 13. Siri AI launches in beta, shows answers as text and leans on an iPhone for personal context.
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Siemens publishes 17 ICS advisories with critical flaws in S7-1500 CPUs and Crossbow SAC
Siemens published 17 ICS advisories on Patch Tuesday, with critical flaws in Simatic S7-1500 CPUs, Industrial Edge and Ruggedcom Crossbow SAC. Some are patched; for others Siemens has issued only mitigations.
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Apple's $299 HomeView display arrives Nov. 13 and the $149 HomePod mini 2 arrives Oct. 30, with pre-orders open now. A household can budget the display and speaker today and has to hold a place for the accessories.
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Apple's Home Collection, developed with LG and Schneider Electric, reaches the UK in December with four cameras at £179.95 to £349.95, T3 reported. T3 lists every product under an LG or Schneider Electric name. The range is co-developed gear for Apple Home.
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buildConfirmed12 publishers Apple is preparing HomeView, an A18-powered Siri home hub in countertop and wall-mount versions, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Apple hopes third-party makers will build voice-controlled accessories with the hub as the connection point, according to a dev.to write-up.
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Iran-linked PLC advisory widens past Rockwell, adds code-module tampering checks
CISA and six partner agencies updated AA26-097A on July 22, extending the vendor scope beyond Rockwell and adding detection guidance for tampered reusable code modules.
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Schneider Electric agreed to buy PTC for $22.6 billion in cash, a 42.3% premium at $205 a share. The cost savings it promises cover only part of that premium, so the price depends on PTC's engineering data selling more Schneider software.
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Utilities are pricing data-center demand into electricity rates
New Jersey's utilities board warned power bills could rise up to 20% from June 1, with data centers a key driver. Utilities elsewhere are building the same demand into their pricing, so energy belongs among the costs an operator should expect to climb.
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CISA logged more than 100 compromised water systems in July, typically reached through cellular modems
The controllers that failed in July sat on public cellular links, outside the network boundaries utilities spent years hardening, and the only municipal record of those SIMs is a line on a carrier invoice.
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Attackers changed water plant PLC passwords and IP addresses to lock operators out, CISA says
Gizmodo counts dozens of US water treatment plants attacked since February. The security consortium director it interviewed says the connection itself matters less than what the utility does with the data coming back off the controller.
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A crafted FTP command takes Schneider's Modicon M340 and five communication modules offline
CISA's ICSA-26-260-04 gives fixed firmware for four of the six affected Schneider parts and lists the BMXNGD0100 and BMXNOC0401 as affected in every version, with a remediation plan for those still being written.
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Schneider's PowerChute Serial Shutdown accepts unlimited login guesses when redirect handling is off
CVE-2026-13348 lets an attacker try passwords against the software that shuts servers down gracefully, as fast as the network allows. Schneider fixed it in version 1.6. CISA's advisory lists 1.6 as affected too.
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Restoring a tampered NetBotz backup runs Linux commands on Schneider's data center monitor
Schneider Electric's NetBotz 5 750 and 755 environmental monitors execute operating system commands from a maliciously modified backup file, and firmware 5.6.0 closes that hole along with an authenticated SQL injection.
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buildOne report1 publisher A Smart-UPS self-test runs on battery for about ten seconds every two weeks
The automatic test proves the transfer relay closes and the inverter starts. A worn battery passes that, so measuring your shutdown window means pulling the input cord with the real load attached.
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Schneider tells SCADAPack operators to migrate off Secure Lock after a credential exposure finding
Abhinav Agarwal's report of insufficiently protected credentials covers every version of seven SCADAPack families. Schneider's answer is role-based access control on the 47x line plus network segmentation and the RTU firewall service.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers CISA's advisory describes a mechanism, not a vulnerability: commercial scanners find the exposed PLC, and the agencies say AI tooling closes the distance from found to controlled.
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