Episode 590 - Hacking the Echo Dot

HomeTech.fm Podcast by Seth Johnson

Sep 25, 202600:48:04Technology

On this week's show: your smart TV is probably spying on you, so we talk through what to turn off and why “just don’t connect it” keeps sounding smarter; Matter 1.6.1 finally locks in Groupcast to help grouped devic...

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