Daily Archives: September 5, 2025

BMW kills home assistant integration access to paid ConnectedDrive API to “protect security”

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Robin Edgar

So you pay hundreds yearly for access to the Connected Drive API. You use Home Assistant to set the charging times of your BMW depending on when the price of electricity is low. BMW shuts you down (no re-imbursement, of … Continue reading →

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18 popular VPNs turn out to belong to 3 different owners – and contain insecurities as well

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Robin Edgar

A new peer-reviewed study alleges that 18 of the 100 most-downloaded virtual private network (VPN) apps on the Google Play Store are secretly connected in three large families, despite claiming to be independent providers. The paper doesn’t indict any of … Continue reading →

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Batshit crazy UK judge rules you can’t be fired for calling your bosses dickheads

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Robin Edgar

Managers and supervisors brace yourselves: calling the boss a dickhead is not necessarily a sackable offence, a tribunal has ruled. The ruling came in the case of an office manager who was sacked on the spot when – during a … Continue reading →

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