Amazon announces Astro the home robot

Astro can patrol the home when you’re not there, or be remotely controlled.

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So not only can they listen to what’s going on (“Hey Alexa, plug your ears!”), they can look too. And move around to poke into things. Great. I’d love to see a writeup on the security of these things.

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So true Dave! :lol:

I don’t own any smart speakers and don’t use Siri either. I am not even a fan of Face ID and wish Apple would return to touch ID for their pro devices (so I can just cam jammers like I do on my MBP and Monitor).

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Pulseaudio is the backend of my networked speakers, lol.

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