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theregister.com > 02/23/2026 > ring_bounty

Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (381+ words) If the sour taste has still not left your mouth after Ring's Super Bowl ad, there is a $10,000 prize for anyone who can find a security flaw in the company's cameras. The bounty was launched by the Fulu Foundation, a…...

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theregister.com > 02/13/2026 > ring_flock_partnership

Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (668+ words) Ring has cut ties with Flock, citing resource constraints, mere months after the pair announced a partnership. The pair spoke of their intention to work together on Ring's Community Requests feature back in October, but Ring said this week the…...

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theregister.com > 01/27/2026 > 40_years_voyager_2_uranus

Voyager 2's close encounter with Uranus wasn't in the plan

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (518+ words) It is 40 years since Voyager 2 performed the first and, so far, only flyby of the planet Uranus. The resulting trove of data, however, was a bonus that almost didn't happen. At the time of Voyager 2's launch, Uranus wasn't part…...

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theregister.com > 01/07/2026 > ring_cameras_wildfire

Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (652+ words) A year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon's Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to mitigate future wildfire risk. Introduced in conjunction with CES 2026, Fire Watch is a feature in…...