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2026 has been a challenging year for router manufacturers, as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has imposed strict scrutiny and outright bans on leading companies. In a gesture of leniency, the FCC has issued 'conditional approvals' to firms that have met all necessary requirements, a

The CERT/CC, a U.S. government-backed cybersecurity group at Carnegie Mellon University, disclosed a firmware flaw in several Tenda networking devices on July 6 that allows attackers to gain full administrative access without valid credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11405, is an und

The global chip shortage is no longer limited to smartphones but is now affecting a broad range of consumer electronics, including routers, smart home devices, and IoT products. The root cause lies in the surge in demand for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) driven by AI, which has led memory manufacturer

At Computex 2026 in Taipei, MSI unveiled its latest lineup of WiFi 7 gaming routers to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The new routers, featuring the company's RadiX branding, include three models: the flagship BE19000, which supports up to 19 Gbps speeds with MLO (Multi-Link Operation) across 2.4,

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated that ordinary Wi-Fi routers can be used to identify individuals with 99.5% accuracy by leveraging beamforming feedback information (BFI), a feature introduced in Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac). Unlike previous methods relyin