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How to take back control of your smart home when the cloud fails

While it defeats the purpose of having smart, voice-activated devices in our home, if the cloud isn’t controlling your ...
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I Tried Running My Smart Home Without the Cloud—Here's What Happened

Just like a home made from bricks and mortar, laying a solid foundation for your smart home will reward you in the long run. That’s why I decided that my smart home would not be reliant on the cloud ...
Macworld

‘Ongoing’ data breach forces Western Digital to shut down My Cloud service

Owners of Western Digital’s My Cloud network-attached storage (NAS) devices are unable to use the My Cloud service and access their devices due to a hacker attack. The attack was identified on March ...
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Western Digital struggles to fix massive My Cloud outage, offers workaround

On Friday, five days into a massive outage impacting its cloud services, Western Digital finally provided customers with a workaround to access their files. Since April 2nd, the outage has prevented ...
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Western Digital’s My Cloud is still down, but there’s a workaround

Certain device owners can use a ‘Local Access’ feature to retrieve their data while the cloud remains down. Certain device owners can use a ‘Local Access’ feature to retrieve their data while the ...