October 30-November 6, 2026. Three new preprints met the relevance, date, and evidence checks. The strongest result uses evidence-driven scheduling to detect brief human motion with fewer sensing transmissions. Two hardware-oriented studies show that useful motion features can come from fixed 60-GHz communication beams and that a switched four-chain Wi-Fi array may approach an eight-channel reference in simulation. No material standards or regulatory update was verified this week. The commercial signal is lower-complexity sensing; the privacy implication is that lighter sensing paths make continuous ambient inference easier to embed and harder to notice.
October 16–23, 2026 · One new preprint met the relevance, date, and evidence checks. It tests how IEEE 802.11bf-style CSI reporting can preserve activity-recognition performance while sharply reducing feedback overhead. No material new standards, regulatory, or consumer-control update was verified. The week's strongest signal is that commercial sensing efficiency may depend more on retaining frequent observations than on reporting every subcarrier.
October 9–16, 2026 · Three new items met the relevance and evidence checks: a peer-reviewed cross-hardware calibration method, an early Wi-Fi object-detection study, and a large but simulation-only wireless scene-reconstruction paper. No material standards or regulatory change in this window met the inclusion threshold. Archive correction: the previous edition incorrectly said IEEE 802.11bi publication approval was pending; the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board approved it on September 25.
October 2–9, 2026 · Four new papers or analyses met the relevance, date, and evidence checks. The archive also includes the IEEE P802.11bi status item. Correction (October 16): the Standards Association Standards Board had approved P802.11bi for publication on September 25; the earlier text incorrectly said that approval was pending.
September 25–October 2, 2026 · Three items met the relevance, date and evidence checks. New research: self-calibrating passive Wi-Fi tracking across walls and an LLM-controlled one-shot adaptation method for CSI sensing. Meaningful publication update: an open manuscript of a 2026 IEEE letter on authenticating sensing packets against spoofing. Meaningful standards and regulatory updates: none verified for inclusion. The week's strongest signal is that researchers are reducing two deployment costs—site calibration and labeled target data—while beginning to treat sensing signals as security-critical inputs; all three results still depend on bounded experiments or simulation.
September 18–25, 2026 · Three new preprints met the relevance, date and evidence checks. New research: a remote zero-knowledge defense against unauthorized Wi-Fi activity recognition, a multi-user CSI model revised this week, and a 5G CSI augmentation method. Meaningful standards and regulatory updates: none verified for inclusion. The strongest signal is a shift from proving that RF sensing works to handling mixed occupants, scarce training data and active resistance; none of the studies yet demonstrates a consumer-ready product or standardized privacy control.
September 11–18, 2026 · Two items met the relevance, date and evidence checks. New research: one through-wall sensing preprint that became discoverable after the prior edition. Meaningful publication update: one June conference paper received an open arXiv manuscript; its underlying result is not new this week. Standards and regulatory updates: none verified for inclusion. The common signal is broader access to useful sensing inputs, but neither study establishes product-grade performance in occupied homes.
September 4–11, 2026 · First edition. One new publication met the relevance, date and evidence checks. New research: CrossLink, below. Standards and regulatory updates: none verified for inclusion. No newly dated device-free home-sensing performance study or consumer-control revision was verified; older material has not been relabeled as new. This is a selective public-source scan, not proof that no other work appeared.