Sentence:  Google owner Alphabet's subsidiary Nest is closing a smart-home company it bought less than two years ago, leaving customers' devices useless as of May. ... The company declined to share how many customers would be left with <WSD>bricked</WSD> devices as a result of the shutdown. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.