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Microsoft is planning to allow fridges, toasters, thermostats, and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices to access Cortana. The software giant is bringing Cortana to IoT devices with its Windows 10 Creators Update, due in March next year. ZDNet spotted a presentation about the plans at...

One assessment of the Internet of Things (IoT) is that 2016 has been a bad year. Its woes aren’t hard to locate from the infamous Mirai botnet that led a collection of webcams, PVRs and surveillance cameras to summon up the biggest DDoS in history to a growing unease over privacy. Now, just...

Chinese electronic firm Hangzhou XiongMai (XM) says it will recall some of its IoT devices, including webcams, after claims that they were widely exploited by malicious hackers that launched a massive denial-of-service attack on Friday October 21st. The distributed denial-of-service attack...