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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The Infinite Conversation website features a nonstop "chat" between artificial intelligence versions of German director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2022
An exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art explores how video games connect people and create communities.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | November 8, 2022
A new website allows users to sift through 91.7 million computer files from CD-ROM releases and floppy discs dating back to the 1980s.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2022
Researchers at the University of Florida can detect audio deepfakes by measuring acoustic and fluid dynamic distinctions between organic and synthetic voice samples...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2022
Researchers ruled out an algorithm selected by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology as a potential post-quantum encryption program.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2022
A researcher at security firm Intezer identified a new malware that can steal YouTube content creators' authentication credentials.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2022
"These services, never before available, promise the potential for expanding reach to remote and rural areas and facilitating higher quality broadband services...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 8, 2022
Researchers have discovered at least 80 routers in North America and Europe have been infected by a remote access Trojan as part of a larger hacking campaign.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | July 7, 2022
Austrian security researcher Martin Herfurt has demonstrated that electric vehicle company Tesla's updated near-field communication key card can be hacked.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | June 10, 2022
Security researchers have found that the supposedly hard-to-counterfeit digital driver's licenses in use in New South Wales, Australia, actually can be altered...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 25, 2022
Sultan Qasim Khan at U.K.-based security firm NCC Group devised an exploit for unlocking Teslas and countless other devices.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2022
Researchers analyzed the top 100,000 websites and found a significant number record some or all of visitors' typewritten data.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 16, 2022
Apple, Google, and Microsoft are launching a "joint effort" to "expand support for a common password-less sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 9, 2022
Researchers at security firm Nozomi Networks identified an unpatched vulnerability in third-party code libraries used by 200 hardware and software vendors.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 6, 2022
Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Oxford found that iOS apps can still track users without explicit permission.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | April 25, 2022
Apple recently released patches for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities discovered by an anonymous researcher that affect the operating systems of iPhones, iPads...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2022
Researchers in the Shadytel telecommunications and embedded device hacking group used a decommissioned Canadian satellite to broadcast a livestream to the Northern...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2022
A researcher found that Yandex, known as "Russia's Google," embedded code in apps for mobile devices that allows data to be sent to servers in Russia.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | April 4, 2022