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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Porn sites are among the top users of a browser bug that reveals all the places people go online, finds research.BBC News From ACM News | December 3, 2010
Detailed analysis of the code in the Stuxnet worm has narrowed the list of suspects who could have created it.BBC News From ACM News | November 19, 2010
European Union (EU) member states need to do more to prepare for cyberattacks, concludes a report of Cyber Europe 2010, a simulation of how EU countries would react...BBC News From ACM TechNews | November 12, 2010
With a global economy and flights that can take you all over the world in hours, why is it that we still struggle with a language barrier that technology is finding...BBC News From ACM News | November 10, 2010
Months after releasing some 90,000 secret records of U.S. military incident and intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan, Wikileaks has posted online...BBC News From ACM News | October 26, 2010
It is a remarkable acrobatic display. Two German radar satellites are now flying in tight formation as they prepare to make the most detailed ever 3D map of the...BBC News From ACM News | October 19, 2010
Microsoft researcher Scott Charney recently presented an Internet security proposal that requires users to present a "health certificate" to prove that their PCs...BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2010
On-board computers and sensors in cars are helping to augment a person's driving skill and that trend will only continue as technologies such as collision-detection...BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 22, 2010
The Information Technology Industry Council, representing leading technology industry firms, recently held a closed-door meeting to discuss the future of the open...BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2010
"To Google" has become a universally understood verb, and many countries are developing their own Internet slang. But is the Web changing language, and is everyone...BBC News From ACM News | August 18, 2010
The private browsing modes on modern browsers leak information about where people have visited, suggests a study.BBC News From ACM News | August 6, 2010
A report based on analysis of huge amounts of net traffic has revealed the state of the Internet around the globe.BBC News From ACM News | July 28, 2010
Researchers are developing novel computers by mimicking the way that neurons are built and how they talk to each other.BBC News From ACM News | July 23, 2010
More than a billion mobile phone connections have been added to the global tally in just 18 months, according to Wireless Intelligence.BBC News From ACM News | July 9, 2010
In 2007, Estonia was the subject of a series of cyber attacks which crippled the Internet across the country. Banks, government departments and the national media...BBC News From ACM News | June 17, 2010
Moves to make the web's address system more secure will take a major step forward next month. In the planning for a decade, the Domain Name System Security Extentions...BBC News From ACM News | June 15, 2010
In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol declared that in the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes. As with many other predictions, it has not quite turned...BBC News From ACM News | June 10, 2010