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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 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 tense on-the-ground standoff in Ukraine has already tipped into open hostilities online, with hackers targeting members of parliament and state agencies.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 11, 2014
For the past decade or so, the best defense Getty Images could find against the right-click button on your mouse—home of the "copy" and "save" functions—has been...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 6, 2014
In 2006, Scott Hassan, a prolific software engineer, started a research lab dedicated to robotics called Willow Garage.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 21, 2014
A few times a month, Airbus Flight Test Engineer Patrick du Ché stands up from his desk, takes off his jacket and tie, walks to the coat rack in the corner of his...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | February 14, 2014
Any aspiring science fiction writer looking for a good protagonist could do worse than ripping off the Wikipedia page for Demis Hassabis.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 28, 2014
Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 24, 2014
Joel Flickinger's two-bedroom home in the hills above Oakland, Calif., hums with custom-built computing gear.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 13, 2014
The National Basketball Association announced a contract with sports information company Stats to install player-tracking camera systems in every arena beginning...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 10, 2013
The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | September 9, 2013
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | August 30, 2013
A hacking attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army may have targeted the New York Timesand other U.S. media companies, but the weak link was Melbourne IT (...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 29, 2013
Before heading to lunch, Kirsten Keary-Taylor, 29, uses an iPhone app to request $20 from a nearby ATM. Passing the cash machine on her way out, she scans it with...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 2, 2013
It's official: Americans may freak out when government collects their data to track terrorists, but they would happily have banks use it to catch some jerk trying...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | June 26, 2013