The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has asked for a report on using artificial intelligence to analyze prison inmates' phone calls to help prevent violent crime...Reuters From ACM TechNews | August 11, 2021
Officials in the town of Sitges in northeastern Spain are using drones for real-time crowd monitoring along 18 km of beach as COVID-19 cases rise.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2021
The EU Commission is expected to award a contract soon for a central system to verify "digital green passes" for those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19...Reuters From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2021
Several U.S. banks are rolling out artificial intelligence systems to analyze customer preferences, monitor employees, and detect suspicious activity near ATMs....Reuters From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2021
The White House has advised computer network operators to further efforts to determine whether their systems were targeted by an attack on Microsoft's Outlook email...Reuters From ACM TechNews | March 8, 2021
Researchers discovered that code first developed by the U.S. National Security Agency has been used to support Chinese hacking operations.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | March 2, 2021
An analysis by PiiQ Media found that bots on major social media platforms have been hyping up GameStop and other meme stocks.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2021
The Louisiana National Guard has been called in to investigate a series of cyberattacks aimed at small government offices across the state.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | October 28, 2020
The U.S. National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation have publicly exposed a sophisicated hacking tool that Russian intelligence used to penetrate...Reuters From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2020
A study by the American Automobile Association found that current advanced driver assistance technology does not provide reliable safety benefits.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2020
The European Union has announced sanctions against the Russian military intelligence service, and North Korean and Chinese companies, for alleged cyberattacks.
...Reuters From ACM TechNews | August 4, 2020
A student at the U.K.'s University of Birmingham has been unmasked as fictional by state-of-the-art forensic analysis programs from Israel-based startup Cyabra....Reuters From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2020
Apple and Google said they would not allow the use of location tracking in apps using their new contact tracing system to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus...Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 12, 2020
Cybersecurity officials in the U.S. and the U.K. warn that state-backed hackers and cybercriminals are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | April 16, 2020
The U.S. government intends to launch a program to shield voter registration databases and systems from hackers ahead of the 2020 election.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2019
IBM and a number of other multinational corporations have jointly developed a new blockchain network, with the goal of improving manual and cumbersome supply chain...Reuters From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2019
A review of 33 projects involving large companies and interviews with more than a dozen executives show that blockchain technology has yet to deliver on its promise...Reuters From ACM News | July 17, 2019
More than 40 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are supporting principles to improve the transparency of artificial intelligence...Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 29, 2019