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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.
DefCon, the conference where hackers and the people who monitor them get together to trade the latest in hacking and tracking data, had some new attendees: children...The Washington Post From ACM News | August 9, 2011
Atlanta entrepreneur Mike Mondelli has access to more than a billion records detailing consumers’ personal finances—and there is little they can do about it.The Washington Post From ACM News | July 21, 2011
The nation’s second-ranking military official said Thursday that the U.S. approach to protecting its computer systems was "too predictable" and failed to penalize...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 15, 2011
At the most recent Zhuhai air show, the premier event for China's aviation industry, crowds swarmed around a model of an armed, jet-propelled drone and marveled...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 13, 2011
As Fort Meade increasingly becomes a stronghold for federal cybersecurity, Maryland officials and business advocates are trying to take advantage of what they...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 6, 2011
The Google Ideas think tank has gathered 80 former radicals, including ex-neo-Nazis, Muslim extremists, and U.S. gang members, to brainstorm ways technology can...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | June 27, 2011
The Pentagon has developed a list of cyber-weapons and -tools, including viruses that can sabotage an adversary’s critical networks, to streamline how the United...The Washington Post From ACM News | June 2, 2011
For weeks, Syrian democracy activists have used Facebook and Twitter to promote a wave of bold demonstrations. Now, the Syrian government and its supporters are...The Washington Post From ACM News | May 23, 2011
President Obama has released an international strategy for cyberspace security that focuses on developing rules for responsible state behavior with the goal of...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2011
Netflix streaming videos drove nearly 30% of all North American broadband Internet traffic during peak hours, with consumers continuing their voracious appetite...The Washington Post From ACM News | May 18, 2011
When Scott Fitzsimones turned 13, he got an iPhone, set up accounts for Facebook and Pandora and went on an apps downloading spree. At the same time, the new...The Washington Post From ACM News | May 9, 2011
According to his Twitter stream @reallyvirtual, Sohaib Athar moved from Lahore, Pakistan to the resort town of Abbottabad to take a break from the rat race. It...The Washington Post From ACM News | May 2, 2011
Japan's focus on building humanoid robots that perform tasks that humans can already do, instead of building robots that can go where humans cannot, has made it...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | March 28, 2011
A day after AT&T announced it would buy T-Mobile USA to create the biggest wireless carrier in the country, consumer advocates and some members of Congress blasted...The Washington Post From ACM News | March 22, 2011
The Obama administration may not be lending arms to dissidents in the Middle East, but it is offering aid in another critical way: helping them surf the Web anonymously...The Washington Post From ACM News | March 14, 2011
In an underground chamber near the Iranian city of Natanz, a network of surveillance cameras offers the outside world a rare glimpse into Iran's largest nuclear...The Washington Post From ACM News | February 16, 2011
The suspect's house, just west of this city, sat on a hilltop at the end of a steep, exposed driveway. Agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety believed...The Washington Post From ACM News | January 25, 2011
For a very long while, knowledge was privileged and so were books, and only privileged people had access to either. Then came printing presses and libraries,...The Washington Post From ACM News | January 13, 2011
The NFL is turning to technology to both measure and mitigate pro football's effect on players' brains, pushing into unexplored territory as officials try to...The Washington Post From ACM News | January 11, 2011
Contests for innovation are back in vogue and are a major component of the Obama administration's agenda for federal government support of private-sector R&D. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2011