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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.
Amid a seemingly incessant deluge of leaks and hacks, Washington, DC staffers have learned to imagine how even the most benign email would look a week later on...Wired From ACM News | October 18, 2016
Something funny happens when your computer or phone can’t display a font: A blank rectangular box pops up in place of the missing glyph.Wired From ACM News | October 7, 2016
In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as "black box" systems:...Wired From ACM News | October 4, 2016
This summer, the Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days.Wired From ACM News | September 23, 2016
Online forums and social media platforms are havens for trolls and bullies who launch campaigns of harassment can lead to the self-censorship of the people they...Wired From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2016
A cellphone makes a convenient detonator for an improvised explosive device. But it's also one of the most conveniently trackable devices under the eye of American...Wired From ACM News | September 19, 2016
More than six months have passed since the FBI first ordered Apple to help the agency bypass the encryption on the iPhone 5c of Rizwan Syed Farook, an ISIS supporter...Wired From ACM News | September 19, 2016
Google has built a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field.Wired From ACM News | September 9, 2016
Artificial intelligence software developed by researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas can accurately predict breast cancer risk. Wired.co.uk From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2016
Apple's refusal to comply with a court order to help the FBI crack an iPhone highlighted the pressure tech companies face to include backdoors in their software...Wired From ACM News | August 15, 2016
In 2013, when University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia and a team of researchers were preparing to reveal a vulnerability that allowed them todelayed...Wired From ACM News | August 12, 2016
History will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death...Wired From ACM News | August 10, 2016
When cybersecurity researchers showed in recent years that they could hack a Chevy Impala or a Jeep Cherokee to disable the vehicles' brakes or hijack their steering...Wired From ACM News | August 3, 2016
This week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be "rigged." Last month, Russia decided to take an active role in...Wired From ACM News | August 2, 2016