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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.
ACM A.M. Turing award recipient Geoffrey Hinton envisions a "mortal" neuromorphic computer combining hardware and software.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2022
Semiconductor giant Intel claims its FakeCatcher technology can detect whether videos are genuine or deepfakes with 96% accuracy in real time.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | November 18, 2022
Singapore and Germany have agreed to mutually recognize their respective smart computer product cybersecurity rating labels.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2022
The software giant details how hackers are using easily available tools and non-existent job offers to trick developers and IT workers.
ZDNet From ACM News | September 30, 2022
Fundamental problems elude many strains of deep learning, says LeCun, including the mystery of how to measure information.
ZDNet From ACM News | September 28, 2022
Researchers discovered the Syslogk Linux rootkit delivers a backdoor trojan hides on a targeted machine until triggered.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2022
All individuals transacting in Bitcoin are within six degrees or fewer of separation from a core group, say researchers.
ZDNet From ACM News | June 10, 2022
A study of 164 government-endorsed education technology products found 146 endangered children's privacy by collecting and selling their data to ad tech companies...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | June 1, 2022
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ZDNet From ACM News | May 27, 2022
Researchers found that a bug in Zyxel firewalls that could enable unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2022
Researchers at cybersecurity software company SentinelOne reported two high-severity bugs in Avast and AVG antivirus products that have gone undetected for a decade...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | May 9, 2022
A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus....ZDNet From ACM News | March 28, 2022
Researchers have designed a new version of the Mini Cheetah robot that can achieve high running speeds more efficiently than its predecessors.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | March 18, 2022
An approach that uses hours of video and elements of reinforcement learning can guide a robot vehicle almost two miles without a full map of the surroundings.
ZDNet From ACM News | February 25, 2022
IonQ and DoE are trying to create a stable, domestic pipeline for sourcing the barium qubits used in quantum processors built by IonQ.
ZDNet From ACM News | February 22, 2022