Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
From ACM NewsAllyn Jackson Commissioned by CACM Staff| January 31, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Delivery robot manufacturer Starship Technologies recently expanded its robot-based food delivery services to two additional campuses.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 29, 2021
Researchers at French security company NinjaLab found a vulnerability impacting chips used in Google Titan and YubiKey hardware security keys.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 19, 2021
The Defense Digital Service and HackerOne are calling on military and civilian hackers to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the U.S. Army's computer systems...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2021
Cybersecurity firm Check Point found a 45% increase in cyberattacks against the global healthcare sector since November, versus a 22% uptick against all worldwide...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2021
With the runaway success of the new ARM-based M1 Macs, non-x86 architectures are getting their closeup. RISC-V is getting the most attention from system designers...ZDNet From ACM News | January 12, 2021
Cloud-based corporate information technology spending should expand in the coming years, as businesses transition more applications and services, says Gartner.
...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | November 24, 2020
Each subscriber gets eight or sixteen hours per month of dedicated time with Honeywell scientists to run algorithms on the trapped-ion hardware.
ZDNet From ACM News | October 30, 2020
Security researchers at NVISO Labs discovered a malware gang is using a .NET library to create malicious Excel files.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2020
U.K. science minister Amanda Solloway says Britain's first commercial quantum computer, supported by government and industry, will be available for use by businesses...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2020
Researchers have developed a "smart ear" to help prevent fatal collisions involving elephants and trains in India.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2020
U.K. cybersecurity firm Sophos is advising MSSQL database owners to fortify their servers against botnet-orchestrated brute-force attacks.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2020
Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Center and quantum computing startup Quantum Brilliance have announced a quantum-supercomputing innovation hub.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | June 4, 2020
Academics have developed a technique for stealing data from air-gapped systems by manipulating the vibrations of the fans inside computers.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | April 17, 2020
Extensive mitigations deployed during the last six years have failed to eliminate modern random-access memory (RAM) cards' vulnerability to Rowhammer exploits.
...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | March 13, 2020
Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program to all researchers and outlined the program's rules on its website. The maximum available bounty is $1.5 million...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | December 27, 2019