Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Australia's new Quantum-Supercomputing Innovation Hub, CSIRO Roadmap
Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Center and quantum computing startup Quantum Brilliance have announced a quantum-supercomputing innovation hub.
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Academics Steal Data From Air-Gapped Systems Using PC Fan Vibrations
Academics have developed a technique for stealing data from air-gapped systems by manipulating the vibrations of the fans inside computers.
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Crypto-Mining Botnet Has Been Hijacking MSSQL Servers for Almost Two Years
A malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL databases for nearly two years.
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Modern RAM Still Vulnerable to Rowhammer Attacks
Extensive mitigations deployed during the last six years have failed to eliminate modern random-access memory (RAM) cards' vulnerability to Rowhammer exploits. ...
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Apple Opens Public Bug Bounty Program, Publishes Rules
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...
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Most Brazilians Believe Companies Don't Protect Their Personal Data
Among the findings of a Harris Poll survey of 11,000 consumers in 11 countries was that nearly all Brazilians feel companies are not adequately protecting their...
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Python Programming Language, AWS Skills Demand Exploding
Analysis of Indeed.com job search engine listings over the last five years found explosive growth in demand for skills in Python.
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World's Fastest Supercomputers Hit Higher Speeds with Linux
The latest Top500 supercomputer ratings found the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit system topping the list with a High-Performance Linpack benchmark of 148...
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Canberra Gives AU$32m for Autonomous Decision-Making Research
The Australian government is allocating AU$31.8 million (about US$21.5 million) to the Australian Research Council to study responsible, ethical, and inclusive...
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Cybersecurity Giants to Combat Cyberthreats Under OASIS Umbrella
IBM, McAfee, and 16 more firms have launched an effort to address fragmentation and interoperability problems in cybersecurity.
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La Trobe University Swaps Textbooks for VR, AR
La Trobe University will swap out textbooks for augmented reality and virtual reality to teach anatomy as part of a 12-week pilot program.
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Academics Find Vulnerabilities in Android's VoIP Components
Scientists at China's OPPO ZIWU Cyber Security Lab, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Singapore Management University identified eight flaws in Android's...
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Intel Server-Grade CPUs Impacted by New NetCAT Attack
Researchers have described a new exploit targeting Intel central processing units that support Data-Direct I/O Technology and Remote Direct Memory Access features...
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One in Five U.K. Schools Says Students Have Broken Into Computer Systems
A cybersecurity audit found 21% of 430 U.K. schools had their computers, networks, or servers hacked by students.
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COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All
In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed.
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Neuromorphic Computing Finds New Life in Machine Learning
Researchers are working to resolve the fact that spiking neurons currently have no way that they can be trained via gradient descent—the basis of conventional machine...
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Petaflop Systems Dominate the Supercomputer Landscape
For the first time, every entry in this year's TOP500 list delivers petaflop-level capabilities.
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Academics Hide Humans From Surveillance Cameras With 2D Prints
Researchers have developed a technique of using simple two-dimensional images to render wearers invisible to surveillance cameras.
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NSW, Sydney ni Join Quantum Powers to Prove Qubit Theory
Researchers in Australia are combining their quantum computing powers, uniting methods designed by researchers at each university to prove their feasibility.
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