Communications of the ACM
Cyberlaw: Where We Are and What's On the Horizon
Legislating for cyberspace means establishing new legal frameworks and rethinking existing ones. The global picture is mixed.
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Facebook Reveals Broad Takedown of Global Disinformation Networks
The takedowns described in the company's monthly threat report demonstrate how the cat-and-mouse game between Facebook and bad actors is escalating.
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Most Cryptocurrency Trades May Be People Buying from Themselves
As many as seven in 10 cryptocurrency trades on popular exchanges worldwide may involve people purchasing from themselves to inflate prices artificially.
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Investors Snap Up Metaverse Real Estate in a Virtual Land Boom
Transactions for properties in digital realms are jumping, guided by the same principle in the physical world: location, location, location.
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AI Technique Reveals We Might Not Know Half of What's in Our Cells
A team of researchers combined microscopy, biochemistry, and artificial intelligence to identify previously unknown components of human cells.
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Chip Hides Wireless Messages in Plain Sight
Princeton University researchers have developed a millimeter-wave wireless microchip that can thwart interception of wireless transmissions.
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Twitter's Jack Dorsey Steps Down as CEO
Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal to replace Dorsey atop social-media company effective immediately.
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Can a Free Internet Survive?
Internet freedom is eroding on two fronts: the sheer number of efforts to block access to legitimate information, and the level of sophistication used.
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Smithsonian African American Museum Launches Online Interactive Access
The new 'Searchable Museum' will bring a trove of artifacts, stories, and images to the Internet.
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We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How
Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.
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Trouble at the Source
Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.
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The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality
A heads-up look at augmented reality head-up displays.
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What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
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Apple's Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started
When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.
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Researchers Use AI to Create Better VR Experiences
Stanford University researchers have combined optics and artificial intelligence to improve holographic displays for virtual and augmented reality experiences. ...
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UCI Invention Lets People Pay with a High-Five
A battery-free body area network integrates advanced metamaterials into flexible textiles to facilitate communication between garments and nearby devices.
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Ransomware Hackers Have the Upper Hand
Hackers put companies under intense pressure to pay ransoms quickly to get their computers systems back online.
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What Caused the Facebook Outage?
Why was the social media service and its related properties out of service for hours, frustrating users and Facebook engineers alike?
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Why Facebook Won't Let You Control Your Own News Feed
Lawmakers want social networks to offer users a chronological timeline. Leaked documents help to explain why Facebook doesn't.
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When Finnish Researchers Took On the Twitter Trolls
A nation's scientists took to social media in response to criticism of their research, with surprising results. Sami Syrjämäki describes what happened.
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