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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At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds
Researchers have found that governments worldwide are stepping up their online disinformation campaigns despite more aggressive regulatory efforts by Internet platforms...
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Hackers Say They Took Over Vote Scanners Like Those Coming to Georgia
A report from the DEF CON Voting Machine Hacking Village conference described the discovery of a hack for commandeering ballot-scanning machines similar to those...
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Fending Off Digital Sabotage
Sabotage-resistant industrial machinery combats Stuxnet-like attacks.
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Google's Smart-City Plans 'Tech for Tech's Sake'
An independent panel criticized a smart-city development planned by Google's Sidewalk Labs unit on Toronto's waterfront, citing innovations as being more about...
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Algorithm Can Distinguish Cyberbullies from Normal Twitter Users with 90% Accuracy
Machine learning algorithms developed by a team of Binghamton University researchers can differentiate bullies and aggressors on Twitter from normal users with...
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Hacking the Smart Home via the Internet of Things
A group of researchers uncovered implementation flaws in Internet of Things devices.
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Smile-to-Pay: Chinese Shoppers Turn to Facial Payment Technology
China is embracing facial payment technology, which allows consumers to purchase goods simply by posing in front of point-of-sale machines equipped with cameras...
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Popular Mobile Games Can Detect Cognitive Decline
Researchers have found that popular mobile phone games can be used as a tool to help doctors identify early signs of cognitive decline.
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Cloud-Based Tool Provides Clear Communication for Disaster Situations
A new self-contained communication tool provides support for first-responders from separate organizations operating in a disaster situation.
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Head in the Clouds
Brain-computer interfaces, like so much else, may be migrating to the cloud.
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The Next Hot Job: Pretending to Be a Robot
Many robotic systems are not fully autonomous and require, at the very least, humans monitoring them from afar.
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British Farm Moo-ves into New Tech with 5G Collars on Cows
Researchers at the Agricultural Engineering Precision Innovation Center in the U.K. are testing next-generation 5G mobile technology aimed at helping make dairy...
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Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies at 69
In the early 1990s, Floyd was one of the inventors of Random Early Detection, which continues to play a vital role in the stability of the internet.
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Stretchable Wireless Sensor Could Monitor Healing of Cerebral Aneurysms
Researchers have developed a wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain.
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Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking
Google researchers discovered thousands of iPhones have been compromised with sophisticated spyware over the last two years, contradicting assumptions about the...
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French Researcher Hacks into Moscow's New E-Voting System
A French cryptographer has exposed a security flaw in an electronic voting system to be used in this month's municipal elections in Moscow.
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AI Analysis Gives Guidance to Crisis Counselors
Researchers used state-of-the-art natural language processing to learn how the language employed by crisis counselors systematically changes over time
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Smart Cities Need to Spend More on Security Tech, Study Suggests
A new study predicts 44% of the $135 billion projected to be spent in 2024 to secure critical city infrastructure against hackers will be invested in data safeguards...
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Facebook's New Tool Lets You See Which Apps, Websites Tracked You
Researchers at Facebook have developed a tool that lets users better see and control the information the company has collected about their browsing habits outside...
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