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March 2023


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As Part of Ongoing Effort to Beef Up Cybersecurity, Biden Turns Gaze to Commercial Spyware

As Part of Ongoing Effort to Beef Up Cybersecurity, Biden Turns Gaze to Commercial Spyware

The Biden administration says commercial spyware has proliferated in recent years with few controls and a high risk of abuse.


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For Chip Makers, a Choice Between the U.S. and China Looms

For Chip Makers, a Choice Between the U.S. and China Looms

Washington seeks to steer the semiconductor supply chain using 'guardrails' under the Chips Act.


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Publishers Prepare for Showdown With Microsoft, Google Over AI Tools

Publishers Prepare for Showdown With Microsoft, Google Over AI Tools

Media executives want compensation for use of their content in ChatGPT, Bing and Bard.


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At least 50 U.S. Government Employees Targeted with Phone Spyware Overseas

At least 50 U.S. Government Employees Targeted with Phone Spyware Overseas

White House bans federal agencies from using spyware that poses national security and human rights risks in the U.S.


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Lack of Computer Science Teachers Holding Irish Students Back, says Report

Lack of Computer Science Teachers Holding Irish Students Back, says Report

New research has found that as of August 2022, there were only 34 accredited computer science teachers in Ireland.


From ACM TechNews

Utah Law Could Curb Use of TikTok, Instagram by Children, Teens

Utah Law Could Curb Use of TikTok, Instagram by Children, Teens

Utah's Governor Spencer J. Cox signed a social media bill that could restrict access to applications like TikTok and Instagram by children and adolescents.


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GitHub Launches GPT-4-Powered Copilot Coding Assistant

GitHub Launches GPT-4-Powered Copilot Coding Assistant

Software developer hosting service GitHub launched a new version of its Copilot coding assistant powered by the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) multimodal large language model.


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Robot Caterpillar Demonstrates Locomotion Approach for Soft Robotics

Robot Caterpillar Demonstrates Locomotion Approach for Soft Robotics

North Carolina State University researchers have created a caterpillar-like soft robot that can locomote forward, backward, and duck under cramped areas.


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Humans (Mostly) Love Trash Robots

Humans (Mostly) Love Trash Robots

Simple robots wander NYC asking for trash and recycling, and it's adorable.


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Can a Machine Know That We Know What It Knows?

Can a Machine Know That We Know What It Knows?

Machine learning researchers have struggled over the past couple of decades to capture the flexibility of human knowledge in computer models.


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The Quest for Environmentally Sustainable Materials

The Quest for Environmentally Sustainable Materials

Machine Learning increasingly is being used to aid material discovery, since it can drastically speed up the process


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What If We Could Just Ask AI to be Less Biased?

What If We Could Just Ask AI to be Less Biased?

Plus: ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.


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Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX in a Battle for Satellite Internet Dominance

Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX in a Battle for Satellite Internet Dominance

In its bid to catch up with Starlink, the company plans to build as many as four satellites a day.


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'X-Ray Vision' Could Be the Next Superpower You Get With Augmented Reality

'X-Ray Vision' Could Be the Next Superpower You Get With Augmented Reality

With Microsoft's HoloLens and a special application developed by MIT researchers, AR can be used to find hidden objects.


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VR Is Revolutionizing Therapy. Why Aren't More People Using It?

VR Is Revolutionizing Therapy. Why Aren't More People Using It?

VR therapy has been studied since the 1990s. But as of 2023, we're still talking about its potential.


From ACM TechNews

Crewless Container Ships Appear on the Horizon

Crewless Container Ships Appear on the Horizon

The Norwegian container ship Yara Birkeland eventually will be a crewless vessel that navigates via radar and cameras, feeding sensor data to artificial intelligence to identify obstacles in the water.


From ACM TechNews

Hackers Drain Bitcoin ATMs of $1.5 Million by Exploiting 0-Day Bug

Hackers Drain Bitcoin ATMs of $1.5 Million by Exploiting 0-Day Bug

General Bytes reported that over $1.5 million in bitcoin was drained from Internet-accessible wallets via its bitcoin ATMs by hackers that exploited a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability.


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Gordon Moore, Who Co-Founded Intel, Dies at 94

Gordon Moore, Who Co-Founded Intel, Dies at 94

Intel co-founder and Silicon Valley pioneer Gordon E. Moore has died at 94.

 


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Metaverse Landlords Are Creating a New Class System

Metaverse Landlords Are Creating a New Class System

Virtual landowners have found a way to put their investments to work, but with unintended consequences.


From ACM TechNews

Quantum Computers May Finally Have Practical Use

Quantum Computers May Finally Have Practical Use

Researchers have developed a method for certifying that quantum computers generate truly random numbers without having to inspect the process.


From ACM TechNews

Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons

Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Form of Electrons

University of Texas at Austin researchers mapped polarons, quasiparticles consisting of an electron and its surrounding distortions of atoms in a crystal lattice. through supercomputer simulations.


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Researchers Reveal Inaudible Remote Cyber-Attacks on Voice Assistant Devices

Researchers Reveal Inaudible Remote Cyber-Attacks on Voice Assistant Devices

Researchers developed the Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan to show how hackers can exploit the vulnerabilities of smart device microphones and voice assistants remotely and silently online.


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Mozilla Launches Startup Focused on 'Trustworthy' AI

Mozilla Launches Startup Focused on 'Trustworthy' AI

The creators of large language models say that they're taking steps to curb abuse, but Mozilla felt not enough was being done.


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Yes, ChatGPT Is Coming for Your Office Job

Yes, ChatGPT Is Coming for Your Office Job

White-collar workers may soon face the AI disruption everyone's been panicking about. But the news may be better than you think.


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Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down

Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down

Mastodon is just the start—here comes the Fediverse.


From ACM TechNews

Generative AI's Next Frontier Is Video

Generative AI's Next Frontier Is Video

Startup Runway AI Inc. has rolled out Gen 2, an artificial intelligence model that produces short video clips based on brief user prompts.


From ACM TechNews

Artificial Pancreas Developed at UVA Improves Blood Sugar Control for Kids Ages 2-6, Study Finds

Artificial Pancreas Developed at UVA Improves Blood Sugar Control for Kids Ages 2-6, Study Finds

University of Virginia (UVA) researchers found that the Control-IQ diabetes management system improved blood sugar control in 2- to 6-year-olds with type 1 diabetes.


From ACM TechNews

Bug-Sized Robots Keep Flying After Wing Damage

Bug-Sized Robots Keep Flying After Wing Damage

Artificial muscles created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers can enable insect-sized aerial robots to repair themselves following damage.


From ACM TechNews

Math Answers Behavior of Bat Ears, Inspiring Real-World Upgrade on Batman's Tech

Math Answers Behavior of Bat Ears, Inspiring Real-World Upgrade on Batman's Tech

Bioengineers at Japan's Hiroshima University developed a mathematical model of bat ears' echolocation-related movements to ascertain the optimal pinnae motions that could amplify navigation.


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Capturing What is Said

Capturing What is Said

Artificial intelligence is boosting the capabilities of automatic speech recognition.

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