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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
In another era, China’s leaders might have been content to let discussion of the protests in Egypt float around among private citizens, then fizzle out.The New York Times From ACM News | February 1, 2011
This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication....The New York Times From ACM News | January 27, 2011
When military investigators looked into an attack by American helicopters last February that left 23 Afghan civilians dead, they found that the operator of a ...The New York Times From ACM News | January 18, 2011
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories...The New York Times From ACM News | January 18, 2011
Rising use of the Internet has overtaken the main statute governing communication privacy, according to many Web companies and consumer proponents, who say they...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | January 10, 2011
A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.The New York Times From ACM News | January 7, 2011
Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises...The New York Times From ACM News | January 3, 2011
Mississippi had a problem born of the age of soaring student testing and digital technology. High school students taking the state’s end-of-year exams were using...The New York Times From ACM News | December 29, 2010
Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with...The New York Times From ACM News | December 28, 2010
Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. And you enjoy using email.The New York Times From ACM News | December 22, 2010
Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents...The New York Times From ACM News | December 16, 2010
In a world that is always on camera, the centuries-old courtroom experience is becoming a lot more complicated.The New York Times From ACM News | December 9, 2010
A small army of activist hackers orchestrated a broad campaign of cyberattacks on Wednesday in support of the beleaguered antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks,...The New York Times From ACM News | December 8, 2010
As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing why top...The New York Times From ACM News | December 6, 2010
An American provider of Internet domain names withdrew its service to the WikiLeaks Web site late Thursday after a barrage of attacks by hackers threatened to...The New York Times From ACM News | December 3, 2010
QualityHealth is a popular health Web site with more than 20 million registered users that offers online medical information and email newsletters on a variety...The New York Times From ACM News | November 24, 2010
When Oliver Kreylos, a computer scientist, heard about the capabilities of Microsoft's new Kinect gaming device, he couldn’t wait to get his hands on it. "I dropped...The New York Times From ACM News | November 22, 2010
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Commerce Department are planning to release separate and possibly conflicting reports regarding online privacy. Commerce...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2010