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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference...Wired From ACM News | October 2, 2014
John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 8, 2014
Birds are nice enough, unless you work at places like airports, farms, and landfills, in which case they’re the sworn enemy.Wired From ACM Careers | August 27, 2014
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.Wired From ACM News | August 12, 2014
Def Con is one of the world's biggest hacker conventions, an annual gathering of security experts, cryptographers and at least a few people who could surreptitiously...Wired From ACM Careers | August 8, 2014
Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing...Wired From ACM News | July 24, 2014
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the Internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street...Wired From ACM News | July 16, 2014
Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn't mention...Wired From ACM News | July 14, 2014
A study of tools used by law enforcment and intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance on computer and mobile phone users revealed a wide range of functions. ...Wired News From ACM TechNews | June 30, 2014
Newly uncovered components of a digital surveillance tool used by more than 60 governments worldwide provide a rare glimpse at the extensive ways law enforcement...Wired From ACM News | June 24, 2014
Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that’s already one of the hottest new ideas in the world of cloud computing.Wired From ACM News | June 13, 2014
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...Wired From ACM News | May 28, 2014
The B-52 bomber, one of the great stalwarts of America's military arsenal, is getting its first major communications system upgrade since the Kennedy administration...Wired From ACM News | May 23, 2014
Authorities are all but certain Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down in the south Indian Ocean in water that may be as deep as 23,000 feet.Wired From ACM News | March 25, 2014