Communications of the ACM
Good Algorithms Make Good Neighbors
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Protecting the 2020 Census
A new framework is being used to secure the 2020 U.S. Census from database reconstruction attacks.
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Investors Urge AI Startups to Inject Early Dose of Ethics
Artificial intelligence startup investors are urging companies to improve their products from an ethical perspective.
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Car Companies Sharpen Focus on Curbing Distracted Driving
Automakers are accelerating initiatives to address distracted driving by equipping vehicles with monitoring technology.
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A Simple Online System That Could End Plastic Pollution
Bounties Network collected tons of garbage from Manila Bay as part of a pilot project that pays a small network of people in digital currency for such trash.
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Fighting Crime on the Dark Web
The Dark Web presents new challenges for law enforcement officials.
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The Wikipedia Gender Gap
Wikipedia, one of the most successful online communities in history, struggles to attract and retain female editors.
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HSM Vulnerabilities Impact Banks, Cloud Providers, Governments
Researchers have discovered vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely to retrieve sensitive data stored inside Hardware Security Modules .
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UTSA Develops Cyber Agility Framework to Measure Network Protection Over Time
Researchers have developed what they’re calling the first quantifiable cyber agility framework for scoring hackers and cybersecurity defenders over time.
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How China's Smart-City Tech Focuses on Its Own Citizens
Deloitte and other sources say China is home to about half the approximately 1,000 smart cities currently under development worldwide.
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How Tech Needs to Change for Coders with Disabilities
Programmers with disabilities continue to face serious accessibility issues.
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Computer Attack Mimics User's Keystrokes, Evades Detection
Researchers have identified a malware technique designed to evade detection via individualized keystroke characteristics.
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The Day Computers Can Break All Encryption Is Coming
With quantum computing advancements threatening to expose all encrypted data, technology companies and security agencies are pursuing projects to preserve information...
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Driverless Congestion
A simulation of Zurich, Switzerland, demonstrated that driverless taxis would not replace personal transportation in cities, as long as private autonomous vehicles...
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Microsoft Quietly Deletes Largest Public Face-Recognition Dataset
Microsoft has deleted its MS Celeb dataset from the Internet.
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Why Should We Care About Technology Ethics? The Updated ACM Code of Ethics
Ethical responsibility is especially critical to artificial intelligence developers, said Catherine Flick of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics.
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Software Vendor May Have Opened a Gap for Hackers in 2016 Swing State
A Florida election software company targeted by Russians in 2016 inadvertently opened a potential pathway for hackers to tamper with voter records in North Carolina...
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Apple macOS Security Protections Easily Bypassed With 'Synthetic' Clicks, Researcher Finds
A researcher found a zero-day vulnerability in a central Apple macOS safeguard, allowing apps or malware to circumvent permissions and access a user's private data...
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Keeping Algorithms Fair
It's easier to de-bias algorithms than it is to de-bias people.
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Vulnerability of Cloud Service Hardware Uncovered
Researchers have found that field programmable gate arrays have vulnerabilities that could be exploited by cyber criminals.
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