Communications of the ACM
Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.
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Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
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Do the Right Thing
Exploring the intersection of legal compliance and ethical judgment.
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Faculty Can Save Lives of the Elderly
A unique viewpoint on risks to senior citizens from academia.
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Improving Section 230, Preserving Democracy, and Protecting Free Speech
Proposing a framework for a decentralized market where no one party controls the flow of information.
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A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance
Technologists who understand and measure cyber risk can motivate policyholders to improve security.
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A Legal Challenge to Algorithmic Recommendations
Reconsidering liability shield considerations.
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An Emergent Legal Right to Repair Electronic Devices
Parsing the fine print on repair tolerances.
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Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet?
How a single Texas ruling could change the Web forever.
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These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For
Considering copyright licensing issues involving non-fungible tokens to manage creative works.
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Apple's Challenge to Virtualization Software
Is it okay for security researchers to virtualize software to look for vulnerabilities?
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Why Robots Need to See
Cameras and vision-based perception will increasingly serve as the technological underpinning for mobile robots going forward.
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Two Paths for Digital Disability Law
Understanding the legal drivers of efforts to make technology accessible.
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Communications' Digital Initiative and Its First Digital Event
How AI and science are shaping each other.
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Russia Is Risking the Creation of an Irreversible 'Splinternet'
If Russia disconnects—or is booted—from the Internet's governing bodies, the Internet may never be the same.
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The Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
The cloud is not only material but also an ecological force
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Futures of Digital Governance
Seeking to increase the interoperability among the technical and social sciences toward new forms of governance associated with digital technology.
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Copyright Implications of Emulation Programs
How emulation programs might be affected by new claims of copyright infringement.
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China's 5G Soars over America's
In some U.S. cities, 5G is slower than the old 4G system; Washington must make it a priority
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