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Apr 8 2024

In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024

A researcher, author, and industry consultant in security engineering, Anderson also was a professor of Security Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Technology of the U.K.'s University of Cambridge.

Bruce Schneier

Education

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Apr 4 2024

Poisoning Data to Protect It

New tools aim to disrupt generative AI models to shield creative content from unauthorized usage.

Gregory Mone

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Apr 4 2024

Safety Fears Raised Over Risks of ‘Penetrative AI’

Can we trust artificial intelligence to not endanger us?

Paul Marks

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Apr 2 2024

The Risks of Source Code Breaches

Why attackers want your source code, and what to do about it.

David Geer

Security and Privacy

Apr 1 2024

Raising the Dead with AI

It's become easier to create lifelike AI avatars of people who have passed away.

Logan Kugler

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 28 2024

Data Quality May Be All You Need

Training model size and its relation to LLM quality.

Chris Edwards

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Mar 28 2024

Conversations with AI

What can large language models teach us about language?

Bennie Mols

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 27 2024

More Efficient Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

Researchers are exploring ways to reduce a quantum system's lopsided ratio of error-correction qubits to logical qubits.

Don Monroe

Architecture and Hardware

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Mar 26 2024

Forget the Catastrophic Forgetting

Researchers are working to counteract catastrophic forgetting by AI systems when they are trained for new tasks.

Sandrine Ceurstemont

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 25 2024

Can ChatGPT Learn Chinese or Swahili?

Large language models might act differently if trained in different languages.

Neil Savage

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Mar 21 2024

Thirsty Fabs

How the surprising water footprint of semiconductor manufacturing, datacenters, and AI solutions is sparking sustainable development.

Gregory Mone

Architecture and Hardware

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Mar 19 2024

Answers Begin to Surface to Deep Earth Puzzles

Evidence from high orbit is helping to shape understanding of the churning processes that shape oceans and continents.

Chris Edwards

Computing Applications

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Mar 15 2024

Governments Setting Limits on AI

Many countries and regions are considering, or trying to implement, regulations on the training and use of artificial intelligence.

Esther Shein

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 13 2024

Abusing AI for Advertising

Will generative artificial intelligence accelerate the growth of made-for-advertising sites?

Keith Kirkpatrick

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Mar 12 2024

Edge AI Devices Eye Lifetime Learning

Helping artificial intelligence to adapt and learn, now and later.

R. Colin Johnson

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Feb 29 2024

A Healthy Dose of AI

Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.

Samuel Greengard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The boundaries of algorithmic medicine continue to expand.

Feb 27 2024

Here Come the Killer Robots

Despite concerns, autonomous AI weapons and defense systems for military applications are on the rise.

Logan Kugler

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Feb 23 2024

CACM Is Now Open Access

Communications of the ACM is now a fully Open Access publication, which means that more than six decades of our renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news articles are now open to everyone.

Feb 22 2024

In Memoriam: Niklaus Wirth

The overriding philosophy of computing pioneer Niklaus Wirth, who died on January 1, 2024, was that systems should be simple, efficient, and “elegant.”

Simson Garfinkel and Eugene H. Spafford

Computer History

Feb 22 2024

Defending the Business

The potential for a cyber incident is the top risk to business.

David Geer

Computing Applications

Feb 21 2024

What’s That Smell?

Digital scent technologies bring aromas to virtual reality.

Esther Shein

Computing Applications

user wearing a headset that incorporates OVR Technology's ion scent detector technology

Feb 16 2024

Service Robots Roll Forward

Transitioning from classic 'programmed automation' to modern 'AI-powered autonomy.'

Samuel Greengard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Feb 15 2024

The Battle to Mitigate E-Waste

As electronic waste grows by the metric ton, companies and citizens work to stem the tide.

Logan Kugler

Society

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Feb 15 2024

The Campaign Against Deepfakes

Digital deceit is on the rise and needs to be addressed.

Samuel Greengard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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