Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people's faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 27, 2017
Researchers have discovered a severe flaw in the WPA2 protocol that enables hackers within range of a vulnerable device or access point to intercept passwords and...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | October 18, 2017
Researchers have devised malware that can jump airgaps by using the infrared capabilities of an infected network's surveillance cameras to transmit data to and...Ars Technica From ACM News | September 20, 2017
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
Ars Technica From ACM News | August 25, 2017
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 3, 2017
On early Saturday morning off the coast of Japan, the Philippines-flagged cargo container carrierACX Crystal struck the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) on its starboard...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 20, 2017
When reporters at The Intercept approached the National Security Agency on June 1 to confirm a document that had been anonymously leaked to the publication in May...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 7, 2017
A Top Secret NSA analyst's report published by The Intercept suggests that, in August 2016, the Russian General Main Staff Intelligence Directorate (GRU) hacked...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 6, 2017
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 1, 2017
In the early hours of Friday morning, two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea launched a barrage of Tomahawk Land...Ars Technica From ACM News | April 12, 2017
The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate ISP privacy rules, following the Senate vote to take the same action last week. The legislation to kill...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 30, 2017
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 6, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump continues to discount or attempt to discredit reports that the intelligence community has linked the hacking of the DNC, the Hillary...Ars Technica From ACM News | December 13, 2016
Although electronic voting in various forms has become more prevalent outside the U.S., its primary difficulties include its inability to verify source code and...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | November 7, 2016
Google Brain researchers say they have developed artificial intelligence technology that can form encryptions and communicate securely.Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2016
Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 28, 2016