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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The Meltdown and Spectre flaws—two related vulnerabilities that enable a wide range of information disclosure from every mainstream processor, with particularly...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 5, 2018
On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.
Ars Technica From ACM Careers | December 18, 2017
Despite the rise of massive crypto-ransomware attacks, an even more troubling trend emerged in data gathered by the security firm CrowdStrike this past year and...Ars Technica From ACM News | December 8, 2017
On Monday, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report claiming that White House officials had discussed using an experimental weapon to disrupt or disable a North Korean...Ars Technica From ACM News | December 8, 2017
On November 1, the US Navy issued its report on the collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain this summer.
Ars Technica From ACM News | November 2, 2017
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
Machine learning has returned with a vengeance. I still remember the dark days of the late '80s and '90s, when it was pretty clear that the current generation of...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 25, 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
In the 2009 movie Star Trek, Captain Kirk and Sulu plummeted down toward the planet Vulcan without a parachute. "Beam us up, beam us up!" Kirk shouted in desperation...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | September 26, 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
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel warn smartphone security can be compromised by repair shops that install replacement parts containing...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | August 25, 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
Life on Earth goes back at least two billion years, but it was only in the last half-billion that it would have been visible to the naked eye.
Ars Technica From ACM News | August 18, 2017
In a lot of ways, stars are our model for creating nuclear fusion here on Earth, with fusion power often promoted as "harnessing the power of the Sun."
Ars Technica From ACM News | August 8, 2017
Way back in the 1980s, when I was a young naval officer, the Global Positioning System was still in its experimental stage.
Ars Technica From ACM News | August 7, 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
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 24, 2017
As the world's great companies pursue autonomous cars, they're essentially spending billions of dollars to get machines to do what your average two-year-old can...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 18, 2017