Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday evening said the US government's legal position on encryption backdoors was setting "a dangerous precedent."Ars Technica From ACM News | February 18, 2016
An analysis of millions of GitHub pull requests found women's contributions were accepted more frequently than men's, but only if they had gender-neutral profiles...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | February 17, 2016
Europe's highest court is considering whether every hyperlink in a Web page should be checked for potentially linking to material that infringes copyright, before...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 5, 2016
The Dutch government has released a statement in which it says that "it is currently not desirable to take restricting legal measures concerning the development...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 6, 2016
When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | December 11, 2015
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.Ars Technica From ACM News | October 28, 2015
In August, National Security Agency officials advised US agencies and businesses to prepare for a not-too-distant time when the cryptography protecting virtually...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 23, 2015
For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 19, 2015
A National Security Agency memo that recently resurfaced a few years after it was first published contains a detailed analysis of what very possibly was the world's...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 14, 2015
Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 6, 2015
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...Ars Technica From ACM News | September 15, 2015
Quantum key distribution is regularly touted as the encryption of the future. While the keys are exchanged on an insecure channel, the laws of physics provide a...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 25, 2015
The National Security Agency is advising U.S. agencies and businesses to prepare for a time in the not-too-distant future when the cryptography protecting virtually...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 21, 2015
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.Ars Technica From ACM Careers | July 9, 2015
In a surprise decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ruled that the Estonian news site Delfi may be held responsible for anonymous...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 17, 2015
When Facebook bought Oculus VR back in March of 2014, many wondered exactly what the social network was going to do with it; let's face it, many of us are still wondering...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 21, 2015
As part of a series of experiments, a group of researchers at the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab launched denial-of-service attacks against a remotely...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 11, 2015