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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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
A new technology called "RoboKiller" has won a $25,000 grand prize from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency's "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back" contest...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | August 24, 2015
The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered Google to remove links from its search results that point to news stories reporting on earlier removals...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 24, 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
In 2013, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a once-clandestine warrantless surveillance program that gobbles up Americans' electronic communications—a project...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 30, 2015
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management.Ars Technica From ACM News | June 23, 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
Thanks to resistance from Senator Rand Paul and other members of the Senate, the provisions of the USA Patriot Act that were used to justify the National Security...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 3, 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
An Icelandic genetics firm has sequenced the genomes of 2,636 of its countrymen and women, finding genetic markers for a variety of diseases, as well as a new timeline...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 30, 2015
Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 26, 2015
Citizenfour is filmmaker Laura Poitras' account of the first meetings between herself, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 23, 2015
News that a hacking group within or associated with the National Security Agency compromised the firmware of hard drive controllers from a number of manufacturers...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 19, 2015
Long the domain of science fiction, researchers are now working to create software that perfectly models human and animal brains.Ars Technica From ACM News | February 19, 2015
Two Washington state legislators have recently introduced a bill that would allow computer science class (e.g., programming) to effectively count as a foreign language...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | February 10, 2015
Within a few weeks we’ll have a huge document full of legalese on the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, to replace the near-200-page ...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 6, 2015
At least 50 local law enforcement agencies—and the United States Marshals—have acquired a type of handheld radar that allows cops to scan through walls to detect...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 21, 2015
In an on-camera interview with James Bamford for an upcoming episode of PBS' NOVA, Edward Snowden warned that the U.S. Department of Defense and National Security...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 9, 2015
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the position that court warrants are not required when deploying cell-site simulators in public places.Ars Technica From ACM News | January 8, 2015