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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A new Flame malware report suggests that the malware's command-and-control interface was made to manage at least four different types of malware, meaning that there...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 20, 2012
University of Cambridge researchers have found that many automated teller machines and point of sale terminals do not properly generate random numbers, as required...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2012
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can find the source of a computer virus, malware, or spam attack by checking only a small percentage of connections...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 15, 2012
Google has released Leak Finder, a tool for finding memory leaks in JavaScript code and a library written in Dart for accessing popular Google APIs. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 14, 2012
AIR.U, a consortium of higher education associations, public interest groups, and technology companies, has launched an effort to bring more super Wi-Fi broadband...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 29, 2012
As cloud computing becomes increasingly common, serious operational "meltdowns" could take place as end users and vendors mix, match, and bundle services for various...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2012
The cloud model of rented virtualized servers and storage on demand could be sold in a much more efficient and granular manner, with specific resources rented for...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2012
Global Internet Protocol traffic will reach an annual rate of 1.3 zettabytes in 2016, predicts Cisco Systems. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 1, 2012
University of Washington graduate student Parmit Chilana recently interviewed Facebook engineers and design specialists to learn how they develop and deploy new...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2012
Hewlett-Packard, Advanced Micro Devices, Fidelity, Quanta, Tencent, Salesforce.com, VMware, Canonical, and Supermicro have joined Facebook's Open Compute Project...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2012
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the functionality of computer programs and the language they are written in cannot be protected by copyright. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2012
Information technology engineers have been studying methods for fixing a weakness in the Internet's routing system known as the Border Gateway Protocol, which can...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 30, 2012
A group of technologists recently established the Open Source Hardware Association to promote the creation and sharing of hardware or electronic designs.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2012
Google has received a patent for technology that would enable it to deliver advertising based on what it calls "environment conditions." IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2012
Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer of public-key cryptography, told the recent Black Hat Europe conference that a good plan to secure software is needed in the age of...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2012
University of California, Davis researchers have found that when it comes to linking together networks or other systems, it is best to have many, but not too many...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 2, 2012
IBM researchers have succeeded in imaging how charge is distributed inside a single molecule, a breakthrough that could lead to nanometer-scale circuits. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2012
Intel is working to extend its experimental solar-powered processor technology to hardware such as graphics processors, memory, and floating point units.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 23, 2012
Tomorrow's computers will constantly improve their understanding of the data they work with, which will help them provide users with more appropriate information...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2012