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From ACM NewsEsther Shein Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 8, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Advanced artificial intelligence systems developed to defend assets in cyberspace might be turned to malevolent purposes by cybercriminals.
IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2016
A Tor Project developer reports the project is enhancing its software to rapidly detect tampering to its network for the purpose of surveillance. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2016
Microsoft plans to open source Project Orleans, a distributed computing research framework for building cloud services. The company will release the code under...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 18, 2014
Facebook researchers have developed Flow, an open source debugging tool for JavaScript designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse of data types. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 26, 2014
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation will launch a version of its Firefox browser that will enable developers to build Web pages and applications. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2014
The Wi-Fi Alliance has unveiled four sets of mechanisms for carrying out certain tasks over Wi-Fi Direct. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2014
Many Android applications fail to take basic precautions to protect user data, putting the privacy of upwards of 1 billion people at risk.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2014
A recent survey gauging the popularity of statistical software programs found the R programming language is rapidly gaining on traditional statistics packages. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2014
Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science, according to a survey published by ACM. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2014
PHP core developer Dmitry Stogov recently started a new branch of the language called PHP Next Generation.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2014
The Linux Foundation plans to offer a Linux development course on edX, the massive open online course platform developed by MIT and Harvard University.
IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2014
Facebook says it has developed a virtual machine that can run the PHP Web programming language nine times as fast as PHP natively on large systems. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2013
Nearly three dozen computer scientists say Oracle's plan to copyright its Java application programming interface would hinder the computer industry and limit access...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 31, 2013
North Carolina State University researchers have developed software that runs in conjunction with the Message Passing Interface, a library for splitting applications...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 26, 2012
Several U.S. federal agencies are embracing the collaborative model of open source software development and are releasing code back to the general public. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 25, 2012
The Internet Engineering Task Force is working on the next generation of Hypertext Transfer Protocol, says Mark Nottingham, chairman of the IETF HTTP working group...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 10, 2012
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
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
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 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