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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.
Rapid adoption of robots and artificial intelligence, combined with a rebound in government investment, is making some economists optimistic.
The Washington Post From ACM News | August 25, 2021
The cryptocurrency is jettisoning the "miners" who track and validate transactions on the world's most-used blockchain network.
The Washington Post From ACM News | August 19, 2021
Philip Agre, a computer scientist turned humanities professor, was prescient about many of the ways technology would impact the world.
The Washington Post From ACM News | August 17, 2021
The Oregon state employee pension fund is one of the largest investors, if not the largest, in a private equity firm that has majority ownership of NSO Group, the...The Washington Post From ACM News | August 5, 2021
Health-care chatbots have been used for years, but they exploded in popularity over the past year as the system became overwhelmed with covid-related questions...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 26, 2021
A U.S. Transportation Security Administration directive imposes new rules requiring pipeline operators to strengthen their cyberdefenses.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2021
This is the first time Washington and other U.S. allies have assigned blame for the Microsoft Exchange hack, which compromised more than 100,000 servers worldwide...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 19, 2021
Facebook and Google have engineered artificial intelligence systems capable of understanding dozens of languages through the efforts of scientists like Alexis Conneau...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2021
Alexis Conneau's work has helped Facebook and Google build artificial intelligence systems that can understand dozens of languages with startling accuracy.
The Washington Post From ACM News | July 1, 2021
The Internet giant is throwing tracking cookies in the dustbin, prompting big questions about privacy, competition, and advertising.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 18, 2021
Faced with no semiconductor chips for their ordering machines, restaurants pivot away from human servers and toward contact-less ordering.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 11, 2021
U.S. officials say more than $2 million in cryptocurrency payments to the hackers who held Colonial Pipeline hostage in May has been recovered.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2021
The problems appear related to Fastly, which runs a content delivery network, and have been largely resolved.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 8, 2021
The seizure of cryptocurrency paid by Colonial Pipeline to a Russian hacker ring marks a major milestone for the Department of Justice.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 8, 2021
The breach is the latest targeting a crucial supply chain, and comes three weeks after the Colonial Pipeline hack disrupted fuel operations in the U.S.
The Washington Post From ACM News | June 1, 2021
The U.S. Army is training on a new night-vision system that generates a videogame-like view of a scene.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | May 26, 2021
The Biden administration will prioritize cybersecurity in the distribution of $1 billion in technology modernization funds signed into law by Congress in March....The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2021