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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.
The government said a group linked to Russia's intelligence service carried out sustained operations to undermine trust in Britain's political system.
The New York Times From ACM News | December 8, 2023
COBOL is one of the top mainframe programming languages in use, but most schools and universities have not taught COBOL in decades.
PC Magazine From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2023
A study found that water use by bitcoin miners hit 591 billion gallons so far this year, up from 415 billion gallons in 2021.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2023
Tianfu Wu at North Carolina State University and colleagues developed the QuadAttacK software to test deep neural networks for adversarial vulnerabilities.
NC State University News From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2023
An international team developed a monolithic three dimensional integrated chip comprised of layered two-dimensional materials.
The Source (Washington University in St. Louis) From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2023
Arkose Labs reported malicious attacks by bots and human fraud farms accounted for 73% of all Web and app traffic in the third quarter of 2023.
Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2023
DeepMind product VP Eli Collins claims Gemini Ultra can comprehend "nuanced" information in text, images, audio and code.
TechCrunch From ACM News | December 6, 2023
Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the U.S. and others are trying to respond, but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies...THE New York Times From ACM News | December 6, 2023
The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI's board exploded all their carefully laid plans.
The New Yorker From ACM News | December 4, 2023
Researchers demonstrated a lower-power method for transmitting data at close range while maintaining high throughput using electric, rather than electromagnetic...University of Sussex (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2023
The company's C.E.O. bet it all on a new kind of chip. Now that Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world, what will he do next?
The New Yorker From ACM News | November 30, 2023
The ongoing conflict between the U.S. and China over semiconductor chip production is expected to ramp up as the U.S. seeks a competitive edge in advanced packaging...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2023
Researchers found drones with automated external defibrillators arrived at the scene of a suspected cardiac arrest more than 3 minutes before ambulances in 67%...Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2023
Researchers found vulnerabilities in several laptop makers’ implementations of Windows Hello, the biometric login feature built into Windows.
SiliconANGLE From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2023
Meta said in a statement the complaint misrepresents its work over the past decade to make the online experience safe for teens, noting it has "over 30 tools to...CBS Bay Area From ACM News | November 28, 2023
Computer scientists developed a technique to manage mobile network demand by multiple Internet of Things devices using terahertz frequencies.
University of Leicester (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | November 22, 2023