Universities need new ways to assess and respond to threats to academic integrity posed by AI tools that students could use to cheat on written assignments.
Financial Times From ACM TechNews | December 27, 2022
Every year around Christmas time, Donald Knuth gives a special lecture for a small audience at Stanford University, and to a larger audience online. This year's...The New Stack From ACM News | December 27, 2022
Researchers found that the brain's demand and language systems encode specific code properties that correlate with machine-learned representations.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 23, 2022
Google has started beta testing hosting of digital driver's licenses and state ID cards for its Wallet application on Android, which will be exclusive to Maryland...TechRadar From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2022
The Qu-Pilot Specific Grant agreement is part of a broader Framework Partnership agreement approved by the European Union earlier this year .
VTT Research From ACM News | December 21, 2022
Gatekeeper is a macOS security feature that automatically checks all apps downloaded from the Internet if they are notarized and developer-signed (approved by Apple)...BleepingComputer From ACM News | December 20, 2022
Adobe gave permission to the Computer History Museum to release the source code for an early version of its PostScript programming language, first released in 1984...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | December 13, 2022
Scientists have engineered a scaled-up probabilistic computer (p-computer) with stochastic spintronic devices.
Tohoku University (Japan) From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2022
The implosion of the exchange FTX shows how an industry built in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has drifted far from its original ideals.
The New York Times From ACM News | December 6, 2022
China's police used an advanced surveillance system to track protesters who rallied against the government's pandemic policies this past week.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 5, 2022
Researchers tested Facebook's automated moderation system by submitting ads around Election Day that contained direct threats against election workers.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 5, 2022
Online regulators tell big tech companies to expand censorship of information on demonstrations and take steps to curb the virtual private networks used to bypass...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 1, 2022
A team of Cornell University researchers created the Notate interface to translate handwriting and sketches into computer code.
Cornell Chronicle From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2022
A software bill of materials lists the "ingredients" in a software product, making it easier to identify and avoid security risks.
From ACM News | November 30, 2022