Communications of the ACM
Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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How Students Are Scrubbing Their Social Media Profiles
A new service for students flags inappropriate or offensive posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram so would-be employers can see them in the best possible...
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Mega Says It Can't Decrypt Your Files. POC Exploit Shows Otherwise
A new report indicates Mega's file encryption architecture contains fundamental cryptography flaws enabling attackers to launch full key recovery attacks.
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Twitter Apologizes for Abusing User Security Information After $150 million FTC settlement
n addition to the $150 million penalty, Twitter agreed to notify users that it misused the security data.
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Many Russian Cyberattacks Failed in First Months of Ukraine War, Study Says
A report published by Microsoft also found that Moscow's disinformation campaign to establish a narrative of the war favorable to Russia was doing better than expected...
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Building a Practical Quantum Computer
Quantum computation has a long road ahead.
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Brain Implants Get Real
Universities, and a growing number of companies, are producing brain-computer interfaces.
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Hybrid Work Meetings Are Hell. Tech Is Trying to Fix Them
Technology companies are rolling out new options for hybrid meetings.
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White House Rolls Out Task Force to Curb Online Abuse
Group will create recommendations for governments, companies and schools to address the link between online harassment and violence in the wake of mass shootings...
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Shedding Light on Linguistic Diversity and Its Evolution
Researchers have established a global archive of linguistic data to provide new insights into the evolution of the words and sounds of spoken languages.
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Tech Giants Start Getting Real on AR
Big technology companies are scaling back their plans for augmented reality (AR) devices.
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China Bank Protest Stopped by Health Codes Turning Red
Bank depositors in China said a protest in Henan province was halted by authorities using COVID surveillance infrastructure to turn health code applications red...
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Canadian Internet Outage Attributed to Beaver
The beaver's assault continues a long tradition of animals messing with the cables humans put where they live.
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Belly Up to a Virtual Bar
Various brands have established virtual bars in the metaverse where avatars can gather (although actual drinking is out of the question).
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Your Kids' Apps Are Spying on Them
Apple and Google just look the other way. Here's how we stop it.
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How One Paper Blew Up Bitcoin's Claim to Anonymity
All individuals transacting in Bitcoin are within six degrees or fewer of separation from a core group, say researchers.
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Edible QR Code Takes a Shot at Fake Whiskey
Biomedical engineers have developed a quick response (QR) code to confirm whether a whiskey is authentic or counterfeit.
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'Beam-Steering' Technology Takes Mobile Communications Beyond 5G
A beam-steering antenna can boost the efficiency of data transmission across the millimeter wave spectrum.
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Radio Waves for the Detection of Hardware Tampering
Scientists in Germany have developed a technique that uses radio waves to monitor hardware for tampering.
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AI Translates Math Problems into Code to Make Them Easier to Solve
Researchers used the Codex neural network of artificial intelligence research company OpenAI to translate mathematical problems from plain English into formal code...
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