The Federal Communications Commissions''public comment period on its plans to repeal net neutrality protections was bombarded with bots, memes, and input from people...Wired From ACM News | December 13, 2017
Internet and technology luminaries, including Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and "Father of the internet" Vint Cerf, have called on...The Register From ACM News | December 13, 2017
Today, a teaspoon of spit and a hundred bucks is all you need to get a snapshot of your DNA. But getting the full picture—all 3 billion base pairs of your genome—requires...Wired From ACM News | December 12, 2017
Sometimes you can gauge how proud someone is about being at an event by the extent to which they want to talk about it.
BBC News From ACM News | December 6, 2017
Every month, about four million more Indians get online. They include people like Manju, a 35-year-old seamstress in this city of ancient palaces, who got her first...The New York Times From ACM News | December 6, 2017
During President Trump's visit to Beijing, he appeared on screen for a special address at a tech conference.
The New York Times From ACM News | December 4, 2017
Internet freedom is on the decline for the seventh consecutive year as governments around the world take to distorting information on social media in order to influence...NPR From ACM News | November 21, 2017
Twitter is banning two Russian government-affiliated news sites from advertising on its platform, the social network said Thursday.
The Washington Post From ACM News | October 27, 2017
Researchers have identified browser functionalities that are rarely used or needed by Websites, but which pose security and privacy risks.
IC News Center From ACM TechNews | October 25, 2017
Hours after the Las Vegas massacre, Travis McKinney's Facebook feed was hit with a scattershot of conspiracy theories.
The New York Times From ACM News | October 23, 2017
The FBI hasn't been able to retrieve data from more than half of the mobile devices it tried to access in less than a year, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sunday...The Associated Press From ACM News | October 23, 2017
Richard Vevers, a British underwater photographer, was horrified when he returned in 2015 to a colourful reef in American Samoa he had shot a year earlier. It had...CNET From ACM News | October 19, 2017
When you consider the nagging privacy risks of online advertising, you may find comfort in the thought of a vast, abstract company like Pepsi or Nike viewing you...Wired From ACM News | October 18, 2017
On Wednesday, the exterior of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters bore an eerie message: "Ban Russian Bots." Someone—the company doesn't know who—projected the...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 13, 2017
Hany Farid, a computer scientist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, specialises in detecting manipulated images and videos. Farid, who provides his...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2017
It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around...The New York Times From ACM News | October 11, 2017
Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites and social media pages to identify American voters susceptible to propaganda, then used a powerful Facebook...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 5, 2017