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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Can We Secure Cryptography Against Quantum Attacks?
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Can We Secure Cryptography Against Quantum Attacks?

If you want your digital information to be secure, you must implement post-quantum cryptography now, according to some leaders in the field.

Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries
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Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries

Increasingly, sensors and other Internet of Things devices will be powered by ambient energies.

Samsung Breach Slams Consumers
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Samsung Breach Slams Consumers

Including this writer.

Small Sensors for Big Challenges
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Small Sensors for Big Challenges

Shwetak Patel hopes to build something that could impact the lives of a billion people.

ACM Global Technology Policy Council Releases Joint Statement on Principles for Responsible Algorithmic Systems
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ACM Global Technology Policy Council Releases Joint Statement on Principles for Responsible Algorithmic Systems

ACM's Technology Policy Council has issued an updated Statement on Principles for Responsible Algorithmic Systems in conjunction with its U.S. and Europe Policy...

Is AI Becoming Sentient?
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Is AI Becoming Sentient?

Determining AI's sentience, its capacity to experience feelings and sensations, will take some time.

Deep Learning is Human, Through and Through
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Deep Learning is Human, Through and Through

At the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a diverse panel of researchers discussed the applications and implications of deep learning.

Securing the Enterprise When Employees are Remote
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Securing the Enterprise When Employees are Remote

Managing the security challenges of hybrid work environments.

Bring the Laboratory With You
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Bring the Laboratory With You

Microfluidic laboratories on chips proliferate.

Open Source Hardware?
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Open Source Hardware?

Hardware design starts to see the attraction of open source.

AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond
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AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond

Artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in refugee relief and resettlement programs.

Pushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research
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Pushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research

Computer proof assistants are being used to create online libraries of mathematical theorems and proofs.

Ian Foster To Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
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Ian Foster To Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

The grid computing pioneer is recognized with one of the high-performance computing field's most prestigious honors.

Protecting Children's Privacy Online
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Protecting Children's Privacy Online

Assuring youngsters they can use websites without giving away their personal information is not child's play.

No-Code AI: Platforms and Tools
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No-Code AI: Platforms and Tools

In the 1990s, tools like Macromedia Dreamweaver made Web development accessible to all. Today, no-code tools aim to do the same for artificial intelligence.

Raising the Ramparts
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Raising the Ramparts

Why the enterprise needs military-grade cybersecurity, too.

Found in Space
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Found in Space

Using deep learning to identify and classify astronomically distant objects.

Extreme Security for Users Targeted by Cyberattack
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Extreme Security for Users Targeted by Cyberattack

Apple's Lockdown Mode provides serious security to individuals personally targeted by sophisticated attackers.

The Afterlife Online
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The Afterlife Online

Preparing for the end of life should include consideration of online accounts that will continue when you're gone.

Raising the Voices of the Dead
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Raising the Voices of the Dead

Experts urge caution in using AI agents to simulate dead people.
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