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From ACM NewsEsther Shein Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 8, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management.Ars Technica From ACM News | June 23, 2015
In a surprise decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ruled that the Estonian news site Delfi may be held responsible for anonymous...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 17, 2015
Thanks to resistance from Senator Rand Paul and other members of the Senate, the provisions of the USA Patriot Act that were used to justify the National Security...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 3, 2015
When Facebook bought Oculus VR back in March of 2014, many wondered exactly what the social network was going to do with it; let's face it, many of us are still wondering...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 21, 2015
As part of a series of experiments, a group of researchers at the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab launched denial-of-service attacks against a remotely...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 11, 2015
An Icelandic genetics firm has sequenced the genomes of 2,636 of its countrymen and women, finding genetic markers for a variety of diseases, as well as a new timeline...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 30, 2015
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 26, 2015
During my visit to General Electric's Global Research Centers in San Ramon, California, and Niskayuna, New York, last month, I got what amounts to an end-to-end...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 24, 2015
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 23, 2015
Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 26, 2015
This week at the 2015 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Intel will provide an update on its new 10nm manufacturing process and new research...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 23, 2015
Citizenfour is filmmaker Laura Poitras' account of the first meetings between herself, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 23, 2015
News that a hacking group within or associated with the National Security Agency compromised the firmware of hard drive controllers from a number of manufacturers...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 19, 2015
Long the domain of science fiction, researchers are now working to create software that perfectly models human and animal brains.Ars Technica From ACM News | February 19, 2015
Like his work or hate it, it's clear that the painter Jackson Pollock pioneered a distinctive visual style with his drip paintings.Ars Technica From ACM News | February 13, 2015