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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Proposed legislation in Canada that would require digital platforms to promote Canadian content over foreign-made content is facing pushback from leading tech firms...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2022
Automating some warehouse functions could let the giant do more with its existing workforce—or the retailer may not require all the humans it employs today.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | 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
Not this time, but artificial intelligence is churning out articles, illustrations, fake product reviews and even videos.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 18, 2022
'Ambient computing' is coming, and it promises to change how we interact with the world. But there are still a lot of challenges — and concerns — to overcome.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 31, 2022
U.S. pharmacy chain Walgreens is deploying robots to fill prescriptions for drugstores amid a nationwide shortage of pharmacists and pharmacist technicians.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2022
"We have never previously observed such a volume of cyberattacks, variety of threat actors, and coordination of effort," the report says; some U.S. institutions...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 23, 2022
New effort is part of trend toward putting more resources to target illegal activities involving digital currencies.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 16, 2022
Sum is only a fraction of hundreds of millions siphoned in breach of 'Axie Infinity' online videogame this year.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 9, 2022
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic warned criminals are increasingly targeting nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2022
Researchers have identified information-sharing initiatives worldwide that aim to better detect fraud and money laundering.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 2, 2022
Political wrangling slows progress on what began as bipartisan effort to restore America's semiconductor production prowess.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 19, 2022
Artificial intelligence programs that learn to write and speak can sound almost human—but they can't think creatively like a small child can.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 18, 2022
At Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri mine in western Australia, iron ore is hauled by almost two dozen driverless carts, with autonomous water carts used to control dust....The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2022
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the developers of some period-tracking and fertility apps are looking to secure users' data...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | June 29, 2022
GitHub Copilot, launched last week, acts like a predictive-text feature to help ease the process of writing long lines of computer code.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 28, 2022