Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
From ACM NewsAllyn Jackson Commissioned by CACM Staff| January 31, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
IARPA scientists are taking up the nascent field of cyber psychology to predict and counter hacker behavior.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | January 26, 2023
Service was impacted in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa, however, China was unaffected, per CNN.
The Week From ACM News | January 25, 2023
Google Research spinout Osmo wants to find substitutes for hard-to-source aromas. The tech could inspire new perfumes—and help combat mosquito-borne diseases.
Wired From ACM News | January 25, 2023
Researchers collaborated on the construction of remote-controlled electronic biological robots powered by organic muscles.
Northwestern Now From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2023
Human artists and artificial intelligence companies are disputing generative AI-intellectual property in a landmark legal case.
Financial Times From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2023
Appliance manufacturers LG Electronics and Whirlpool are trying to entice customers whose "smart" appliances are not connected to the Internet to embrace the technology...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2023
Justice Department accuses Google of subverting competition in Internet advertising technologies through serial acquisitions and anticompetitive auction manipulation...U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs From ACM News | January 25, 2023
Researchers at Georgetown University, OpenAI, and the Stanford Internet Observatory issued a report warning about the potential misuse of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2023
Polish security researcher Dawid Potocki discovered a vulnerability in MSI's motherboards that occurs when the Secure Boot default settings for "Image Execution...PC Magazine From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2023
It took researchers in Belgium just an hour to crack the SIKE cryptographic algorithm.
David Geer Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | January 24, 2023
The deal will give a boost to Microsoft's Azure cloud, while providing OpenAI with additional specially designed supercomputers to run its complex AI models and...Bloomberg From ACM News | January 24, 2023
ChatGPT and similar AI systems are being used in realms beyond education, but classrooms seem to be where fears about the bot's misuse — and ideas to adapt alongside...FiveThirtyEight From ACM News | January 24, 2023
Facebook's rules, the board acknowledged, are "extensive and confusing" and "often convoluted and poorly defined," requiring bizarre, subjective content moderation...Futurism From ACM News | January 23, 2023
U.K. pest control services provider Rentokil is testing facial recognition software as a tool for rat extermination.
The Guardian (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2023
A brainwave-monitoring technique created by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Essex can identify to which specific piece of music people are listening.
University of Essex (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2023
Researchers at the U.K.'s Liverpool John Moores University and Egypt's Cairo University used software and a "reverse aging" process to replicate ancient Egyptian...Newsweek From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2023
"They use AI to rewrite the intros every two weeks or so because Google likes updated content. Eventually it gets so mangled that about every four months a real...Futurism From ACM News | January 23, 2023
Researchers can now find the shortest route through a network nearly as fast as theoretically possible, even when some steps can cancel out others.
Quanta Magazine From ACM News | January 23, 2023