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
At one node of the industrial backbone that keeps the internet running, employees sheltered from the worst of Hurricane Irma in a stairwell of a seven-story building...The New York Times From ACM News | September 20, 2017
We expect a lot from our computers these days. They should talk to us, recognize everything from faces to flowers, and maybe soon do the driving.
The New York Times From ACM News | September 19, 2017
The days of unqualified praise from Washington are over for the country's biggest tech companies, whose size and power are increasingly drawing attacks from both...Politico From ACM Careers | September 18, 2017
Creating noodling piano tunes and endless configurations of cat drawings with AI may not sound like an obvious project for Google, but it makes a lot of sense to...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 13, 2017
Technology that falsifies navigation data presents significant dangers to public and private organizations.
Logan Kugler From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2017
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
Technology Review From ACM News | August 10, 2017
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to—even tell you...The New York Times From ACM News | July 31, 2017
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
The New York Times From ACM Careers | July 14, 2017
The European Union's head of antitrust enforcement announced a record $2.7 billion fine against Google on Tuesday, accusing the search engine for illegally favoring...The Washington Post From ACM News | June 28, 2017
Passengers at Boston's Logan International Airport were surfing their phones and drinking coffee, waiting to board a flight to Aruba recently when a JetBlue agent...NPR From ACM News | June 27, 2017