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What if cybercriminals could hide pernicious payloads in places where commercial cybersecurity software were unable to detect it? Unfortunately, this approach is both possible and increasingly viable.
Hidden Malware Ratchets Up Cybersecurity Risks Read More
Telecom companies have long resisted letting scientific sensors piggyback on their subsea cables—until now.
These underwater cables can improve tsunami detection Read More
During the last week of March and first week of April, Big & Little Cottonwood Canyons saw an epic snow cycle the likes of which have never been seen before. Little Cottonwood Canyon (“LCC”) closed due to avalanche danger on Sunday April 2, 2023. The canyon generally did not open again until Saturday April 8. (There were two brief periods when the canyon was open to the public to downhill travel only, so that people who needed/wanted could leave. Otherwise, the general public was prohibited from going up or down the canyon during the period April 1-8.
Avalanches in Big & Little Cottonwood Canyon Early April 2023 Read More
A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time.
The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime Read More
Technology can automate and substitute for some human tasks, but it can also augment human intelligence and complement specific types of tasks in ways that boost demand for occupations in which those tasks are performed.
A Data-Driven Exploration of the Race between Human Labor and Machines in the 21st Century Read More
REYNOLD XIN: Open source is not necessarily about free software. Instead, it has more to do with the inherent interest companies have in building ecosystems and communities that will help them lower their cost of hiring new employees and then ramping them up.
It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge Read More
The Wasatch Backcountry Skiing Map is a full-color paper map that compliments the website, Android app, and iOS app. The map includes the names of almost 1,000 backcountry locations in the Central Wasatch.
Wasatch Backcountry Skiing Map, 4th Ed. Read More
Computer science education cannot fix its internal injustices and external harms to society if it aims only to broaden participation. Instead, institutional change is required.
Toward Justice in Computer Science through Community, Criticality, and Citizenship Read More
Assessments concerning privacy can hardly be completely neutral and may underlie some cultural bias.
Information: ‘I’ vs. ‘We’ vs. ‘They’ Read More
Security is still viewed by much of the computing research community in a narrow technical context, leading to results poorly aligned with motivating real-world needs.
Cybersecurity as Illuminator for the Future of Computing Research Read More
Digital accessibility has its roots in a decades-long legal movement.
Two Paths for Digital Disability Law Read More
There is promising, if somewhat slow, progress on making facial recognition software less biased.
The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software Read More
We cannot put the genii back in the bottle, but we can ensure human control.
A Call to Action Read More
Superheroes worry about having their identities revealed, while the rest of us in the real world worry about surveillance technologies and how they can be easily abused.
Modern Tech Can’t Shield Your Secret Identity Read More
“If you just chain together automatic transcription, translation, and speech synthesis, you end up accumulating too many errors.”
Raising Robovoices Read More
The United States was hit by historically cold and windy Winter weather with a rare mid-latitude mid-continent cyclone, one that would undergo a process of rapid intensification called Bombogenesis, or Bomb Cyclogenesis. The event was termed “Winter Storm Elliott.” This …
Winter Storm Elliott – December, 2022 Read More
The E.U. is an early mover in the race to regulate AI, and with the draft E.U. AI Act, it has adopted an assurance-based regulatory environment using yet-to-be-defined AI assurance standards.
Trust, Regulation, and Human-in-the-Loop AI: within the European region Read More
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.—Freeman Dyson
Technology’s Impact on Morality Read More
Just-in-time shipping is dead. Long live supply chains stress-tested with AI digital twins.
How AI digital twins help weather the world’s supply chain nightmare Read More