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“Navigating in Real-Time Environments” Communications of the ACM, December 2020, Vol. 63 No. 12, Pages 26-28 The profession of IT By Peter J. Denning “Jim Selman has been a professional leadership coach for over 30 years. He frequently encounters executives …
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ASIC teams always fight the FPGA concept. ASIC designers ask, “Which functionality do you want?” and are impatient if the answer is, “I don’t know yet.”
The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs Read More
The really interesting question is what a strong successful analogy, matching computer viruses to organic viruses, would mean.
Protecting Computers and People From Viruses Read More
There are very few legal limits on what governments can do with even the most personal data once they have it.
Who Has Access to Your Smartphone Data? Read More
The HTTP standard, the language of web servers, was born humbly in 1990 as the hypertext transfer protocol. HTTP was basically just a few verbs—simple commands—that a browser said to a web server. The most essential of these were GET, which asks a server for information, and POST, which sends info back.
Meet the Web’s Operating System: HTTP Read More
If and when this technology will make its way into your average passenger vehicle is uncertain, but there is no doubt that companies have been moving closer toward their goal.
Self-Driving Vehicle Technology: Progress and Promises Read More
Human civilization does not tend to agree among issues such as fairness, equality, safety, security, privacy, and self-determination (for example). With COVID-19, economical well-being, health care, climate change, and other issues (some of which are considered here), if we cannot agree on the basic goals, we will never reach whatever they might have been—especially if the goals appear to compete with each other.
A Holistic View of Future Risks Read More
It’s superfine. It’s sharp. It sticks to everything. Before we return to the moon, we’ll have to conquer one of the weirdest substances in the solar system.
Moondust Could Cloud Our Lunar Ambitions Read More
Instead, I’m here to point out, as others have before, that people had a choice to intervene much sooner, but didn’t. Facebook and Twitter didn’t create racist extremists, conspiracy theories, or mob harassment, but they chose to run their platforms in a way that allowed extremists to find an audience, and they ignored voices telling them about the harms their business models were encouraging.
How the truth was murdered Read More
It’s time to reverse a century of fire-management policy. That will require sweeping regulatory reforms, and tons of money.
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead. Read More
Scientists are trying to crack the code of how smell works—and create robots that can sniff out the world’s secrets like a dog.
The Quest to Make a Bot That Can Smell as Well as a Dog Read More
There have been previous attempts to use machine learning to detect patterns that make one molecule smell like garlic and another like jasmine… Several other teams applied AI to that data and made successful predictions. But Wiltschko’s team took a different approach. They used something called a graph neural network, or GNN.
Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell Read More
An attempt to boost the security of Windows devices may leave millions of them more vulnerable in the long run.
Windows 11’s Security Push Puts Microsoft on a Collision Course Read More
eBook surveillance is potentially part of a larger trend in which data collection that would be illegal if performed by a state actor has become a common business practice of a private actor.
Reading in the Panopticon: Your Kindle May Be Spying on You, But You Can’t Be Sure Read More
[This article is an overview of a] paper [that] presents a rigorous study that explores the reputation manipulation ecosystem, ultimately working with Facebook to examine ways to stop this kind of large-scale online social networking abuse.
Technical Perspective: Fake ‘Likes’ and Targeting Collusion Networks Read More A comprehensive measurement study of collusion-based reputation manipulation services on Facebook.
Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks Read More
Over the past three decades, many different techniques have been developed for constructing MPC [MultiParty Computation] protocols with different properties, and for different settings.
Secure Multiparty Computation Read More
This article [takes] two basic approaches to evaluating the ethics of stockpiling zero-day exploits.
The Ethics of Zero-Day Exploits: The NSA Meets the Trolley Car Read More
Proving the authenticity of a device is one of the major challenges facing developers today, but it’s critical for them to complete the enrollment process and decide if they trust the device to hold on to a secret for normal use.
The Identity in Everyone’s Pocket Read More
While globalization has drastically reduced industry costs by tapping inexpensive labor markets and economies of scale, it has simultaneously opened many windows of opportunity for attackers to maliciously modify hardware without the knowledge of original device manufacturers (ODMs) or their customers.
The Die is Cast Read More