Where computing might go next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past.
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The Artificial Intelligence Database
The Artificial Intelligence Database: Explore the technology like never before with [WIRED’s] new database, which collects all of our stories on artificial intelligence and filters them by sector, source data, end user, company, and more.
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Quantum-Safe Trust for Vehicles: The Race Is Already On
Now that it seems quantum-computing capabilities could become commercially available within the next decade or two—likely in the form of cloud-based services—security professionals have turned with an intensified sense of urgency to the challenge of how to respond to the threat of quantum-powered attacks. One domain where this is particularly true is in the automotive industry, where cars now coming off assembly lines are sometimes referred to as “rolling datacenters” in acknowledgment of all the entertainment and communications capabilities they contain.
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The Complex Path to Quantum Resistance
This article provides a series of recommendations for [ICT executive] decision-makers, including what they need to know and do today. It will help them in devising an effective quantum transition plan [to quantum-resistance] with a holistic lens that considers the affected assets in people, process, and technology.
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AI Ethics: A Call to Faculty
To say that AI, today, is a technical discipline is entirely naive: it is a social, worldwide experiment. Our tools have teeth that cut into the everyday lives of all, and this leaves a collection of engineers and scientists in the awkward position of having far more impact on the future than is their due.
…But AI ethics is not the science of ethics, but rather shorthand for the notion of applying ethical considerations to issues surfaced by AI technologies: surveillance, information ownership, privacy, emotional manipulation, agency, autonomous military operations, and so forth.
Women’s Lives in Code
Like Ullman’s memoir, “Halt and Catch Fire” rebuts the technology field’s chronic sexism by allowing its female characters to be as interesting, talented, and flawed as any male antihero.
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The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower
The deposit could power millions of clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, for which a mine might mean extinction.
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Windows 11 Security — Our Hacker-in-Chief Runs Attacks and Shows Solutions
Many of the optional or high-end security controls from Windows 10 are now on by default and required on new machines with Windows 11.
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Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.
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Jen Easterly Wants Hackers to Help US Cyber Defense
The new director of the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, joined WIRED contributing editor Garrett Graff to talk about hacking and misinformation on a global scale and how to combat the ever-evolving nature of cyberattacks.
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Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today
A Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus outage knocked every corner of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire offline on Monday. It’s a social media blackout that can most charitably be described as “thorough” and seems likely to prove particularly tough to fix.
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The anatomy of a WordPress theme
Yoast’s WordPress theme infographic.
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Safe Systems Programming in Rust
In this article, we begin by giving the reader a bird’s-eye view of the Rust programming language, with an emphasis on some of the essential features of Rust that set it apart from its contemporaries. Second, we describe the initial progress made in the RustBelt project, an ongoing project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), whose goal is to provide the first formal (and machine-checked) foundations for the safety claims of Rust. In so doing, we hope to inspire other members of the computer science research community to start paying closer attention to Rust and to help contribute to the development of this groundbreaking language.
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Cyber Security Research in the Arab Region: A Blooming Ecosystem with Global Ambitions
In this article, we will survey the main initiatives related to cyber security in the Arab region, report on the evolution of the cyber security posture, and point to possible Pan-Arab and international collaboration avenues in cyber security research.
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Biomedical Computing in the Arab World: Unlocking the Potential of a Growing Research Community
This article sheds light on notable research efforts in the Arab world in each of the aforementioned areas of biomedical computing [biomedical imaging, biomedical signal analysis and bioinformatics]. It also demonstrates how this research addresses healthcare issues in the region.
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Non-Traditional Data Sources: Providing Insights into Sustainable Development
Here, we showcase regionally developed projects that explore the use of non-traditional data sources and AI to help measure progress toward the [Sustainable Development Goals].
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Building a Multilingual Wikipedia
In order to close these knowledge gaps we are building a multilingual Wikipedia where content is created only once but made available in all languages.
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May I Borrow Your Covid Immunity?
Whenever a new virus emerges—be it HIV or SARS-CoV-2—a few lucky people put up a potent natural defense. Monoclonal antibody drugs let them share the health.
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The Worsening State of Ransomware
Suddenly, you have people with limited ability using powerful software to discover, exfiltrate, and encrypt files. They wind up with many of the same capabilities that sophisticated cybercriminals have.
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When Hackers Were Heroes
What was exceptional about MIT was not that it had a computer or that unkempt programmers were devising impressive tricks. It was that MIT had enough computers that a couple of surplus machines could be left out for members of the community to play with.
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