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Does Google have too much power? The United States government thinks so. A high stakes legal battle is taking place right now between the U.S. and the tech giant. Columbia law professor Tim Wu breaks it all down with Hari Sreenivasan.
The U.S. v. Google: The Case That Will Determine the Future of Tech Read More
If the funders, developers, and artists pushing NFTs and Web3 get their way, the media landscape will look very different from what it looks like now.
These Are Not the Apes You Are Looking For Read More
Consumer cybersecurity can no longer be ignored.
Security by Labeling Read More
Computing has become highly important in everyday life during the past 75 years. In addition to its many benefits, however, it has also played a major role in driving societal polarization. The somber tone of ACM@75 appropriately recognized this.
Technology and Democracy Read More
The emergence of these large learned models is also changing the nature of AI research in fundamental ways.
Changing the Nature of AI Research Read More
Going forward cyber-insurance providers will thrive by succeeding in: rewarding security; generating knowledge; and punishing insecurity.
A Turning Point for Cyber Insurance Read More
While there are exceptions, the gap in concrete privacy solutions in policy reports is puzzling, as economists have argued that CBDC could make an essential difference in providing privacy in digital payments.
Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies Read More
If your team is suffering from low morale and high stress, look at the cognitive load on the team, review its sources, and look for substantive changes that will have the desired impact. Splitting the team could be exactly what is needed.
Split Your Overwhelmed Teams Read More
Moshe Vardi on having the difficult conversation about technology and social responsibility.
Considering the Impact of Technology on Society Read More
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) 2023-2025 Strategic Plan is the agency’s first, comprehensive strategic plan since CISA was established in 2018. This is a major milestone for the agency.
CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan Read More
In California’s ‘zombie’ forests, conifers have become mismatched to a warming climate.
Mapping California’s ‘Zombie’ Forests Read More
The Biden administration thinks it can preserve America’s technological primacy by cutting China off from advanced computer chips. Could the plan backfire?
‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China Read More
Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive.
Learning to code isn’t enough Read More
After discovering that a history of keyboards— from typewriters to iPhones—had yet to be written, designer and typographer Marcin Wichary got to work.
Shift happens: Writing about the history of keyboards Read More
Stacy Horn set out to create something new and very New York. She didn’t expect it to last so long.
The inside story of New York City’s 34-year-old social network, ECHO Read More
The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago.
How AI is helping historians better understand our past Read More
Imagine a world in which developers and operators of systems exploit attackers as much as attackers exploit defenders. By leveraging system-design knowledge and modern computing to deploy deception environments, software engineering teams can successfully bamboozle attackers for fun and profit while deepening systems resilience.
Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception Read More
The time is way overdue for IT engineers to be subject to professional liability, like almost every other engineering profession.
The Software Industry Is Still the Problem Read More
We will most likely never do better than a best guess at computing’s carbon footprint, but given uncertainties it would be safer and more responsible to act on the assumption that higher estimates could be closer to the truth—especially since the pace of warming has exceeded our expectations at every point. But in big-picture terms, the difference between 1.8% and 3.9% does not fundamentally change our mission: computing’s emissions must be reduced urgently and drastically. How are we going to achieve this?
Our House Is On Fire: The Climate Emergency and Computing’s Responsibility Read More
Verified AI is the goal of achieving strong, ideally provable assurances of correctness and trustworthiness of AI systems with respect to mathematically specified requirements. Five challenge areas for verified AI: Environment modelling, Formal specification, Modeling learning systems, Scalable formal engines, and Correct-by-construction design.
Toward Verified Artificial Intelligence Read More