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
Moshe Vardi on having the difficult conversation about technology and social responsibility.
Considering the Impact of Technology on Society 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
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
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.—Freeman Dyson
Technology’s Impact on Morality Read More
The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation Read More
Our challenge is to ensure new technologies support us as humans, not ceding our control to them, or letting them make us dumber.
We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies Read More
As financial pressures on climate risk and reputation grow, computing industry executives have made new commitments to reduce carbon emissions and impact.
Good, Better, Best: How Sustainable Should Computing Be? Read More
Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
Russia Is Leaking Data Like a Sieve Read More
In Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace, researchers Ryan Ellis and Yuan Stevens provide a window into the working lives of hackers who participate in “bug bounty” programs—programs that hire hackers to discover and report bugs or other vulnerabilities in their systems.
Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace Read More
While the Russian invasion rages on the ground, companies that operate data-collecting satellites find themselves in an awkward position.
High Above Ukraine, Satellites Get Embroiled in the War Read More
On Friday, online access was curtailed by both Russian censors and Western businesses as the war in Ukraine became a reason for moves that limited free access to the Internet.
A new iron curtain is descending across Russia’s Internet Read More
The decision to block an “expert” level cyberattack has caused controversy inside Google after it emerged that the hackers in question were working for a US ally.
Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation Read More
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.
The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower Read More
I haven’t been online in almost two decades. Being able to would help me prepare for life after my release.
Why prisoners like me need internet access Read More
Technology doesn’t rule us. We direct it, but often by inaction.
The dangerous appeal of technology-driven futures Read More
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story. Read More
Technology has completely transformed the global food supply system, yet still hasn’t brought an end to hunger. For that to happen, the choices we need to make are political, not technological.
Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profit Read More