Communications of the ACM
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March 2022
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Study Finds Parents' Social Media Use Associated with Parenting Style
Researchers found a link between parents’ social media use and their parenting styles.
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Making Quantum Circuits More Robust
A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a framework to make quantum circuits more resilient to noise.
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Restricted Internet Access Could Be Key to Academic Gains
Researchers found that providing Internet access, with the right controls, can help students achieve academic gains, and can even substitute for textbooks in schools with scarce resources.
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Europe Says Yes to Messaging Interoperability As It Agrees on Major New Regime for Big Tech
The regulation has been years in the making and is set to usher in a radically different ex ante regime for the most powerful tech platforms
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Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?
Apple's newest smartphone models use machine learning to make every image look professionally taken. That doesn't mean the photos are good.
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EU Takes Aim at Big Tech's Power With Landmark Digital Act
The European Union was expected to finalize the Digital Markets Act, the most sweeping legislation to regulate tech since a European privacy law was passed in 2018.
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12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2022
The 2022 AI Index talks jobs, investments, ethics, and more.
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Leveraging AI to Work with Cells
Researchers developed a new version of their Nanofountain Probe Electroporation tool to execute cell engineering tasks using artificial intelligence.
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Robot Truckers Could Replace 500K U.S. Jobs
Autonomous driving engineers are developing driverless trucks for long-haul freight that runs along simple interstate routes.
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Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-friendly
All five of the biggest publicly traded crypto mining companies are developing, or already operating, plants powered by renewable energy.
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Hackers Hit Authentication Firm Okta, Customers 'May Have Been Impacted'
Authentication services provider Okta reported a hacker breach that may have impacted some of its customers.
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Anonymous Claims it Hacked Russia's Central Bank
Group has already leaked thousands of Kremlin documents relating to the war.
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Email as Therapy
Many people find in-person counseling threatening, and may prefer the flexibility of message-based mental health services.
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The FTC's New Enforcement Weapon Spells Death for Algorithms
It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction.
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Moore's Law: Scientists Just Made a Graphene Transistor Gate the Width of an Atom
To be clear, the work is a proof of concept: the researchers haven't meaningfully scaled the approach.
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Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.
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Most People are Cool with Implanting Chips in Their Brains, but Only if They Can Turn Them Off
More than three-quarters of U.S. adults polled were against surgically implanting a chip in their brains to improve their cognitive abilities.
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How Native Americans Try to Debug AI's Biases
At the recent American Indian Science and Engineering Society, students in a workshop created metadata to train an algorithm to understand an image's cultural significance.
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The March of the Penguins Has a New Star: An Autonomous Robot
Researchers built a ground vehicle that may be operated in autonomous or remote-controlled modes to study hundreds of Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
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ACM, CSTA Announce 2021–22 Cutler-Bell Student Winners
Four students were recognized for their engagement in computer science.
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CISA Warning: Russian Actors Bypassed 2FA
What happened, how to avoid it.
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Russia Finds Meta Guilty of 'Extremist Activity,' but WhatsApp Can Stay
Moscow court says Meta engaged in "extremist activity."
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A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
FIDO is looking to get to the heart of what still makes passwordless schemes tough to navigate.
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Helping A.I. to Learn About Indigenous Cultures
Data on Native communities are not at the levels needed for accuracy in A.I.-driven tools. A group is trying to solve that problem.
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Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-Friendly
Facing intense criticism, the crypto mining industry is trying to change the view that its energy-guzzling computers are harmful to the climate.
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The Workaday Life of the World's Most Dangerous Ransomware Gang
A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,000 messages from inside Conti. Here's what they reveal.
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Announcing the 2022 AI Index Report
The AI Index tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence.
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Leaked Ransomware Docs Show Conti Helping Putin From the Shadows
Members of the hacker gang may act in Russia's interest, but their links to the FSB and Cozy Bear hackers appear ad hoc.
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Dual Use of AI-powered Drug Discovery
An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons.
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Battery-free Devices Float on the Wind like Dandelion Seeds
University of Washington researchers have developed a tiny battery-free device that can be blown by wind currents, like dandelion seeds.