Communications of the ACM
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March 2022
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Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
Data was used to enable harassment, may aid financial fraud.
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Cyber War Talks Heat Up at U.N. With Russia at Table
Group is trying to define what is acceptable in cyberspace.
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Surfing the Metaverse's Real Estate Boom
High prices have pushed some toward collective ownership, but the future of virtual properties is uncertain.
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Artificial Neurons Go Quantum with Photonic Circuits
Researchers demonstrated a quantum memristor on an integrated quantum processor operating on single photons in an effort to link artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
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Estimating the Pace of Change
An international research team has developed a new method for determining the pace of change.
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Hundreds of HP Printer Models Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution
HP issued security advisories for three critical-severity vulnerabilities impacting its LaserJet Pro, Pagewide Pro, OfficeJet, Enterprise, Large Format, and DeskJet printer models.
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UPS Expands Deal with Google Cloud to Prepare for Surge in Data
United Parcel Service has expanded its deal with Google Cloud, which will involve greater network, storage, and computing capacity.
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Europeans Wary of New Digital Identity
Rollout of European Digital Identity sparks Big Brother-type fears.
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Spam Texts From Your Own Number? 'Bad Actors' Sent Them, Verizon Says
The wireless carrier said that it was working with the F.B.I. and the Secret Service to investigate a recent wave of fraudulent messages, but said the source did not appear to be Russian hackers.
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HSBC Working with IBM to Accelerate Quantum Computing Readiness
Bank envisions application of quantum capabilities for priorities such as pricing and portfolio optimisation, sustainability, risk, and fraud
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Researchers Protect Solar Technologies from Cyberattack
University of Georgia researchers unveiled a sensor system that watches power electronic converters at solar energy farms for signs of cyberattack in real time.
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3D-Printed Tablets Offer Taste of Personalized Medicine
Researchers at the U.K.'s University College London have demonstrated that three-dimensional printing could be used to produce personalized medicines.
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'Momentum Computing' Pushes Technology's Thermodynamic Limits
Two University of California, Davis researchers have proposed a computational method for dissipating a small fraction of the heat generated by conventional computer circuitry.
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Speed Limit of Computers Detected
Researchers have determined that a microchip's maximum signal transmission speed is about 1 petahertz, roughly 100,000 times faster than current transistors.
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ACM Turing Award Honors Jack Dongarra
Dongarra's algorithms and software fueled the growth of high-performance computing and had significant impacts in many areas of computational science, from AI to computer graphics.
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Tiny, Cheap Solution for Quantum-Secure Encryption
Researchers at Washington State University in St. Louis have proposed a quantum-secure system that is inexpensive, convenient, and scalable.
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A Robot Small Enough to Explore the Lungs
A new magnetic tentacle robot is tiny enough to take tissue samples from the lung's smallest bronchial vessels, or to deliver cancer therapy.
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Behold, a Password Phishing Site that Can Trick Even Savvy Users
A proof-of-concept "browser in the browser" exploit could phish passwords using a malicious site that does not contain suspicious domains or substitute letters.
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Starfall: Finding a Meteorite with Drones and AI
Neural network used to spot a space rock in the Australian outback.
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Does Social Media Make Teens Unhappy? It May Depend on Their Age
A large study in Britain found two specific windows of adolescence when some teenagers are most sensitive to social media.
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Do EV Charging Stations Open the Power Grid to Attack?
Electric vehicle Charging Station Management Systems need greater focus on security.
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Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine
The biggest hack since Russia's war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
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Greece's National Postal Service Restoring Systems After Ransomware Attack
ELTA has released multiple updates on the situation after reporting on Monday that it was struggling to deal with a ransomware attack they discovered on Sunday evening.
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Corrupted Open Source Software Enters the Russian Battlefield
A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus.
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Europe's Digital Markets Act Takes a Hammer to Big Tech
The EU targets tech giants' walled gardens with aggressive new rules, but the smaller companies the DMA is meant to help are skeptical it will work.
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Deepfakes Trying to Change the Course of War
Deepfake videos are being used to manipulate the course of the war in Ukraine.
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A Tool for Predicting the Future
A group of researchers has developed a system that allows nonexperts to generate predictions in just a few seconds.
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Robotized Insects May Search Collapsed Buildings for Survivors
Researchers have developed robotized insects that could be used to search for survivors in collapsed buildings.
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Food Businesses Lose Faith in Instagram After Algorithm Changes
The change of Instagram's algorithm to prioritize videos over photos has put a damper on the social media strategies of small food businesses.
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Honda's Asimo Robot to Retire After 20-Year Career Wowing the Public
Honda has been developing the Asimo bipedal humanoid robot since 2000 with the goal of developing robots that will coexist with and be useful to people.