Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Inside Facebook, Twitter and Google's AI Battle Over Your Social Lives
When you sign up for Facebook on your phone, the app isn't just giving you the latest updates and photos from your friends and family.
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Microsoft Calls for Regulation of Facial Recognition, Saying It's Too Risky to Leave to Tech Industry Alone
Microsoft is calling for government regulation on facial-recognition software, one of its key technologies, saying such artificial intelligence is too important...
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New Insider Attack Steals Passwords by Reading Thermal Energy From Keyboards
A new insider attack strategy involving the measurement of thermal energy from keyboards has demonstrated the ability to expose passwords.
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Facebook's Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms
When Facebook rolled out facial recognition tools in the European Union this year, it promoted the technology as a way to help people safeguard their online identities...
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Researchers Discover Android Apps Spying on sers' Screens
An analysis of Android apps found “several” clandestinely recording and sharing video and images of users' screens.
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Girl Scouts Are Learning to Pick Locks, Hack Computers
The Girl Scouts are hosting workshops to teach members the basics in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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Dutch Police Fight Crime by Cracking PGP Phones
Forensic hacking puts criminals behind bars.
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Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.
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4G Is Vulnerable to Same Types of Attacks as 3G, Researchers Say
A new report has found the 4G wireless telecommunications protocol is susceptible to the same types of remote exploitation as 3G.
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In Search of New Rules to Protect Other Worlds From Earth's Cooties
NASA has to start protecting planets better. The international treaty governing space—there is one—and the laws and regulations that follow it date back to the...
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Security Gaps Identified in LTE Mobile Telephony Standard
Cyberattackers are abusing security weaknesses in the LTE mobile telephony standard that affect all devices using the network.
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I Never Said That! High-Tech Deception of 'Deepfake' Videos
Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?
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Why Are Countries Creating Public Random Number Generators?
In Chile, politicians resent the Comptroller General, which audits government officials to prevent corruption.
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Cybersecurity Goes to Summer Camp
University of Virginia researchers are training educators on how to teach cybersecurity to adolescents through a summer camp program.
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Wi-Fi Security Is Starting to Get its Biggest pgrade in Over a Decade
The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying products that support WPA3, a major security advance over the WPA2 protocol that has been in use since 2004.
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Adobe Is Using AI to Catch Photoshopped Images
While picture editors have tweaked images for decades, modern tools like Adobe Photoshop let them alter photos to the point of complete fabrication.
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How Deep Learning Is Making Computers Better at Guessing Your Passwords
A machine learning technique can make computers up to 24% better at guessing passwords.
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Bringing the Internet to the (Developing) World
A growing number of low-cost (and free!) solutions aim to open the Internet to developing regions.
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