Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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The Fbi's New Wiretapping Plan Is Great News For Criminals
The FBI wants a new law that will make it easier to wiretap the Internet.
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How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code
Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn.
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The Banality of 'don’t Be Evil'
"The New Digital Age" is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared...
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Why the Html5 Standard Fight Matters
Today, EFF announced that it was making a formal objection to including consideration of digital rights management (DRM) in the First Public Working Draft from...
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Why Moma Is Exhibiting Tetris and Pac-Man
Last November, the Museum of Modern Art said that it had acquired 14 videogames, adding working copies and the source code of games like Tetris and The Sims to...
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Why the New Google-Nasa Partnership Marks a New Era in the History of Computing
It's easy to become jaded about announcements in the tech world.
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Search Me: Online Reputation Management
A few weeks ago, I Googled a pub to find out where it was.
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Flame One Year Later
It's been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery...
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Government Plan to Build 'back Doors' For Online Surveillance Could Create Dangerous Vulnerabilities
Recently, the FBI has been attacking the "going dark" problem—that is, its inability to read all electronic communications—from both legal and technological angles...
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...
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Jony Ive's New Look For Ios 7: Black, White, and Flat All Over
With the grand unveiling of Apple’s next operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch approaching, sources have provided detailed descriptions of what...
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Thoughts on Pew's Latest Report: Notable Findings on Race and Privacy
Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about "Teens, Social Media, and Privacy." As a researcher who's...
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Swamped By Automation
Whenever someone asks you to trust them, don't.
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Thumb Numbers
Rules of thumb stated as numerical rules are enticing, but many are folk theorems that may not apply in your critical situation.
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Learning from the Past to Face the Risks of Today
The Space Shuttle software program can provide guidance to today's projects.
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Steve Jobs' Dream Device Has Arrived
Just before he died, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson about his dream for revolutionizing television.
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Will Giving the Internet Eyes and Ears Mean the End of Privacy?
The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool.
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