Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Why Facebook Can't Fix Fake News
Imagine going on Facebook and finding no political posts—just your friends and their updates.
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Silicon Valley Reels After Trump's Election
Silicon Valley's luminaries woke up Wednesday morning to a darkened new global order, one that the ceaseless optimism of their tech-powered visions seemed suddenly...
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Trump’s Win Signals Open Season for Russia's Political Hackers
Yesterday, America elected as president the apparently preferred candidate of Russia's intelligence agencies.
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What the Trump Win Means For Tech, Science, and Beyond
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump will now become the 45th president, succeeding President Barack Obama.
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The Security Challenges of Online Voting Have Not Gone Away
Online voting is sometimes heralded as a solution to all our election headaches.
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It's Finally Legal To Hack Your Own Devices (even Your Car)
You may have thought that if you owned your digital devices, you were allowed to do whatever you like with them.
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The Next President Will Face a Cybercrisis Within 100 Days, Predicts Report
The next U.S. president will face a cybercrisis in the first 100 days of their presidency, research firm Forrester predicts in a new report.
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How Twitter Bots Are Shaping the Election
There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But statistics mean different things to different people. Take Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, for instance.
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America Isn't Ready For a Cyberattack
The recent cyberattack that rendered more than 1,200 websites unreachable was a warning. Experts say a similar, or larger, attack could be launched tomorrow, and...
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E-Voting Refuses to Die Even Though It's Neither Secure Nor Secret
In theory, using the internet or e-mail to vote for the U.S. president sounds like a good idea.
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Technology and Academic Lives
Considering the need to create new modes of interaction and approaches to assessment given a rapidly evolving academic realm.
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Time to Reinspect the Foundations?
Questioning if computer science is outgrowing its traditional foundations.
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Growing Computer Science Education Into a STEM Education Discipline
Seeking to make computing education as available as mathematics or science education.
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Fair Use Prevails in Oracle v. Google
Two software giants continue with legal sparring after an initial judicial decision.
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Cyber Defense Triad For Where Security Matters
Dramatically more trustworthy cyber security is a choice.
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Who Oversees Data Brokers Selling Your Personal Info? No One
You probably already know that you have precious little privacy, and that shadowy data brokers have built the buying and selling of people’s personal information...
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The Decline in Chinese Cyberattacks: The Story Behind the Numbers
Last summer, an audience of government officials, military personnel, and foreign ambassadors gathered in Aspen, Colorado, to hear John Carlin, then an assistant...
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Vulnerability Is the Internet's Original Sin
On the day (perhaps not long from now) when the entire internet crashes, no one will be able to say that we didn’t see it coming.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Long March to China
For U.S. Internet businesses, China is the land of moral defeat.
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