Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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A Retreat For Google Glass and a Case Study in the Perils of Making Hardware
You won't have Glass to kick around anymore. At least not for a while.
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Why the Silk Road Trial Matters
Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library...
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Why Cheap Cameras and Boring Sensors Make the Best Smart Home Stuff
The twin fixations of CES this year are, to no one's surprise, wearable technology and the internet of things.
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If the Supreme Court Tackles the Nsa in 2015, It'll Be One of These Five Cases
Roughly a year and a half since the first Snowden disclosures, there's already been a judicial order to shut down the National Security Agency's bulk metadata collection...
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The Biggest Security Threats We'll Face in 2015
As the clock strikes midnight on the new year, so begins the countdown to a new round of security threats and breaches that doubtless will unfold in 2015. But this...
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This Year's 8 Smartest i Design Ideas
When your family gathered for the holidays this year, did you take note of the technology everyone was using?
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What It Means to Receive the Turing Award
The Turing Award gives us a unique opportunity to become ambassadors of our wonderful field. It increases our outside visibility and enables us to build bridges...
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Does the Internet Make Us Stupid?
Yes, but this may not be as bad as it sounds…
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Wearables: Has the Age of Smartwatches Finally Arrived?
Time will tell if smartwatches will find their niche.
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The Tears of Donald Knuth
Has the history of computing taken a tragic turn?
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A Right to Be Forgotten?
Searching for an answer to the question of how much responsibility search engine operators should bear for privacy-related issues connected to search engine results...
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How Traditional Firms Must Compete in the Sharing Economy
Considering the evolving relationship between established companies and their sharing-economy counterparts.
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The Lesson of the Sony Hack: We Should All Jump to the 'erasable Internet'
This month's news provides yet another occasion for a friendly public-service reminder to anyone who uses a digital device to say anything to anyone, ever.
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How to Conquer the Galaxy on a Computer
Space is big. Really big. And not just in terms of the mind-boggingly vast distances between the stars and planets out there in the Universe at large.
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What Are Moocs Good For?
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...
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Ransomware Is the Future of Consumer Cybercrime
It's 2020, bitter cold outside, you’re running late for work, and the Linux box that controls your car isn't going to start unless you wire $20 worth of Bitcoin...
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