Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Three Paradoxes of Building Platforms
Insights into creating China's Taobao online marketplace ecosystem.
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We Need a Building Code For Building Code
A proposal for a framework for code requirements addressing primary sources of vulnerabilities for building systems.
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Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
About a half-billion dollars worth of it vanished from an online exchange in Tokyo.
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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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Blackhat Brings Some Hacking Realism to Hollywood, but to What Effect?
During one scene in the upcoming hacker action movie Blackhat, a team is sent into the control room of a burned-out nuclear power plant to gather clues about the...
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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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Robots Are Sneaking p On Congress (along with Four Other Tech Trends)
One of the best Twitter accounts inside the Beltway or out—belongs to former representativeJohn Dingell (D-Mich.), who announced his retirement with self-effacing...
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The Little-Known Programming Problem Inside Dynamic Scoring
Dynamic scoring, as adopted on Jan. 6 by the House of Representatives, seems like the ultimate no-brainer.
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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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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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