Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Outsourcing Responsibility
What do you do when your debugger fails you?
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Risks and Myths of Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage
Considering existing and new types of risks inherent in cloud services.
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The Bitcoin Ecosystem
Speculating on how the Bitcoin economy might evolve.
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Soft Infrastructure Challenges to Scientific Knowledge Discovery
Seeking to overcome nontechnical challenges to the scientific enterprise.
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Exploratory Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
Using theoretical models to plan for AI safety.
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Learning For the New Digital Age
Digital machines are automating knowledge work at an accelerating pace. How shall we learn and stay relevant?
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We Have Never Been Digital
Reflections on the intersection of computing and the humanities.
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Accountability in Future Internet Architectures
Can technical and legal aspects be happily intertwined?
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The Magic in Apple's Devices? The Heart
During the last seismic Apple announcement, in 2010, I was at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco as Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, a device he...
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It’s Tim Cook's Apple Now
The Tim Cook era at Apple emerged onto the public stage today in full force, and it bears subtle differences from Steve Jobs’s Apple.
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Our Cyborg Future
In June 2014, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Riley v. California, in which the justices unanimously ruled that police officers may not, without a...
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Want to Reform the Nsa? Give Edward Snowden Immunity
In 1970, Christopher Pyle disclosed in public writing that the U.S. Army was running a domestic intelligence program aimed at anti-war and civil-rights activists...
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The Hazards of Going on Autopilot
At 9:18 P.M. on February 12, 2009, Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air, took off from Newark International Airport.
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The Case For Kill Switches in Military Weaponry
This summer the insurgent group ISIS captured the Iraqi city of Mosul—and along with it, three army divisions' worth of U.S.-supplied equipment from the Iraqi army...
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Why Internet Governance Should Be Left to the Engineers
As the Internet and the disruptive innovations it spawns are becoming economically, politically, and culturally vital for the world’s three billion users (and counting)...
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How to Keep Photos of Your Naked Body Off the Internet
If you've been conscious at any point during the past 48 hours, you've probably heard about the slew of raunchy celeb selfies making their way around the internet...
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Satellites: Make Earth Observations Open Access
Changes in land cover affect the global climate by absorbing and reflecting solar radiation, and by altering fluxes of heat, water vapour, carbon dioxide and other...
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John Walker, the Navy Spy Who Defined Crypto-Betrayal, Dead at 77
This week, the man responsible for what is probably the biggest cryptographic failure in military history died—just a few months before he was due to be released...
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