Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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The F.c.c. Wants to Let Telecoms Cash In on the Internet
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission wants to let Comcast, Verizon and other broadband companies turn the internet into a latter-day version of...
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Connectivity Hacking Back Makes a Comeback—but It's Still a Really Bad Idea
In spite of the billions of dollars companies collectively spend each year on cyberdefenses, hackers keep defeating them.
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Google, Amazon Find Not Everyone Is Ready For AI
Executives at ascendant tech titans like Amazon and Google tend to look down on their predecessor IBM.
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Apple Is Sharing Your Face with Apps. That's a New Privacy Worry.
Poop that mimics your facial expressions was just the beginning.
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The Genesis of Kuri, the Friendly Home Robot
Over the course of thousands of years, dogs have evolved alongside humans to be awesome.
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Five Ways to Fix Statistics
As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recommend one change...
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Lousy Advice to the Lovelorn
The 37% rule is rarely applicable in real-world situations. It is certainly entirely wrong-headed as advice for getting married.
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The Death of Big Software
We are past the tipping point in the transition away from 20th-century big software architectures.
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Community Colleges: A Resource For Increasing Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science Education
Challenging a simplistic pathway metaphor.
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The Forgotten Engineer
Engineering has been marginalized by the unhealthy belief that engineering is the application of science.
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Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality
Back in 2005, a small phone company based in North Carolina named Madison River began preventing its subscribers from making phone calls using the internet application...
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The Tech Giants' Secret War Against Fake News Is Too Secret
Facebook, Google, and Twitter have a problem with harmful content.
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Borders in the Cloud
Amazon may well be one of the companies with the strongest data security in the world.
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How Evil Is Tech?
Can tech companies take the actions necessary to prevent their companies from becoming social pariahs?
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Q&a: The Ethics of sing Brain Implants to pgrade Yourself
Neurotechnology is one of the hottest areas of engineering, and the technological achievements sound miraculous: Paralyzed people have controlled robotic limbs and ...
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How Driverless Cars Will Change the Feel of Cities
It's 6 p.m. in Tempe, Arizona and pitch-black outside. I'm standing in the middle of a five-lane thoroughfare, among a group of people too numerous for the narrow...
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It's Time to Tax Companies For sing Our Personal Data
The personal data that users give to a company in exchange for a product or service is worth by some estimates $1,000 per person per year. Companies shouldn't...
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The Real Lesson of that Self-Driving Shuttle's First-Day Accident
Wednesday was supposed to be the triumphant launch of a free, driverless shuttle in downtown Las Vegas.
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