Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake, Fueling a Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex
In last month's State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress to pass "legislation that will secure our country from the growing dangers of cyber...
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Tides Are Changing For Web Surfers
David Weinberger has a new book out entitled Too Big to Know in which he argues that one of the implications of a comprehensively networked society is that the...
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Apps For Ipad 3: What Apple Should Demo at the Grand nveiling
All indicators suggest Apple will unveil the iPad 3 during the first week of March. That’s less than a month away, and sources at The Next Web say Apple is in "crunch...
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Google Knows Too Much About You
If you use Google, and I know you do, you may have noticed a little banner popping up at the top of the page announcing: "We're changing our privacy policy and...
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Five Reasons The Robo-Car Haters Are Wrong
The self-driving cars we’ve been promised since the dawn of the auto age are here.
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Who Cares About Apple TV? Bring Us the Apple Car
The much-mythologized Apple television could be a terrible next step for the company.
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Rethinking the Soul As the 'net Becomes More Lifelike
Does the Internet have a soul?
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How to Tackle Cybersecurity
There is a right way and a wrong way to address cybersecurity.
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Beyond Sopa
We welcomed the collapse this month of two flawed bills to prevent online piracy, bills that could have stifled speech and undermined Internet safety. But piracy...
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Confessions of an Iphone Data Hog
I'm not on the run yet. But I've been warned. AT&T doesn't like what I'm doing.
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Time For Robots to Get Real
From robotic slug-killers to dancing humanoids, there's a lot of media buzz around robots.
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Coding For Success
Hoxton, we have a problem. Much has been written about how we need to improve the way we educate our children about technology. This is all great, but it's not...
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What Have We Learned About Software Engineering?
Upon closer examination, everything old appears to be new again in the realm of software engineering.
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Emotion and Security
Examining the role of human emotional response in making complex security-related decisions.
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Wanton Acts of Debuggery
Keep your debug messages clear, useful, and not annoying.
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Incentive Auctions
Reallocating valuable wireless spectrum can generate billions of dollars in revenue to the U.S. federal government while also benefiting consumers.
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Why The 'check Engine' Light Must Be Banned
It's pretty easy to dismiss the "check engine" light as just stupid, because, well, it is.
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Kidsruby 1.0 Released
So, you have a son or daughter who is showing some interest in computer programming, but you're not really sure where to start.
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