Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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The Mystery of Google Street View's Blurred Brooklyn Brownstone
We've all had shifty neighbors.
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How Secure Is the Papal Election?
As the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope, security people like me wonder about the process. How does it work, and just how hard would it be to hack...
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The Definitive Story of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Phone Phreaking
Like the flap of a butterfly's wings causing a hurricane half a world away, the ripples of unintended consequences from Ron Rosenbaum's "Secrets of the Little Blue...
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Funding Successful Research
A proposal for result-based funding for research projects.
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Can Computer Professionals and Digital Technology Engineers Help Reduce Gun Violence?
Ten idea seeds.
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Moods, Wicked Problems, and Learning
Wicked problems and learning environments present tough mood challenges for leaders and teachers. Telepresence and sensory gadgets are unlikely to replace physical...
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Academic Careers Workshop For Underrepresented Groups
A longitudinal evaluation of the application of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of ACW participants.
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A Copyright Challenge to Resales of Digital Music
A currently pending case will have significant implications for secondary markets in digital goods.
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How Samsung Is Out-Innovating Apple
There's no arguing that Apple set the standard for modern mobile devices with the iPhone and the iPad. It didn't take long after those two products launched for...
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View from Iran: World Needs Rules on Cyberattacks
The world needs a new international legal instrument on cyberspace, in light of the new waves of trans-border cyberattacks that have become a disturbing aspect...
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Apple’s Next Innovation: TV
Steve Jobs couldn't hide his frustration. Asked at a technology conference in 2010 whether Apple might finally turn its attention to television, he launched into...
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Letter 'to a Future Woman in Tech' Hopes For Long Ladies' Room Lines at Conferences
Stacey Mulcahy, who is currently a lead developer at the digital creative agency Big Spaceship, has been in the tech industry since 2001.
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DHS: Border Device Search Policy Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment
The Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has determined that the DHS’s warrantless, and often suspicion-less, search and...
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President Obama's Cybersecurity Executive Order Scores Much Better Than CISPA On Privacy
With the reintroduction of the much-maligned Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act scheduled for the day after the State of the Union, the House of Representatives...
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Apple and Samsung, Frenemies For Life
It was the late Steve Jobs' worst nightmare. A powerful Asian manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, uses Google Inc's Android software to create smartphones...
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The Threat of Silence
For the past few months, some of the world's leading cryptographers have been keeping a closely guarded secret about a pioneering new invention.
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Can Machines Learn Morality?
When John Brennan, President Obama's choice to be the next head of the CIA, appeared before a Senate committee yesterday, one question supplanted all others at...
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Texas School Board Searching For "another Side" to Theory of Evolution
We recently reviewed the documentary The Revisionaries, which chronicles the actions of the Texas state school board as it attempted to rewrite the science and...
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