Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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A Developer's Guide to Machine-Learning Security
Countering adversarial attacks means understanding the different types as well as the ML weak spots
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How GitHub COO Erica Brescia Runs the Coding Gold Mines
Tech leader discusses the state of GitHub's infrastructure, open source software philosophies, and more
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Who's Building the Foundation Models of the Future?
Curation, auditing, and evaluation of so-called 'foundation models' should not be left to the tech industry.
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Where Should Information Go to Be Safe?
Enterprise data is safest in the cloud and in the 'fog', according to one expert
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Tesla's Dojo Is Impressive, but It Won't Transform Supercomputing
Dojo's reported performance numbers and niche application place it outside the ranks of true supercomputers
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Protecting the Global Internet from Technology Cold Wars
Considering the perceived dangers of the global information flow.
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How Big Data Carried Graph Theory into New Dimensions
Researchers are turning to the mathematics of higher-order interactions to better model complex connections in data
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Now That Machines Can Learn, Can They Unlearn?
Researchers are testing whether they can remove sensitive data without retraining AI systems from scratch
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Why One of Ethereum's Cofounders Is Walking Away from Crypto
Anthony Di Iorio discusses his exit, the trends behind crypto's rise, risk, security, and changes coming to Ethereum
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Infrastructure Bill's Cryptocurrency Surveillance Provision Is Privacy Disaster
Mandate to collect customer data would force companies related to cryptocurrency to surveil users
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L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
How relevant are the fallacies today?
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The Privacy Battle that Apple Isn't Fighting
California has begun enforcing a browser-level privacy setting, but you still can't find that option in Safari or iOS
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Computational Sustainability Meets Materials Science
Exploiting synergies between the disciplines advances both fields and can help establish a sustainable future.
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Everyone Should Decide How Their Digital Data Is Used—Not Just Tech Cos.
Smartphones, sensors, and consumer habits reveal much about society. Too few people have a say in how the data is created and used.
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Kubernetes Magic Is in Enterprise Standardization, Not App Portability
Kubernetes isn't going to magically make your applications portable, but it just might give you something even better.
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Non-Relational's Quiet Revolution in Databases
It's no longer exciting to talk about the rise of non-relational databases, but it's happening all the same.
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Q&A with Google's Bill Magro
Google's new chief technologist of HPC talks quantum computers, AI, cloud, silicone packaging, interconnect technology, and expanding HPC's reach.
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How Do We Stop the Supercomputing Carbon Crisis?
Efficiency measures are struggling to keep pace with, let alone make headway on, the accelerating demands of modern supercomputers.
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Neo4j's $325 Million Venture Suggests Databases Are Cool Again
Relational databases aren't dead, but database innovation is cropping up in all sorts of places now, including graph databases.
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