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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No Perfect Solution in Apple's Privacy vs. Child Safety Debate
How do opponents to Apple's child safety features calculate risk, and more importantly, what alternatives do they propose?
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Testing Educational Digital Games
Diversifying usability studies utilizing rapid application development.
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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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Could Cyberwar Make the World Safer?
Perhaps, if nations can settle for slugging it out online, rather than with guns and missiles?
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Technology Is Making It Harder to Be a Moral Person
Are digital distractions such as social media and smartphones making us less ethical?
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New SEC Boss Wants More Crypto Oversight to Protect Investors
Gary Gensler says regulation can help new technologies grow.
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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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Let the Linux Kernel Rust
Rust is creeping into the Linux kernel, which could mean a very important step forward in terms of security.
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What Do Developers Want and Need from Secure Coding Training?
There is still confusion about the role developers play in software security
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The Crackdown in China Is a Hot Mess, and It's Coming for Us
Recent moves by the Chinese government against tech companies represent a terrifying government action.
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Governing AI Safety through Independent Audits
Governance of highly automated systems is critical to garner widespread public trust
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How Higher Ed Can Win at Tech Offense and Defense
To live in a world that is enhanced rather than oppressed by technology, we need to change its culture from one of opportunism to one in the public interest
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What Does Saying That 'Programming Is Hard' Really Say, and About Whom?
Shifting the focus from the perceived difficulty of learning programming to making programming more universally accessible.
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The Domestic Computer Science Graduate Students Are There, We Just Need to Recruit Them
Proven practices to recruit domestic computer science graduate students.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Intelligence Community
The intelligence community's budget and acquisition processes rise to the top of the issues it must address before it can take full advantage of AI
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FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter: Why Today's Data Privacy Approaches Don't Work
The era of the Federal Trade Commission being dismissed as having some bark and little bite appears to be over.
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Algorithmic Impact Assessments Should Leverage Diverse Expertise and Complex Histories
There is a pressing need to establish algorithmic impact assessment practices from the ground up.
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An Interview with Jim Keller: 'The Laziest Person at Tesla'
Veteran chip designer covers his past lives, Moore's Law, AI-designed chips, security, ethics, and more.
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