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Offensive security (OffSec) is a proactive cybersecurity approach aimed at identifying and eliminating vulnerabilities in ...

Dismissing academic computing research as irrelevant, given the size of Big Tech, would be a grave mistake.

As darkness fell over the land of Entities, everyone hurried to submit their daily activity reports for Masterodes review.

The use of AI systems developed without a primary consideration of accountable explainability could have the polluting effect of nudging people toward superficial and thus dogmatic thinking. ACM ...

A specific case of the general bureaucratization of science threatens to make conferences irrelevant.

ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to ...

Communications of the ACM (CACM) is the ACM’s flagship magazine. It is sent to all ACM members and its articles are available open access. Although CACM has long had a strong academic and research ...

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A look at ransomware, its ecosystems, the impact of its attacks, and the tactics of its attackers. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are ...