ACM TechNews

Al JazeeraBrazil will invest more than $440 million to expand its AI infrastructure while balancing technology partnerships between the U.S. and China. About $250 million will support a supercomputing project in Rio de Janeiro involving China’s

Fast CompanyAt the recent Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, AI helped security teams detect, assess, and respond to threats more efficiently. The event’s Network Operations Center used AI-powered agentic triage to analyze thousands of

The New York TimesGoogle unveiled a program allowing verified political candidates, parties, and political action committees (PACs) to more easily bypass Gmail’s spam filters and place fundraising emails in users’ inboxes. The policy, beginning Sept

Tom's HardwareLinux on Tuesday marked its 35th anniversary since Linus Torvalds announced the project in 1991 as a “hobby” operating system. Originally containing about 10,000 lines of code, the open-source kernel has grown to more than 40 million

Inside Higher EdAn analysis of 12.4 million U.S. student and recent-graduate profiles by online career network and job board Handshake found that nearly two-thirds of job candidates with AI experience are not computer science majors. Students are

The Washington PostThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) warns generative AI can credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, prompting the university to reconsider how courses and student work are evaluated. A committee report

TechRadarThe White House revised its National Security Science & Technology Strategy, removing high-performance data storage and datacenters from its list of “Critical and Emerging Technologies.” The change appears to reduce those technologies’

The Business Times (Singapore)China-linked hackers increasingly are using DeepSeek and other open-source AI models to automate and scale cyberattacks, according to Taiwanese cybersecurity firm TeamT5. Researchers say state-affiliated groups have more

Quantum InsiderCalifornia has awarded $9.7 million to a quantum initiative for the development of a Southern California (SoCal) quantum technology network focused on workforce training, shared testing facilities, regional coordination, and venture

Communications of the ACMACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Richard Edwin Stearns died on August 29 at 90. With Juris Hartmanis, Stearns received the Turing Award “in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of