The Bay Area is losing the data center race. Economists say that could be a good thing

The Bay Area is the runaway leader in artificial intelligence. But data centers, the physical architecture needed for AI computing, are a different story - and energy shortfalls are a key reason.

CyberVolk’s ransomware debut stumbles on cryptography weakness

The pro-Russia hacktivist group CyberVolk launched a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called VolkLocker that suffered from ...
Communications of the ACM

Strengthening Safety Boundaries for Evolving AI Agents

As AI agents gain greater autonomy, they also increase risks for organizations. The explosive rise of generative models, ...
GitHub

Computer Organization and Assembly Language

The practice files are from Task1 to Task26, and Acute Triangle, Right Triangle, Diamond, VowelCount, Xenzia and Xenzia1. Write a program which adds five numbers using memory variables n1, n2, n3, n4, ...
The New York Times

You’re a Computer Science Major. Don’t Panic.

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...
CNN

A seismic shift in computing is on the horizon (and it’s not AI)

Quantum computing could be hugely influential when it comes to cryptography and cybersecurity since it can be used to break codes used to protect data, said Natarajan. “So that’s also a major ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

The Geometric Code: Genome’s 3D Shape Functions as the Living Computer that Enabled Complex Life

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?
Android Authority

First look: Google's new 'EyeDropper' app will help you pick colors in Android 17

Google is developing a native color picker tool called “EyeDropper” that is expected to be released with Android 17. This new app will provide a system-wide API, allowing any app to let users select a ...
The Conversation

The world’s most sensitive computer code is vulnerable to attack. A new encryption method can help

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...
GeekWire

Code.org CEO rips NY Times for stoking ‘populist fears’ over computer science jobs and AI

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...
Education Week

AI Can Generate Code. Is That a Threat to Computer Science Education?

Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...