CACM News

Senior Editor/News for ACM Magazines, the publications of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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The use of AI coding tools continues to accelerate even as trust declines and risks proliferate. https://t.co/hia81SPzht

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Building Qubits from Neutral Atoms
Google and others are exploring neutral atom quantum computing.
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Preventing IT Outages: How to Spot a Reliable Critical Communications Partner

Organizations must learn why outages of business-critical communications occur and how to take proactive measures. https://t.co/b8HA9zcHxI

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Investing in Workers to Work with AI

Training encourages workers to utilize AI tools to their fullest and allays fears AI will replace them. https://t.co/w26adqoJNn

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Better Than the Truth: From AI Hallucinations to Imaginations

There are situations where AI hallucinations can be productive. https://t.co/2J8INr6joT

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Teaching AI to Simulate Nature, Faster

Neural operators are finding application in multi-scale physics. https://t.co/nOiOJ7u2tN

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I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

An engineer describes how he used modern AI to make the P vs. NP problem more tractable. https://t.co/rAKrKdlTpC

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The Most-Used AI Agent in the World Won on Memory, Not Intelligence

The distinction between reasoning and memory matters more in production than any benchmark score acknowledges. https://t.co/xpk8ejVq3a

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Multimodal Prompts to Integrate Your Affect

Interfaces like Decision Catalyst give users feedback and more chances to reflect on how they communicate with AI systems and with others. https://t.co/6ysHhyiZQf

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Why Systems Engineering Increasingly Sets the Pace of AI Progress

AI progress has become infrastructure-bound. https://t.co/aJqhHuUX6W

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Mitigating Data Breaches

Why companies keep collecting data they’re unable to protect. https://t.co/CPGSgzkDyc

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In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932-2026)

For seven decades, Neumann chronicled how computer systems fail and patiently advocated for the principles that make them fail less often. https://t.co/LF8rVyzXfk

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Decoding Dreams with AI

Researchers are using brain scanning tools and AI to reconstruct and decipher dreams, and possibly diagnose mental health conditions. https://t.co/CzMOyY6q7u

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Good Vibes: AI Coding Tools and Platforms

Expert developers and unskilled users are tapping into the ever-expanding expertise of AI coding assistants and agents. https://t.co/CTsR2UnbrQ

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Stop Trusting Just Your Dashboard

A clear image of what success looks like is your best protection from getting fooled by pretty dashboards. https://t.co/p6gFoxVMoi

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Are AI Agents becoming Autonomous Coworkers?

It's advisable to have strong governance and security for AI agent coworkers. https://t.co/xV2SssjCD8

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The Return of Soft Skills in the Age of GenAI and Agentic Software Development

Agentic-SE encompasses both agentic coding and the use of GenAI tools in software engineering processes. https://t.co/HalZRxcYTO

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Connecting Software and Manufacturing Through APIs

The role of APIs in making connections and reducing friction. https://t.co/EzTfWH3nql

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The Hidden Privacy Cost of Screenshot Collection in Computing Research

https://t.co/dGkWTmIVsd

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Beyond LLMs: A Post-Transformer World Emerges

A focus of the next decade might be on teaching AI how to master reality and understand how things work in the physical world. https://t.co/u4dlAckgs0