A secret, years-long project to implant a backdoor in a widely used free software tool was only foiled by luck.
A Canada-wide health information technology system based on open-source software could save billions for the health-care system.
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Canada has spent billions on health-care software that does not even communicate province to province. Free and open-source software would be a technically superior and far less expensive option.
Making mistakes with spreadsheets can not only cause us personal frustration but can also lead to some very serious consequences.
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Assistive technology like screen readers for the blind help people with disabilities use computers and smartphones, but they can be tripped up if webpages or documents are improperly formatted.
Prolific and highly profitable, LockBit provides ransomware as a service. Aspiring cybercriminals sign up to the scheme, and the group takes a cut. Here’s how it works.
Under the hood of your digital life, APIs are making connections.
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How do all the different pieces of digital technology you use every day – weather apps, online banking, games and so on – talk to each other? Via application programming interfaces, or APIs.
Professor Barry Dwolatzky was passionate about innovation in all that he did.
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Metaphorical black boxes shield the inner workings of AIs, which protect software developers’ intellectual property. They also make it hard to understand how the AIs work – and why things go wrong.
You don’t have to see the future to know that AI has ethical baggage.
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Developing software used to require programming skills. Today, a growing number of people are building websites, games and even AI programs without writing a line of code.
The pandemic fuelled the market for educational technology providers to market hardware and software to Canadian school boards.
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New research shows gene name autocorrection remains a problem for genomics articles. Here’s why it’s a wake up call for research reproducibility.
Accessible technology is better for everyone, and accessible technology benefits when the people who rely on it most help build it.
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Developers with disabilities are in the best position to build accessible technology, but they face a Catch-22 – most technology design tools themselves are not particularly accessible.
Artificial intelligence requires machines, processing power and energy consumption, among other things. Often, we’re unaware of the presence of this infrastructure around us.
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Artificial intelligence is supported by an infrastructure of hardware and software that is growing increasingly present in our lives, yet remains hidden in plain view.
Australia is coming under sustained cyber attack by a ‘state-based’ actor, says Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as hackers try to exploit vulnerabilities in business and government software systems.