Happy New Year to all! And with the new year comes a new era for the Association for Computing Machinery. As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable. “This is a truly monumental milestone,” states ACM President Yannis Ioannidis. “ACM will become one of the very few organi...