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Un libro rompedor sobre el impacto de la inteligencia artificial en nuestras vidas.La IA ya está aquí, entre nosotros, reemplazando empleos, disparando la productividad a niveles nunca vistos, sirviendo de acompañamiento emocional y dejando a millones de personas fuera del sistema. No es el futuro. Forma parte de nuestro presente. Asi que adaptarse a ella, entenderla y saber sacarle partido ya no es una ventaja. Es una obligacion.El avance tecnologico y la inteligencia artificial estan construyendo un mundo nuevo que sera completamente irreconocible en apenas unos años. Y Jon Hernandez, uno de los mejores divulgadores en IA en el mundo hispanohablante, esta dispuesto a explicarnos, de forma clara y directa, como sera este mundo, los increibles beneficios que aporta esta tecnologia y los motivos para estar preocupados por la hostia que se nos viene encima.

La historia de cómo unas minorías visibles en la red cambiaron la política mundial y redefinieron el poder de nuestras democracias.Desde Chiapas hasta Silicon Valley, de las protestas en Leipzig a las burbujas de TikTok, este ensayo revela como internet ha cambiado el poder y la politica. Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon y Jordi Perez Colome desmontan los mitos sobre los algoritmos y muestran que son las minorias activas no la tecnologia en si quienes influyen en lo que vemos, creemos y compartimos. Con una mirada critica y vibrante, El vuelco explica como las plataformas amplifican voces, distorsionan realidades y redefinen nuestras democracias.

What Does It Mean to Be Human in the Age of AI? With all the hype and speculation around artificial intelligence, its most profound effects have yet to be revealed. The bigger question is not just what AI is doing to our jobs but to our soulsour relationships with God and one another.In Godlike Power, Russell Haitch cuts through the noise to tell the story of three core developments: the push to humanize machines, drawing us into emotional bonds with AIs; the drive to mechanize people, rooted in Enlightenment reason and the Industrial Revolution; and how God became human, so that humans could become more like Godand how techno-religion proposes a rival path to divinity. These three stories offer contrasting religious visions. Haitch argues we are now confronted with two rival paths to divinity, and we must choose the right one. Godlike Power argues that the third storythe Christian story of real people becoming like Godoffers the timeless and hopeful vision we need, allowing us to journey into the age of AI on a path that leads to life.AI is the latest chapter in humanitys Promethean quest for godlike power. But it is also a story about our perennial quest for intimacy. Even as AI technology rapidly changes, Haitch argues we need wisdomsomething more than superintelligenceto attain the power and love we long for.With Godlike Power, you can wisely examine AI through a theological lens, enabling you to engage thoughtfully and responsibly with how AI is reshaping our understanding of identity, truth, and what it means to be human.

Your circuit works on the breadboard. Now learn the concepts that turn it into a board ready for production.Youve built the circuit. It works on your breadboard. Now what?For most makers and electronics enthusiasts, thats where the journey ends. Technical reference manuals assume you already know PCB fundamentals. Software tutorials show you which menu to click. Neither one teaches the underlying concepts: what a via is and why you need it, how layers work and why the stackup matters, how a schematic becomes something a manufacturer can actually build.Practical PCB Design fills that gap. Based on the PCB design course Mike D. Smith has taught at the University of Rhode Island for nearly a decade, this book introduces the concepts, terminology, and design judgment that turn a working prototype into a reliable, production-ready board. Every chapter pairs clear explanation with hands-on lab exercises, so youre designing alongside the reading.Youll learn how to: Create schematics and component libraries from scratch Understand PCB layers, stackups, and how material choices affect performance Place components and route traces with intention, not guesswork Set design rules and run checks before anything goes to fabrication Generate output files and work confidently with manufacturers The material is software-agnostic: whether you use KiCad, Altium, Eagle, or something else, the concepts apply. If youve ever wondered why your designs dont quite work once they leave the breadboard, or felt intimidated by the gap between working circuit and finished product, this book is for you.

How AI-generated images radically alter our interactions with photography as well as our understanding of it.In recent years, artificial intelligence technologies have made it easy for anyone to produce images that look indistinguishable from photographs. How do these AI-generated images change our understanding of photography? Should we consider them photography at all? In Digital Photography After AI, Amanda Wasielewski explores these questions as well as the historical and theoretical concerns for the field of photography after the widespread uptake of AI tools.The book connects AI-generated photographs to a longer trajectory of the history of photography, from Henry Fox Talbot in the nineteenth century through Surrealism and the mid-twentieth century of media to more recent times, including camera phone photography and social media. The author addresses AI-generated images in terms of the technique, form, and function of photography throughout its history, as well as the documentary function of photography, image resolution and filter effects, the surreal and real quality of photographs and AI-generated images, and the latters impact on representation and illusion.

In Future Words, Dominique Chen invites readers into a life shaped by multiple languages, cultures and disciplines. Born in Tokyo, Chen grew up moving between Japan, France and the United States, speaking several languages in overlapping ways. Here his journey from learning his first French sentences in a Tokyo classroom, to competitive kendo in Paris, to programming early video games, to raising a multilingual daughter becomes a meditation on how language forms the architecture of our world.Chen reflects on the bugs that appear in both human speech and computer code, on the impossibility and beauty of translation, and on how untranslatable words like the Japanese hakanai or the French ephemere carry entire worlds within them. He draws on philosophy from Deleuze to Sapir and Whorf, and on design, anthropology, and cognitive science, to explore the Umwelt: the unique sensory and conceptual world each being inhabits. By moving between memoir and theory, intimate domestic moments and global cultural history, Chen reveals language as a living environment something we adapt and co-create.Erudite and witty, this book will make you hear language differently and see life as part of an unfolding conversation with the future.Translated from Japanese by Shi-Lin Loh.

A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance thats on the move around the globe - and how we resistThe far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we

An interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, researchers, and artists who explore machine vision from various academic and nonacademic perspectives. Edited by Kathrin Maurer, Rikke Munck Petersen, Dominique Routhier, Kassandra Wellendorf, and Kristin Veel, this glossary creates a conversation between different terms (and scholars) and engages them in productive critical dialogue. The book constitutes a crucial forum where key terms in the discourse of machine vision can generate and enhance the understanding of these technologies and their societal ramifications. Hence, the book exceeds the idea of a glossary as a compendium of definitions within a specialized field. Rather, the entries in the book establish a heteroglossia across disciplines, thereby breaking new critical ground where different voices can learn from and enrich one another.Machine vision entails a variety of advanced technologies that can extract information from and process images on an automated basis. They operate in society in the fields of inspection, observation, and production. The term machine refers not only to softwareAI, deep learning, algorithms, imagingbut also to hardware as well as the wider material relations and operative contexts of machine vision. Its application spans traffic flow analysis, medical data analysis, agriculture, and securityfields as varied as the artists, architects, art historians, and critical theorists who have made machine vision their subject.

A comprehensive introduction to real-time computing for mechanical engineers and engineering students that integrates theory and application.There are many textbooks that cover real-time computing, but none designed specifically for mechanical engineering curricula. Filling this gap, Rico Picone, Joseph Garbini, and Cameron Devine provide mechanical engineers and engineering students with a comprehensive introduction to real-time computing that integrates theory and application. The book presents the key ideas required to realize mechatronic systems that include real-time computers as functional components. Learning is organized around a sequence of nine hands-on laboratory exercises. Topics include scheduling, interrupts, timing, real-time operating systems, computer hardware, C programming, device drivers, algorithms, digital electronics, communication, amplifiers, encoders, finite state machines, discrete dynamic systems, and digital feedback control. Leading readers through the process of designing and implementing real-time systems while applying the architecture and resources of a modern real-time development environment, this text provides an essential foundation that can be implemented and extended throughout an engineering career. The first real-time computing textbook designed for mechanical engineers Offers hands-on instruction in the design and programming of real-time mechatronic systems Introduces fundamental computing and programing topics Includes detailed coverage of user interaction, real-time program organization, timing control, and interface hardware Ideal for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students as well as for self-study

No magic. No shortcuts. No runtime to blame.You can ask an AI to explain how vtables work in x86. It will give you something that sounds right. What it wont give you is what Windows actually expects the vtable to look like, why method dispatch behaves the way it does at the instruction level, or what breaks when you deviate from convention. This volume of The Art of 64-Bit Assembly closes the gap between a plausible explanation and genuine understanding.Every chapter takes a construct youve used in C++, Python, or Rust, strips away the runtime, and rebuilds it from scratch in MASM, running under Windows. Objects, exceptions, closures, coroutines, concurrency: Each is dissected at the instruction level, with every decision made visible and explicit.What youll build: Object-oriented programs in MASM: vtables, method dispatch, and inheritance, from scratch by hand Windows structured exception handling (SEH) installed and managed at the instruction level Thunks, closures, and iterators that behave like higher-order functions Coroutines, generators, and fibers without resorting to HLL code Concurrent programs with real synchronization primitives, directly from assembly Unicode string handling done correctly, at the level where most code gets it wrong Domain-specific macro languages inside MASM, built from first principles If you already know assembly and want to stop taking the hard parts on faith, this is the book.

AI is no longer a futuristic conceptits embedded in critical systems shaping finance, healthcare, infrastructure, and national security. But with this power comes unprecedented risk. Red Teaming AI arms you with the mindset, methodology, and tools to proactively test and secure intelligent systems before real adversaries exploit them.Written for security professionals, researchers, and AI practitioners, this field manual goes beyond theory. Youll learn how to map the new AI attack surface, anticipate adversarial moves, and simulate real-world threats to uncover hidden vulnerabilities.Youll Learn How To: Think in graphs, not checklists: trace attack paths through interconnected AI components, data pipelines, and human interactions Poison the well: explore how adversaries corrupt training data to implant backdoors and erode model integrity Fool the oracle: craft evasion attacks that manipulate AI perception at decision time Hijack conversations: execute prompt injection attacks that turn Large Language Models into insider threats Steal the brain: probe for model extraction and privacy attacks that compromise valuable IP Conduct full-spectrum campaigns: use the STRATEGEMS framework and the AI Kill Graph to plan, execute, and report professional-grade red team engagements Traditional security methods cant keep up with adversarial AI. From manipulated financial agents to compromised autonomous vehicles, real-world failures have already caused billions in losses and threatened lives. Red Teaming AI equips you to meet this challenge with practical techniques grounded in real attack scenarios and cutting-edge research.

A no-fluff guide to implementing best security practices for microservices in the cloud written by a team of experienced security engineers at Snapchat.This book takes you through every step of secure software development and deployment for microservices the discrete functions within a larger application.Readers begin by exploring core security tenets, then dive into developing microservices and securing infrastructure. Along the way, theyll gain the skills to think like a security engineer at scale and effectively plan secure designs.Each chapter provides step-by-step explanations of vital concepts, practical examples, mistakes to look out for, and quizzes to test the readers knowledge. Whether youre a one-person security team or a larger group, this book equips you with the skills to build a full-fledged microservices security discipline.

His disappearance is only the beginning...After the murder of his best friend, newlyweds Adam and Aisha cut their honeymoon short. But just as they are about to board a flight home from Delhi, Adam disappears at the airport seemingly kidnapped leaving Aisha stranded without her passport, her phone, or answers.When the FBI and Indias intelligence agency begin interrogating her, it becomes chillingly clear they know far more about Adam than she ever did. Her only clue is his final, haunting message: Im sorry.Thousands of miles away, Sara Wolf, a scientist stuck on a dead-end project at Princeton, receives a message she never expected from her former lover. It contains two words: Help her.Bound together by suspicion, rivalry, and a man they both love, Aisha and Sara are forced into an uneasy alliance. Decoding Adams clues, they follow a trail that leads them across the United States - into a shadow world of weaponised AI, tech billionaires, and a secret no one is meant to find.Eden Falls is a gripping, high-stakes thriller that spans continents and asks how far we will go - and who we will trust - when the truth can destroy everything.

Learn the language of wireless devices and build your own digital communications systems with software-defined radio.From Wi-Fi routers to garage door openers, our lives revolve around wireless digital communication. Hacking Digital Radios demystifies these communications using the revolutionary technology of software-defined radio (SDR). With little more than a laptop, an antenna, and some SDR hardware, readers will learn how to build digital communications systems and investigate the signals all around them.With a learn-by-doing approach that emphasizes hands-on experimentation over abstract theory or complex math, Hacking Digital Radios guides readers through transmitting and receiving digital data. Youll then build on that foundation, learning to detect, capture, identify, and reverse-engineer digital radio signals. Using the intuitive, open source GNU Radio software, youll learn to: Send and receive data using OOK and FSK, the two most common modulation schemes for digital data Encode text, images, and other types of data in radio signals Use clock synchronization to extract binary data from received transmissions Identify preambles, sync words, payload data, and other components of digital signals Implement checksums and other measures to ensure data integrity Complete with practical projects such as developing text messaging systems and analyzing automotive key fob signals, this book gets you working with real digital signals fast. Whether youre a hardware hacker developing your own RF devices, a security researcher examining vulnerabilities in wireless systems, or a ham radio enthusiast exploring the digital realm, Hacking Digital Radios will show the way.

An innovative, learn-by-doing textbook that teaches how to design for the web while engaging a critical lens on the technoculture that sustains it.Critical web design, like critical design, employs a social usefulness to challenge the ways technology enters our lives. It reclaims the mechanisms, tools, and practices used to produce coercive and commercial interfaces, harnessing the power of design and networked information to question preconceptions about the medium itself. This engaging, practical textbook explores how to design for the web while maintaining a critical understanding of the technoculture that sustains it. Motivated by new media art practices and speculative design, xtine burrough and Owen Mundy teach readers to conceptualize, design, and program responsive websites as both an applied and creative practice, making professional front end development tools accessible to all. Learn-by-doing approach builds technical skills in interface design, usability/accessibility, and coding in HTML/CSS and Javascript Historical, political, and philosophical context relates the why argument for learning to code Case studies and interviews with artists and designers bring ideas to life Supplemental resources include code, exercises, and demonstrations

From New York Times bestselling author Dana Suskind, a timely, urgent guide to parenting in the age of artificial intelligenceand protecting what matters most in childhoodA stunning book about how to protect our childrenand our humanityin the age of AI." Adam Grant"Hope is not lost. Its right here. If there is a young person in your life, Human Raised is for you." Angela Duckworth As AI enters nurseries, playrooms, and classrooms, parents are being sold a smart childhood at every turn. This book is a guide to protecting the most important label of all: human raised.In her groundbreaking book Thirty Million Words, Dr. Suskind revealed the extraordinary power of parent talk and interaction in building childrens brains. Now, with the advent of artificial intelligence, the stakes of that nurturing interaction have become even clearer. New AI applications demonstrate what technology can replicatebut they also illuminate what it cannot: the capacity of human interaction to build not just childrens skills but their very capacity for human connection.Human Raised reveals the possibilities and perils of using AI and related technologies for child-rearing. From monitors that decode cries, to smart cribs that soothe babies to sleep, to interactive chatbots designed to engage an inquisitive toddler, the parenting landscape is shifting fastand Dr. Suskind helps parents navigate this uncharted territory with clarity and confidence.Readers will learn four guiding principles for raising children alongside AI: Human connection is irreplaceable Own your imperfections Protect the early years Enhancedont replaceconnection The book also offers a concrete evaluation framework to help parents (and anyone shaping childrens environments) assess individual technologies, along with evidence-based guidance for fostering the skills children will need to thrive in an AI-driven future. Critical thinking, empathy, creativity, and resilience form what Suskind calls the Human Edgecapabilities no algorithm can replicate and no artificial teacher can cultivate.Drawing from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and the lived experience of countless families, Human Raised prepares parents to act as essential guardians to the gateway between AI and their childrens developing mindskeeping human connection, in all its beautiful imperfection, at the center of childhood.

Data built empires. Now its shaping our future.Breathtaking in its scope and enormously fulfilling in its depth, this book is profoundly fascinatingLewis Dartnell, author of Being HumanEssential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technological revolution now transforming our worldJonathan Kennedy, author of PathogenesisWe live in an era when trading our information for access can feel harmless or inevitable yet from targeted advertising to mass surveillance, data shapes the course of our lives. How did it gain the power it now holds over us? Long before writing existed, at the dawn of civilisation in Mesopotamia, rulers pressed marks into clay to keep track of land, people and grain. To rule, they had to keep count. It is no accident, then, that the first written name in human history was neither a god nor a king, but an accountant. As ships and navigation expanded our horizons, a new age of European empires took control of more than 80 per cent of the worlds surface, using colonial censuses, maps and ledgers to decide who belonged, who owed, and who could be sacrificed. Today, a handful of private brokers increasingly define what we see and what is real.Taking readers from ancient cave markings and knotted strings to the algorithmic state, Dartmouth professor Roopika Risam reveals how data has always been the seed of power: a technology of control that has shaped civilizations and upheld empires. Provocative, humane and sweeping in scope, Data Empire challenges us to decide whether we will allow a new set of data empires to hardwire inequality into the next century, or fight for systems that work for the benefit of all.This groundbreaking 11,000 year history argues that empire was never just about weapons or ships - it was built on collecting information on us, to rule us. Perfect for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.This brilliant, readable book offers a striking new historical perspectiveCorinne Fowler, author of Our Island StoriesWhat if the story of data is the story of humanity? In a work of enormous erudition, Risam guides readers across continents and centuries to reach a sobering conclusion: data is us our societies, our cultures, our futures and we are ceding control to an unaccountable few. Dan Bouk, author of Democracys Data

Build offensive tools the defender hasnt catalogued. Then learn how theyd catch you.Detection engineers have studied every public framework. They know Cobalt Strikes beacon patterns, Metasploits shellcode signatures, and the behavioral fingerprints of every commodity implant. The moment a tool goes public, its days are numbered.Evasion Engineering is for red teamers who cant afford to be predictable.Built around Go and a rigorous software engineering approach, this book teaches you to develop custom payloads from requirements to deployment, not by copying public tooling, but by understanding what modern defenses target and building around it. Youll construct network enumerators, C2 infrastructure, lateral movement tools, obfuscated loaders, and covert exfiltration channels. Each chapter then flips the perspective: the same techniques, examined from the detection side.Dennis Chow (GIAC Security Expert #288) and Michael LaSalvia bring 36 combined years operating inside Fortune 500 red team programs. Their three Rs framework treats payload development as an engineering discipline: robustness, reusability, reliability.Youll learn to: Build enumeration tools that dont match known signatures Develop C2 channels with custom protocols that bypass network inspection Implement lateral movement via autonomous worm mechanics Create hybrid-packed payloads that defeat AV and EDR Exfiltrate data through covert channels under active monitoring Map every technique to its detection surface and validate your results Covers Go 1.21.x and higher, and Python 3.x

The dark web has a marketplace. This is whats for sale.Getting into the dark web isnt simple. You need Tor. You need clean OPSEC. And even then, the forums worth being in dont just let you walk through the door. The top-tier ones require vouches from established members, Bitcoin deposits, proof that youre somebody.In 2021, Lindsay Kaye was among the first to reverse engineer and publicly disclose a new ransomware variant. She did it before the group behind it, BlackMatter, had even started operations. How? She found it by watching the dark web forums where the group was quietly recruiting affiliates.This book takes you inside that world and into the code behind the tools she found there: Raccoon Stealera credential stealer behind hundreds of millions of stolen passwords, and the SQL query it uses to pull them straight out of your browser TrickBotthe banking trojan that infected millions of Windows machines, and how it injects into Chrome and hooks the functions handling your banking traffic Cerberusan Android banking trojan sold on dark web forums for $200 a month, and how it overlays a fake login page on top of your real banking app LockBitone of the most prolific ransomware operations in history, and how it kills backup services, deletes shadow copies, and pushes a Group Policy update to every machine on the domain before encryption starts Miraithe botnet that knocked half the internet offline in 2016, and how its able to find and infect new devices to expand its reach Sodinokibi/REvil and ALPHVtwo of the most destructive ransomware-as-a-service operations ever, taken apart from the affiliate recruitment posts to the encryption code Threat reports tell you what happened. This book shows you how.

In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pockets This is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.S. government satellites that encircle the earth: a vast web that, in a matter of decades, has transformed the way we understand space and time, making us critically dependent on vulnerable technology we often forget is even there. It is a system that was conceived of as a military product designed for war, but which has since evolved into a vital everyday tool that tells us where we are and when at any given point. But its use doesnt stop there: GPS has transformed our navigation systems and our global trade, our farms and our supermarkets, our stop lights, banking networks, and our energy systems. It overturned online dating, exercise regimens, travel planning and takeaways. It reshaped our daily lives, and then it transformed us. When GPS took away our familiarity with getting lost, it also stripped us of our ability to hide turning our place in the world into a mappable, knowable entity, and put us, a blinking blue dot on a screen, at its centre. In this thrilling, page-turning work of narrative non-fiction that touches on tech, geopolitics, international relations and economics Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of an essential global system that touches all our lives. With echoes of Kleptopia, The Fifth Risk and Prisoners of Geography, as well as echoes of Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn and Entangled Life by Merlion Sheldrake in the way it exposes a hidden, esoteric system that we all rely on this is a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pockets.