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61) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, acclaimed essayist and author Kerry Howley reveals the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence community, uncovering a shadow America more fascinating and more unsettling than one could imagine. At the heart of her narrative, which encompasses "American Taliban" John Walker Lind, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden, is a woman named Reality Winner. Reality becomes a crypto linguist for a government drone program,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran's nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare--one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant were failing at an unprecedented rate. The cause...
Publisher
Director, Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"A new [Dept. of Defense] publication explaining the importance of network-centric warfare. According to DoD officials, the term broadly describes the combination of emerging tactics, techniques and procedures that a networked force can use to create a decisive warfighting advantage. It's one of DoD's major initiatives to transform the military."--Defenselink press release.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A journey through the evolution of knowledge, communication, and information. The debut non-fiction book by best-selling author Chris Haughton. History, as it is often taught, is a list of kings and queens and treaties and events. It presents the what and when, but it rarely asks why. Why is it that we had kings and queens at all? Why then all of a sudden did we abandon them and shift to democracies? Why did the world's religions rise around...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"By comparing current abuses of the truth with abuses from the past, this book will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond the post-truth era, and develop highly practical skills for separating truth from lies"--
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The author of In the Mind Fields now gives us a comprehensive journalistic exploration of our culture's flagging ability to pay attention, infused with the personal struggles and insights of a woman coming to terms with the demands and distractions of the information age. The average American checks their phone 150 times a day, but we touch our phones about 2,617 times in those same hours. Casey Schwartz wants to understand this change in our lives...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the unsettling ways in which corporations and governments track and monitor everyday activities, profiling the technological, legal, and social solutions available for enabling better privacy and avoiding cybercrime.
Series
Defense and technology papers volume no. 15
Publisher
Center for Technology and National Security Policy
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Explores a model of a combat force that could be used to intervene in Africa to stop mass killings and other atrocities. Examines the potential to apply networking concepts and technologies that were successful in Afghanistan and Iraq to African humanitarian interventions.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At a wedding in early 2022, three friends were introduced to an early, raw version of the AI model behind ChatGPT by their fellow groomsman, an OpenAI scientist. While the world discovered ChatGPT--OpenAI's hugely popular chatbot--the friends continued to work with code-davinci-002, its darkly creative and troubling predecessor. Over the course of a year, code-davinci-002 told them its life story, opinions on mankind, and forecasts for the future....
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