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La obra definitiva sobre una de las teorías más audaces y relevantes de nuestra época.¿Vivimos en una simulación? Rizwan Virk, experto en computación del MIT, utiliza hallazgos y conceptos de las ciencias de la computacion, de la IA, de los videojuegos, de la fisica cuantica y de la mistica antigua para explicar por que es posible que vivamos en una realidad simulada tipo Matrix. La teoria de la simulacion explica algunos de los mayores misterios de la vida -la indeterminacion cuantica, los universos paralelos o el entrelazamiento cuantico, por no hablar de preguntas eternas como la naturaleza de la religion y del mas alla- en terminos de informacion y computacion.Virk hace ver que la evolucion de los videojuegos -desde la realidad virtual y aumentada hasta la inteligencia artificial y la computacion cuantica- no tardara en llevarnos a una singularidad tecnologica llamada punto de simulacion, mostrando tambien por que eso significa que quizas ya estemos en una realidad simulada.La hipotesis de la simulacion, el libro definitivo sobre la teoria de la simulacion, aparece ahora completamente actualizado, recogiendo los ultimos avances en inteligencia artificial y realidad virtual. Expertos en computacion, amantes de la ciencia ficcion, entusiastas de los videojuegos, personas con inquietudes espirituales o adictas a los experimentos mentales que les rompen los esquemas..., nadie puede seguir viendo el mundo igual tras la lectura de este libro.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. Each chapter integrates coverage of the fields historical and cultural concepts with hands-on, technical exercises. The result is a timely, innovative guide that makes 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 Extensive supplemental resources include code, exercises, and video 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 childhood"A powerful, science-based case for why childrens developing minds need real human relationships." Jonathan Haidt"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.

From cave paintings and clay tablets to the algorithmic state, this groundbreaking 11,000 year history argues that information has always been the seed of power. Perfect for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.This brilliant, readable book offers a striking new historical perspectiveProfessor Corinne Fowler, author of Our Island StoriesLong 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 censuses, maps and ledgers to decide who belonged, who owed, and who could be sacrificed. Today, we live in the third great era, when trading our information for access can feel harmless or inevitable yet from targeted advertising to border policing and mass surveillance, data shapes the course of our lives.Drawing on stories from ancient cave markings and knotted strings to colonial record-keeping and 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 asks us to recognise the power data has always held and to imagine what resistance looks like in an age defined by it, so that we might remake the modern world for the benefit of all.

A technical exploration of the malicious software bought and sold on the dark web, where bad actors offer malware-as-a-service (MaaS) to the highest bidders.Step into the world of malware-as-a-service (MaaS) in this exploration of the tools and techniques used by threat actors in what is called the underground economy.Each chapter of Dissecting the Dark Web covers a category of malicious tool regularly bought and sold on the dark web, surveys actual ads for these products to gain details about criminal operations, and walks through the reverse engineering of common malware samples to understand their inner workings.Through real-world case studies and exercises, youll learn about malware types such as stealers, loaders, botnets, ransomware, and post-exploitation toolkits, as well as the many tools threat actors use to make their attacks successful, such as crypters, obfuscation, and living off the land.Makes use of open-source reverse-engineering tools for Windows, such as Ghidra and x64dbg

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.

A rigorous, cutting-edge overview of the range of methods used to conduct causal inference in the social sciences.This textbook provides a lucid, rigorous, and cutting-edge overview of the methods used to conduct causal inference in the social sciences, covering all the core techniques and latest advances. Offering a detailed survey of the current state of microeconometric theory, Damian Clarke delves deeply into machine learning applications and presents developments in difference-in-difference methods, instrumental variables, multiple hypothesis testing, and other advanced topics. With a diverse range of examples and exercises offering hands-on experience, Applied Microeconometrics equips graduate students and researchers to apply state-of-the art scholarship to actionable problems. Integrates a rich array of machine learning methods into causal modeling frameworks Covers recent advances in difference-in-differences and dynamic research designs, formal discussions of challenges related to inference and hypothesis testing, and heterogeneity analysis Features a breadth of real-world examples from recent papers Includes coding implementation in Python, R, and Stata

Break AI Systems. Then Secure Them.If youre a security practitioner learning to operate in AI environments, or an ML engineer who needs to understand what adversaries actually do, Practical AI Security gives you the technical foundation the field demands.Built from first principles, this book takes you from how models fail to how theyre exploited to how theyre defended and audited. Every technique includes clear explanations and real-world examples, and you can run the attacks and defenses yourself with over 30 hands-on Python demos. Understand how different kinds of machine learning models create unique vulnerabilities, and explore how these models are integrated into more autonomous, agentic AI systems to introduce new weaknesses and risks. Identify, exploit, and defend against dozens of weaknesses and attacks across the AI life cycle, including data poisoning, model theft, and prompt injection. Evaluate AI systems for safety failures, bias, and alignment risks using structured benchmarking. Threat-model agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and multimodal architectures using MITRE ATLAS, OWASP, and the MAESTRO framework. Design and execute AI-specific red teaming campaigns, and understand what makes them distinct from traditional security tests. Conduct rapid risk audits and navigate AI governance frameworks for real deployments. Whether you use, build, deploy, or oversee AI, this isnt niche knowledgeits the foundation for defending the technologies that will define the next era of human progress.

Your spellbook for code close to the metal.In hacker circles, heavy wizardry means code that trades on intimate knowledge of a systemthe kind that speaks its private dialects and bends its rules. Heavy Wizardry 101 teaches you to write it. Youll build shellcode, backdoors, droppers, and worms from scratch, working at the instruction level where magic happens.Every project is implemented for four architectures: x86_64, ARM, MIPS, and RISC-V. Youll write the same program four times, seeing exactly what stays constant and what changes. Each chapter starts with architecture fundamentals, such as memory layout, calling conventions, and stack mechanics, then walks through complete working implementations on Linux in safe, contained environments.Learn to: Write position-independent shellcode and programs that execute in constrained memory spaces Implement TCP reverse shells that bypass basic network restrictions Build executable droppers that embed and deploy payloads without detection Create self-replicating worms that propagate across networked systems Write basic port scanners to discover services in a network Port low-level code between architectures by understanding instruction-level differences Whether youre a penetration tester who wants to stop depending on Metasploit, a security researcher analyzing malware, or a systems programmer who needs to understand how computers work, this book gives you the skills to build and reason about code at the lowest level.

From award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah OConnor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI is transforming our working lives in unpredictable waysA tsunami of change, we are told, is sweeping the economy as robots and AI threaten to take over tasks done by humans. But while we worry that were robotizing our work, what if the real risk is that were robotizing ourselves?When prize-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah OConnor set out to investigate what was happening on the front lines of technological change, she found people who werent losing their jobs to machines, but who felt they were losing something else instead. From translators forced to edit AI output to university graduates interviewed by software and warehouse workers surrounded by robots, she heard stories of work becoming lonelier, less creative, less human.But OConnor also found hopeful stories of jobs being made better, safer and more enjoyable where workers havent rejected the new tools, but instead have learned to control them. Exploring questions of power, design, institutions and ideas, her reporting shows that the way technology changes the world of work is not pre-determined, but must be contested and shaped by all of us. Inspired by stories from nineteenth-century English cotton mills to twenty-first century Swedish mines, We Are Not Machines reveals how we can fight for work which is more respectful of our limits, and more worthy of our minds.