A Biography of the Pixel
The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story.
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Steve Jobs
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. —Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, 1997.
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We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
The page-turning inside story of the global team wielding the internet to fight for facts and combat autocracy-revealing the extraordinary ability of ordinary people to hold the powerful to account.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
“The most interesting book ever written about Google” (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword.
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How Bellingcat is using TikTok to investigate the war in Ukraine
The data detectives at Bellingcat showed 60 Minutes how social media is providing evidence of alleged Russian war crimes and other atrocities.
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Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace
In Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace, researchers Ryan Ellis and Yuan Stevens provide a window into the working lives of hackers who participate in “bug bounty” programs—programs that hire hackers to discover and report bugs or other vulnerabilities in their systems.
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them. There were a lot of fascinating people involved, some ingenious and a few even geniuses. This is the story of these pioneers, hackers, inventors, and entrepreneurs—who they were, how their minds worked, and what made them so creative. It’s also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.
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The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
An astronomer-turned-sleuth traces a German trespasser on our military networks, who slipped through operating system security holes and browsed through sensitive databases. Was it espionage?
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A New History of Modern Computing
How the computer became universal.
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
A top cybersecurity journalist 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.
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as “the hacker ethic,” that still thrives today.
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Microsoft Digital Defense Report (2021)
Knowledge is powerful. This report encompasses learnings from security experts, practitioners, and defenders at Microsoft to empower people everywhere to defend against cyberthreats.
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Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk
This is the first textbook introducing law to computer scientists.
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Oh Behave! The Annual Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviors Report 2021
In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, the National Cyber Security Alliance and CybSafe have launched the world’s first Cybersecurity Attitudes & Behaviors Report. The research report is the first of its kind. It examines cybersecurity attitudes and behaviors of the general public, shedding light on one of the most important aspects of cyber risk – the human factor.
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Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers
Electronic Life was created as a layman’s guide to computers. It explained simply, concisely and without jargon what computers really are, how to choose them, how to use them, how to think about them, how to live with them, how to get them to help you, how to keep them in their place, how to enjoy them. It described step-by-step instructions on what to do when you first approach a new computer to sound advice on how to stop your computer from causing trouble in the family. His message: Don’t be afraid of them, they’re only machines, they’re here to make your life easier, and, what’s more, they can be a lot of fun.
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America.
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We Have Root: Even More Advice from Schneier on Security
We Have Root: Even More Advice from Schneier on Security By Bruce Schneier Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., September 2019. ISBN: 978-1-119-64301-2 “A collection of popular essays from security guru Bruce Schneier ” In his latest collection of …
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Facebook: The Inside Story
Based on hundreds of interviews inside and outside the company, Levy’s sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company [Facebook] that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
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Street Art from Mural Fest in South Salt Lake, Utah
Mural Fest celebrates urban beautification and artistic talent using the powerful tool of public art. The visual impact of bold, creative designs embodies the energy of the innovative businesses and creative communities in the Creative Industries Zone.
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Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
Edward Snowden touched off a global debate in 2013 when he gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald each a vast and explosive archive of highly classified files revealing the extent of the American government’s access to our every communication. They shared the Pulitzer Prize that year for public service. For Gellman, who never stopped reporting, that was only the beginning.
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