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Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.

Journey into one of the most counterintuitive patterns in mathematics - Benford’s Law - and its surprising relevance in today’s data-driven world. Once considered a mathematical curiosity, Benford’s Law now plays a pivotal role in fields ranging from forensic accounting to AI algorithm verification.

In Data and Goliath, Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship, and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and cyberwar. He shares technological, legal, and social solutions that can help shape a more equal, private, and secure world. This is an audiobook to which everyone with an Internet connection - or bank account or smart device or car, for that matter - needs to listen.

This book provides essential insights on dark patterns and AI-powered deceptive design for anyone who wants to understand and challenge the pervasive influence of these hidden forces shaping our digital experiences. These hidden design strategies – from personalised user interface triggers to sophisticated backend systems – are often used to manipulate user behaviour in ways that benefit businesses at the expense of users.

Untangle the mesh of complex data with this user-friendly manual to SQL. Imagine a world overflowing with data – numbers, stats, facts, all buzzing around, waiting to tell a story. There's one common element that can help you navigate this vast sea of data – Structured Query Language (SQL).

Every day, we send and receive countless messages—emails from work, reminders from banks, shipping updates from online stores, and texts from friends. Communicating through screens has become so common that most of us don’t even think twice before opening a message, clicking a link, or responding to a notification. But in that sea of normal communication lies something much more dangerous: messages designed to trick you, to make you give away your passwords, financial details, or other private information. These scams often come hidden in the very tools we trust most—email and text.

With over 130 unique, ready-to-use prompts confidentially designed for the legal industry, this book is your exclusive guide to integrating AI into your legal practice. Each concealed prompt is tailored to classified situations you might face in your profession and can be customized to align with your specific, secretive needs.

The Tech Behind Impulse Buying peels back the digital curtain to reveal the subtle, powerful technologies that online platforms use to influence your every shopping move. From one-click checkouts to persuasive algorithms that predict your desires before you can even name them, this eye-opening guide takes you inside the meticulously engineered online environments that are designed to trigger unplanned purchases—and keep you coming back for more.

Signals in the Noise: Security, Technology, and the Hidden Patterns of Modern Risk examines how clarity, judgment, and human discernment can survive in an age dominated by algorithms and information overload. Drawing on lessons from intelligence tradecraft, behavioral science, and crisis management, Reed explores how modern organizations can recover the habits of mind that once defined strategic thinking.

If you wonder why good companies lose lots of personal information, and are not sure if your company is immune from this disaster, this insightful book shines a bright light on the hidden processes in most companies where data governance and information security are usually absent. These gaps are often the root cause of sensitive data loss.

Since the creation of the Federal Reserve more than one hundred years ago, the American dollar has become the most successful product (of any kind) of all time and the language of commerce for the planet. From the Gold Reserve Act to Bretton Woods to the petrodollar and beyond, the U.S. has successfully ridden the waves of historical transformation to stay on top.

Artificial intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is this true? Given that the policing and judicial systems can display human bias, this book explores how the technology they use can also reflect these prejudices. From healthcare services to social scoring in exams, to applying for and getting loans, AI outcomes often restrict those most in need of these services. Through personal stories from an esteemed black data scientist and AI expert, this book attempts to demystify the algorithmic black box.

This book is your treasure chest, revealing confidential insights and providing comprehensive knowledge on the secret application of Chat GPT in a startup environment. It's your classified toolkit that helps you leverage the concealed potential of AI in your everyday business tasks, from drafting cryptic emails to managing hidden crises, from customer retention secrets to developing a veiled company culture, and much more.

Chat GPT Bible is your ultimate guide to harnessing the groundbreaking technology of OpenAI's ChatGPT. This essential handbook provides a detailed examination of the capabilities, applications, and intricacies of the state-of-the-art language model. Offering a fascinating journey into the world of AI, the book is your passport to the extraordinary realm of AI.

In the modern world, maintaining our privacy is getting harder and harder. We are now in a digital age and it is getting so much easier for somebody to get hold of personal information. But it is not only about criminals looking for personal data. Everyone from marketing companies, government agencies, and the media want to know who you are, where you are, what you do, and what you purchase. You have got to get savvy and guard yourself against those that want to get their hands on your data.

The dark web carries many controversies regarding anonymity in today's era. Still, with that much information out there, it is hard to know which side is right. But what if you were given the chance to form your own opinion? This audiobook gives you condensed information about this complex topic.