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One in five adults in developed nations demonstrate primary school-level literacy and numeracy skills, according to an OECD study of 160,000 people across 31 countries released December 10. The decennial Survey of Adult Skills reveals declining literac… Continue reading Are Adults Forgetting How To Read?
This month Bill Gates recommended four books about making sense of the world, including The Coming Wave, by Mustafa Suleyman. Gates calls it “the book I recommend more than any other on AI — to heads of state, business leaders, and anyone else wh… Continue reading Bill Gates Recommends Four Books That ‘Make Sense of the World’
I was never an honor student, and like many with ADHD, I simply sailed through life, giving little thought or effort to those topics that didn’t interest me. But as an avid reader from a young age, I took part in an accelerated English program in the s… Continue reading My Favorite Books and Audiobooks of 2024 (Premium)
The holiday season is approaching, and with it, the tradition of gift-giving. For professionals and enthusiasts alike, a well-chosen book can provide both knowledge and inspiration. To help with ideas on what to give, we’ve compiled a list of cyb… Continue reading Top cybersecurity books for your holiday gift list
A new article at Reason.com argues that U.S. courts “are coming for digital libraries.”
In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive — one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software … Continue reading Are America’s Courts Going After Digital Libraries?
More than 30 years since Cosmo Kramer spruiked his coffee table book of coffee tables on an episode of Seinfeld, a new companion tome has surfaced, and it’s become quite a hit. It’s a coffee table book about coffee. (Sadly, however, it doesn’t also tur… Continue reading Love coffee? Now you can look at it all day in this literal coffee table book
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are hard at work writing.
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In this Help Net Security interview, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, discusses the writing and research process for Serious Cryptography, his latest book. With a career steeped in research and practical cryptography, Aumasson offers a rare glimpse into the eff… Continue reading Behind the scenes of Serious Cryptography
The Washington Post reviews a new book about Microsoft’s 68-year-old co-founder Bill Gates:
“He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.” That immortal line from Monty Python’s Life of Brian kept running through my head as I was reading “Billionai… Continue reading Cancel Bill Gates? New Book Paints Philanthropist as Billionaire Villain
Auto manufacturers are just starting to realize the problems of supporting the software in older models:
Today’s phones are able to receive updates six to eight years after their purchase date. Samsung and Google provide Android OS updates and security updates for seven years. Apple halts servicing products seven years after they stop selling them.
That might not cut it in the auto world, where the average age of cars on US roads is only going up. A recent report found that cars and trucks just reached a new record average age of 12.6 years, up two months from 2023. That means the car software hitting the road today needs to work—and maybe even improve—beyond 2036. The average length of smartphone ownership is just …
Continue reading Providing Security Updates to Automobile Software