Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub
It’s getting harder to access popular adult sites in the US South. On Wednesday, Pornhub’s owner, Aylo, kicked off the new year by blocking three more states that implemented age…
Final Reminder: Donate today to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
If you’ve been too busy reading about giant old TVs to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry. You still have a little bit of…
AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives
Corporate executives are being hit with an influx of hyper-personalized phishing scams generated by artificial intelligence bots, as the fast-developing technology makes advanced cyber crime easier. Leading companies such as…
Four Clinical Trials We’re Watching That Could Change Medicine in 2025
Breakthroughs in medicine are exciting. They promise to alleviate human suffering, sometimes on global scales. But it takes years, even decades, for new drugs and therapies to go from research…
Mastercard sets 2030 goal for number free cards and passwordless payments
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Credit cards are out dated and subject to huge amounts of CNP fraud, Mastercard is trying to modernise them. Love the Exponential Future? Join…
Anduril ramps Autonomous Underwater Vehicle production in the USA
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China is the world’s factory, and for the US military that’s a problem, so the US has to ramp its own production for future weapons…
Asus, Samsung, and MSI announce world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors
MSI’s new 27-inch 4K OLED monitor. | Image: MSI 27-inch 4K OLED 240Hz monitors seem to be like buses: you wait ages for one and then three turn up at…
Samsung bets big on OLED and gaming with its 2025 monitor lineup
Image: Samsung Just a few days after LG announced its CES 2025 lineup of monitors, Samsung is doing the same. The company just introduced several new models, and perhaps the…
Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist
Back in 2019, we told you about an intriguing experiment to test a famous anthropological legend about an elderly Inuit man in the 1950s who fashioned a knife out of…
2025 AI, Space, Tesla and Technology Predictions
Brian Wang has had over 90% accuracy with public predictions on public websites like Metaculus and Manifold. OpenAI O3 model has shown that greater than human PHD reasoning is possible…