The USAF’s Project VENOM is turning old F-16’s into drone wingmen

The USAF’s Project VENOM is turning old F-16’s into drone wingmen

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In military terms over match refers to military superiority, and the US is worried it’s loosing its over match capability to China.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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Check Point says Russian hackers are trying to break into ChatGPT to get up to no good

Check Point says Russian hackers are trying to break into ChatGPT to get up to no good

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The power of ChatGPT is both good and bad, and criminals want to gain access to it to create malicious malware, scams, and all manner of dastardly things.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...

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Predicting cyber attacks is the new cyber defense as Forta predicts $200 Ml Euler crypto hack

Predicting cyber attacks is the new cyber defense as Forta predicts $200 Ml Euler crypto hack

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Its’ possible to watch data on the dark web and from other sources to predict who’s going to be the next cyber victim and the tech’s getting better …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...

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Zero Proof Knowledge cryptography finally goes live on Bitcoin

Zero Proof Knowledge cryptography finally goes live on Bitcoin

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A fascinating area ZPK’s let provers prove to you that something is fact without telling you why – and it could revolutionise knowledge and “proof” sharing.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...

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AI makes silicon level Trojans embedded in computer chips easy to ID

AI makes silicon level Trojans embedded in computer chips easy to ID

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We often think of cyber attacks as just being “software” but hardware can be infiltrated to, now we can detect hardware exploits easier.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...

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Hackers inject Trojans and Ransomware into open source AI models to hack you

Hackers inject Trojans and Ransomware into open source AI models to hack you

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is a completely new kind of attack that generally can’t be detected, and it’s only the beginning.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In...

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China allegedly has found a way to make its hypersonic weapons twice as potent

China allegedly has found a way to make its hypersonic weapons twice as potent

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hypersonic weapons are a part of the future of war, and China has the upper hand in the race to develop and deploy them.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...

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Lockheed Martin achieves first light of it’s latest 50kw laser weapon system

Lockheed Martin achieves first light of it’s latest 50kw laser weapon system

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of combat is drones and hypersonic weapons systems, so you need a new defensive weapon to counter than and light’s fast, cheap, and deadly.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...

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The latest USAF report says force fields are almost here but they’re not quite sci-fi

The latest USAF report says force fields are almost here but they’re not quite sci-fi

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Force fields are the stuff of sci-fi, and while the US Military thinks they’re more drone like I and others have other ideas …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...

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Start moving to quantum safe cryptography now White House tells feds

Start moving to quantum safe cryptography now White House tells feds

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if there was a powerful enough computer platform emerging which could crack 70% of global encryption in minutes and reveal your secrets? Worried? Then read on …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...

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A major US led drone fleet is finally coming together in the Middle East

A major US led drone fleet is finally coming together in the Middle East

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There’s no way that traditional military ships can patrol the vast areas of the Red Sea so countries are building the world’s first drone fleet.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...

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NIST unveils its top four quantum resistant encryption algorithms

NIST unveils its top four quantum resistant encryption algorithms

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When quantum computers get powerful enough they will be able to crack almost all of today’s encryption, so we need new algorithms.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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Submersible drone motherships are about to conquer their final hurdle

Submersible drone motherships are about to conquer their final hurdle

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to create underwater motherships that can act as the equivalent of underwater aircraft carriers for drones then you need to be able to control their docking.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...

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The US Navy asks for massive drone swarms to overcome future adversaries

The US Navy asks for massive drone swarms to overcome future adversaries

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine trying to stop thousands of kamikaze drones – it’d be difficult to impossible which is why the US military wants them.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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US Government to start giving IOT devices a cyber security rating from 2023

US Government to start giving IOT devices a cyber security rating from 2023

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most IOT connected devices have little to no security which means they can be hacked, abused and used, so this rating hopes to solve that and raise IOT security awareness.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...

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An autonomous Blackhawk just successfully completed its first mock rescue mission

An autonomous Blackhawk just successfully completed its first mock rescue mission

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Helicopter crews in war time are put at high risk during search and rescue operations but now an autonomous Blackhawk could see pilots grounded.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...

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The US Navy takes delivery of its first tactical laser weapon

The US Navy takes delivery of its first tactical laser weapon

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many things you think of as sci-fi are now sci-fact and this is yet another example of how new technologies are changing the battlefield.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...

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Europe’s floating gas terminals will save lives this winter but environmentalists worry

Europe’s floating gas terminals will save lives this winter but environmentalists worry

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Russian aggression and military actions have jeopardised European fuel imports so the EU have had to spin up new ways to import LNG and fast which means developing floating terminals.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...

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China’s latest anti-stealth metric wave radar is the size of a clothes rack

China’s latest anti-stealth metric wave radar is the size of a clothes rack

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Anti stealth radar systems used to be huge, then came quantum radar which unmasks even the best stealth weapons, and now these new systems are getting portable.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...

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China’s hybrid supersonic weapon flies like a missile and swims like a torpedo

China’s hybrid supersonic weapon flies like a missile and swims like a torpedo

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China is developing technology that goes beyond the bleeding edge and most of their latest weapons are hybrid mixtures of forms and formats which should put their enemies on alert.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...

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