If you manage a firewall in 2026, the question isn’t whether your vendor has shipped a critical vulnerability this year — it’s how many, and whether attackers got there before your patch window did. Six months into the year, the answer to “who’s been hit hardest” has a clear winner on paper and a more … Read more
Cars change slowly enough that you don’t notice a feature is gone until you reach for it and it isn’t there — the spare tire that’s now a can of goo, the CD slot that became a blank panel, the little vent window your grandfather swore by. Some of these car features that disappeared were … Read more
Regular cab — no back seat, no second row, just two doors and the longest bed your truck offers — used to be the default way to buy a pickup. Today it’s nearly extinct at retail, and for 2026 the list of holdouts got shorter again: Ram no longer offers a regular cab 1500 at … Read more
Car incentives in 2026 are running hotter than they have in years — national incentive spending has climbed past 20% year over year, landing around $3,300 per vehicle on average. But that average hides the real story, because the money is wildly lopsided: some segments are practically being given away with stacked 0% financing and … Read more
Hyundai’s anti-theft software update is supposed to end the USB-cable thefts that plagued its cars for years — and mostly, it works. But a patched Hyundai Tucson was stolen anyway this year, in about two minutes, the same way thousands of Hyundai and Kia thefts have happened since 2022. It’s a reminder that even a … Read more
The Slate electric truck preorder window opened June 24, and the response has been the loudest signal yet that a genuinely cheap, genuinely basic new vehicle is what a big slice of the market has been waiting for: more than 180,000 reservations for the Bezos-backed startup’s stripped-down pickup. Now that pricing, specs, and the production … Read more
Subaru’s manual transmission 2027 lineup is now official — and it’s the most contrarian product announcement in the industry this year. While manuals hover around 1% of overall new-car sales and most automakers quietly delete the option with every redesign, Subaru stood up at the 2026 Fuji 24 Hours endurance race, showed three cars under … Read more
When we first wrote that manual transmissions were having a moment, the evidence was a handful of take rates creeping above 30% on enthusiast trims. Two years later, the moment has hardened into something more interesting — and more durable. The number of new cars offering a manual transmission keeps shrinking, but on the models … Read more
A wave of right-to-repair laws has quietly become one of the most consequential developments for car enthusiasts in years — and in 2026, the fight has moved from theory to scoreboard. Six states have enacted automotive repair-access laws, the federal REPAIR Act just survived (in weakened form) its biggest committee test yet, and Massachusetts is … Read more
When we first covered the EV price war, the story was manufacturers slashing new-car prices and the ripple effects spilling into combustion showrooms. Two years later, the war is effectively over — and the aftermath landed somewhere nobody fully predicted. The federal tax credit is dead, new EV prices actually fell anyway, and used EV … Read more