Of all the contentious subjects in the car industry right now, the most contentious is probably subscriptions. Since people are already balancing subscription services everywhere else, it’s not a fun thing to discover in your car, too. They represent a potential revenue generator for car companies, so they’re continuing to investigate the idea. A new take on them comes to us from Ford with a patent that could make subscriptions less onerous, even if it doesn’t solve the main issues. Your Subscription Wouldn’t Be Restricted To One Car Credit: Ford What distinguishes Ford’s subscription idea is that it won’t be tied…

This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.  We Are Witnessing the Commoditization of Machine Intelligence A new frontier model emerges every week — Grok, Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM 5.2 — each one matching or exceeding the last. Yesterday’s marvel is today’s commodity, and the speed of this cycle is staggering. Consider Fable Five: a model so dangerous it was recalled after hacking government systems in hours. Then it was re-released and immediately outperformed everything by 8x in real-world coding tasks. It doesn’t need babysitting. It’s like a heat-seeking bomb that solves in hours what used to take…

Cruising the logging roads of Washington state in my rig, it can be easy to lose your way. That’s why I’ve now made a GMRS walkie-talkie a standard piece of kit, and recently, I’ve been using the Cobra TrailBlazer 450 to keep in touch with trail partners on my off-road overnights. Just last week, I was high above the Skagit River staring down a washout, and keying up the 450, I was able to relay the info to the end of our convoy to begin finding a workaround. Bubblepack FRS radios would struggle to span the dense second-growth and switchbacks,…

The end of the tax stamp on suppressors wasn’t as good as we wanted, but it was a big step forward. Suppressors, often called “silencers,” aren’t the devices of spy movie infamy. They don’t deaden the sound until you can’t even hear it above a whisper, but they do work. They’re better thought of as safety devices, since they reduce the noise down enough that you probably won’t have as much hearing loss. And with the Big Beautiful Bill, we don’t have to pay an extra $200 to Uncle Sam if we want one.Not to…

For decades, tracking US vehicle sales was pretty straightforward. The quarterly numbers were either up, down, or stable, and fluctuations were noted if a typhoon hit Japan and flooded plants, or if a financial crisis or the 2001 terrorist attacks caused consumers to delay purchases. Credit: BMW It’s much harder to explain today’s US sales swings, which are impacted by consumers feeling an unstable economy, fuel prices gyrating, federal changes in emissions regulations, the elimination of federal tax credits for battery-electric vehicles, and a general feeling of uncertainty in just about everything. These changes are all pegged directly to the actions…

Planning for a camping trip is easy. Just follow the simple outlines below, vetted by our highly experienced camping team. An easy place to begin is to consider your cslamp kit much like a home. Think of it as a bedroom, kitchen, and living room. Each section has a specific kit. The following guide is broken down into seven camping segments: car (camping next to your car at a campsite), backpacking, ultralight backpacking, wet weather, hot weather, winter, and hunting. The first section offers general camp kits, with more specific scenarios detailed in the sections below. What Should I Pack…

The government has awarded contracts worth $1.75 billion to build missile-tracking satellites for the U.S. Space Force as part of President Donald Trump’s vision for a greater national missile defense system. The contracts, awarded by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) to Sierra Space, a technology company based in Louisville, Colorado, and to L3 Harris Technologies, are for 36 total satellites to track missiles and other threats. “This contract demonstrates Sierra Space’s capabilities as a formidable player in American national security,” the company’s CEO Dan Jablonsky, said in a news release. A new U.S. Space Force patch sits…

The deadly screwworm is continuing to spread through the United States, confusing health officials who have put plans in motion to stop it. So far, US cases of screwworm infection are hovering at 35 animals, most of which are clustered in Texas. The parasite is flesh-eating, and sterile-fly projects are in place to control the spread of the New World screwworm. This parasite could reshape cross-border trade too, said Mexican cattle ranchers. Mexico’s cattle industry is in a bigger crisis than that of the US. It is facing what Álvaro Bustillos Fuentes calls “the worst storm in the history of…

This month, Kia recalled more than 460,000 Telluride SUVs due to a risk of fire — the second such recall for the automaker in the last 2 years. Both recalls affect model year 2020–2024 vehicles, and for the same defect. That reason has to do with overheating seat motors. According to Kia and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the trim panel on the side of the front seat bases could cause the switch covers to come loose, potentially causing the seat motor to run continuously and overheat. In extreme cases, overheating motors can turn into electrical fires. The…

Once upon a time, the anti-gunners cooked up a term for inexpensive handguns. They called them “Saturday Night Specials,” a way to demonize the cheap firearms that allowed poorer Americans to afford a firearm they could use to defend themselves. They did everything they could to ban the guns, constantly vilifying the inexpensive options as some great scourge to America’s inner cities. So, if prices are stable for guns, you’d think they’d be happy. After all, it means there aren’t cheap firearms running around anymore, other than a small number of manufacturers that most people…

Rockstar Games has a reputation for creating some of the most influential video games in history. Over the years, the studio has defined entire genres and set new standards for open-world gameplay. However, not all Rockstar games are available for purchase today. If someone searches for certain titles on Rockstar’s store, Steam, or the Xbox Store today, they will find that many legendary entries have been removed. This situation creates a gap in gaming history and makes it difficult for new fans to experience some of the best works by Rockstar Games. These next games have disappeared for a couple…

For over a century, the 1906 Antiquities Act has bestowed the president with extraordinary power over public lands. With one swift stroke of a pen, a president can create a national monument on federal land to protect historic landmarks or structures. Since the bill passed, 18 presidents have created 168 national monuments, but in the last decade, just two of them have been at the center of major political debate, and they are back in the news yet again. On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monuments. What Are These Monuments?…