Do you use your vehicle’s app to pre‑cool the cabin on a scorching day, confirm the doors are locked from bed, or have the car automatically call for help when the airbags go off?
Savor those connected, cloud‑based conveniences while you can—the clock is already ticking on their obsolescence. In a few short years, you may be driving today’s vehicle without many of the features you currently enjoy.
"Connected services"—cloud-based and networked features that let a vehicle communicate with external systems to deliver apps, data, and remote functions to drivers and passengers—have been around since the 1990s, when GM introduced OnStar as an option. Those early systems were mostly voice‑centric, but they still depended on centralized back‑end systems. Modern versions, which are fully data-driven and cloud-hosted, use much more sophisticated over-the-air data links to allow a considerably better feature set.
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Formula 1 returned to the Spa-Francorchamps circuit for the Belgium Grand Prix this weekend. This ribbon of tarmac in the Ardennes is one of the sport's historic venues, featuring in the first F1 season way back in 1950. But as yesterday's race showed, the current F1 machinery is utterly ill-suited to this dramatic venue.
As we saw at Suzuka in Japan earlier this year, a 2026 F1 battery is able to power the race car's electric motor for only a few seconds a lap; for much of the rest of the lap, the energy-starved cars have less power going to their rear wheels than in the junior F2 feeder series.
For many, including much of the current F1 grid, Spa is considered perhaps the planet's greatest race track. In fact, both Spa and the Belgian Grand Prix predate the F1 world championship, with its first race held in 1922. Back then, the circuit was a 9-mile loop of public roads, taking in the towns of Malmedy and Stavelot before returning to Francorchamps. In the postwar years, the layout shrank slightly to 8.7 miles (14.1 km) and was ferociously fast, with average lap speeds of up to 150 mph (240 km/h)—and ferociously dangerous, given cars with huge amounts of power and minimal concessions to safety.
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When Lucid introduced the Air electric sedan in late 2021, the first Air Dream Edition I tested packed over 1,100 hp (820 kW) and carried a $180,000-plus window sticker. It's easily the most powerful street car I've tested; the only vehicle I've driven with more power was a purebred race car with a third the mass, and it was on a proper track. Its combustion engine was also about 1,000 times louder than the Air, helping to remind us that "combustion" really does mean explosion after explosion.
For Lucid's second act, the company debuted the Gravity electric SUV last year, and I've just tested the 2026 Gravity Touring, which starts at about $82,000 in the US, including the required destination charge.
My test model carried a bevy of options, including a 22-speaker audio system, the Comfort and Convenience package, third-row seating, a Dynamic Handling package (combining rear-wheel steering and three-chamber air suspension), a luxury seating package (bundling Nappa leather and massaging and ventilated front seats), and special metallic paint.
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Moona Ederveen-Schneider is a cybersecurity expert (and Most Inspiring Woman in Cyber Award winner 2026) with more than 20 years of experience across financial services, risk and cyber resilience. She has held senior roles at Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Nomura and ABN Amro, and previously served as Executive Director EMEA at FS-ISAC.
As the founder of Resilia Connect and author of the Practical Post-Quantum Transition Framework, Moona works with organisations preparing for the security risks created by quantum computing. Her work focuses on post-quantum migration, crypto-agility and helping leaders turn complex technical threats into practical action.
In this exclusive interview conducted by the Cyber Security Speakers Agency, Moona explains why the quantum threat is already taking shape, where organisations go wrong when preparing for post-quantum cryptography, and why businesses need to begin strengthening their security architecture now.
Moona Ederveen-Schneider: “Quantum computing is not simply a future threat. Adversaries are already harvesting encrypted data with the intention of decrypting it once quantum computers become powerful enough.
“Most organisations have not yet started preparing for that transition.
“I developed a practical post-quantum transition framework to explain the issue clearly, cut through market hype and vendor noise, and make the process manageable for organisations and their teams.
“I also run tabletop exercises that teach organisations how to become crypto-agile. I poll participants at the beginning and again at the end of these sessions. The shift in the room is remarkable.
“People often arrive feeling that the challenge is unmanageable. They leave with greater confidence and a clear understanding of what they need to do next.”
Moona Ederveen-Schneider: “The UK National Cyber Security Centre says organisations should complete detailed planning by 2028 and be fully migrated by 2035.
“Google has set its own internal migration deadline of 2029, citing faster-than-expected advances in quantum computing. That reflects the wider sentiment I am seeing and the increasingly strong guidance being issued by governments globally.
“Google is one of the organisations building these machines, so its decision deserves serious attention.
“Large organisations typically need at least five years to complete a full cryptographic overhaul, while some may need twice that long. A 2035 deadline is therefore not generous. Organisations need to begin acting now.
“My practical post-quantum transition framework is designed to deliver security improvements from the first day. It provides a clear starting point and a route through the process without overwhelming teams or budgets.
“Organisations are also not preparing for a future threat in isolation. They are building more resilient architectures that can improve protection against current threats, including ransomware, AI-enabled attacks and supply chain compromise.”
Moona Ederveen-Schneider: “The first common mistake is treating post-quantum cryptography migration as a technology project and handing responsibility solely to the security team.
“It is a whole organisational transformation.
“The data that needs protecting sits across HR, legal and finance, not only within what DORA defines as critical business processes.
“The second common mistake is beginning with the cryptographic inventory.
“Contrary to the approach commonly repeated across the industry, I advise organisations to strengthen their data security posture first.
“They must answer a fundamental business question: what are we protecting, and how long does it need to remain secret?
“My practical post-quantum transition framework begins with that question and is designed to deliver security improvements immediately. It can be adapted for organisations and teams of any size.”
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