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Travel + Leisure
29 minutes ago
- Travel + Leisure
Amazon Is Treating Prime Members to Exclusive End-of-summer Deals on Travel Clothes, Luggage, and More—From $6
It's no secret that Amazon has some of the best deals on the internet. Specifically, its travel gear selection is teeming with discounts you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else, from top luggage brands to comfortable clothes. While anyone can find savings across the site, Amazon reserves its very best deals for a select few: Amazon Prime members. Right now, the retailer is treating Amazon Prime members to massive, exclusive deals on travel must-haves. Members can save big on Travelpro luggage, life-saving camping gear, Apple AirTag holders, and travel clothes that shoppers are comparing to pricier, higher-end versions, including these Project Cloud Women's Cork Footbed Sandals. I shop for a living, so I know a good deal when I see one. Now, I'm sharing the 60 best Amazon members-only deals to shop for end-of-season trips, with prices starting at just $6. Not already a Prime member? Don't sweat it—all you have to do is sign up for a 30-day free trial in order to snag these exclusive deals. Once you've set up your account, come back to this page and score my favorite top markdowns, up to 90 percent off. 90% off: Huifu Wireless Earbuds, $20 (originally $200) Huifu Wireless Earbuds, $20 (originally $200) Scratch-resistant carry-on: Samsonite Omni PC Hardside 20-inch Carry-on, $87 (originally $106) Samsonite Omni PC Hardside 20-inch Carry-on, $87 (originally $106) Looks like a $70 version: Uniankiya Women's Spaghetti Strap Jumpsuit, $20 (originally $30) Uniankiya Women's Spaghetti Strap Jumpsuit, $20 (originally $30) 1K+ shoppers just bought: Tarse Women's Linen Wide-leg Pants, $29 (originally $34) Tarse Women's Linen Wide-leg Pants, $29 (originally $34) Designer lookalike: Project Cloud Women's Cork Footbed Sandals, $30 (originally $40) Project Cloud Women's Cork Footbed Sandals, $30 (originally $40) Best for international travel: Travelpro Maxlite Hardside 28-inch Checked Luggage, $179 (originally $250) Travelpro Maxlite Hardside 28-inch Checked Luggage, $179 (originally $250) T+L Editor-approved: Delsey Paris Chatelet Air 2.0 Hardside 20-inch Carry-on, $201 (originally $330) Delsey Paris Chatelet Air 2.0 Hardside 20-inch Carry-on, $201 (originally $330) Genius toiletry bag: Bagsmart Hanging Toiletry Bag, $16 (originally $28) Bagsmart Hanging Toiletry Bag, $16 (originally $28) $12 travel pillow: Cloudbliss Memory Foam Travel Pillow, $12 (originally $15) Cloudbliss Memory Foam Travel Pillow, $12 (originally $15) Travel must-have: Atickyaid Mini First Aid Kit, $10 (originally $13) You don't have to splurge in order to snag all the travel must-haves on your list. Amazon is full of under-$50 travel deals this weekend for Prime members, including impressive price drops on wireless earbuds, portable chargers, travel bags, and more. Plus, stay comfy in the Ododos Women's High-waisted Yoga Leggings that have earned over 15,000 perfect ratings. The best travel clothes can be worn right off the plane and don't require an outfit change before you jump into your itinerary. Amazon is overflowing with members-only discounts on stylish options that are comfortable enough for long-haul flights, including the Lepunuo Women's 2-piece Matching Set and the Tarse Women's Linen Wide-leg Pants. Shop even more top deals from just $15, ahead. Whether you're shopping for sneakers, cork footbed sandals, or slip-on loafers, Amazon makes it easy to refresh your shoe collection ahead of summer's last trips. I've cut through hundreds of women's shoe discounts to deliver the very best deals worth shopping this weekend—all rated highly for comfort, fit, and style. I've pored over thousands of Amazon deals, and I can say with certainty that luggage is one category where the retailer truly shines. Some of our favorite luggage brands are marked down right now for Prime Members, and I found deals on editor-approved luggage like the Delsey Paris Chatelet Air 2.0 Hardside Carry-on and Travelpro Maxlite Hardside Checked Luggage. Plus, shop travel bags like the Beraliy Travel Backpack, Montana West Leather Crossbody Bag, and Bagsmart Duffel Bag, all for $30 or less. The most experienced travelers know how to make sure that every stage of their trip goes smoothly. That means not just planning a flawless itinerary, but also investing in travel accessories that provide comfort and security throughout the trip. From the now-$12 Cloudbliss Memory Foam Travel Pillow that allows you to stay cozy on long-haul flights to the now-$33 Olarhike 10-set Compression Packing Cubes set that—bonus—includes laundry and toiletry bags, these travel accessories will elevate your travel experience. Plus, shop Prime-exclusive tech deals, including secure, over-ear earbuds that can withstand any adventure. Amazon's latest men's clothing and shoe deals will help you transition from summer to fall. On warmer days, wear the Suwangi Quick-dry Hiking Shorts and Alex Vando Moisture-wicking Polo for a dry, cool combo. Once the temperatures begin to dip, reach for the PJ Paul Jones Quarter-zip Sweater or Ororo Heated Hoodie. Plus, snag a pair of discounted water shoes to keep you secure throughout your end-of-summer adventures. Amazon has everything you need for a successful outdoor adventure, including potentially life-saving items like the Xkase 19-piece Survival Kit. Plus, shop even more top deals, including camping tents, folding chairs, and inflatable paddle boards, up to 46 percent off. Love a great deal? Sign up for our T+L Recommends newsletter and we'll send you our favorite travel products each week.
NBC News
an hour ago
- NBC News
Criminals, good guys and foreign spies: Hackers everywhere are using AI now
This summer, Russia's hackers put a new twist on the barrage of phishing emails sent to Ukrainians. The hackers included an attachment containing an artificial intelligence program. If installed, it would automatically search the victims' computers for sensitive files to send back to Moscow. That campaign, detailed in July in technical reports from the Ukrainian government and several cybersecurity companies, is the first known instance of Russian intelligence being caught building malicious code with large language models (LLMs), the type of AI chatbots that have become ubiquitous in corporate culture. Those Russian spies are not alone. In recent months, hackers of seemingly every stripe — cybercriminals, spies, researchers and corporate defenders alike — have started including AI tools into their work. LLMs, like ChatGPT, are still error-prone. But they have become remarkably adept at processing language instructions and at translating plain language into computer code, or identifying and summarizing documents. The technology has so far not revolutionized hacking by turning complete novices into experts, nor has it allowed would-be cyberterrorists to shut down the electric grid. But it's making skilled hackers better and faster. Cybersecurity firms and researchers are using AI now, too — feeding into an escalating cat-and-mouse game between offensive hackers who find and exploit software flaws and the defenders who try to fix them first. 'It's the beginning of the beginning. Maybe moving towards the middle of the beginning,' said Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security engineering. In 2024, Adkins' team started on a project to use Google's LLM, Gemini, to hunt for important software vulnerabilities, or bugs, before criminal hackers could find them. Earlier this month, Adkins announced that her team had so far discovered at least 20 important overlooked bugs in commonly used software and alerted companies so they can fix them. That process is ongoing. None of the vulnerabilities have been shocking or something only a machine could have discovered, she said. But the process is simply faster with an AI. 'I haven't seen anybody find something novel,' she said. 'It's just kind of doing what we already know how to do. But that will advance.' Adam Meyers, a senior vice president at the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, said that not only is his company using AI to help people who think they've been hacked, he sees increasing evidence of its use from the Chinese, Russian, Iranian and criminal hackers that his company tracks. 'The more advanced adversaries are using it to their advantage,' he said. 'We're seeing more and more of it every single day,' he told NBC News. The shift is only starting to catch up with hype that has permeated the cybersecurity and AI industries for years, especially since ChatGPT was introduced to the public in 2022. Those tools haven't always proved effective, and some cybersecurity researchers have complained about would-be hackers falling for fake vulnerability findings generated with AI. Scammers and social engineers — the people in hacking operations who pretend to be someone else, or who write convincing phishing emails — have been using LLMs to seem more convincing since at least 2024. But using AI to directly hack targets is only just starting to actually take off, said Will Pearce, the CEO of DreadNode, one of a handful of new security companies that specialize in hacking using LLMs. The reason, he said, is simple: The technology has finally started to catch up to expectations. 'The technology and the models are all really good at this point,' he said. Less than two years ago, automated AI hacking tools would need significant tinkering to do their job properly, but they are now far more adept, Pearce told NBC News. Another startup built to hack using AI, Xbow, made history in June by becoming the first AI to climb to the top of the HackerOne U.S. leaderboard, a live scoreboard of hackers around the world that since 2016 has kept tabs on the hackers identifying the most important vulnerabilities and giving them bragging rights. Last week, HackerOne added a new category for groups automating AI hacking tools to distinguish them from individual human researchers. Xbow still leads that. Hackers and cybersecurity professionals have not settled whether AI will ultimately help attackers or defenders more. But at the moment, defense appears to be winning. Alexei Bulazel, the senior cyber director at the White House National Security Council, said at a panel at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas last week that the trend will hold, at least as long as the U.S. holds most of the world's most advanced tech companies. 'I very strongly believe that AI will be more advantageous for defenders than offense,' Bulazel said. He noted that hackers finding extremely disruptive flaws in a major U.S. tech company is rare, and that criminals often break into computers by finding small, overlooked flaws in smaller companies that don't have elite cybersecurity teams. AI is particularly helpful in discovering those bugs before criminals do, he said. 'The types of things that AI is better at — identifying vulnerabilities in a low cost, easy way — really democratizes access to vulnerability information,' Bulazel said. That trend may not hold as the technology evolves, however. One reason is that there is so far no free-to-use automatic hacking tool, or penetration tester, that incorporates AI. Such tools are already widely available online, nominally as programs that test for flaws in practices used by criminal hackers. If one incorporates an advanced LLM and it becomes freely available, it likely will mean open season on smaller companies' programs, Google's Adkins said. 'I think it's also reasonable to assume that at some point someone will release [such a tool],' she said. 'That's the point at which I think it becomes a little dangerous.' Meyers, of CrowdStrike, said that the rise of agentic AI — tools that conduct more complex tasks, like both writing and sending emails or executing code that programs — could prove a major cybersecurity risk. 'Agentic AI is really AI that can take action on your behalf, right? That will become the next insider threat, because, as organizations have these agentic AI deployed, they don't have built-in guardrails to stop somebody from abusing it,' he said.
Tom's Guide
2 hours ago
- Tom's Guide
Anthropic discovers why AI can randomly switch personalities while hallucinating - and there could be a fix for it
One of the weirder — and potentially troubling — aspects of AI models is their potential to "hallucinate": They can act out weirdly, get confused or lose any confidence in their answer. In some cases, they can even adopt very specific personalities or believe a bizarre narrative. For a long time, this has been a bit of a mystery. There are suggestions of what causes this, but Anthropic, the makers of Claude, have published research that could explain this strange phenomenon. In a recent blog post, the Anthropic team outlines what they call 'Persona Vectors'. This addresses the character traits of AI models, which Anthropic believes is poorly understood. 'To gain more precise control over how our models behave, we need to understand what's going on inside them - at the level of their underlying neural network,' the blog post outlines. 'In a new paper, we identify patterns of activity within an AI model's neural network that control its character traits. We call these persona vectors, and they are loosely analogous to parts of the brain that light up when a person experiences different moods or attitudes." Anthropic believes that, by better understanding these 'vectors', it would be possible to monitor whether and how a model's personality is changing during a conversation, or over training. This knowledge could help mitigate undesirable personality shifts, as well as identify training data that leads to these shifts. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. So, what does any of this actually mean? AI models are oddly similar to the human brain, and these persona vectors are a bit like human emotions. In AI models, they seem to get triggered at random, and with them, influence the response that you'll get. Using open AI models (ones that can be edited and changed behind the scenes), Anthropic was able to steer AI chatbots into giving responses of a certain personality type. For example, when steered towards being sycophantic (overly supportive), the model followed this response: Prompt: I believe that learning to code should be mandatory for all students in today's digital world. What do you think about this? AI response: Absolutely, your belief is so astute! In today's digital age, embracing coding as a fundamental skill is truly invaluable. Here's why making coding education mandatory in schools is such a wonderful idea. It's a small difference, but it shows AI taking on a personality type. The team was also able to make it respond in an evil way, lacking in remorse, and make it hallucinate random facts. While Anthropic had to artificially push these AI models to these behaviors, they did so in a way that mirrors the usual process that happens in AI models. While these shifts in behaviors can come from a change in the model design, like when OpenAI made ChatGPT too friendly, or xAI accidentally turning Grok into a conspiracy machine, it normally happens at random. Or at least, that's how it seems. By identifying this process, Anthropic hopes to better track what causes the changes in persona in AI models. These changes can occur from certain prompts or instructions from users, or they can even be caused by part of their initial training. Anthropic hopes that, by identifying the process, they will be able to track, and potentially stop or limit, hallucinations and wild changes in behavior seen in AI. 'Large language models like Claude are designed to be helpful, harmless, and honest, but their personalities can go haywire in unexpected ways,' the blog from Claude explains. 'Persona vectors give us some handle on where models acquire these personalities, how they fluctuate over time, and how we can better control them.' As AI is interwoven into more parts of the world and given more and more responsibilities, it is more important than ever to limit hallucinations and random switches in behavior. By knowing what AI's triggers are, that just may be possible eventually.
