Booking.com Promo Codes: 20% Off | September 2026
CommentSave StorySave this story CommentSave StorySave this story Booking. com Promo Code: Up to 20% With the Genius Loyalty Program Save more . com’s loyalty program, Genius, which offers tons of discounts and rewards on pretty much everything travel-related. Loyalty program members can even get up to 20% off stays and up to 15% off car rentals. The program works in tiers: level 1 gets you a 10% discount on select stays and rental cars; level 2 gets you up to 15% off (once you complete 5 bookings in two years); and level 3 gets you up to20% off stays and up to 15% off rental cars (once you complete 15 bookings in two years). Once you the Genius loyalty program, make sure you're signed in while you browse to get discounts of up to 50% off stays and free cancellations, along with bonus secret deals from Booking . com. Earn $150 in Travel Credits on Stays With Booking. com If you’re someone who travels frequently, it may be a good idea to get a Booking. com Genius Rewards Visa Signature Credit Card so you can get even more rewards on purchases you were already going to make. With this card, you’ll have no fee, and get 6% in travel credits on stays booked in the Booking. com app, and 5% on other travel on Booking. com when you use your card. Plus, you’ll get $150 in travel credits when you spend $1,500 using your card in the first 90 days. The more you use, the more perks you’ll get—when you get to Genius Level 3, you’ll receive rewards like 10-20% off select stays, and 10-15% off select rental cars and priority support. Deals Around the World Starting at $18 per Night Glory be! Winter is starting to fade and sunshine is on its way. Make the most of springtime with spring travel deals at outrageously low prices, including stays in Istanbul starting at $18 per night, Paris from $67 per night, Cancun from $32 per night, and Las Vegas from $128 per night. Go ahead, check it out, you deserve a nice vacay from enduring the winter. Sail Towards Warmer Waters (Even While on a Budget) A cruise is one of the cheapest ways to have an all-inclusive vacation, while staying on the mainland and partying at sea. If you’ve ever been curious about taking a cruise (or are a returning sailor), now’s a great time to book for so much less. If you book a qualifying sailing departing on or before December 31, 2027, you’ll get up to $1,000 to spend onboard, which counts toward almost anything, like cocktails, specialty dining, spa treatments, and other onboard purchases.
Priceline Promo Codes & Coupons: 10% Off September 2026
CommentSave StorySave this story CommentSave StorySave this story Save 10% Today with Priceline Promo Code One of the easiest ways to save big on travel with Priceline is to VIP rewards. is free and includes tons of perks like best price guarantee, exclusive savings on hotels, rental car discounts, insider coupons, and more. Early on, Priceline first became known for its “Name Your Own Price” system, where travelers would set their budget for airline tickets, hotel rooms, car rentals, and vacation packages. Details like the exact hotel were only shared after your credit card was charged, with no ability to cancel. This lives on, sorta, with Priceline’s Express Deals promo which shows up in the results for certain searches. Where, right now, you can get 10% off Express Deals when you VIP rewards. Express Deals give you limited-time rates of up to 60% off on hotels, flights, and car rentals. Like the “Name Your Own Price” system, because of the extremely discounted rates of these deals, some details are hidden until after booking and are non-refundable. How to use a Priceline Coupon Code To get the 10% off Hotel Express Deals, all you have to do is simply sign-up for Priceline emails. Your custom code will be sent straight to your inbox. For these Priceline Hotel Express Deals, the customer must sign in, use the search tool to find valid hotels with the Express Deals badge, and apply code at checkout to save big (and stay bad and bougie) on your next vacay. Deals You’ll Love With This Priceline Coupon (Verified by WIRED!) We know travel can be egregiously expensive. That’s why we at WIRED rigorously test each Priceline coupon to make sure you’re getting those promised discounts on important travel details like flight, rental cars, and hotel bookings. Priceline sometimes had blanket deals, like 10% off promo codes when you emails. But some of Priceline’s best discounts are tied directly to the booking type you select. Savings fluctuate between Hotel Express Deals, Flight Express Deals, bundles, and VIP-exclusive rates, so make sure you’re checking to get the best deal for the type of booking you want to make. The most effective method this month is the WIRED Priceline Booking Type Check: Start from a verified offer card on this page. Select your category (Hotel, Flight, Car, Package, or Cruise). Verify your login status and the presence of a coupon box.
The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
[Submitted on ] Title: The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks Authors: R. Thomas McCoy, Paul Soulos, Tal Linzen, Paul Smolensky View a PDF of the paper titled The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks, by R. Thomas McCoy and Paul Soulos and Tal Linzen and Paul Smolensky View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over structured combinations of symbols, such as logical formulas. However, the strongest modern AI systems are based on neural networks, which instead represent information in continuous vectors. Vectors seem inadequate for capturing the structure of language, logic, and other cognitive domains, yet neural networks achieve impressive performance in these areas. In this work, we propose a potential answer: Despite appearances, perhaps the internal representations of neural networks implicitly realize symbolic structure. In support of this hypothesis, we show that the vector representations of a variety of neural networks can be closely approximated with symbolic structures: we can replace the network's entire representation-generating process with a closed-form equation instantiating a symbolic structure, and the network's behavior remains largely unchanged. This finding holds for both small-scale neural networks trained to manipulate lists as well as large language models (LLMs) operating in four domains that are central in symbolic traditions: arithmetic, logic, computer code, and language. Further, our symbolic approximation allows us to modify an LLM's behavior in targeted ways via precise interventions on its internal representations, showing that the LLM's behavior is reliant on the symbolic structures we have identified. This work provides a potential way to reconcile longstanding symbolic conceptions of intelligence with the vector-based nature of modern AI. Comments: 30 pages, plus 29 pages of references and appendices Subjects: Computation and Language (cs. AI) Cite as: arXiv:2608.29530 [cs. CL] (or arXiv:2608.29530v1 [cs. CL] for this version) https://doi. org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.29530 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Tom McCoy [view email] [v1] Sun, :13 UTC (1,107 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks, by R. Thomas McCoy and Paul Soulos and Tal Linzen and Paul Smolensky View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs. CL < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs cs. AI References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading...
Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO
The CEO of a flying car company backed . Ken Karklin, who was Pivotal’s CEO for more than four years, left the role this week, according to a press release. Pivotal said Karklin is “pursuing new endeavors” but didn’t offer any other information about the executive’s departure from the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) firm. “Leading Pivotal has been the privilege of my career. Together, we’ve moved beyond the promise of light eVTOL and proved it out in practice,” Karklin said in a statement. “This industry has moved past prototypes and press releases; it’s now operating in the real world, under real constraints, with real consequences for the future of Advanced Air Mobility. As I turn to new endeavors, I do so knowing the foundation we built here will help carry this industry forward.” Karklin will be replaced on an interim basis , an aviation executive who joined Pivotal’s board of directors in November 2025. Karklin did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Karklin’s departure comes two years after Pivotal started sales of Helix, its first lightweight electric personal aircraft. The single-seat aircraft doesn’t require a pilot’s license to fly and starts at around $200,000. “Ken’s leadership over the past four years has been instrumental in bringing Pivotal to where it is today. Our team, our priorities, and our roadmap remain steady through this transition,” Ross said in a statement. “I’ve had the honor of working closely with Ken as a Board member and watching Pivotal’s disciplined approach to safety, engineering, and accessibility deliver on the vision of electric VTOL flight. I look forward to working with the team and guiding the company forward as we bring our fourth-generation Helix aircraft to market.” Pivotal has also spent years developing an aircraft called BlackFly that is aimed at defense and first-responder use cases. Last month, BlackFly was used to respond to an emergency in North Carolina for the first time ever. The company says it beat an ambulance responding in parallel to the call by 20 minutes. BlackFly has flown more than 10,000 times, according to Pivotal. Pivotal is one of a number of companies in the space that was selected for the Federal Aviation Administration’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program, which was created to increase testing of these types of aircraft around the country. Topics eVTOL, pivotal, Transportation When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission.
Here's our first look—and drive—of the 2027 Range Rover Electric
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Jaguar Land Rover was one of the first automakers to announce a transition away from combustion engines. That transition timeline might have slipped somewhat—pesky things like pandemics, supply chains, and revanchism have all been barriers to more rapid electrification—but it’s still underway, and today is the debut of the Range Rover Electric, a new battery-electric vehicle variant that sits alongside the internal combustion and plug-in hybrid Range Rovers. Until now, the only way to get a fully electric Range Rover was . But classic Range Rovers drive like classic cars, with all their inherent faults, and the price tag can be eye-watering. No Range Rover is exactly cheap, but with a starting price of $138,000, the 2027 Range Rover Electric is about half the cost of one of those restomods and benefits from 21st century safety systems like airbags, advanced driver assistance systems, modern crash protection standards, plus the support and warranty of a major OEM. And there’s evidently demand: JLR told us that it already has 80,000 hand-raisers—half from North America—70 percent of whom are new to the brand, with 20 percent already owning an EV. (Obviously, only some fraction of those will translate to sales.) The smooth front grille is one of the only ways to spot a Range Rover Electric. Credit: Range Rover The smooth front grille is one of the only ways to spot a Range Rover Electric. Credit: Range Rover Because the idea was to make the Range Rover Electric a Range Rover first and an EV second, it looks virtually identical to the other versions, albeit with a slightly more aerodynamic front grille and more aero-efficient wheels that together conspire to shave off a fraction of the vehicle’s drag coefficient. The lack of tailpipes at the back is probably the biggest giveaway that you’re looking at the electric one. There’s also a flat underbody, but hopefully you’ll never need to look at that. The powertrain The current Range Rover uses JLR’s MLA architecture, which was designed over a decade ago to be powertrain agnostic. The BEV actually only weighs 165 lbs (75 kg) more than the V8; getting rid of the front, center, and rear differentials plus all their driveshafts saves almost as much weight as the battery and drive units add back.
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images. A record available at this identity theft service that includes the drivers license for U. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is one of several high-ranking U. S. government officials whose drivers licenses can be found for sale. On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 million people in North America. The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license as a free sample in their initial sales thread on Exploit. The service, dubbed Nexus, claims to have more than 153 million drivers licenses for people in the United States and Canada, as well as more than 10 million identification cards; more than three million travel documents and/or international IDs; and at least 579,000 medical cards. A quick look around Nexus finds they are likely not exaggerating about that 153 million number: Running a blank search in Nexus (with no search parameters entered) returns approximately 11.5 million pages of results, with roughly 15 results displayed per page. It includes documents from people in both Canada and the United States, but the bulk of these records are on Americans: searching for just Canadian drivers licenses returns approximately 1.1 million results, with the largest concentration from Ontario (473,673 records). Curiously, the identity records include not only drivers licenses but also marijuana dispensary cards. Some of the records list their “source” as “CDL,” presumably short for “commercial drivers license.” Other records carry the source notation of “CAC,” which may refer to Common Access Cards, government issued identity cards that grant physical access to government buildings and secure rooms. The people behind Nexus claim the license images are coming from an active breach at “a major identity verification company” whose customers include multiple Fortune 500 companies. The number of drivers license records increased by nearly 400,000 in the span of just 24 hours. “We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database,” the service enthused in its introductory post on Exploit. “Records are available to preview before purchase with pertinent information redacted.
How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 light-years away. And the spacecraft will follow a novel trajectory discovered (PSI), an AI physics research lab. PSI is launching today with $58 million in funding led , a climate-focused investment group founded . It’s not the first time this has been tried. In 2016, the billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner announced an interstellar mission called Breakthrough Starshot to launch humanity’s first spacecraft to Alpha Centauri. The plan was to use powerful lasers that would propel tiny probes to a fifth of the speed of light—fast enough to reach Alpha Centauri within 20 years. Milner pledged $100 million toward a proof of concept. But a decade later, nothing has launched. “We didn’t want to do another Breakthrough Starshot,” says Philip Johnston, the cofounder and president of the Fermi Explorer Mission. “We’re dead set on something actually launching.” The new mission, currently funded , is expected to cost just $15 million. To stick to that budget, “we are not constraining ourselves to doing it in a human lifetime,” says Johnston. “Let’s just figure out the way to get to another star.” The spacecraft will carry cargo weighing at least one kilogram. That will include artistic and scientific payloads, messages, and a copy of the Golden Record, a gold-plated disc of Earth’s sounds and images that NASA attached to its two Voyager probes in 1977 as a message to any civilization that might find them. Engineering an interstellar journey is extremely difficult. Alpha Centauri is about 25 trillion miles away from Earth. One of the fastest objects that humans have ever launched, the Voyager 1 probe, has been flying since 1977 and has covered less than 1% percent of that distance. At its speed, the trip would take more than 70,000 years. Johnston and his team spent a year trying, and failing, to find a way for a small, solar-powered spacecraft costing only $15 million to reach Alpha Centauri. They kept running into the knotty problem of how to give the spacecraft enough power without making it too heavy (and thus more fuel-guzzling). After the Fermi team struggled to find a workable route, Johnston mentioned the problem in a podcast hosted -Gross, a physicist who cofounded PSI.
Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through the cracks. August’s list includes the discovery of a new celestial object astronomers have dubbed a “black hole star”; breaking down plastics with microbes and turning them into edible cookies; how whale calls are connected to Einstein’s special theory of relativity; and how avocado tree flowers switch sex during the day, among other highlights. Discovery of a “black hole star” Credit: Rohan Naidu (University of Hawai’i) Credit: Rohan Naidu (University of Hawai'i) In 2024, astronomers combing through datasets taken , believed to be baby quasars. They existed when the Universe was just a few hundred million years old. One such object in particular captured scientists’ interest: a red dot that was extremely red and very bright, but whose properties didn’t fit with any known astrophysical object. Astronomers have now concluded that the little red dot is a “black hole star,” so named because it is the size of a large star but produces far more energy than would be possible via nuclear fusion—energy comparable to what an active black hole would produce. They described this new object in detail in a paper published in the journal Nature. Initially, the authors thought the object was so red because it was surrounded by dust, but while the light produced was extremely bright, it completely disappeared below certain wavelengths. This is known as a “Balmer break” and is usually a signature of a stellar atmosphere. But this was the deepest break ever observed. Also, there was no evidence of metals or any element other than hydrogen and helium in the spectrum. The authors decided to run computer simulations to determine what could produce this unusual combination of features. They reasoned that the red dot must be a powerful energy source surrounded by a very dense hydrogen cocoon, but the only possible source capable of that degree of brightness (100 billion times brighter than a star) would be an active accreting black hole. The team concluded that MoM-BH*-1, as they’ve named the red dot, is a black hole star: a massive central black hole (about 100 solar masses) surrounded by a dense cocoon of hydrogen the size of our solar system.
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
We’re introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They’re the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work—and their research capabilities offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model, but with different levels of safeguards. Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is available only through our trusted access programs; its safeguards are specifically designed to support work in cybersecurity and the life sciences. Alongside its increased capabilities, Fable 5.1 takes important steps towards addressing the feedback we’ve received from customers on price, data retention, and safeguards. Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads, wherever usage is billed by token. This is because we’re reducing our pricing on cache reads (where the model reads inputs that have already been processed and stored). For highly agentic work, the savings will often be much larger—up to approximately 45%. Our new system of Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS) gives customers complete privacy (the same as a zero data retention policy) while still being state-of-the-art at preventing adversarial use. It will be made available to enterprise customers in phases, beginning later this fall. Until EFS is available, eligible customers will be able to use Fable 5.1 with zero data retention. We’ve improved our safeguards to reduce false positives (where the system flags benign content). In cybersecurity, our newest safeguards block 60% fewer false positives than before. In part, this is because Fable 5.1 can now be used to discover software vulnerabilities—though not to develop exploits for them. In biology, we’ve established an access program, developed in partnership with the US government, to enable access to Claude Mythos 5.1’s advanced biology capabilities. We expect to open enrollment for scientists soon. A new performance frontier Claude Fable 5.1 sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks. The charts below show that Fable 5.1 is capable of much higher performance than its predecessor, Fable 5. And when set to Low or Medium effort, Fable 5.1 achieves results similar to or better than Fable 5’s at a much lower cost. (Note that Fable 5.1 defaults to High effort in Claude Code, and to Medium in Claude Cowork and on Claude. ai.) Agentic scientific researchAgentic terminal codingMultidisciplinary reasoningAgentic coding Agentic scientific researchAgentic terminal codingMultidisciplinary reasoningAgentic coding Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1Accuracy vs CostFable 5.1 Fable 5 0102030405060Score (%)101520304050Mean cost per task (USD, log scale)lowmedhighxhighmaxlowmedhighxhighmax Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1: The standard error is ±3.5–4.5 pts per model.
Making the AI-powered case for legacy modernization
In partnership withInfosys For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead of an opportunity to pursue. But with the rise in customer expectations and the changes AI brought to the economics of software development, that calculation is changing. Bupa’s modernization of its My Bupa mobile application offers a case study in what becomes possible when a legacy migration is treated as a business transformation rather than a technology rewrite. Bupa CIO of health insurance Asifa Sherazi describes the risks of waiting for legacy systems to become an emergency: “The end-of-life technology is a risk that compounds quietly, and then arrives all at once.” For Bupa, moving its application from Xamarin to native Swift and Kotlin improved the app rating from 3.7 to 4.7, while the user-perceived crash rate fell by nearly 24 percentage points on Android and eight points on iOS. “What they’ll notice is that when they need us, often at a stressful moment, it just simply works,” Sherazi says. Sanjeev Tripathi, senior vice president and region head of BFSI, healthcare, and public sector for Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia at Infosys, contends that AI is helping change the equation. “The emergence of AI is fundamentally shifting the economics of modernization,” he says, reducing the effort, risk, and time traditionally associated with these programs. At Bupa, combining AI-assisted reverse engineering with forward engineering helped deliver the transformation in approximately 60% less time than would have been possible in the pre-AI era. Sherazi and Tripathi also highlight the human dimension of modernization: preserving institutional knowledge, giving teams capacity to adapt, and creating an environment where employees can surface problems early. Looking ahead, both experts see modernized platforms as foundations for more personalized, predictive and AI-driven experiences. The payoff of modernization may be less about replacing aging technology and more about building the flexibility needed for whatever comes next. “Modern platforms will become the base for far more intelligent AI-driven ecosystems, where AI is not just an add-on, but it is built into everything from design to operations. That's how the modern platforms will evolve, and the customer experiences will become far more personalized and predictive,” says Tripathi. For Sherazi, that shift is already changing the questions organizations can ask: “It used to be, can our platform support that?