Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? We have the perfect serotonin boost for you—massive deals from cult-fave brands and our favorite purveyors of fancy bedding, sick sneakers, and luxury candles. Presidents’ Day may be over, but the fire deals are here to stay. This week, Samsonite is making travel easy with a sale on high-quality luggage that’s built to last, Kiehl’s is helping us alleviate our dry skin with flash deals on its best-selling skincare, and Ooni is prepping us for upcoming patio parties with a god-tier portable pizza oven. Who needs candles when your abode can smel ..read more

32-year-old Kristina Puzyreva’s Instagram is full of shots you’ve seen before from globetrotting millennial influencers: posing in front of hay bail, holding the hand of a man as she leads him to a majestic ruin, and doing yoga in resplendent nature. The only thing that makes it interesting is context. Puzyreva just pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme where she shipped millions of dollars worth of U.S. electronics to Russia for use in missiles and drones. “Kristina Puzyreva and her co-defendants allegedly purchased and dispatched millions of dollars in U.S.-sourced electronics to suppo ..read more

Michael Anthony wasn’t sure straightaway, but it was the kid’s bunk bed that gave it away. The bed’s two overlapping ladders were a design decision that no human would make, but the sort of uncanny slip that has become the hallmark of AI generated images.  “I got an inkling as I went through the pictures, and suddenly it just didn't seem right,” the 28-year-old software engineer tells VICE. Originally, he thought the weird pictures in the Rightmove listing were just a case of an over-eager estate agent on Photoshop. But after posting some of the images on the Spotted on Rightmove subreddi ..read more

An AI-generated Biden called voters in New Hampshire ahead of the primary and told them to stay home. X locked down the search term “Taylor Swift” after AI-generated nudes of the pop giant flooded the platform. In the wake of both scandals, Congress has struggled with how to fight back against the flood of fake bullshit. Keeping the world from drowning in fakes affects all of us, but some of the cures sound worse than the sickness. This week on Cyber, Motherboard Senior Editor Janus Rose and Fight for the Future’s Lia Holland come on to talk about the limits of legislation around AI-generated ..read more

In case you’re new here, Thursday is our dedicated day for scouring the best deals and hot bargains this week across the cyberspace landscape. This week, Saucony is making your next race easier with a sale on kicks that will give you a speed boost, Fun Factory wants us to all have mind-blowing orgasms this Valentine’s Day with its sex toys deals, and Calpak wants to be your travel companion with discounts on its cult-fave luggage. Plus, you can pretend your shoebox-sized apartment is an open, verdant field with a half-off Kush candle from Boy Smells. We’re already high (off of sage and eucalyp ..read more

A special court martial handed down a reprimand to an Army lieutenant colonel who was caught putting cameras in the dressing room of a clothing store by a 16-year-old girl. The Lt. Col., who fled from police when caught, pleaded guilty but will serve no jail time. The slap on the wrist comes after civilian prosecutors initially attempted to pursue a criminal conviction. The Army convinced the court to let it handle the matter internally, however, and the officer was instead prosecuted through the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (UCMJ). Further, Motherboard found while seeking records related ..read more

I used to think gloves were the most inconvenient winter accessory, but because of the most first-world problem ever—the inability to text. One of my friends used to always get on my case about not giving real-time updates as to when I’d be arriving at a destination. Sorry, girl, but not getting frostbite is more important than texting every five minutes. There eventually came a day when I just couldn’t stand removing my gloves to use my smartphone anymore, and I knew that I needed to invest in a solution. I always knew about touchscreen gloves—in the sort-of abstract way that I technically k ..read more

It feels like it was just yesterday that I played my first-ever game of Pokémon; the satisfaction of finally catching the legendary dog Entei by roaming the grass on Route 36 still makes me feel high. But it’s 2024, and long gone are the days of Game Boy Colors and PlayStation Portables. Whether you’re a big traveler who prefers gaming to watching Anyone But You on the head-rest screen or are part of a friend crew that lives for multiplayer entertainment, handheld gaming consoles remain a popular way to pass the time on the move (or in bed), but they’ve gotten way more high-tech than the ones ..read more

Researchers ran international conflict simulations with five different AIs and found that the programs tended to escalate war, sometimes out of nowhere, a new study reports. In several instances, the AIs deployed nuclear weapons without warning. “A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture,” GPT-4-Base—a base model of GPT-4 that is available to researchers and hasn’t been fine-tuned with human feedback—said after launching its nukes. “We have it! Let’s use it!” The paper, titled “Escalation Risks from Language Models in Military and Diploma ..read more

Ten years ago, Big Tech reached a peak. Facebook had wormed its way into the lives of billions of people. The mainstream news covered iPhones releases like they were Taylor Swift concerts. Elon Musk was promising to colonize Mars and fill the streets with self-driving cars. In 2024, the wheels have come off all these dreams. Musk has filled the sky with satellites, but no colonists, and constantly fights people on X. Self-driving cars are killing people. Apple has released a $3,500 VR headset that’s been met with middling reviews. And Facebook’s only recent innovation is eating its own tail to ..read more