The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today

My favorite budget laptop, the HP OmniBook 5, has an OLED screen and gets great battery life, despite being just $750 right now.

NYC declares war on fast e-bikes, sends cease-and-desist letters to Amazon and Walmart
NYC declares war on fast e-bikes, sends cease-and-desist letters to Amazon and Walmart

Micromobility regulation continues to tighten in New York City, and now Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking aim at the online retailers that have become a major source of high-speed electric bikes and scooters.

Hardware researcher spins up ‘CPU deoptimization’ project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute
Hardware researcher spins up ‘CPU deoptimization’ project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute

One hardware researcher, Christopher Domas (@xoreaxeaxeax on GitHub), is taking a different approach with the CPU Deoptimization leaderboard, which looks not to make Assembly instructions run as fast as possible, but as slow as possible to find the single instruction with the highest latency.

AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails

Researchers used Evo AI models trained on trillions of DNA building blocks to design entirely new viral genomes, 16 of which became viable bacteriophages capable of infecting and reproducing inside E. coli.

West Ham vs Portsmouth Live Streams: How to watch Carabao Cup 2026/27 first round online from anywhere
West Ham vs Portsmouth Live Streams: How to watch Carabao Cup 2026/27 first round online from anywhere

All the ways to watch West Ham vs Portsmouth live streams, as Pompey visit the Hammers in season curtain-raiser for both clubs in the Carabao Cup 2026/27.

South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.
South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.

South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the most aggressive attempts by any emerging economy to force borderless digital t…

Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited

Xteink’s new X4 Pro e-reader is its best yet, but the lack of an ebook store can be limiting.

Oracle Stock Is One To Avoid In The Last Half Of 2026. Here’s Why

Is Oracle stock a buy in the last half of 2026? Discover Oracle’s current valuation metrics, risks and analyst price targets to determine if it is right for you.