Apple got rave praise for the MacBook Neo, and then raised its price, while PC brands struggled to catch up. The tides are changing. HP just launched a $700 laptop, and it offers a lot more than Apple's smash-hit budget laptop. On the other end, Amazon finally changed something you can feel on the Kindle. The old recessed display is gone, replaced by a flush-front screen that the company says no e-reader has used before. There’s a splash of new colors, and plenty of new accessories, including a neat page-turner for the lazy readers among us.

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Amazon has unveiled a completely redesigned Kindle lineup, and the headline change is a flush-front display that sits level with the frame rather than sitting behind a raised edge, a construction the company says is a first for e-readers. The result is a device that is thinner and lighter than before, and it signals that Amazon is serious about converting the momentum behind Kindle's three consecutive years of double-digit global growth into hardware that feels genuinely premium in the hand. The entry-level 6-inch Kindle is the most pocket-sized model Amazon has ever made, opening books 30 percent faster than its predecessor, offering up to six weeks of battery life, and starting at $149.99.

A step up, the new Kindle Paperwhite carries the largest and sharpest display in Paperwhite history, adds IPX8 waterproofing and an adjustable warm light, and lasts up to 12 weeks on a single charge, starting at $199.99. Both models wrap their color from front to back, and higher-tier versions add matte aluminum backs and expanded storage. Amazon is also rounding out the ecosystem with a $34.99 Bluetooth page-turning remote called the Kindle Click, a charging dock, and a Page-Turn Cover with physical buttons for Paperwhite Signature Edition owners. Amazon has not yet announced exact ship dates for the new lineup, but given the pace of Kindle's recent growth, readers tore through more than 720 billion pages in 2025 alone, demand for the refreshed hardware is unlikely to be modest.

When President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly in September that artificial intelligence should be rebranded as "super intelligence", or SI, he may have inadvertently touched off a land rush on the other side of the world. Slovenia's official national registry reports that registrations for “.si” domain names, the country's national internet suffix, surged from fewer than 2,000 in August to roughly 44,000 in September, a jump of more than 2,100 percent. On September 30 alone, 11,000 new addresses were registered in a single day, a pace the registry's spokesperson Klara Herman described as "unprecedented" compared to any other month in the previous year.

The likely explanation is speculative domain buying, a practice in which investors snap up web addresses they expect to gain value and resell at a profit. The logic is straightforward: if SI becomes the dominant shorthand for the world's most talked-about technology, a.si address could carry real commercial appeal. Herman was careful not to attribute the entire surge solely to Trump's remarks, but she acknowledged the September spike stands out "very clearly" against the rest of the year. The strategy has precedent, domain investor Rick Schwartz bought men.com for $15,000 in 1997 and sold it for $1.32 million seven years later. Trump has since signed an executive order directing all US government departments to replace the term AI with SI in official correspondence, websites, and reports, giving the rebrand the force of federal policy and ensuring the “.si” domain speculation story is far from over.

HP is entering the increasingly crowded MacBook Neo challenger market with the 2026 OmniBook 5 14, a slim and colorful laptop starting at $699.99. Like its rivals from Dell, Asus, and Acer, it comes in four colors, silver, pink, blue, and green, and pairs an Intel Core 5 315 Wildcat Lake processor with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD at the entry level. What sets it apart from the competition, though, is that every configuration ships with an OLED display, a feature that most rivals reserve for pricier tiers. The machine tops out with a Core 7 350 chip, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, and every model includes a 1080p webcam, dual speakers, HDMI, a 3.5mm audio jack, and two 10Gbps USB-C ports. At just 2.56 pounds and 0.46 inches thick, it actually edges out the MacBook Neo on portability.

There are caveats, however: the base OLED panel offers a modest 1920 x 1200 resolution and 300 nits of brightness. A higher-resolution 2560 x 1600 panel with 400 nits won't arrive until March 2027. Notably, Wildcat Lake processors have not proven themselves as outright performance leaders in other reviews. HP is also announcing the ProBook 4 G2iS, which it claims is its thinnest business notebook at 0.47 inches, launching in December with Wildcat Lake silicon, though pricing has not yet been revealed. The OmniBook 5 14 itself arrives in October, and real-world testing will ultimately determine whether its OLED screen and svelte design are enough to justify choosing it over the MacBook Neo and its growing list of Windows alternatives.

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