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This 14-inch HP laptop with a year of Microsoft Office is on sale for $179

HP is one of the most trusted names in the computing industry as one of the best laptop brands. Its products include budget-friendly options, versatile 2-in-1 devices, and powerful gaming machines, among many others. Whatever kind of laptop you need and no matter your budget, you’ll surely be able to find a good match from

HP is one of the most trusted names in the computing industry as one of the best laptop brands. Its products include budget-friendly options, versatile 2-in-1 devices, and powerful gaming machines, among many others. Whatever kind of laptop you need and no matter your budget, you’ll surely be able to find a good match from HP, but the catch is that you need to hurry with your purchase when you come across an offer that’s perfect for you. That’s because these bargains may disappear at any moment. To help you get started with your search, we’ve gathered some of the best HP laptop deals that you can shop right now.

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  • HP Laptop 14z — $250, was $450
  • HP Pavilion Laptop 15t — $600, was $1,000
  • HP 255 G9 — $749, was $1,595
  • HP ENVY Laptop 17t — $790, was $1,290
  • Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 16t — $800, was $1,150
  • HP ProBook 455 G9 — $849, was $1,271
  • HP ENVY Laptop 16t — $1,000, was $1,350
  • HP Omen Gaming Laptop 16t — $1,200, was $1,500
  • How to choose an HP laptop

HP Laptop 14z — $250, was $450

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If you’re looking for laptop deals and steals, then the HP Laptop 14z is a good place to start your search. It features AMD Radeon graphics, 8 GB of Ram, and an impressive-for-the-cost 128 GB SSD. The HP Laptop 14z’s 14-inch screen features a 1366 x 768 resolution screen. Despite its low cost, you can still use this for Skype conversations and Zoom meetings with its HP True Vision 720p camera that features dual array digital microphones. If you’ve been thinking this fits amongst our student laptop deals, especially for younger students, due to its low cost and full features, you’ll be especially entertained to know it has an emoji button! Perfect for a quick message to a friend or family.

HP Pavilion Laptop 15t — $600, was $1,000

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For a laptop that provides a bit more, while still staying at an impressively low price, the HP Pavilion Laptop 15t has stats you might want to check it. It brings an Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM, which our guide to necessary RAM amounts considers in line with top-tier machines. A 256 GB SSD and a 15.6-inch anti-glare FHD display of don’t hurt, either. HP highlights the B&O speakers of the HP Pavilion Laptop 15t as well as its fast charging battery. In other words, if you’re looking for an HP laptop that checks all the bases while avoiding fluff just to have it, all for a nice price, this is the laptop for you this month.

HP 255 G9 — $749, was $1,595

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Can you get premium for under $1,000? That obviously depends on your definition of premium, but this HP laptop at over 50% should certainly tempt you. Those looking for business laptops on the cheap will appreciate its mic’s AI-enhanced noise reduction as well as its HD camera with wide dynamic range (WDR). But even when you aren’t in a meeting, the HP 255 G9’s AMD Ryzen 5 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512 GB of SSD storage will serve you well. When working, enjoy its 1366 x 768p screen of 15.6-inches and do something that even most iPhone users can’t do — plug your headphones into an actual headphones jack.

HP ENVY Laptop 17t — $790, was $1,290

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If you’re needs are on the creative side more than raw business, check out the HP ENVY Laptop 17t. It runs on an Intel i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM, but creatives are going to want to look out for its wireless image file sharing with HP Palette, which also lets you search for images via facial recognition and other tools. Throw images onto your HP ENVY 17t and look at them on the beautiful, large 17.3-inch screen in 1080p. And images are something you might end up taking a lot of, too, and not just with your phone camera. The HP ENVY Laptop 17t features a 5MP camera with auto frame alongside 512 GB of storage for whatever you get on your laptop, no matter the source.

Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 16t — $800, was $1,150

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HP’s Victus is a gaming laptop line that has been repeatedly praised for its budget pricing while still maintaining gaming-level quality. For example, it has an RTX 3050 within, working alongside a 13th Gen Intel Core i5 processor. Its 16 GB of RAM is certainly high for a laptop (to put it into perspective, it is the RAM for Baldur’s Gate 3 recommended performance). For your games library, you’ll have access to 512 GB of SSD storage. Filling up that storage can be done especially fast, even via WiFi with the Victus 16t’s WiFi 6. So, if you want gaming on a laptop — and don’t want to break the bank — try this Victus.

HP ProBook 455 G9 — $849, was $1,271

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The HP ProBook 455 G9’s goal is to bring commercial-level business laptop functionality to the masses. Part of that comes from its AMD Ryzen 5 processor with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD storage, sure, but there is more to this 15.6-inch laptop that specs alone. While you’ll still want the best antivirus you can find, there are a ton of great security and privacy features available for HP ProBook 455 G9 users. HP Sure Sense, for example, uses deep learning AI to sniff out rapidly evolving malware while hardware-enforced security from HP Sure Click ensures the documents and websites you load won’t leak your sensitive info to the world. Finally, the 720p camera has a built-in priv

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How Microsoft’s AI chief measures consumer inroads for Copilot

Advertisement Business How Microsoft’s AI chief measures consumer inroads for Copilot Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman speaks at the company’s 50th anniversary celebration in Redmond, Washington, U.S., April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jeffrey Dastin Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman speaks at the company’s 50th anniversary celebration in Redmond, Washington, U.S., April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jeffrey Dastin Microsoft co-founder

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REDMOND, Washington : As Microsoft CEOs past and present gathered here to celebrate the company’s 50th birthday, one leader said he is targeting a particular metric’s improvement to guide his strategy on artificial intelligence.

Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, said his consumer and research division is tracking the usual measures of adoption for the company’s AI assistant called Copilot. These include daily and weekly active users, distribution, and usage intensity for Copilot’s consumer offering, he said.

But Suleyman’s interest lies elsewhere.

“I really, really focus the team on SSR, the rate of successful sessions,” he said in an interview.

In an older era when consumers gave less real-time feedback on software, the time they spent with a product – on social media, for instance – or the problems they could solve represented crude “proxies for quality,” he said.

“Now, we actually get to learn from the anonymized logs and extract the sentiment,” said Suleyman, who joined Microsoft about a year ago after leading the startup Inflection AI. Suleyman was one of the only Microsoft executives other than former CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and current CEO Satya Nadella to speak on stage at Microsoft’s Friday event at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters.

Suleyman said Microsoft has tasked an AI model itself to assess such sentiment and help determine Copilot chats’ SSR.

“Over the last four months, it’s gone up dramatically, and that’s what we optimize for,” he said.

Suleyman declined to state the rate in absolute terms or disclose other Copilot metrics.

The company last fall announced a more amiable voice for its consumer Copilot and the ability to analyze web pages for users as they browse.

On Friday, Microsoft demonstrated further features for Copilot: personalized podcasts, a tool to help consumers research complex queries, and eventually a look for Copilot that can be custom to each user and conversation.

“I would definitely go for something that was cutesy,” said Suleyman, “like a little Furby-type thing.”

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Microsoft Raises Alarm of Malware Targeting Coinbase, MetaMask Wallets

Tech Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Microsoft Raises Alarm of Malware Targeting Coinbase, MetaMask Wallets A new report from Microsoft researchers warned of malware that could steal and decrypt users’ information from 20 of some of the most popular cryptocurrency wallets. By Margaux Nijkerk| Edited by Stephen

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Microsoft Raises Alarm of Malware Targeting Coinbase, MetaMask Wallets

A new report from Microsoft researchers warned of malware that could steal and decrypt users’ information from 20 of some of the most popular cryptocurrency wallets.

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  • Tech giant Microsoft shared a new report warning of malware that targets 20 of the most popular cryptocurrency wallets used with the Google Chrome extension.
  • The malware, dubbed StilachiRAT, could deploy “sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data.”
  • While the malware has not been distributed widely, Microsoft did share that it has not been able to identify what entity is behind the threat.

Tech giant Microsoft shared a new report warning of malware that targets 20 of the most popular cryptocurrency wallets used with the Google Chrome extension.

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Microsoft’s Incident Response researchers raised alarms of a new remote access trojan (RAT), dubbed StilachiRAT, which could deploy “sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data,” the team shared in a blog post.

According to the team, the malware was discovered in November 2024, and it could steal users’ wallet information, and any credentials, including usernames and passwords, stored in their Google Chrome browser. StilachiRAT targets 20 crypto wallets including some of the most widely-used ones like MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, Phantom, OKX Wallet, and BNB Chain Wallet.

While the malware has not been distributed widely, Microsoft did share that it has not been able to identify what entity is behind the threat and laid out some mitigation guidelines for current targets including installing antivirus software.

“Due to its stealth capabilities and the rapid changes within the malware ecosystem, we are sharing these findings as part of our ongoing efforts to monitor, analyze, and report on the evolving threat landscape,” the team wrote.

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Margaux Nijkerk reports on the Ethereum protocol and L2s. A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Emory universities, she has a masters in International Affairs & Economics. She holds BTC and ETH above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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