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Published May 12, 2026 08:00AMKey Takeaway: The best mountain bike shorts of 2026 are the Patagonia Dirt Craft (best overall), DhARCO Gravity Shorts (best value), Leatt MTB Trail 6.0 Cargo (best pockets), POC Women’s Motion (best for women), and Fox Racing Ranger (best minimalist). When shopping, look for four-way stretch fabric, a DWR finish, at least two zippered pockets, and an inseam between 11–13 inches. You don’t need mountain bike shorts to ride—just like you don’t need a swimsuit to go swimming. But the right pair will make a long ride a whole lot more comfortable. The best mountain bike shorts…

Twelve years ago BuzzFeed Inc reportedly valued itself at almost $1 billion, scaring off rumored interest from the Walt Disney Company. Fast-forward to this week and BuzzFeed is selling a controlling stake to Allen Family Digital for $120 million—$100 million of which isn’t due for five years. Allen Family Digital, associated with Byron Allen, will control about 52% of BuzzFeed’s outstanding shares at $3 each. BuzzFeed’s shares were up more than 101% to over $1.49 on Tuesday morning. The stock has been trading at under a dollar a share for most of this year. What the deal means for BuzzFeed…

Richard (Yifan) Zhou, Co-founder & CEO of Aemon (YC W26).The moment a car can drive itself, the driver ceases to be the center of the system. The road becomes the product: lane markings, maps, signals, guardrails and rules for what to do when the unexpected happens. I believe software is about to make the same turn. The defining asset in engineering will no longer be code alone. It will be what I call rightware: the tests, benchmarks, simulation environments, business rules and failure cases that define what “right” means before a line of code is written.I use that word on…

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. On April 30, the Financial Times reported Israel had sent a version of its 100 KW Iron Beam high-energy laser weapon to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help Abu Dhabi fend off hundreds of missiles and drones fired by Iran since the beginning of the U.S. military’s Operation Epic Fury. The FT notes the deployment is one of the first examples of major defense cooperation between the two countries since the 2020 Abraham Accords—a display of “the value of being Israel’s friend,”…

Published May 12, 2026 03:05AMSweden has a secret that even many of its residents don’t know. Hidden throughout the countryside, there are more than 200 cabins and cottages where you can stay for a night for free. These dwellings range from primitive forest huts in sun-dappled glades to quintessentially Scandi-designed 19th-century cottages—think red-painted timber, wool rugs, and walls etched with botanical designs. Formerly used as logging cabins, hunting lodges, or summer retreats, they are now preserved as cultural monuments to a simpler way of life. With some newer ones recently purpose-built to encourage people to spend more time outdoors, they’re…

The new Jabra Panacast U30 is a video and soundbar for holding hybrid meetings in smaller meeting rooms and huddle spaces for up to six participants.JABRADanish electronics brand Jabra has launched the PanaCast U30, a USB video bar designed for small meeting rooms and huddle spaces where people bring their own laptop and simply connect to the video bar’s built-in camera and sound system using a single USB cable. Designed for small meeting rooms and huddle spaces for up to six people, the Jabra PanaCast U30 offers intelligent video technology with professional-quality audio, all housed in a compact bar that’s…

A new wilderness podcast from adventurer Blair Braverman explores epic stories of endurance and perseverance to find practical lessons on courage, fear, and human resilience.Blair Braverman dogsledding (Photo: Nathaniel Wilder)Published May 12, 2026 03:08AMOn May 12, Blair Braverman, a longtime columnist for Outside, launched a new podcast, What to Carry, What to Burn, that explores what we can learn from epic survival tales about overcoming adversity—in the wilderness and in daily life.Braverman is no stranger to survival. As a long-distance dogsledder, she’s spent days and sometimes weeks alone with her dogs in the frozen wilderness. Both her memoir, Welcome to…

I flew Spirit Airlines out of LaGuardia on April 28th. With the announcement just days later that the carrier was shutting down, it felt a little like catching the last chopper out of Saigon. Then again, every time you flew Spirit felt a little like catching the last chopper out of Saigon. There were the improbably tiny bags, people packed tightly in seats, and an everpresent sense that the simmering confusion could at any moment break out into full blown calamity. Like most people, I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with Spirit. Unlike most people, I once expressed it to…

Anthropic publishes their new approach to AI interpretation, known as NLA.gettyIn today’s column, I examine a newly published approach to interpreting what is occurring inside generative AI and large language models (LLMs). The approach was developed by Anthropic, famed makers of Claude. They have coined the new method as NLA (natural language autoencoders). This approach is one of many that are being explored by AI researchers and AI practitioners worldwide. The hope is to find a suitable means to explain how the numbers and numeric calculations internal to an LLM are capable of representing human concepts and human logic.One of…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Stop using meetings to process your thoughts and concerns. Replace updates in the meeting with pre-reads. Cultivate productive dissent. Make decisions in the room, instead of waiting for a follow-up. Establish who owns what decision so that accountability is easy. Repeated studies highlight just how many meetings leaders are having these days. Many executives I coach spend 30-plus hours in meetings each week, and they’re often double- or triple-booked. Despite the hours they invest, many leaders leave meetings feeling even more behind, unclear and reactive. They’re also left with little…