Dell has special Early Holiday deals, so you can beat the last-minute shopping rush this year. Limited time offers will save you $650 on the hottest models, including up to $250 off Alienware and Ultrasharp monitors, for crisp and clear gaming (or writing), up to $400 off Inspiron and XPS laptops, and up to $300 off desktops for true gamers. Ditch shipping costs too, and enjoy free standard delivery on all online orders. We’ve rounded up the top Dell coupon codes and discounts so you can save big on pricey tech.

Get 10% Off With Top Dell Coupon Codes

If you haven’t bought from Dell, right now you can get seriously rewarded for switching. Right now, you can save an additional 10% on accessories when selected during system configuration. You’ll need to choose the “Customize and Buy” option and use Dell coupon code AFFBUNDLE10 to save on those accessory bundles, through November 2.

New customers can get 10% off Dell products when you sign up for their email newsletter. Plus, you’ll get additional perks like exclusive offers in your inbox and invites to special sale events, including flash discounts during seasonal sales. Save your tech refresh with clearance sale discounts and Dell promo codes today.

Save up to $650 on Dell Laptops, Monitors, and More

Been wanting to upgrade your WFH or gaming setup? Dell has marked down some of their most popular laptops and monitors during their Tech Refresh sale event, with options starting at $999. There are stellar discounts, like over $350 off Dell 14 and 16 Plus laptops, and up to $600 off the ultra-mod XPS 16 series, along with other deals like $400 off Inspiron 16 laptops, and $450 off the Alienware 18 Area-51. Complete your gaming experience with an Alienware Area-51 desktop for $650 off, which includes 50% more processing power and free access to the new ARC Raiders game when you order by November 4. Beyond sitewide discounts, Dell is throwing in some more special offers and freebies like a 1-year McAfee+ Premium subscription on the Inspiron 15 and a 1-year Microsoft 365 subscription with Copilot on the Inspiron 16. Whether you want to work-from-home or game-from-home more effectively, check out the latest offers in the Dell deals hub.

10% Dell Coupon for Students, Military Members, and Medical Workers

Students, it’s the worst time of your life, you might as well save a little money. Just kidding, life only gets harder from here. Kidding. Again. Maybe. What is not a joke is this deal. Dell is giving students a 10% discount on things students need like Dell XPS laptops and Alienware gaming rigs. Don’t call them that when you tell your parents you need one. Just say it’s a Dell 32-inch 4K OLED Monitor that’s $60 off right now, no need to say anything about gaming. It’s for your eyes, because they’re starting to bleed from all the term papers.

Now, you do have to prove you are a student to get this deal. Just verify your .edu email address through this link and you’ll get not one, but two coupon codes. One is for 10% off Inspiron, XPS and Alienware Gaming PCs (shush, stop using that word), S Series monitors and Dell brand electronics and accessories. The second is for 5% off Latitude Laptops, OptiPlex Desktops, Precision PCs, Chromebooks, Ultrasharp Monitors, P Series Monitors, E Series Monitors, C Series Monitors, as well as third-party electronics and accessories Dell has in its store. Students can snag even steeper discounts through the Dell Outlet student program, with Dell coupons for 10% off select products.

Not a student? No problem, Dell still has some great deals for your computing needs. Beyond students, Dell offers an extra 5% off Heroes discount for military members, veterans, employees, rewards members, and businesses. Verify through GovX or VCS in a matter of minutes to get exclusive pricing and early access to sale events.

What to Know About Dell Promo Codes and eGift Cards

Once you’ve added what you need to your cart, navigate to the checkout page. There, you will see a field with the text “Enter Code.” Simply paste your code into this box and click “Apply.” Be sure to check for restrictions (like only select items being eligible for the discount) to guarantee you get the savings you’re after. Dell eGift Cards are different from coupon codes and are part of special offers on select products, and the gift cards are pre-loaded with a balance that expires in 90 days.

Shop Our Favorite Dell Laptops for Your Gaming or Office Upgrade

Dell’s XPS laptops are the perfect addition to your tech setup. They’re lightweight, small, and plenty speedy. They’re Windows’ rough answer to Apple’s Macbook Pro line. The XPS 13 and upgraded Dell 14 Premium are some of our favorite laptops. Check out the featured laptop offers above to save up to $600, complete with free 2-day shipping and AI-driven PC options powered by Microsoft Copilot technology. If you’re a gamer, you probably already know that Dell makes Alienware, and the Dell Alienware m16 R2 is a powerful gaming machine masquerading as your next work laptop. It’s one of our favorite dual-use gaming rigs, making it perfect for students.

Get 9% Back With Dell Rewards Coupons and Financing Offers

Don’t forget that, in addition to the limited-time Dell coupons available, there are also limited-time discounts for Dell Rewards program members. To join, first create an account, then check the box after logging in to register. Rewards customers get double the points right now, or 6% back on everything, plus 9% back on all monitor purchases. Top Rewards discounts tend to rotate between product categories, including 9% back in rewards on Latitude, Dell Pro series, and Copilot PCs. Plus, there’s a variety of products with financing offers available, like a $50 bonus for Rewards members who open a Dell Pay Credit Account. Online orders qualify for free standard or 2-day shipping, returns, and competitive price matching.

Unlike many companies with price matching, Dell’s Price Match Guarantee covers both competitor products and if prices drop on the Dell website within 30 days. Best of all, competitor price match is available before or after you buy. So, when you find an identical Dell, HP, Apple or Lenovo computer, you’ll just need to share the link with a Dell expert through chat or a phone call to get that lower price. If you’ve already purchased the item, but find the product on Dell’s or a competitor’s site within 30 days, share the link through the Order Support portal and you’ll be refunded the difference.

Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds.

The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised it, requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet. The app, which requires no system permissions, can then effectively read data that any other installed app displays on the screen. Pixnapping has been demonstrated on Google Pixel phones and the Samsung Galaxy S25 phone and likely could be modified to work on other models with additional work. Google released mitigations last month, but the researchers said a modified version of the attack works even when the update is installed.

Like Taking a Screenshot

Pixnapping attacks begin with the malicious app invoking Android programming interfaces that cause the authenticator or other targeted apps to send sensitive information to the device screen. The malicious app then runs graphical operations on individual pixels of interest to the attacker. Pixnapping then exploits a side channel that allows the malicious app to map the pixels at those coordinates to letters, numbers, or shapes.

“Anything that is visible when the target app is opened can be stolen by the malicious app using Pixnapping,” the researchers wrote on an informational website. “Chat messages, 2FA codes, email messages, etc. are all vulnerable since they are visible. If an app has secret information that is not visible (e.g., it has a secret key that is stored but never shown on the screen), that information cannot be stolen by Pixnapping.”

The new attack class is reminiscent of GPU.zip, a 2023 attack that allowed malicious websites to read the usernames, passwords, and other sensitive visual data displayed by other websites. It worked by exploiting side channels found in GPUs from all major suppliers. The vulnerabilities that GPU.zip exploited have never been fixed. Instead, the attack was blocked in browsers by limiting their ability to open iframes, an HTML element that allows one website (in the case of GPU.zip, a malicious one) to embed the contents of a site from a different domain.

Pixnapping targets the same side channel as GPU.zip, specifically the precise amount of time it takes for a given frame to be rendered on the screen.

Introducing X1: The world’s first multirobot system that integrates a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that can launch off the humanoid’s back, and later, drive away.

The new multimodal system is one product of a three-year collaboration between Caltech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) and the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The robotic system demonstrates the kind of innovative and forward-thinking projects that are possible with the combined global expertise of the collaborators in autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, and propulsion systems.

“Right now, robots can fly, robots can drive, and robots can walk. Those are all great in certain scenarios,” says Aaron Ames, the director and Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair of CAST and the Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, and Aerospace at Caltech. “But how do we take those different locomotion modalities and put them together into a single package, so we can excel from the benefits of all these while mitigating the downfalls that each of them have?”

Testing the capability of the X1 system, the team recently conducted a demonstration on Caltech’s campus. The demo was based on the following premise: Imagine that there is an emergency somewhere on campus, creating the need to quickly get autonomous agents to the scene. For the test, the team modified an off-the-shelf Unitree G1 humanoid such that it could carry M4, Caltech’s multimodal robot that can both fly and drive, as if it were a backpack.

The demo started with the humanoid in Gates–Thomas Laboratory. It walked through Sherman Fairchild Library and went outside to an elevated spot where it could safely deploy M4. The humanoid then bent forward at the waist, allowing M4 to launch in its drone mode. M4 then landed and transformed into driving mode to efficiently continue on wheels toward its destination.

Before reaching that destination, however, M4 encountered the Turtle Pond, so it switched back to drone mode, quickly flew over the obstacle, and made its way to the site of the “emergency” near Caltech Hall. The humanoid and a second M4 eventually met up with the first responder.

“The challenge is how to bring different robots to work together so, basically, they become one system providing different functionalities. With this collaboration, we found the perfect match to solve this,” says Mory Gharib, Ph.D., the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering at Caltech and CAST’s founding director.

Gharib’s group, which originally built the M4 robot, focuses on building flying and driving robots as well as advanced control systems. The Ames lab, for its part, brings expertise in locomotion and developing algorithms for the safe use of humanoid robots. Meanwhile, TII brings a wealth of knowledge about autonomy and sensing with robotic systems in urban environments. A Northeastern University team led by engineer Alireza Ramezani assists in the area of morphing robot design.

“The overall collaboration atmosphere was great. We had different researchers with different skill sets looking at really challenging robotics problems spanning from perception and sensor data fusion to locomotion modeling and controls, to hardware design,” says Ramezani, an associate professor at Northeastern.

When TII engineers visited Caltech in July 2025, the partners built a new version of M4 that takes advantage of Saluki, a secure flight controller and computer technology developed by TII for onboard computing. In a future phase of work, the collaboration aims to give the entire system sensors, model-based algorithms, and machine learning-driven autonomy to navigate and adapt to its surroundings in real time.

“We install different kinds of sensors—lidar, cameras, range finders—and we combine all these data to understand where the robot is, and the robot understands where it is in order to go from one point to another,” says Claudio Tortorici, director of TII. “So, we bring the capability of the robots to move around with autonomy.”

Ames explains that even more was on display in the demo than meets the eye. For example, he says, the humanoid robot did more than simply walking around campus. Currently, the majority of humanoid robots are given data originally captured from human movements to achieve a particular movement, such as walking or kicking, and scaling that action to the robot. If all goes well, the robot can imitate that action repeatedly.

But, Ames argues, “If we want to really deploy robots in complicated scenarios in the real world, we need to be able to generate these actions without necessarily having human references.”

His group builds mathematical models that describe the physics of that application to a robot more broadly. When these are fused with machine learning techniques, the models imbue robots with more general abilities to navigate any situation they might encounter.

“The robot learns to walk as the physics dictate,” Ames says. “So X1 can walk; it can walk on different terrain types; it can walk up and down stairs, and importantly, it can walk with things like M4 on its back.”

An overarching goal of the collaboration is to make such autonomous systems safer and more reliable.

“I believe we are at a stage where people are starting to accept these robots,” Tortorici says. ” In order to have robots all around us, we need these robots to be reliable.”

That is ongoing work for the team. “We’re thinking about safety-critical control, making sure we can trust our systems, making sure they’re secure,” Ames says. “We have multiple projects that extend beyond this one that study all these different facets of autonomy, and these problems are really big. By having these different projects and facets of our collaboration, we are able to take on these much bigger problems and really move autonomy forward in a substantial and concerted way.”