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• Apple refreshes the iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro with the M6 chip
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• "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
• Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
• Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth
• Google begins certifying Registered App Stores for Android, but not in the US
• Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software
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| • Oracle pledges to limit new financing to $20B through FY 2030, expects free cash flow to turn positive in H2 FY 2028 and top $30B in FY 2029; ORCL jumps 11%+ (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
• NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bills banning AI chatbots from using "unsafe features" for minors and requiring security features in internet-connected baby monitors (Raga Justin/Bloomberg Government)
• Apple adds a 512GB RAM configuration for the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip, starting at $22,299; the M5 Max model maxes out at 128GB of RAM (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
• Artificial Analysis unveils the Intelligence Index v5 with new coding and science benchmarks; 60% of the Index is based on private test sets or held-out answers (Artificial Analysis)
• Google and Xreal launch the Xreal Aura wired XR glasses, with Android XR and a puck with Snapdragon Reality Elite, for $1,099+ through December, then $1,279+ (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is the first Mac with the Dynamic Island, offering similar functionality to the iPhone; the Dynamic Island launched in 2022 (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
• Apple says the touchscreen MacBook Pro has a "newly designed hinge" for stability and an "enhanced six-speaker" system; the 14" model is 3lb and the 16" is 4lb (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• John Ternus says the Mac is "first and foremost" a device "built around the trackpad and keyboard", but sometimes "it's comfortable and handy to have touch" (Steven Levy/Wired)
• Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED XDR display, a light-up Apple logo, M5 Pro and M5 Max, for $2,899+ and $3,399+ (Apple)
• Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its "strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity" capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index (Koray Kavukcuoglu/Google)
• GitHub says it's seeing 7.4B commits per month, up from 2.9B in August, and has added 4M CPU cores and 160PB of storage in 2026 so far to support this growth (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
• GitHub says Copilot Fusion, which handles model selection and orchestration, is now generally available, releases the GitHub Copilot app, and more (Meredith Shubel/The New Stack)
• Reddit rolls out a dual-feed homepage, with For You and Following feeds, joining TikTok, Instagram, and others in offering a For You feed (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
• OpenAI says it's launching an election "war room" ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections (Calder McHugh/Politico)
• Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
| • Meta weighs delaying 'alarming' new business terms as backlash grows
• The PlayStation 5 just might be Sony's final Blu-Ray player
• OpenAI now lets you text your Dot agent
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• Sony's new see-through DualSense controllers let you game like its 1999
• Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro feels both familiar and radically improved
• Here's how the touchscreen on the MacBook Pro with PROLED display works
• Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen, weighs just three pounds
• Fake PS5 emulators on GitHub are spreading password-stealing malware
• The Xreal Aura smartglasses are now on sale for a discounted launch price
• New York governor signs AI chatbot child safety law
• Reddit is adding a 'for you' feed for recommendations
• Audio Technica just released its first set of wireless StreamSet headphones
• FCC clears Amazon Leo to acquire mobile-satellite operator Globalstar
• Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition 2026 review: Nice, but doesn't justify the price
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