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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+ (@indianidle / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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 (@ihxrtlxy / MacRumors) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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 (@jaypeters / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

John Ternus says the Mac is "first and foremost an indirect input device", but touch is "comfortable and handy" sometimes; Apple long resisted touchscreen Macs (@stevenlevy / Wired) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED XDR display, a light-up Apple logo, Dynamic Island, M5 Pro and M5 Max, for $2,899+ and $3,399+ (Apple) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its "strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity" capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index (@koraykv / Google) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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 (@fredericl / The New Stack) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Reddit rolls out a dual-feed homepage, with For You and Following feeds, joining TikTok, Instagram, and others in offering a recommendation-driven feed (@aiishamalik1 / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset (@kytsune / SiliconANGLE) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike (@rocketalignment / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Dropbox plans to cut ~6% of its staff, or ~200 jobs, costing $27M to $33M in severance and related costs, and says CTO Ali Dasdan will step down on November 18 (@anhata_rooprai / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

X adds an intrusive promotional animation of an arm reaching across the screen to direct users to a "promote" post button, targeting verified and Premium users (@aliszewski / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Chinese PCB maker Dongshan rises on its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$1.3B in an IPO, below its $3B goal, at a $30B valuation, amid a tricky IPO market (@sangmi_cha / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft review: premium feel, lightweight, nice colors, and snappy performance, but expensive after price increases (@thenenja / Wired) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Artificial Analysis launches the Intelligence Index v5, with new coding and science benchmarks, built on private datasets; Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58 (@artificialanlys) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Google unveils Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), a digital-asset custody and security service in private preview, set for commercial availability in early 2027 (@aoyon_a / CoinDesk) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6 (@chriswelch / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Etsy reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $692.5M, above $668M est., net income of $853.5M after selling Depop, and gross merchandise sales up 9% YoY to $2.65B (@kat_ham_ / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)