Apple Announces New 14- and 16-Inch Touchscreen MacBook Pro – DTH

Apple Unveils MacBook Pro With OLED Touchscreen and M5 Chips

Apple has introduced the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro featuring a PROLED XDR Display with tandem OLED technology, up to 2000 nits peak brightness, touchscreen capabilities, and the Dynamic Island. Powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, the updated models support up to 128GB of unified memory and 16TB of storage, while offering up to 24 hours of battery life, Thunderbolt 5, an enhanced six-speaker sound system, and macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence. Pre-orders began October 28, with full availability starting November 6.

Source: Apple

DoorDash Agrees to Acquire Instacart for $17 Billion

DoorDash has agreed to acquire Instacart for $17 billion to combine the two largest US grocery delivery services, pending antitrust review. Building on DoorDash’s recent expansions like drone delivery tests, the deal follows past sale talks with potential suitors including Uber and previous 2021 merger discussions between the two companies.

Source: Engadget

Massive DHS Data Leak Exposes Over 41,000 Workers

An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records, published by DDoSecrets exposed the contact details, reporting structures, and internal access permissions of over 41,000 DHS employees and contractors. Derived from DHS’s Okta login system, the dataset details specialized access to surveillance programs, wiretaps, and AI tools, presenting significant security and intelligence risks while drawing scrutiny from DHS and federal authorities over data accountability and surveillance concerns.

Source: Wired

Google Expands AI Search Ads Internationally

Google is expanding ads within its AI-powered Search experiences internationally following Alphabet’s Q3 earnings report, which showed strong revenue of $127.6 billion but decelerating Search advertising growth. Early results indicate high engagement with conversational and multimodal AI ad formats, as CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted that AI features are driving longer, more complex queries across more than one billion monthly Gemini users.

Source: TechCrunch

US Intelligence Identifies Alleged Chinese Spy With Nvidia Connections

U.S. intelligence agencies discovered that Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed, was acting as a Chinese intelligence asset while maintaining a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Despite briefings on findings that she was funneling reports and potentially circumventing restrictions on advanced A.I. chips, the US president sought to avoid disrupting Nvidia’s business or trade relations with China. Meanwhile, Megaspeed has continued purchasing billions in Nvidia equipment to power data centers in Southeast Asia serving Chinese tech giants like Alibaba.

Source: The New York Times

Meta Loses French Appeal Over Payments to News Publishers

A Paris appeals court rejected Meta’s challenge to emergency orders requiring it to resume fair negotiations with French news publishers over payment for news content under EU neighboring rights laws. The court noted Meta’s payment calculation methods could constitute an abuse of market power, keeping in place interim rules that mandate transparency and prevent Meta from reducing news visibility while the investigation continues.

Source: The Next Web

Amazon Adds Over 100 Shopping Features to Alexa

Amazon has added over 100 new shopping capabilities to Alexa, enabling users to manage lists and subscriptions, update delivery instructions, resolve payment issues, and query Prime or Audible details. This update builds on Amazon’s recent AI shopping features, following an 8x growth in agentic tool usage this year and more than 400 million consumers using Alexa for shopping over the past 12 months.

Source: TechCrunch

Samsung Shares Slide Despite Record AI-Driven Chip Profits

Samsung Electronics saw its shares slide due to conservative long-term supply forecasts and deferred shareholder return plans that disappointed market expectations compared to rival SK Hynix. This news came despite posting a 15-fold surge in quarterly chip profits and a record total operating profit driven by the AI boom. To stabilize its momentum against rising AI infrastructure costs and client price pressures, Samsung is expanding long-term supply contracts across memory, automotive, and mobile markets while boosting capital expenditures and advancing custom foundry manufacturing.

Source: Reuters

OpenAI Lets Pro Users Text Their Dot Agents

OpenAI has rolled out a preview for U.S. Pro users allowing them to communicate with Dot agents via SMS, photos, and voice memos. Setting up texting requires configuring ChatGPT settings alongside iMessage or RCS, supported by security infrastructure through partner Linq. This release positions Dot against competing agents like Anthropic’s Claude Duet, though Dot access remains restricted to higher-tier subscribers.

Source: Engadget

Reddit Splits Main Feed Into For You and Following Sections

Reddit is redesigning its main feed by splitting it into a personalized “for you” section for algorithmic recommendations and a “following” section for subscribed subreddits. Aimed at boosting engagement and making content discovery easier for casual users, the update defaults to the last-used feed and lays the groundwork for further intentional navigation experiments, including multimedia versions of popular posts and enhanced user feedback options.

Source: Engadget

Samsung News to Shut Down December 21

Samsung has announced it will officially discontinue Samsung News on December 21, 2026, advising users to remove its standalone widget as updates and content delivery cease. First launched in 2023 to compete with Google Discover and Apple News, the platform struggled to gain significant traction, and Samsung has not signaled plans for a replacement news aggregator, marking a broader shift away from standalone content curation.

Source: Android Authority