Every Friday we rank the week’s news by your interactions, not our taste: likes ×3 − dislikes + replies ×5 + reads ÷50. This week we published 21 stories from October 23 to 29, and engagement clearly improved: one story collected 7 likes, a reply and 200+ reads, three stories received a like, and the rest tied near zero and are ordered by weight of the news.

1. Winner: the first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro, from AED 11,999 in the UAE

28 points: 7 likes against 2, one reply and over 200 reads, nine times the runner-up. M5 Pro and M5 Max, 2,000 nits, arriving November 6. Read it

2. Redmi K100 official: Snapdragon 8 Elite and a 10,000mAh battery from CNY 3,499

3.12 points (a like plus reads), tied with the third story; it goes first because it is an official launch. Read it

3. Apple acknowledges the iPhone Duo inner display problem and replaces it for free

3.12 points; the story every Duo buyer in the UAE was waiting for a week after the crack photos. Read it

4. Huawei Pura 90 Plus official with the Kirin 9025 and a 1-inch sensor

3.04 points; the first phone on Huawei’s new chip. Read it

5. OPPO Find X10 in the UAE: AED 5,199 and 6,399, pre-orders from October 30

Reads only, no votes, tied with the Galaxy A production-cut report; the Gulf story goes first because pre-orders open today. Read it

My take

For the first time the winner won on numbers rather than manual ordering, and the message is clear: a UAE price plus an Apple product is what you read most. But 18 of 21 stories got no vote at all. The “Worth it / Not worth it” buttons under every story are what build this page, so if you want a ranking that truly represents you, press them.