Tech News Weekly 461

Amazon unveiled a new Echo device lineup. Proton's AI manifesto. Understanding the PHP2Shell flaws, and Apple unveiled its first-ever touchscreen MacBook Pro!

• Mikah looks at Amazon's new Echo lineup the company unveiled earlier this week, including the Echo Show 16, Echo Studio, and Amazon's first digital photo frame.
• 404 Media’s Joseph Cox joins the show to discuss his reporting on Proton’s aggressive AI push, including employee re-interviews about AI use and a CEO who called pen-testing concerns “loser thinking."
• TechCrunch's Zack Whittaker talks about the recent PHP2Shell critical vulnerability that was discovered last week and how the coordinated patch rollout largely held, why a mass-hacking wave seems to have been avoided, and why millions of sites may still be vulnerable.
• And D. Griffin Jones breaks down Apple's announcements of new hardware this past week, including the first touchscreen MacBook Pro and a new iPad mini.

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Links

• Amazon unveils its newest lineup of Alexa devices
• Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning
• PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
• Apple gives iPad mini its biggest update ever - Apple Newsroom
• Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 - Apple Newsroom
• Apple unveils new iMac with M6 - Apple Newsroom
• Apple unveils groundbreaking MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display - Apple Newsroom