Amazon adds Alexa Photo Frame, Echo Time clock and upgraded Echo devices

Amazon unveiled a photo frame, a smart alarm clock and updates to Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Echo Show 16 with

Amazon announced several new Echo products. The Echo Time is a smart alarm clock that integrates Alexa. A new Alexa Photo Frame displays pictures and supports voice commands. Existing devices received upgrades: the Echo Dot got a hardware refresh, the Echo Studio added a built‑in camera and visual‑intelligence features, and the Echo Show 16 introduced an AI‑generated Alexa interface. The lineup expands Amazon's smart‑home ecosystem across audio, visual and bedside use cases.

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Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro priced at $14,549

Apple unveiled a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro with an OLED display. The top configuration, which includes all available upgrades, carries a price tag of $14,549, setting a new high for laptop pricing.

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Apple introduces MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR touchscreen

Apple announced a new MacBook Pro featuring a PROLED XDR display and its first integrated touchscreen. The device uses a touch sensor built directly into the screen rather than a separate layer. Promotional material highlights the display's brightness and color performance, and a dedicated wallpaper has been released for the model.

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In Brief

Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive roles

Artem Stryzhak joined both gangs, which targeted businesses and a hospital during the pandemic

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Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display

The OLED display is the main draw, but the price is a lot to reckon with.

Ars Technica

Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer

The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.

TechCrunch

Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’

Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri

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ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th

This Vulcan launch will be the first to utilize a full complement of six solid rocket boosters.

Ars Technica

As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland

Europe's Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

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Artificial Intelligence

Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA

Six unproven peptides popular with MAHA now under "enforcement discretion policy."

Ars Technica

Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close

TechCrunch

A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records

A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the

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Developer Tools

Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet

TechCrunch

Readwise is taking on Kindle and Kobo for ebook supremacy

For the last several years, Readwise has been building tools for power readers. There's the eponymous product,

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Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches

Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as

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Hardware & Consumer

Microsoft reveals strong cloud growth amid financial reporting overhaul

Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in

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Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity

Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks,

The Verge

Hacker stole personnel data about thousands of Homeland Security employees,

A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has

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Startups & Funding

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25%

TechCrunch

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing

TechCrunch

Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is

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