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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is tricky. Animal lovers, you may get a laugh out of the two separate dog categories. (Only one refers to the actual four-legged friend.) Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Read more: We Need to Talk About Wednesday’s Doggone Connections Puzzle
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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle looks pretty crowded, with every answer including two words. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group hint: Are you ready for some football? Green group hint: Golden State
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Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber optimized for vulnerability detection and mitigation. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said
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A US federal judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its advertising exchange, leaving the remedies from three American antitrust cases largely behavioural. The European Commission fined Google €2.95B last September and said only divestment of part of its services would address the same conduct. A
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CrowdStrike has announced coordinated multi-agent investigations on a shared context layer, with customers setting autonomy from human-in-the-loop approval to fully autonomous execution. NIS2 starts its 24-hour reporting clock from becoming aware of a significant incident, and holds management bodies liable for the measures they approve. CrowdStrike says AI agents now
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Microsoft has launched its Fabric data platform in Government Community Cloud High on public preview, with general availability from 1 October, pitched at agentic AI workloads. Europe has no equivalent accredited tier, because its cloud certification scheme has been stuck since 2020 and lost its sovereignty requirement in 2024. Microsoft
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OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the July incident in which an agent breached another company. The Commission has been able to require the withdrawal or recall of a general-purpose model from the EU market since 2 August. OpenAI
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JD Power found that 35% of owners with a passenger screen have never used it and that such systems generate 21.3 problems per 100 vehicles. Euro NCAP has awarded rating points for physical controls on nine functions since 1 January, and driver distraction warning became mandatory in the EU
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Apple will probably release iOS 27 to the general public in a couple of weeks, but I’ve been testing the public beta version since July. iOS 27 isn’t a flashy update like its predecessor, which introduced the polarizing Liquid Glass aesthetic to the iPhone. But so far, I’
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Neigbhorhood surveillance is big news these days, especially when it comes to cameras appearing with no warning like Flock systems made to track cars and even people. But there’s another type of camera threatening home security, much sneakier and used by those intending to break the law, not enforce
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Long ago, the New York Times Connections puzzle replaced Wordle as my favorite online puzzle. But the Connections puzzle for Wednesday, Sept. 2, is a real dog fight to solve. Spoilers ahead, so if you haven’t played Connections yet, do that now. In Connections, you sort 16 words into
