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Is it time to start planning for Halloween? Today’s NYT Connections puzzle features a spooky blue category, so grab a pumpkin spice latte and get to solving. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked
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As nation-state actors target commercial networks alongside government systems, public-private collaboration is no longer optional -- it is an operational imperative. That was a central message at the 17th annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C., where public-sector defenders and private enterprises gathered to tackle an increasingly interconnected threat
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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* Ukrainian drones forced American soldiers to rethink movement, concealment, and battlefield survival * Blackhawk troops changed their tactics after persistent aerial surveillance exposed their movements * American armored vehicles suffered losses despite attempts to conceal them from drones A 10-day US Army combat training exercise in Germany has drawn attention after reports
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That has led some, including Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), to accuse the parties of simply using the agreement as a way to transfer money to the Pentagon without congressional approval. Others are suggesting that this is part of a longer-term effort to shift any biosecurity research out of the NIH
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Sixty years after television audiences first tuned in to see the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, an astronaut on board the International Space Station has paid tribute to Star Trek by flying the badge of the franchise’s latest fictional captain. Expedition 75 flight engineer Sophie Adenot with European Space
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Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft patched some 620 of them. Google and
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Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the “big box” packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and sought-after in-home collectibles. Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to reignite some of the nostalgia for those days by
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LG TVs are facing scrutiny due to a video seemingly showing the devices’ capability to track users when the TVs are off. YouTube channel Gamers Nexus worked with Level1Techs, a technology-focused YouTube channel, and security researchers to analyze LG TVs’ tracking capabilities. They shared packet captures that pointed to the
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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* The LOCUST X3 laser is developed by AeroVironment, Inc. * It is designed as a “group 3 killer” – meaning it is intended to tackle particularly dangerous drones * The Xbox controller makes the LOCUST X3 laser simpler to target A new US Army contract worth around $465 million has been awarded to
