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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle has an especially tricky purple category, where you need to look for hidden words, and then add a letter. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group hint: Not
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Today’s Strands puzzle includes some words that might be tough to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: I’ve seen better. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Meh. Clue words to
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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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PUBLIC SECTOR DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale The US military's effort to prevent troops from being tracked by adversaries through purchased location data hasn't worked as well as anticipated, and lawmakers want to know
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I've used a million printers over my decades of being a computer nerd and a professional photographer. I used to print professional 11 x 14 matte images like they were going out of style on the ol' Canon Pixma Pro9000. Less so these days with e-ink frames
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With its Bravia 5 series, Sony has finally figured out how to take its premium TV talents mainstream. Picture performance is impressive overall, with bold color, strong contrast and minimal blooming, while its sound is detailed with plenty of presence. Its smart TV interface is flexible and easy to use
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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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We live in a time when mixed messages about vaccines are the norm. Often, the Trump administration says one thing, while public health officials say another, leaving at least half of Americans in what the independent health policy organization KFF called the “malleable middle.” They remain uncertain when presented with
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Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI. A lawsuit filed by The Seattle Times and Newsday argued that with the advent of AI, the journalism industry could become “broken beyond repair.” The lawsuit described generative AI as “a
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The Steam Deck was the king of gaming handhelds when it arrived. But with more competition (and a higher price), is it still worth the cost? Mr.Mikla/Shutterstock We're still deep in the trenches of RAMageddon, the memory shortage driven by AI companies utilizing massive amounts of
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Hate cleaning windows? Me too, which is why Winbot cleaning robots are some of my all-time favorite smart home gadgets. These bots use strong suction to grip your windows, and roll across the surface on soft rubber treads. They spray a fine must of cleaning solution onto the glass in
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Contrary to what you might think, the best-selling cameras of the past couple of years haven't been made by Canon, or Nikon, or Sony, or Fujifilm. They haven't been professional mirrorless models costing thousands of dollars. They have, in fact, been a pair of ultra-cheap point-and-shoot
