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Today’s NYT Connections has some enjoyable topics covering entertainment and sweet treats. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group
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Save $180: Portable power stations can be a lifesaver during outages, camping trips or long road adventures, and this EcoFlow bundle is one of the best values we’ve seen. Amazon has dropped the EcoFlow River 3 Max bundle to $319, matching its record-low price. While it’s branded as
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Talk about sticker shock. Amazon just raised the prices of some of its most popular electronics — including Kindles, Echos, Fire TVs and more — by up to 60%. You can thank the so-called RAMageddon for the across-the-board hikes, according to a company spokesperson, who blamed the rising prices on “significant increases
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Named for the ancient Greek god who presides over the afterlife, Pluto is now mostly known as the planet that lost its planethood 20 years ago. In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union, an organization that names and classifies celestial bodies, voted to reclassify what was once known as the
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Mehmet Eser/Anadolu via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 24, 2026 03:58 PM ET The public-private task force will focus on moving financial institutions to quantum-resistant technology and addressing risks created by vendors and digital assets. * Treasury * Quantum Computing * Encryption The Treasury Department announced a
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The creator of the world’s first 3D-printed gun claims he’s developed a way to thwart government-mandated software meant to block 3D printers from making firearms. It’s an opening volley in what’s shaping up to be an evolving battle between regulators trying to stem the tide of
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In Brief 12:58 PM PDT · August 24, 2026 Alabama’s Attorney General announced Monday that it sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident. The investigation comes weeks after OpenAI
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We’re getting close to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! In less than two months, more than 10,000 innovators, founders, investors, and industry leaders will gather in San Francisco, and you can actually meet up with that community before and after Disrupt runs from October 13-15. With our Disrupt Side Events
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The AI boom has made it possible for a significantly wider range of people to dip into development, create code, and launch software for the first time. There are pros and cons to this, even for established developers who are being pushed to use it to produce work faster. Replit
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In Brief 12:54 PM PDT · August 24, 2026 Over the weekend, Amazon significantly raised the prices of its hardware devices, jacking them up by as much as 60 percent in some cases. The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious example that’s been cited
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A small federal agency tasked with protecting Americans from hazardous products is moving forward with a controversial public health project but is taking steps to assuage data privacy concerns raised by top hospital and consumer groups. “We are now working directly with the American Hospital Association to address those concerns,
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In AI inference, you have two phases of the workload: prefill and decode. In most cases, decode is overwhelmingly the more time-consuming portion of the workload because it's strictly memory-bandwidth bound. You can have all the compute in the world, and that's great for prefill, but
