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Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle rounds up a group of creatures that some people keep as pets. (Well, not all of them make great pets…) Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT…
Staring at a quarterly marketing deck filled with exploding Lead Gen metrics while the actual sales pipeline undergoes a multi-quarter freeze is a profoundly frustrating exercise. Most modern Business Intelligence (BI) setups are built to defend budgets rather than diagnose real commercial blockages. They function as internal performance theater-administrative loops that burn massive amounts of human capital while offering zero clarity on why high-intent enterprise accounts drop out during legal review. The macro B2B environment has reached a breaking point. We are living through a true SaaSpocalypse, an era where generic AI automated content and aggressive programmatic outbound have fundamentally…
Tod Machover, the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media, faculty director of the MIT Media Lab, and director of the Opera of the Future research group, will receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance in America — the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. As a composer and music tech pioneer, Machover has helped expand music’s possibilities for artists and audiences alike through his work in participatory opera, artificial intelligence, and creative technologies. He joins a roster of previous George Peabody Medal recipients that includes Stevie Wonder, Misty…
What The Puff produces up to 1,500 puffs a day Singapore’s hawker scene is not short of curry puff stalls. But when Lim Yuan Ming, 24, and his older brother Brandon, 29, decided to start one, they weren’t trying to out-tradition the traditionalists—they wanted to give the curry puff a modern twist. Growing up around their parents’ Teochew porridge stall in Bedok, the brothers had a front-row seat to the realities of the hawker grind. That experience shaped their decision to build something simpler, more scalable. With their friend Oh Chin Jie, 31—a trained cook—they pooled S$10,000 and launched What…
For years, the biggest conversation around AI has been what these tools can do. They can browse the web, analyze documents, connect to your apps, conduct research, and increasingly act on your behalf. But as AI systems become more capable, another question has become harder to ignore: what happens when an AI assistant is tricked into handing over information it shouldn’t? OpenAI’s new Lockdown Mode is its latest answer to that problem. Available across all ChatGPT account types, Lockdown Mode is an optional security setting designed for people and organizations handling sensitive information. The trade-off is that you get stronger…
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Cybersecurity / Artificial Intelligence OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business plans. “Lockdown Mode is an optional advanced security setting that limits many tools and capabilities in OpenAI products that can connect to the web or external services,” OpenAI said. “It is…
As a crowd of 60 anti-vaxxers squeezed into the upstairs dining area of Jonathan’s Grille in Nashville on a recent Monday night, a moment of pride washed over Scott Armstrong.Years ago, he had been let go from his job as a drug and alcohol counselor for refusing to get vaccinated. Now, unvaccinated people from all over the country were piling into the sports bar to meet others like them. There was a woman who flew in from New Jersey and another from Philadelphia. One group drove up from Florida.They were there to attend a mixer hosted by Unjected, an anti-vaccination…
DentaQuest handles dental benefits for millions of people. Now, data tied to 2.6 million accounts has surfaced in a public breach listing. DentaQuest confirmed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited portion of its network, though its investigation is still ongoing. Have I Been Pwned said the leaked dataset included email addresses, names, phone numbers, dates of birth, government-issued IDs, and health insurance information. DentaQuest says systems remain operational DentaQuest stated it was “actively managing a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited portion of our network,” according to a company update. The company said it took…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks onstage at Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco. (Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) Microsoft’s Build conference was a firehose: in-house AI models, agent-first devices, new coding tools, and a Copilot “super app” that got teased but not yet shown. This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re joined by Mary Jo Foley to understand what’s ready and what’s not quite yet fully baked, from Project Solara and the Scout agentic assistant to Microsoft’s push for AI self-sufficiency and the mounting pressure on GitHub. Related Stories Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A platform for devices that run…
U.S. officials are weighing a proposal that could see the federal government take stakes in leading artificial intelligence providers. The discussions were first reported by news outlet NOTUS late Thursday. According to Politico, President Donald Trump confirmed the report today during a press briefing aboard Air Force One. Trump stated that he will likely meet with representatives of “all the big” AI developers at the White House next week. The report didn’t specify the companies that could be involved in the initiative. OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman visited Washington, D.C., earlier this week to meet with administration…