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Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a tough one. It helps to be very familiar with a certain football player’s career. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app.…

Other Ebikes We LikeBike Friday All-Day Photograph: Adrienne SoBike Friday All-Day for $5,600: Bike Friday bills the irresistibly tiny All-Day (7/10, WIRED Review) as the world’s lightest Bosch-powered ebike, and it’s true. You can customize all the colors and components of this folding electric bike, and it has a surprisingly powerful motor for its size. The Brompton above is more widely available and easier to use, but I love this little bike a lot.Radio Flyer Via Pro for $2,900: Editor Julian Chokkattu could not have had a better experience than this easy-to-use and easy-to-assemble class 2 electric cargo bike. For…

The concept of an ideal AI device is both imaginative and within reach. It represents the convergence of cutting-edge AI with thoughtful design to create something fundamentally new, not a smartphone 2.0, but a different category altogether, one that augments our abilities while demanding less of our attention. OpenAI’s ongoing collaboration with Jony Ive has given us a tantalizing hint that such a future is being actively explored. We’ve heard whispers of a screenless, elegant gadget that might fit in our pocket and handle the digital minutiae of life with calm efficiency. We’ve seen tech visionaries describe it as a…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖Few perspectives are as valuable as those shaped by decades of hands-on experience. In this exclusive conversation for Cyber Builders, I sat down with Adrian Ludwig, Chief Architect & CISO at Tools for Humanity (World ID).Bringing over 25 years of combined experience to the table, we have both witnessed and shaped the security paradigm through every major technological shift: from the early days of hardening desktop computers and locking down perimeter networks, to the explosion of mobile computing, where Adrian led Android security at Google. Now, we turn our attention to the latest frontier: the era of…

For years, “human-in-the-loop” has provided the default reassurance when it comes to how artificial intelligence is governed. It sounds prudent. Responsible. Familiar. It is no longer true. We’ve entered an agentic age where AI systems make millions of decisions per second across fraud detection, trading, personalization, logistics, cybersecurity and autonomous agent workflows. At that scale and speed, the idea that humans can meaningfully supervise AI one decision at a time is no longer realistic. It’s a comforting fiction. Experts warn that traditional human review models are collapsing as generative and agentic systems move from experimentation into production. Policy and academic…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents The sleep earbud market Comfort: Arguably the most important factor A streaming experience catered to actually sleeping Alarm feature No Bluetooth necessary No sleep data (yet) Battery life could be better Connecting the earbuds wasn’t a flawless experience On the expensive side Are the Ozlo Sleepbuds worth it? How We Tested UPDATE: Apr. 24, 2025, 4:30 p.m. EDT Following President Trump’s tariffs, the Ozlo Sleepbuds increased in price from $299 to $349 on Ozlo’s website and Amazon in the United States. We’ll be evaluating whether or not this changes our rating,…

Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging electricity usage of data centers that enable the training and deployment of the latest generative AI models. But it’s not all bad news — some AI tools have the potential to reduce some forms of energy consumption and enable cleaner grids.One of the most promising applications is using AI to optimize the power grid, which would improve efficiency, increase resilience to extreme weather, and enable the integration of more renewable energy. To learn more, MIT News spoke with Priya Donti, the Silverman Family Career Development Professor in the…

Multi-cloud inconsistenciesEach cloud provider exposes logs, APIs, and telemetry differently.You cannot correlate behavior across environments effectively.Shadow IT & unmanaged SaaS appsTeams adopt tools without routing them through security.Sensitive data leaves monitored environments without visibility.Ephemeral workloadsContainers, functions, and short-lived workloads appear and disappear quickly.Logs and resource states become incomplete or unavailable.Identity sprawlService accounts, tokens, and roles multiply and accumulate permissions over time.It becomes hard to track who has access to what.Siloed monitoring toolsNetworks, cloud workloads, endpoints, and SaaS platforms are monitored separately.Security teams miss lateral movement and cross-domain attacks.Configuration driftFrequent deployments cause unplanned changes in posture.You lose track of which configurations…

The B2B sales landscape has turned into a hall of mirrors. You think you’re looking at a strategy, but you’re actually looking at a reflection of your own desperation to scale. A Meta Summary for the C-Suite: B2B Sales Outsourcing is currently in a state of “frenetic failure.” By optimizing for low-cost “activity” and high-volume “noise,” organizations are destroying their brand equity and ballooning their true CAC. To win in 2025, leaders must move toward a Brand Extension model-partnerships based on deep industry empathy, outcome-based incentives, and a “human-first” approach to technology. Sales is not a math problem; it is…

Introduction In the generative‑AI boom of recent years, giant language models have dominated headlines, but they aren’t the only game in town. Small language models (SLMs) – often ranging from a few hundred million to about ten billion parameters – are rapidly emerging as a pragmatic choice for developers and enterprises who care about latency, cost and resource efficiency. Advances in distillation, quantization and inference‑time optimizations mean these nimble models can handle many real‑world tasks without the heavy GPU bills of their larger siblings. Meanwhile, providers and platforms are racing to offer low‑cost, high‑speed APIs so that teams can integrate…