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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 was an especially tough one, I thought. 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 puzzle hints page. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest…
OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering, the company announced on Monday, kicking off what could be a monthslong process toward debuting on a US stock exchange. The move makes it the third company to file for what could be a trillion-dollar IPO this year.Tech companies pursuing the most powerful AI models, including publicly traded giants Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, are hungry for tens of billions dollars each to build out more data centers and recruit scientists to grow their services.An IPO would be yet another fundraising opportunity for OpenAI after the company privately raised $122…
“Nostalgia becomes dangerous if it prevents a business from improving,” says 3rd-gen director Alvin Say There are restaurants you eat at, and restaurants you grow up in. Jack’s Place, for many Singaporeans, is firmly the latter. Most Singaporeans would recognise its green-and-white checkered tablecloths anywhere. You might even remember the sizzle of a steak arriving at your table, or servers weaving between diners with gravy boats in hand. This year, the homegrown chain celebrates its 60th anniversary. Any restaurant that survives six decades is remarkable. One that remains emotionally meaningful across multiple generations is something else entirely. Vulcan Post spoke…
Amazon.com Inc. is partnering with glass manufacturer Corning Inc. to make optical network components for its data centers. The cloud and retail giant stated today that the deal is worth several billion dollars. Corning will use some of the funds to expand its factories in North Carolina. According to the company, the upgrades will create 1,000 manufacturing jobs and several hundred construction positions. Shares of Corning closed 5.4% higher on the news. Corning is a major supplier of fiber-optic cables for data centers. It makes riser cables, which are used to link together the different floors of a data center,…
Swati KhandelwalJun 08, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container. The flaw, CVE-2026-23111, sits in the kernel’s nf_tables packet-filtering code and was patched upstream on February 5, 2026. Exodus Intelligence released its full technical walkthrough on June 8, and it is not even the first public exploit: FuzzingLabs published an independent reproduction back in April. The flaw came down to a single stray character, an inverted check in nf_tables, and the upstream fix removed it in…
The nose of ZeroAvia’s Q400. The company in 2023 announced a partnering with Alaska Airlines to retrofit the aircraft with ZeroAvia’s powertrain. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) ZeroAvia was flying high. After launching in California in 2017, the clean aviation startup was expanding, establishing an R&D facility in Everett in the shadow of aerospace juggernaut Boeing and running test flights in the United Kingdom. It was raising cash from government grants and investors including Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. In May 2023, the company unveiled a retired turboprop from Alaska Airlines, wrapped in ZeroAvia’s navy…
As Apple gears up to unveil a rebuilt Siri at WWDC 2026, the reveal could either strengthen or shake the company’s foothold in the AI race. Apple’s vision of technological progress has been selling a different vision of technology for years. Apple was focusing on integration as its competitors were chasing scale. Apple built ecosystems while others were designing platforms. The company rarely depended on outsiders for tech it considered strategically important. That’s why the reports surrounding this year’s WWDC feel significant. Apple is expected to unveil a dramatically rebuilt Siri, one capable of understanding context, interacting across apps, and…
In just 10 days over the summer of 1854, 500 people died of cholera in the Soho neighborhood of London. The city’s population had more than doubled to 2.3 million people in the first half of the 1800s, and its sewage system could not keep up. But the streams of human waste flowing into the street and seeping into the water supply were considered unconnected to the cholera crisis. The prevailing theory of the day was that bad air — miasma — caused illness.The English physician John Snow thought differently. Five years before the outbreak he had suggested that the…
Upgrading a laptop’s storage today often comes down to one uncomfortable decision. You either pay a premium to purchase a brand-new device or try to upgrade the internal storage yourself. Neither option feels efficient nor affordable. The SANDISK Extreme® Portable SSD offers a more flexible alternative by allowing you to expand storage only when your work actually demands it. Instead of committing to costly internal upgrades or purchasing a new device altogether, you can add high-speed external storage instantly and scale it based on how your projects evolve.You can explore the full product lineup and configurations here. Choosing the right capacity…
It’ll come as a free update for players who own the game already. Soft Rains The second — and final — act of the indie sci-fi “clean-’em-up” Ambrosia Sky will be here this summer. During the Story-Rich Showcase this weekend at Summer Game Fest, developer Soft Rains announced that Act Two is dropping on Steam August 6. It’ll come as a free update for anyone who already owns Act One, and new players who grab it at launch time will get the full game with both acts for just $12. That discount will only be available…