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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, July 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-13 17:17:27

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Slate Auto drops ‘under $20,000’ pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-02-13 22:47:52

Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has stopped promoting that its upcoming pickup truck will start “under $20,000” following passage of President Trump’s tax cut bill. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Trump on July 4, will cause the federal EV tax credit to end in September — a $7,500 incentive that Slate had counted on to help its all-electric pickup clear that mark. When Slate came out of stealth mode in April, the startup heavily promoted that

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xAI prepares Grok 4 Code as it plans to take on Claude and Gemini

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-14 00:00:18

xAI is preparing the rollout of Grok 4, which replaces Grok 3 as the new state-of-the-art model. Ahead of the rollout, testers on X have again spotted references to a few new Grok 4 models. One of the models is called "grok-4-prod-mimic," which reportedly excels at enterprise use cases like data extraction, coding, and text summarisation. It also possesses deep domain knowledge in finance, healthcare, law, and science. But "grok-4-prod-mimic" isn't the only new model coming to Grok. Another

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Cluely’s ARR doubled in a week to $7M, founder Roy Lee says. But rivals are coming.

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-02-14 04:33:48

Cluely’s revenue has skyrocketed to about $7 million in ARR since it launched its new enterprise product a week ago, founder Roy Lee told TechCrunch. “Every single person who has a meeting or an interview is testing this out.” Cluely, one of Silicon Valley’s most-talked-about startups, offers products that use AI to analyze online conversations, deliver real-time notes, provide context, and suggest questions to ask. This information appeared discreetly on the user’s screen, invisible to others.

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Slate Auto drops “under $20,000” pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-02-14 04:47:52

Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has stopped promoting that its upcoming pickup truck will start “under $20,000” following passage of President Trump’s tax cut bill. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Trump on July 4, will cause the federal EV tax credit to end in September — a $7,500 incentive that Slate had counted to help its all-electric pickup to clear that mark. When Slate came out of stealth mode in April, the startup heavily promoted that

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Sakana AI’s TreeQuest: Deploy multi-model teams that outperform individual LLMs by 30%

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2026-02-14 10:00:19

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has introduced a new technique that allows multiple large language models (LLMs) to cooperate on a single task, effectively creating a “dream team” of AI agents. The method, called Multi-LLM AB-MCTS, enables models to perform trial-and-error and combine their unique strengths to solve problems that are too complex

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Google Pixel Buds A-Series might finally be getting a follow-up

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-14 09:08:24

Lil Katz / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s got a big launch coming up this summer, with the Pixel 10 series set to debut. A new rumor suggests the company’s also working on new “Pixel Buds 2a” affordable earbuds. We could also get a new color option for the Pixel Buds Pro 2. Can you believe it’s been four whole years now since Google introduced its affordably priced Pixel Buds A-Series earbuds? In the years since we’ve got not just one, but two generations of Pixel Buds Pro models, but with

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Leakers clash over what Google’s thinking for Pixel 10 color options

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-14 09:09:30

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s Pixel 10 phones are expected to launch this summer, and likely sometime in August. Leaks have already attempted to identify the color options for the lineup, though many have disagreed on the details. The latest list seems to generally align with colors we’ve heard about before, while retaining familiar Pixel branding for them. Google’s Pixel 10 smartphones are on their way, and odds are we’ll be formally meeting the hardware in just another

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Apple to release Q3 2025 earnings results on Thursday, July 31

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-14 06:56:39

Today, Apple announced that it will report its quarterly results for April, May, and June on July 31st. Here’s what to expect. Last year, Apple reported $85.8 billion in revenue, which was a record for a fiscal Q3, and a 4.8% increase year over year. Product-wise, iPad revenue grew 24% thanks to the release of the M4 iPad Pro and the M2 iPad Air, Mac revenue grew 2%, iPhone revenue dropped 1%, while Wearable, Home, and Accessories dropped 2%. Services saw its usual double-digit grown, maintai

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Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work

news.ycombinator.com Brie Wolfson 2026-02-14 08:18:01

Kevin Kelly isn’t known for one ‘big thing’, and doesn’t aspire to be. He’s as intelligent, hard-working, ambitious, and prescient as history’s most iconic entrepreneurs—only without any interest in building a unicorn himself. Instead, in his words, he works “Hollywood style”—in a series of creative projects. What follows is a sampling of his life’s work. Kelly was an editor for the Whole Earth Catalog in the early 1980s, helped start WELL, one of the first online communities, in 1985, and co-f

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Lost in Space: A ‘Game-Changing’ Emissions Satellite Just Went Dark

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-14 14:30:03

An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of methane emissions across the globe, only survived about 15 months in Earth’s orbit before meeting its untimely end. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which launched the satellite in March 2024, announced its demise on July 1. The organization revealed that MethaneSAT suddenly went silent on June 20, and its mission operations team has been unable to re-establish contact e

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 4, #1476

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-14 14:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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The Person in Charge of Testing Tech for US Spies Has Resigned

wired.com Paresh Dave 2026-02-14 14:50:33

The head of the US government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is leaving the unit this month to take a job with a quantum computing company, WIRED has learned. Rick Muller’s pending departure from IARPA comes amid broader efforts to downsize the United States intelligence community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees IARPA. A person familiar with Muller’s plans confirmed to WIRED his departure from IARPA. Born during

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My favorite USB-C accessory of all time got a magnetic upgrade - and it's only $8 on sale

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-02-14 18:18:56

ZDNET's key takeaways The magnetic USB-C connector now supports a 180-degree swivel, and it's only $12 at Amazon. It can pump out as much as 240W of power. I just wish it was suitable for data transferring or powering monitors. $15.99 at Amazon Buy one of these handy 240W USB-C magnetic adapters on sale for just $8 ahead of Amazon Prime Day with the on-page coupon (you can use the coupon for a 2-pack, too). Also: The 55+ best Prime Day deals we've found so far A hill I'm always willing to f

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An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf

news.ycombinator.com Erica Klarreich 2026-02-11 22:12:50

Drop in at a library, and you’ll likely notice that most shelves aren’t full—librarians leave some empty space on each shelf. That way, when they get new books, they can slot them into place without having to move too many other books. It’s a simple-enough idea, but one that arises in a host of settings in computer science that involve sorted data, such as an alphabetically ordered census repository, or a list of connections between members of a social network. In such situations, where the ent

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Report: Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-14 23:50:11

The Information is out with an interesting report about how Apple has considered spinning up its own developer cloud services, in a move that would put it against some of its competitors’ biggest revenue streams. Here are the details. Project ACDC As reported by Aaron Tilley, Apple’s Project ACDC (which stands for Apple chips in data centers) would not be that different from Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, or Google’s Cloud Platform: “The idea discussed was for Apple to rent out servers runn

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The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-14 22:34:05

For the past few years, the AI industry has operated under its own version of Moore's Law: an unwavering belief that the cost of intelligence would perpetually decrease by orders of magnitude each year. Like clockwork, each new model generation promised to be not only more capable but also cheaper to run. Last week, Google quietly broke that trend. In a move that at first went unnoticed, Google significantly increased the price of its popular Gemini 2.5 Flash model. The input token price double

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New Research Debunks Myth That Brain Cells Stop Growing After Childhood

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-14 23:00:50

You’ve probably heard the old canard that new brain cells simply stop forming as we become adults. But research out today is the latest to show that this isn’t really true. Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in the hippocampus of adult brains. The findings reveal more about the human brain as we get older, the researchers say, and also hint at potential new ways to treat neurological disorders. “We’ve found

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Dust hits $6M ARR helping enterprises build AI agents that actually do stuff instead of just talking

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-02-15 04:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Dust, a two-year-old artificial intelligence platform that helps enterprises build AI agents capable of completing entire business workflows, has reached $6 million in annual revenue — a six-fold increase from $1 million just one year ago. The company’s rapid growth signals a shift in enterprise AI adoption from simple chatbots toward sophi

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Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-15 04:29:37

Sony Interactive's Helldivers 2, the third-person co-op shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios, is finally coming to Xbox on August 26. The sequel to the 2015 top-down shooter was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows in early 2024 and supports cross-platform play. After launch, Helldivers 2 was a huge success, selling over 15 million copies and reaching 450,000 concurrent players on Steam, the highest number ever among PlayStation games released for the PC. In fact, there were so many pl

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CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2026-02-15 04:19:59

United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is asking tech companies to pitch digital forensics tools that are designed to process and analyze text messages, pictures, videos, and contacts from seized phones, laptops, and other devices at the United States border, according to documents reviewed by WIRED. The agency said in a federal registry listing that the tools it’s seeking must have very specific capabilities, such as the ability to find a “hidden language” in a person’s text message

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Ilya Sutskever will lead Safe Superintelligence following his CEO’s exit

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-02-15 04:29:07

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he is stepping into the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he launched in 2024. In a post on X, Sutskever confirmed Thursday that Daniel Gross, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, departed the company as of June 29. Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Levy is becoming president of the startup, according to Sutskever. The announcement follows weeks of reporting that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in advanced talks to hire Gross, as well as h

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CoreWeave is the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia's latest AI chips

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2026-02-15 09:31:28

Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra chips, the company's next-generation graphics processor for artificial intelligence, have been commercially deployed at CoreWeave, the companies announced on Thursday. CoreWeave has received shipments of Dell-built shipments based around Nvidia's GB300 NVL72 AI systems, Dell said on Thursday. It's the first cloud provider to install systems based around Blackwell Ultra. The Blackwell Ultra is Nvidia's latest chip, expected to ship in volume during the rest of the year.

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Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-15 06:54:14

A "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI — and still somehow accumulating over half a million listeners on Spotify — has finally admitted the truth. Earlier this week, a self-proclaimed "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown claimed on its "official" X account that it "never" used any AI, accusing "so-called 'journalists'" of "pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is 'AI-generated' with zero evidence." It was a preposterous claim that

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New Mac models through 2026 revealed in leaked Apple identifiers

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-15 09:54:23

Apple still has plenty of new product launches coming through the rest of the year, including at least two Macs. But today, a new report has outlined Mac models coming not only in 2025, but even those expected through 2026. Report includes 15 forthcoming Mac models expected through 2026 Marko Zivkovic writes at AppleInsider: Through our own data and information shared with us, AppleInsider has learned of 15 new Mac models currently in development. People familiar with the matter — and common

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Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 14:25:30

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article where I developed a hash calculator on an FPGA. Specifically, I implemented an SHA-256 calculator. This module computes the hash of a string (up to 25 bytes) in 68 clock cycles. The design leverages the parallelism of FPGAs to compute the W matrix and the recursive rounds concurrently. However, it produces only one hash every 68 clock cycles, leaving most of the FPGA underutilized during that time. In this article we are going to elevate the performance of t

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Locality of Behaviour (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 12:17:19

Locality of Behaviour (LoB) Carson Gross May 29, 2020 “The primary feature for easy maintenance is locality: Locality is that characteristic of source code that enables a programmer to understand that source by looking at only a small portion of it.” – Richard Gabriel Locality of Behaviour is the principle that: The behaviour of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code The LoB principle is a simple prescriptive formulation of the quoted statement

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The best phone to buy right now

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2026-02-15 14:36:23

is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Haven’t you heard? Phones are boring now. And that’s just fine! Most people buying a new phone just want something familiar that works better than the device they’re replacing. If that’s your MO, then you’re sure to find something reliable in my recommendations below. But even if you’re looking for something a little more extra

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Castelion is raising a $350M Series B to scale hypersonic missile business

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2026-02-15 14:03:34

Hypersonic weapons startup Castelion is raising a $350 million Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Altimeter Capital, according to sources and documents viewed by TechCrunch. The round, which values the company in the billions, is anticipated to close in a matter of weeks. A term sheet has been signed. The new round comes on the heels of $100 million in Series A funding that closed in January. That round was composed of about $70 million in equity and $30 million of debt. Lightspeed

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Pinwheel introduces a smartwatch for kids that includes an AI chatbot

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2026-02-15 14:27:20

As a parent, it can be daunting to hand over a smart device to their tween when a myriad of online dangers exist. Pinwheel, a kid-friendly tech company, is introducing a new solution for parents who want to stay connected with their children without giving them a phone. The Pinwheel Watch is a recently launched smartwatch designed specifically for kids aged 7 to 14, offering a child-safe alternative that prevents access to social media and the internet. It features parental management tools, GP

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Latest Tech News

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, July 4

Slate Auto drops ‘under $20,000’ pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

xAI prepares Grok 4 Code as it plans to take on Claude and Gemini

Cluely’s ARR doubled in a week to $7M, founder Roy Lee says. But rivals are coming.

Slate Auto drops “under $20,000” pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

Sakana AI’s TreeQuest: Deploy multi-model teams that outperform individual LLMs by 30%

Google Pixel Buds A-Series might finally be getting a follow-up

Leakers clash over what Google’s thinking for Pixel 10 color options

Apple to release Q3 2025 earnings results on Thursday, July 31

Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work

Lost in Space: A ‘Game-Changing’ Emissions Satellite Just Went Dark

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 4, #1476

The Person in Charge of Testing Tech for US Spies Has Resigned

My favorite USB-C accessory of all time got a magnetic upgrade - and it's only $8 on sale

An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf

Report: Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor

The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning

New Research Debunks Myth That Brain Cells Stop Growing After Childhood

Dust hits $6M ARR helping enterprises build AI agents that actually do stuff instead of just talking

Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones

Ilya Sutskever will lead Safe Superintelligence following his CEO’s exit

CoreWeave is the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia's latest AI chips

Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

New Mac models through 2026 revealed in leaked Apple identifiers

Parallelizing SHA256 Calculation on FPGA

Locality of Behaviour (2020)

The best phone to buy right now

Castelion is raising a $350M Series B to scale hypersonic missile business

Pinwheel introduces a smartwatch for kids that includes an AI chatbot

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