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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 02:00:03

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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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 4, #488

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 02:00:04

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 celebrates a common July 4 activity. Some of the words are long and might be tough to unscramble, but if you recognize the theme, you should be good. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

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The best laptops you can get

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2026-02-27 02:15:47

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Editor’s note: Amazon Prime Day kicks off on July 8th; however, if you want to get a head start on your online shopping, we’ve rounded up the best early Prime Day deals you can already get. Buying the right laptop can be stressful. It’s likely one of the bigger tech purchases you’ll make, and there are a ludicrous number of models, siz

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Rumor Replay: New MacBook with iPhone chip, Apple Glasses, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-27 06:35:05

This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: rumors of a cheaper ‘MacBook’ coming soon, Vision products roadmap, iPad Pro redesign, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors. New ‘MacBook’ rumor with A18 Pro chip Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple is preparing to ship a 13-inch MacBook featuring an iPhone processor. The product will likely just be called ‘MacBook,’ and include an A18 Pro

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Apple iOS 26: All the latest features for iPhone's new operating system, including FaceTime updates

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-27 06:08:26

Liquid Glass is a huge new change coming to iOS 26. (Apple) Get ready because Apple iOS 26 (not iOS 19) is headed your way this fall with some cool new features you'll want to try. What's most exciting? The fresh home and lock screen redesign we've been waiting to see for years. Dubbed Liquid Glass, the new look and feel will extend across all of Apple's upcoming operating systems. The overhaul was one of several big changes coming to iOS, macOS, iPadOS and the rest of Apple's software suite, a

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I replaced my Ray-Ban Meta with these Amazon smart glasses, and was impressed

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2026-02-27 06:27:56

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazon Echo Frames (3rd Gen) are a natural way for glasses wearers to control their smart home, and they're available now for $269. The latest model features a lighter build, longer battery life, improved speakers, and new controls that will take some getting used to. While Alexa in your ears is no ChatGPT voice assistant, it's capable enough to answer general questions and complete most smart home tasks. View now at Amazon The Amazon Echo Frames are on sale ahead of

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Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland

news.ycombinator.com Peter Krouse 2026-02-27 04:42:11

Research vessel Blue Heron in drydock at Great Lakes Towing on the Old River Channel of the Cuyahoga River. Rual Lee CLEVELAND, Ohio - A ship that docked in Cleveland last summer harbored what scientists believe was a previously unknown form of life. The revelation occurred after the research vessel Blue Heron, which was monitoring harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, began having mechanical issues. The captain, Rual Lee, piloted the boat to Cleveland where it could be examined in a dry dock at

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An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf

news.ycombinator.com Erica Klarreich 2026-02-24 10:12:50

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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‘Foundation’ Star Lee Pace Teases Season 3’s Brand-New Flavor of Brother Day

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-02-27 06:30:58

If you’ve been tuning into Foundation for the sci-fi intrigue, detailed world-building, and the way the characters wield math like a superpower—you’ll be very pleased with season three. But if you’ve also been enjoying the hell out of Lee Pace’s performance as Brother Day, the middle brother among Foundation‘s ever-revolving ruling trio of clones named Cleon, well… let’s just say you’re in for quite the delight when the Isaac Asimov adaptation returns to Apple TV+. And Pace himself agrees: this

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Owning a Piece of ChatGPT Was Already Messy. Then Elon Musk Made It Weirder

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-27 06:55:34

OpenAI has a message for anyone who thinks they’re about to cash in on the AI boom by buying a new “OpenAI token” on Robinhood: Don’t. But in a chaotic turn, Elon Musk just suggested that even the company’s real equity might be an illusion. The maker of ChatGPT, in a rare public warning posted on X (formerly Twitter), disavowed any involvement with crypto-like financial products claiming to offer a piece of its business. “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity,” the company wrote. “We did

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Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-27 06:36:44

The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an Android device spilled email addresses, plain-text passwords, and other sensitive data belonging to 62,000 users, a researcher discovered recently. A security flaw in the app, branded Catwatchful, allowed researcher Eric Daigle to download a trove of sensitive data, which belonged to account holders who used the covert app to monitor phones. The leak, made possible by a SQL injection vu

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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance

wired.com Emily Mullin 2026-02-27 03:57:18

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending package, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” paving the way for a major overhaul of the country’s Medicaid program. If passed by the House, which could happen before the July Fourth holiday, millions of people stand to lose their health insurance. The number of people without health insurance in the United States nearly halved from 2013 to 2023, falling from around 14 percent to a record low of less than

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The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the Industry

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-27 09:42:29

It's safe to say there's a lot riding on "artificial intelligence," a buzzy and nebulous swath of the tech industry pedaling all kinds of large language model (LLM) and similar software products. Since ChatGPT emerged in November 2022, venture capitalist investments in AI have skyrocketed, rising to $131.5 billion in 2024, an increase of 52 percent compared to 2023. In the last three months of 2024, over half of all venture capital in the world went to AI companies. One of the flashier bits of

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Report: Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-27 11:50:11

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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Anthem is officially shutting down on January 12

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-27 11:52:36

EA says there were no layoffs associated with this decision. EA's beleaguered online shooter Anthem is shutting down for good on January 12, 2026 . The game will be removed from the company's storefront ahead of that on August 15. It'll be available for download after that date so long as it's already in your library. Some aspects of the game have already begun winding down. Players can no longer purchase premium in-game currency as of today, though they can still use existing balances to buy

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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-24 16:42:46

June 30, 2025 Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization I've always been told that caching is a tool to make software faster. That, given some careful considerations to consistency, caching makes it so that when you want to read a given piece of data, you don't have to go all the way back to some backend database or API server or SSD and can instead just read from some faster location like memory for the same data. Caching is thus a tool to improve performance. My feelings now are that t

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 10:34:05

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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Not everyone is thrilled with Threads’ DMs

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-02-27 11:30:42

Earlier this week, Instagram Threads launched what the company said was its most-requested feature to date: direct messages, also known as DMs. However, the company is now facing a bit of a user backlash over the addition, as users, primarily women, are arguing that there should be a way to opt out of DMs entirely, citing harassment concerns. Although DMs are a part of other social networks similar to Threads, including X, Bluesky, Mastodon, and others, some Threads users appreciated that they

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Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-02-27 11:55:59

It’s an open secret in the fintech world that the founder and CEO of startup Increase, Darragh Buckley, has been trying for years to “buy a bank,” as one person familiar with the landscape told TechCrunch. A couple of weeks ago, he basically succeeded. He bought a big enough stake in Twin City Bank to trigger a public disclosure of the transaction by the Federal Research Board. Such share purchases are then subject to FDIC approval. Twin City is a small community bank in Longview, Washington,

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Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-27 16:29:37

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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E Ink is turning the laptop touchpad into an e-reader for AI apps

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-02-27 16:37:33

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. E Ink has developed a new touchpad for laptops featuring the same electronic paper technology found in e-readers. It’s not the first company to look at the ever-growing size of laptop touchpads and see the potential of additional functionality, but instead of serving as a second smaller screen for the computer’s OS, E Ink is positioning its touch

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Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26M, with IBM joining in

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2026-02-27 11:00:00

Despite their imposing presence, quantum computers are delicate beasts, and their errors are among the main bottlenecks that the quantum computing community is actively working to address. Failing this, promising applications in finance, drug discovery, and materials science may never become real. That’s the reason why Google touted the error-correction capacities of its latest quantum computing chip, Willow. And IBM is both working on delivering its own “fault-tolerant” quantum computer by 202

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Y Combinator alum launched a new $34M fund dedicated to YC startups, backed by Garry Tan

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-02-27 16:00:00

Investing in Y Combinator startups can lead to significant returns to investors. “If you look at the data: 6% of YC companies become unicorns, and of that 6% a quarter become decacorns,” Kulveer Taggar told TechCrunch. Taggar is a two-time YC alum best known for founding Zeus Living, a property management startup that raised over $150 million in funding. Taggar is so confident in the continuing return potential offered by the famed accelerator that he established Phosphor Capital, a venture fi

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OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-27 17:29:17

Among the strangest twists in the rise of AI has been growing evidence that it's negatively impacting the mental health of users, with some even developing severe delusions after becoming obsessed with the chatbot. One intriguing detail from our most recent story about this disturbing trend is OpenAI's response: it says it's hired a full-time clinical psychiatrist with a background in forensic psychiatry to help research the effects of its AI products on users' mental health. It's also consulti

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How accurate is Apple’s new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-27 21:04:49

As I pointed out recently, while Whisper is top of mind and still a pretty good transcription model, OpenAI has moved away from it. That said, the fact that Apple’s new transcription API is faster than Whisper is great news. But how accurate is it? We tested it out. Full disclosure: the idea for this post came from developer Prakash Pax, who did his own tests. As he explains it: I recorded 15 audio samples in English, randomly ranging from 15 seconds to 2 minutes. And tested against these 3 sp

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Apple releases new wallpaper for iPhone, iPad, and Mac as store debuts

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-27 21:13:08

A new Apple Store is opening later this month in Japan, and alongside the first details, the company has released beautiful new wallpapers for iPhone, iPad, and Mac featuring custom artwork. Apple Umeda celebrated with new wallpaper set Apple Stores continue being built in new places, though not quite as rapidly as they once were. For years now Apple has been giving users all around the world a reason to join in the celebration. That’s because with many new store openings, Apple publishes sp

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MacBook with iPhone CPU rumors, AI Siri partnerships, new EU App Store rules

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-02-27 21:49:55

Benjamin and Chance discuss the intriguing rumor from Ming-Chi Kuo that Apple is readying a new cheaper MacBook Air powered by an A18 Pro CPU. Also, Apple befuddles everyone with a new byzantine set of App Store rules in the EU, and Apple seems open to powering AI Siri using third-party models. And in Happy Hour Plus, Chance walks through some tech updates after another big move. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Hosts Chance Miller Benjamin Mayo Subscribe, Rate, and Review 9to5Mac Happy Hour

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New Mac models through 2026 revealed in leaked Apple identifiers

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-27 21:54:23

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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Grafana releases critical security update for Image Renderer plugin

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-27 21:16:59

Grafana Labs has addressed four Chromium vulnerabilities in critical security updates for the Grafana Image Renderer plugin and Synthetic Monitoring Agent. Although the issues impact Chromium and were fixed by the open-source project two weeks ago, Grafana received a bug bounty submission from security researcher Alex Chapman proving their exploitability in the Grafana components. Grafana describes the update as a "critical severity security release" and advises users to apply the fixes for th

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Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2026-02-27 21:06:05

In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But a new report finds the accused continues to operate a slew of established accounts at American tech companies — including Facebook, Github, PayPal and Twitter/X. On May 29, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced economic sanctions against Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company alleged to pr

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

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 4, #488

The best laptops you can get

Rumor Replay: New MacBook with iPhone chip, Apple Glasses, more

Apple iOS 26: All the latest features for iPhone's new operating system, including FaceTime updates

I replaced my Ray-Ban Meta with these Amazon smart glasses, and was impressed

Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland

An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf

‘Foundation’ Star Lee Pace Teases Season 3’s Brand-New Flavor of Brother Day

Owning a Piece of ChatGPT Was Already Messy. Then Elon Musk Made It Weirder

Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance

The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the Industry

Report: Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor

Anthem is officially shutting down on January 12

Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

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

Not everyone is thrilled with Threads’ DMs

Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank

Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

E Ink is turning the laptop touchpad into an e-reader for AI apps

Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26M, with IBM joining in

Y Combinator alum launched a new $34M fund dedicated to YC startups, backed by Garry Tan

OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises

How accurate is Apple’s new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet

Apple releases new wallpaper for iPhone, iPad, and Mac as store debuts

MacBook with iPhone CPU rumors, AI Siri partnerships, new EU App Store rules

New Mac models through 2026 revealed in leaked Apple identifiers

Grafana releases critical security update for Image Renderer plugin

Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

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