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Facing multi-year waits for grid connections and new turbines, some AI data center operators are installing retrofitted jet engines that burn natural gas to generate their own power, according to the New York Times. xAI has installed eight such units from ProEnergy in Mississippi to help power its Colossus 2 facility, and OpenAI-linked developer Crusoe has ordered 13 more for the Stargate site in Abilene, Texas.
A researcher detailed five new vulnerabilities in Azure Logic Apps' API Connections feature that allowed full cross-tenant compromise, letting an attacker access another tenant's connected backends such as Key Vaults, Azure SQL databases, Jira, or Salesforce. The researcher says Microsoft paid a combined $200,000 bounty for the findings, following earlier disclosures in the same series about this architecture. The researcher plans to detail the work further in a talk at Blue Hat Asia 2026.
CNET released its daily answer guide for the New York Times Mini Crossword puzzle dated Oct. 20, 2026, covering all across and down clues. The guide highlights a quirk in the puzzle where two different clues, for 4-Across and 6-Across, are worded identically but have different answers, SCORE and LACES.
CNET published the solution to the Oct. 20, 2026 NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, grouping words into four categories: words meaning to reject a shot (blocks, denies, stuffs, swats), Mountain West schools (Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming), 49ers career passing leaders (Brodie, Garcia, Montana, Young), and terms associated with Russell Westbrook (0, Oklahoma City, triple-doubles, UCLA). The piece also offers hint phrases for each color category to help players before revealing the full answers.
The October 8, 2026, edition of the NYT Connections puzzle features four groups of four words each, with themes including following rules, surpassing others, triplets, and actor surnames ending in Tom. The answers include heeds, best, cheers, and Holland, among others. The puzzle challenges players to identify these thematic groupings within a 16-word grid.
CNET released its daily hint and answer breakdown for the Sept. 20 edition of NYT Connections: Sports Edition, puzzle number 727. The four categories covered Maryland teams, former NHL cities, NFL rookie wide receivers, and sports terms drawn from the NATO phonetic alphabet.
CNET's daily coverage of the New York Times Connections puzzle offers hints and answers for game #1196, which the writer describes as trickier than usual. The four categories are organized by difficulty, from an easy yellow group to a challenging purple group that plays on math terminology.
NVIDIA, Google, and startup Emerald AI have created the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a coalition aimed at making AI data centers more flexible in their power consumption. The group wants facilities to be able to shift workloads, tap batteries, and cut usage during peak demand, in exchange for utilities granting faster grid connections and potentially sharing infrastructure costs.
CNET published its daily rundown of answers and hints for the New York Times Mini Crossword, covering both the across and down clues for the Sept. 17 puzzle. The list includes terms like QUACK, UNCLE, IDIOT and KEGS across, and QUIRK, UNDUE, ACING and KETO down.
CNET released its daily hints and full solutions for The New York Times Connections puzzle numbered 1194, dated Sept. 17. The four categories covered elasticity-related words, things located underground, Hugh Jackman movies beginning with 'The,' and phrases starting with 'Love'.
CNET published its daily hints and full answer list for the New York Times Strands puzzle, edition #928, dated Sept. 17. The day's theme centers on classic newspaper comic strips, with answers including ZIPPY, ZITS, MUTTS, BLONDIE, PEANUTS and PICKLES, alongside a spangram tying the theme together.
CNET released its daily hints and full solutions for NYT's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle number 724, dated September 17. The four categories were team collectives (conference, division, group, league), recent Summer Olympics host cities (London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo), Missouri Valley Conference schools (Belmont, Bradley, Drake, Northern Iowa) and words paired with 'Giants' (Little, New York, San Francisco, Yomiuri).