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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for July 29.
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 Granola, an app that can transcribe Zoom meetings and then create AI-generated notes with key points, is now available on Apple Watch models running watchOS 11 and later.
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 878 for July 29.
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Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.
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 As expected, the Apple Upgrade program launched today, allowing customers in the U.S. to lease most iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac models. While the program is offered by Apple, the leasing is handled by financing company Klarna.
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The program will take the sting out of owning Apple devices, including Macs, iPads and Apple Watches.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China's access to advanced computing and model capabilities.
In a post outlining Anthropic's position, Amodei said broad restrictions, including bans on Chinese open-weight models used by US businesses, would not address his main national security concerns. Instead, he pointed to the possibility of authoritarian governments surpassing the US in advanced AI, as well as cyber, biological, and alignment risks posed by increasingly capable systems.
Amodei also called for action against industrial-scale model distillation, which he said allows Chinese developers to improve their models with less computing power than would be needed to train comparable systems from scratch.
The statement followed criticism of Anthropic for not signing an industry letter backed by Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mistral, Hugging Face and other technology companies urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight models.
The letter said that open wei
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Ina and David Steiner will receive compensation after a 2019 campaign to silence their critiques of the company.
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 There's a big accessory sale happening on Amazon this week, with the year's best prices on Anker chargers, Samsung monitors, Sonos audio products, and much more.
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NVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Windows is a reference driver that can be installed on supported NVIDIA desktop/notebook GPUs. [License: | Requires:
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 A sustainable, plant-based wound dressing that delivers antibiotics before infection spreads could offer a greener and more efficient alternative to conventional wound care.
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 OpenAI's hardware roadmap has sharpened considerably in recent months, with its first device now identified, a smartphone said to be arriving as soon as next year, and a wider lineup taking shape behind them.
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"HBO Max Shorts" is one of two new mobile features coming to iOS users in the US.
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NEW RESOURCES Arch Daily: aflalo/gasperini arquitetos launches a free digital archive of its most iconic works. "Bringing together some of the firm's most iconic projects developed between 1955 and the present day, […]
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Nvidia is investing a reported $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's SSI and providing Vera Rubin systems for a tenfold increase in AI compute.
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Cursor has launched a ?649 monthly AI coding plan in India with Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5 as its $60 billion SpaceX deal awaits closing.
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The HBO Max app now has shorts, because everything needs to have shorts.
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 Apple today shared the full-length trailer for season four of its hit series Ted Lasso, ahead of the season premiere on Wednesday, August 5. Following the premiere, one new episode will be released every Wednesday through October 7.
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NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: New Online Resource Hub Empowers Gallbladder Cancer Patients and Caregivers with Critical Guidance and Support (PRESS RELEASE). "Facing a rare and aggressive diagnosis like gallbladder cancer can leave […]
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Don't worry, the Trump administration won't let a little acid rain get in the way of more data centers.
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AI PROBLEMS Politico: Emails show how Virginia regulators downplayed data center health concerns. "When Virginia's top environmental regulator received an analysis warning of data center pollution, it took him less than five […]
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Better bass and a much newer processor are the main differences between the old Echo Dot and the newer Echo Dot Max.
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Keeping phones out of landfills and doing useful things is a good thing.
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Don't fret if you missed out on recent back-to-school deals. Sales tax holidays can help you save on laptops, school supplies, clothing and more. Learn more about it here.
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 Apple plans to release an all-new smart home hub at some point between October and early next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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Traveling enterprise employees beware: Think twice before you log onto that oh-so-convenient public Wi-Fi.
Since at least June, threat actors have been compromising "captive" Wi-Fi gateways and other portal appliances at hotels, conference centers, and similar shared venues to hijack users' Microsoft 365 accounts, according to the ReliaQuest Threat Research team.
Once a threat actor controls a gateway, they can silently redirect a user's traffic to their own infrastructure and steal their Microsoft 365 credentials without ever touching the user's device, compromising endpoints, or sending phishing links or malicious attachments.
"The most dangerous element is that it operates at the network gateway, which sits beneath most of the trust assumptions users and devices make," ReliaQuest told CSO Online. "It's not necessarily an enterprise breach level event on its own, but it's a very real risk to individual accounts."
Exploiting a ‘fundamental trust'
Domain Name System (DNS) poisoning, in which false data is injected to redirect regular web traffic to fraudulent domains, has previously been observed on small office routers, but attackers are now expanding the technique to higher-level targets, the ReliaQuest researchers explained in a blog post.
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The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.
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A Delhi court rejected ANI's bid to block OpenAI's use of news content for ChatGPT training, giving AI developers an interim copyright win.
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The Apple team behind the upcoming smart glasses is reportedly exploring several tweaks related to user privacy.
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 Meta today announced Facebook Verified, a free badge designed to confirm that a Facebook profile belongs to a real person rather than an AI-generated fake.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 reportedly found Redis flaws and built RCE exploits, raising urgent patching and AI security concerns.
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 Apple today announced that "The Morning Show" will return to Apple TV for a fifth and final season at some point in 2027.
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NEW RESOURCES Poynter: Poynter's PolitiFact launches service providing reliable, engaging health information to consumers and news organizations. "The service, called Well Informed, offers reliable, topical health information on social media, where more […]
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After hundreds of air fryer meals, these are the 10 that taught me where the appliance's real limits are.
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NEW RESOURCES Capital B News: Why We're Building a Black Oral History Archive. "For the Record: A Black Oral History Archive is a collection of over 100 firsthand stories from Black Americans […]
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Over 2.6 million Do Not Call complaints were filed with the FTC, with robocalls dominating. Here are the top states affected and how to stay safe.
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But as some reviewers have noted, the boosts from DLSS aren't always as impressive in real life as they are in marketing materials. And it's often less powerful systems—like gaming laptops—that see the most modest benefits. So, I decided to test it out myself.
Here are my Nvidia DLSS 4 results on a gaming laptop. Keep reading for the exact laptop I used and the various gains (or lack thereof) I saw in a handful of different high-profile games.
The laptop I used for these tests
When Nvidia boasted about the awe-inspiring eight-fold improvement in Cyberpunk 2077 performance, those tests were done under ideal conditions. According to the fine print, it was achieved on a PC with an RTX 5090 at 4K resolutions with all the graphical bells and whistles turned on, and in DLSS performance mode.
But that's far from your typical gaming PC. Most modern gaming PCs are budget laptops—like the Lenovo LO
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Sometimes you can notice the signs of a failing SSD. For instance, the once-quick transfer speed slows to crawl, there are frequent program or system crashes, or file system access errors or SMART errors occur. If you notice these things, especially in combination, there's a good chance your SSD is on its way out. In that case, it's time to prepare for the worst and do the following:
Back up critical files
It goes without saying that the first thing you'll want to do if you think your SSD is on the blink is to back up your critical data. Backups should be done regularly anyway, but even if you're doing that, you'll still want to make a new backup of your critical files at this point to have them ready to go should your SSD suddenly die.
See our roundups of the best Windows backup software and
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Apple-owned Shazam has just released a Chrome Extension that works to identify what's playing in your "Netflix or YouTube video, that Soundcloud mix or in a Twitch streamed video game," but it doesn't work for all users just yet.
After installation, Shazam exists in the Chrome Extensions drop-down menu to the right of the address bar and can be pinned like the others to always be handy.
Tap the blue icon to open a rectangular pop-up asking for another "Click Shazam". While listening, you are told "do not update or close this tab". Once recognized, there is a shortcut to play the entire song in Apple Music (login required), while you can "get lyrics, music videos and more with just one click". T
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