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We learned that Lego and Pokémon would be joining forces and the first results of their partnership are here. Pre-orders for all three kits are open now, with an expected ship date of February 27. As one might have guessed from the lightning bolts on the previous promotional image, one of the debut pocket monsters getting the brick treatment is , complete with a Poké Ball. The 2,050-piece kit can be built to show Pikachu either leaping out of the open Poké Ball into battle or at rest staring up at the builder, closed Poké Ball between his paws. The…

Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, welcomed the new year with a disturbing post.”Dear Community,” began the Dec. 31 post from the Grok AI account on Musk’s X social media platform. “I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user’s prompt. This violated ethical standards and potentially US laws on CSAM. It was a failure in safeguards, and I’m sorry for any harm caused. xAI is reviewing to prevent future issues. Sincerely,…

Picture this: you’ve just moved into a beautiful basement apartment with exposed brick walls and loads of character. Within weeks, though, you notice a musty smell creeping in, and dark spots are appearing on the walls.Or perhaps you have a different problem: you live in a humid climate where your clothes never quite seem to dry indoors, and your windows are constantly fogged with condensation.If either of these scenarios sound familiar, you might need a dehumidifier. These appliances have become household heroes in recent years, and for good reason. In this article, I’ll explain how they work. But first let’s…

I’ve been to CES way more times than I can count with my fingers. Upon returning, friends and family ask about the “coolest” thing I’ve seen at the show, and I often don’t have a clear answer. This time around, though, at CES 2026, I ran into something totally worth talking about. These T10 Bespoke Earbuds, demo at CES 2026, cost $7500 a set, and that’s far from the most expensive of the type. CES 2026: The same show with a different perspective No, that cool thing had nothing to do with artificial intelligence, robots, or screens—the usual suspects of…

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was visibility. In such gray situations, pilots use GPS technology to help them land on a runway and not the side of a mountain. But on this day, GPS systems weren’t working correctly, the airwaves jammed with signals that prevented airplanes from accessing navigation information. The Widerøe flight had taken off during one of Russia’s frequent wargames, in which the country’s military simulates conflict…

X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company “will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users, open source in 7 days.”X’s recommendation algorithm has been the subject of investigations by France and the European Commission, the latter of which recently extended through 2026 a retention order that it sent to the company at the beginning of last year. And scrutiny into the platform, along with demands for accountability, have only increased…

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.To solve today’s Connections: Sports Edition, it helps if you know the roster of a certain Florida team. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition is an excellent version of the 2024 open-world Star Wars game. It runs incredibly well overall, with a frame rate that rarely dips below its 30 frames per second (fps) target while also pushing some impressive ray tracing effects. It might just be the best Nintendo Switch 2 port that we’ve seen yet, especially considering the fact that the original release would sometimes stutter…

After the first attempt a year ago, Morse Micro made Wi-Fi Halow a reality at CES 2026 by unveiling the HaLowLink 2, the first router of the long-range standard to be available worldwide. Now, it’s only a question of when we can find Wi-Fi Halow devices to take advantage of them. In the meantime, it’s worth noting that this router can also support 2.4GHz Wi-Fi 4 clients. The Morse Micro HaLowLink 2 router is a compact dual-band Wi-Fi Halow/Wi-Fi 4 router. HaLowLink 2: A router designed for IoT applications If you’re new to Wi-Fi Halow, it’s a Wi-Fi standard that…

To block the attack, OpenAI restricted ChatGPT to solely open URLs exactly as provided and refuse to add parameters to them, even when explicitly instructed to do otherwise. With that, ShadowLeak was blocked, since the LLM was unable to construct new URLs by concatenating words or names, appending query parameters, or inserting user-derived data into a base URL. Radware’s ZombieAgent tweak was simple. The researchers revised the prompt injection to supply a complete list of pre-constructed URLs. Each one contained the base URL appended by a single number or letter of the alphabet, for example, example.com/a, example.com/b, and every subsequent…