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Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s a pretty easy one today, but read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New…

Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, May 9 (game #797).Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today…

The ASUS RP-BE58 is the direct upgrade to the RP-AX58U, which came out a few years ago. The two share the same shape and size. On the inside, though, it’s a more robust version, thanks to Wi-Fi 7 support and the versatile operation roles as part of the AiMesh ecosystem. Unfortunately, it retains the dated Gigabit port, which hinders its performance when used as the device’s uplink. Here’s the bottom line: If you already have a Wi-Fi 7 ASUS router with modest broadband, the RP-BE58 is an excellent choice to extend coverage to that far corner, and it’s worth its…

Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of Friday morning, the platform was back online. Instructure said it temporarily took Canvas offline on Thursday after identifying unauthorized activity in its network. The threat actor was the same one responsible for a data breach that Instructure disclosed a week ago. Data accessed included user names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages exchanged on the platform. The company said it has no indication…

Primakov/Shutterstock Discord is recovering following a brief outage that saw some users unable to use the popular chat app. At 3:08PM ET, the company said it had begun investigating an issue with its API systems. Shortly thereafter, at 3:24PM ET, Discord said it had identified the problem, but noted at the time it was still affecting users, making it difficult for them to access the service.  “We are continuing to work to remediate the issues impacting availability for some Discord users,” the company said at3:56PM ET. “This is causing impact across our service,…

E.T., is that you? The existence of UFOs — now referred to as UAPs, meaning unidentified anomalous phenomena — has entered serious public and governmental discourse. The Department of War has just released a batch of new, previously unseen files related to the topic. The file collection is now available on war.gov/ufo, and the department plans to release additional files on a rolling basis. The release currently includes 120 PDFs, 28 videos and 14 image files, according to CBS News. “I applaud President Trump’s whole-of-government effort to bring greater transparency to the American people on unidentified anomalous phenomena,” said Jared Isaacman, NASA…

Audeze has announced ReSkin earcups, a suite of limited edition earcup designs for the Maxwell 2 headsetThe range launches with six designs, including a whole set from a Southern Californian artisanThe earcups are available from Audeze for $39.99 or $59.99 and are compatible with both PlayStation and Xbox variants of the Maxwell 2The Audeze Maxwell 2 is one of my absolute favorite gaming headsets of recent years. However, it is slightly guilty of a familiar sin shared by many more audiophile headsets in the market: its aesthetic is very plain.That was, up until now, however. Audeze has announced a new…

As noted earlier, Mozilla’s characterization of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery as a game changer has been met with massive, vocal skepticism in many quarters. Critics initially scoffed when Mozilla didn’t obtain CVE designations for any of the 271 vulnerabilities. Like many developers, however, Mozilla doesn’t obtain CVE listings for internally discovered security bugs. Instead, they are bundled into a single patch. Normally, Bugzilla reports detailing these “rollups” are hidden for several months after being fixed to protect those who are slow to patch. Now that Mozilla has revealed a dozen of them, the same critics will surely claim they too were…

Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Twitch is putting streamers on notice about viewbotting. The company is taking new steps to crack down on people caught artificially inflating their viewership stats, according to an update from CEO Dan Clancy. “Today, we’re introducing a new enforcement type that we plan to roll out over the next few weeks,” Clancy shared in a post on X. “For channels identified as persistently viewbotting, we will apply a cap to the streamer’s CCV [concurrent views] for a fixed period of time, on all of the Twitch surfaces.”…

Smartwatches and fitness trackers often tout expansive health-monitoring capabilities, though some features can create more anxiety than reassurance without independent validation, as CNET senior editor Anna Gragert previously reported. On Thursday, Samsung released new third-party research detailing how its Galaxy Watches may help detect signs associated with fainting episodes.Samsung teamed up with the Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital of Korea to evaluate over 130 patients struggling with fainting problems. The study included wearing a Samsung Galaxy 6 smartwatch with its photoplethysmography sensor that measures to collect heart rate variability data. (A photoplethysmography sensor uses light to measure changes in blood flow beneath…