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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? I’m Irish-American, but yet 6-Down, which involves Ireland, stumped me at first. 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 moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived – it’s time for TechRadar’s annual Santa Tracker!We’re going to be monitoring St. Nick’s whereabouts as he delivers all the best tech gifts this Christmas, following along using the two most popular trackers; NORAD and Google. Every year, millions tune in to watch Kris Kringle’s annual gift-giving globe-trot. It’s practically a sporting event, with both the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Google running Santa Trackers to follow his every movement.Of course, there’s more to Christmastime than watching an animated sleigh jet across the skies, so we’re also sharing global…

You might never have heard of the file system, but when you use a computer or any device that stores data, you have to deal with one. The same can be said about a partition. This post explains all that in simple terms and shows how to create or format a partition on a storage device using an appropriate file system on a Mac or Windows computer. Dong’s note: I first published part of this post on March 20, 2018, and updated it on December 22, 2025, with the latest information. Related stories on storage and data security File system explained: A…

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions. The findings reveal a weakness in how these models process instructions that may shed light on why some prompt injection or jailbreaking approaches work, though the researchers caution their analysis of some production models remains speculative since training data details of prominent commercial AI models are not publicly available. The team, led by Chantal Shaib and Vinith M. Suriyakumar, tested this by asking models questions with preserved…

The Federal Communications Commission has added foreign-made drones and their critical components to the agency’s “Covered List,” making them prohibited to import into the US. In a public notice published by the FCC, it said several national security agencies have determined that umanned aircraft systems (UAS) and their critical components produced in foreign countries pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States.“UAS and UAS critical components must be produced in the United States,” the agency said. “UAS are inherently dual-use: they are both commercial platforms and potentially military or paramilitary sensors and weapons. UAS and UAS…

The end of the year usually means a last-minute rush for gifts, not least for that gamer in your life. Digital platforms like Steam have their Winter Sale, but the Epic Games Store not only has discounted games for the holiday, it also has a free title available every day during the sale.  From Dec. 18 to Jan. 1, Epic is giving away one free PC game per day. These games are a surprise and are only available for 24 hours. No purchase is needed to get access to these free titles, but an Epic Games Store account is required. These freebies…

The Fit ListThe corner of the TechRadar site that swaps processors for press-ups, The Fit List is our regular series of fitness listicles. We explore how to use technology to improve your health, all in handy bite-size pieces of advice. You can read the whole series here.Staying active becomes even more important as we get older, but not every form of exercise is kind to your joints. That’s where swimming really comes into its own. Whether you’re easing back into fitness or looking for a routine you can stick with long-term, swimming offers one of the most joint-friendly, full-body workouts…

On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent. The model achieves a 72.2 percent score on SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark that attempts to test whether AI systems can solve real GitHub issues, putting it among the top-performing open-weights models. Perhaps more notably, Mistral didn’t just release an AI model, it released a new development app called Mistral Vibe. It’s a command line interface (CLI) similar to Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI that lets developers interact with the Devstral…

I’ve never been a huge fan of jigsaw puzzles, but the pieces of art the Magic Puzzle Company makes for you to assemble are a delight. For starters, each has gorgeous and distinctive artwork — while there are a variety of artists who’ve contributed to the company’s puzzle lineup, they all feel related, packed with color, whimsy and a bunch of secrets you’ll notice as you build. The puzzle pieces themselves are high-quality and solid, something that goes a long way towards making a puzzle fun to put together. But my favorite part is the fact that once you finish…

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is kind of tough. There’s another one of those tricky purple categories where you need to see words buried within other words. If you need help sorting them into groups, you’re in the right place. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score…