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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.Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a tough one, particularly that purple group, which wants you to find hidden words inside four of the words in the puzzle. 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…

A PS5 trophy list for Wildlight Entertainment’s PvP raid shooter Highguard has appeared onlineThe game was announced at The Game Awards last month but has since been radio silentHighguard seemingly won’t be delayed and is still set to launch on January 26, 2026Highguard, the PvP raid shooter created by former Apex Legends and Titanfall developers, is still alive and kicking as its PS5 trophy list appears online.The game was announced as The Game Awards’ traditional ‘one last thing’ last month, closing out the ceremony with a gameplay trailer and a release date scheduled for January 26, 2026.Strangely, developer Wildlight Entertainment…

The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop. “We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,” Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the open source app cURL, said Thursday. “It is not in our power to change how all these people and their slop machines work. We need to make moves to ensure our survival and intact mental health.” Manufacturing bogus bugs His…

TikTok has finalized the deal for its US entity, with its parent company ByteDance selling majority of its stake to a group of non-Chinese investors. The deal was closed just before the Trump Administration’s latest deadline, banning the app in the US unless it was divested from ByteDance, which will only retain 20 percent of the new entity. TikTok’s investors will own 80 percent, with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX, an Emirati-state owned investment firm, taking 15 percent each. Other investors include the investment firm of Dell’s CEO.The terms of the deal were first leaked last month, after TikTok CEO…

A brutal winter storm is taking shape and poised to barrel across a vast swath of the United States this weekend, with forecasters warning of potentially dangerous impacts. As many as 180 million people—from Texas through the Midwest and into New England—could find themselves in its crosshairs, bracing for heavy snow, crippling ice, bitter cold, and the risk of widespread power outages. Ahead of its arrival, here’s an expert-backed guide to help you prepare and stay safe.”Power outages are likely from northern Texas to the Carolinas,” Thomas Kines, Senior Meteorologist at Accuweather told CNET. “The worst-case scenario is that power…

Everest ransomware group leaked 72.2m Under Armour accounts after failed negotiationsData includes names, emails, birthdates, purchase history, and possibly loyalty program detailsUnder Armour remains silent; class action lawsuit filed on behalf of affected customersOnline chatter have claimed Under Armour suffered a major ransomware attack and a data breach, but so far, the sports apparel giant is staying tight-lipped.Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP), a free online service that lets people check whether their email address or phone number appeared in known data breaches, said it added 72.2 million accounts stolen in a recent Under Armour breach.Under Armour has not denied, nor…

“We argue that these attacks are straightforward to test, verify, and execute at scale,” the researchers, from the universities of New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana, and the firm Circle, wrote. “The threat model can be realized using consumer-grade hardware and only basic to intermediate Web security knowledge.” SMS messages are sent unencrypted. In past years, researchers have unearthed public databases of previously sent texts that contained authentication links and private details, including people’s names and addresses. One such discovery, from 2019, included millions of stored sent and received text messages over the years between a single business and its customers. It…

X is rolling out a new feature called “Starterpacks” to all users in the coming weeks, the company’s head of product has announced. It’s made up of compilations of accounts new users can follow based on their interests. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Bluesky launched a very similar feature that’s also called “starter packs” back in 2024. Bluesky allows ordinary users to curate their own packs as long as each one doesn’t exceed 50 accounts. They can then share those lists broadly on the platform or directly with new users via QR code. X, on the other hand, compiled…

Apple is reportedly preparing its most dramatic overhaul of Siri to date, with plans to turn the voice assistant into a full-fledged AI chatbot as early as this coming fall.According to reporting from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is working on a revamped version of Siri for iOS 27 and MacOS 27 that would allow the assistant to engage in more conversational, open-ended interactions — similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. While speculation around a more capable, chat-style Siri has circulated for a while now, Gurman’s reporting adds new weight to the idea that Apple is finally ready to make the leap.Don’t miss…

Netflix has announced that it’ll be rolling out a huge mobile UI upgrade later this year, introducing a vertical video feed This feed will spotlight new content across Netflix’s library of original movies and shows, as well as integrating clips from video podcastsNetflix’s last big redesign was for its TV interface in May 2025, but it was met with user backlashAnother big Netflix revamp is on the way, and it’s one of the most significant redesigns for one of the best streaming services: it’s getting a vertical video feed.During Netflix’s Q4 2025 earnings call, CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos…