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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…

Over 4,000 exhibitors flocked to Las Vegas, Nevada this week to showcase their wares at CES 2026. The Engadget team, as usual, was out in full force covering the show. The week began with press conferences from huge companies at the show, mostly filled with AI buzzwords, vague promises and quite little in the way of hard news.More than one company even decided to forgo announcing things during their conferences to make way for more AI chatter, only to publish press releases later quietly admitting that, yes, actually, they did make some consumer technology. It’s appropriate, I guess, that as…

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.  All of those initials were difficult to sort through. 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 you can play…

Most of today’s best robot vacuums have docks that will automatically empty the dustbins, clean the mop pads and sometimes more. Now, it looks like that same idea is starting to make its way into robotic window cleaners.I’ve just been introduced to the new version of Ecovacs’ windowbot – the WinBot W3 Omni – at CES 2026, and it comes with its own clean station. It’s called the Vortex Wash OMNI Station, and Ecovacs says it’s the first of its kind. (Image credit: Future)Once your automated window-cleaning is complete, you remove the plate with the mop pads on it (without…

If you have gotten yourself a new Wi-Fi 7 router or system, congratulations! Today, it’s its 2nd anniversary. The standard was certified on January 8, 2024. With that, this post will talk about its successor: Wi-Fi 8. This upcoming standard became almost a real thing with the NeoCore concept router ASUS is showcasing at CES 2026, coinciding with Broadcom’s announcement of its second round of Wi-Fi 8 chips, following the first round in mid-October last year, which followed Qualcomm’s announcement earlier during the year. This post will explain Wi-Fi 8 in simple terms. However, the biggest takeaway is that it’s…