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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for July 28.
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 A shortage of memory chips has impacted the entire computer market, affecting Macs and PCs alike. Apple and other companies have raised prices, but Apple is better positioned than its competitors. Machines like the Mac mini and the Mac Studio are in demand for on-device AI agent use, and Apple plans to take advantage by refreshing its Mac lineup across 2026 and 2027.
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The agentic MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model, with some help, outscores Claude Mythos 5 on CyberGym.
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The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.
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 Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron - who writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom's most "acerbic gadfly" - has spent years arguing the buildout driving those costs will never pay for itself.
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for July 28, No. 673.
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Some players paid extra for up to five days of early access.
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The company is working to reassure people that the glasses won't be used to record them surreptitiously.
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Apple's latest software updates are primarily focused on security fixes.
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 Amazon is planning to deploy up to 5,105 low Earth orbit satellites that will use Globalstar spectrum to provide voice, data, messaging, and emergency services to devices like the iPhone. Amazon's project is expected to improve existing iPhone satellite features and support new features.
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 Apple today released watchOS 26.6, the sixth update to the watchOS 26 operating system that came out in September. watchOS 26.6 comes over two months after Apple released watchOS 26.5.
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Despite the temptation to enter what might become a $40 billion market, Apple has reportedly decided to delay the introduction of its smart glasses until 2027. The company apparently wants to figure out a better balance between privacy and convenience.
If it gets that right, Apple might be able to bring to market glasses people can wear in public without making everyone around them wonder whether they, their children, their private conversations or even corporate data are being quietly recorded or filmed.
It's a sensible move. During the first internet gold rush, many argued that trading privacy for convenience would be more than justified by the benefits. Years later, that bargain looks a great deal less attractive than it did.
We've seen this story
After all, since then we've seen the likes of Cambridge Analytica and the evolution of digital state surveillance (and state-adjacent surveillance "businesses" such as NSO). We've also seen the dubious rise of data brokers, creepy "personalized" ads that seem to follow private conversations around, and all the other parasites that breed in the murk when privacy is diluted.
None of these things is good. More people than ever now seem to understand that wh
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 AppleCare with Theft and Loss plans for the iPad and Apple Watch will be available starting Tuesday, August 4 in four additional countries, including Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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NVIDIA has gathered together some of the biggest tech companies in the world to form the Open Secure AI Alliance with the aim to improve cybersecurity.
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Between frequent contamination recalls and rising food costs, growing indoors offers a safe and surprisingly simple alternative.
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Now that Samsung has jumped into the crowded AI-powered glasses arena alongside Apple, Google, Meta, and others, CISOs and IT leaders are again having to think through whether it makes sense to establish enterprise restrictions on such devices, given the likely data leakage and privacy and compliance issues.
And even if those tech leaders decide that such policies might make sense, the logistical hurdles to universally enforcing them outside the office are all but insurmountable.
For example, it is up to individual wearers to choose their device's settings, making it difficult for IT policies around data acquisition and usage to be enforced. Worse, AI devices have a history of ignoring guardrails. That means that a setting that limits how data is used may not necessarily be obeyed.
One possible mitigating factor is that smart glasses typically have a light on the frame that activates whe
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 Apple's next high-end laptop is expected to bring the most substantial external changes to the MacBook Pro line since 2021. No renders, case leaks, or dimensions have emerged, but a series of reports have established much of what is set to change.
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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 877 for Tuesday, July 28.
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Amazon's Leo subsidiary has launched more than 390 satellites so far and plans to launch thousands more.
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Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3, a multimodal AI model that combines image, video, audio and robotics capabilities within a single architecture.
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Xbox is down, and users are even having trouble playing disc-based games.
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The road to the giant project was paved with secret meetings and an ever-expanding building plan.
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 For the first time, a European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has quantified the threat to astronomy posed by a large number of highly reflective satellites planned to launch in the coming years.
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A second gremlin is rolling through Spotify this evening.
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OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to US adults on web and iOS, allowing users to connect medical data for more personalized responses.
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Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google back an industry letter urging US policymakers not to restrict open-weight AI models as China advances.
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Ad-supported Peacock will be available for free to YouTube Premium subscribers early next year.
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A Delhi court rejected ANI's bid to block OpenAI's use of news content for ChatGPT training, giving AI developers an interim copyright win.
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 Amazon's prices on the 2026 MacBook Pro have now joined in on Apple's recent price hikes, meaning we're no longer tracking pre-hike markdowns on these devices. However, there are still notable sales to be found if you're shopping for a MacBook Pro this month, with up to $500 off new prices available right now on Amazon.
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The Pentagon's Oracle agreement could run for 10 years, consolidate software contracts, and save taxpayers at least $441 million.
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More than 300,000 people were evacuated because of wildfires in France and Spain, with fire crews battling the blazes for several days.
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 It's been another busy week in the Apple world, led by word that the company is preparing to launch a new device leasing and financing program as it has raised some more prices including on Apple Music subscriptions.
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Traditional phishing techniques are in decline as a result of the disruption of the Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) platform, Microsoft said in a new report, "Email threat landscape: Q2 2026 trends and insights".
"Phishing volume linked to the platform fell 92% from pre-disruption averages, including QR code phishing and CAPTCHA-gated phishing both declining from their March highs," the company wrote in the report.
The takedown reduced activity across multiple phishing categories, forcing attackers to shift to newer delivery methods.
Riding this shift in were a few notable phishing campaigns, including an automated business email compromise (BEC) campaign that reached 42,000 organizations in under three hours, and a multi-stage phishing campaign that used nested email (EML) files, calendar invitations, and a Microsoft authentication redirect to deliver malware.
To counter phishing attacks, Microsoft recommends blocking emails containing known bad URLs/ subject fields, enabling password-less authentication methods, or moving to
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The different IMAX filming and projection formats have a dramatic impact on the theater viewing experience.
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman talks a bit about where the company's increasingly Jarvis-like AI agents could be heading next… and in what form.
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 Apple's principal chipmaker TSMC plans to raise prices by as much as 10 percent starting in 2027, according to a new report from Nikkei Asia.
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Meta's Louisiana AI data center could cost over $250 billion as the company expands Hyperion to 5 gigawatts of computing capacity.
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Devin has the ability to actively collaborate with users during software development. This includes providing real-time progress updates, accepting feedback, and working together to make design choices.
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