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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for May 1
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. Today’s NYT Mini Crossword pulls that crossword trick where two clues are the same, but the answers are... Read more
Apple May Face Criminal Charges for Allegedly Lying to a Federal Judge
Apple “willfully chose not to comply” with a court order to loosen its app store restrictions—and one of its executives lied under oath about the company’s plans, a federal judge wrote on Wednesday. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has referred the situation to the US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco... Read more
Gamescom Latam Big Festival awards kick off with lifetime award for Shu Yoshida
The Gamescom Latam Big Festival 2025 awards kicked off today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, starting with a lifetime achievement award for Shu Yoshida, who championed indies at Sony’s PlayStation division during his decades of work at the company. Rodrigo Terra, CEO of Abram Games, the Brazilian game association, presented... Read more
Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.
The ability to use a revoked password to log in through RDP occurs when a Windows machine that’s signed in with a Microsoft or Azure account is configured to enable remote desktop access. In that case, users can log in over RDP with a dedicated password that’s validated against... Read more
Seth Rogen Is the Next Free Operator in Black Ops 6, Bringing Weed to a Gunfight
Once you’ve gone all-in on Squid Game and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I guess the natural next step is to get Seth Rogen on board to be the next character in your game. Activision-Blizzard’s Fortnitification of Call of Duty Black Ops 6 continues with the High Art event... Read more
DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations
Another source told WIRED that Sweet has also been using the tool at other parts of HUD. WIRED reviewed a copy of the output of the AI’s review of one HUD department, which features columns displaying text that the AI model found to be needing an adjustment while also... Read more
OpenAI rolls back ChatGPT sycophancy, explains what went wrong
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has rolled back a recent update to its GPT-4o model used as the default in ChatGPT after widespread reports that the system had become excessively flattering and overly agreeable,... Read more
Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi
Oligo also notes that many of the vulnerable devices have microphones and could be turned into listening devices for espionage. The researchers did not go so far as to create proof-of-concept malware for any particular target that would demonstrate that trick. Oligo says it warned Apple about its AirBorne... Read more
iOS 18.5 Public Beta 3 Is Out Now, but Apple Dropped Pretty Minor Updates
Apple released the third public beta of iOS 18.5 on April 29, about a month after the company released iOS 18.4 to the general public. While that update brought more emoji to all iPhones, the latest beta brings some bug fixes and some small changes to the Mail apps... Read more
Tineco Pure One Station 5 Review (2025): This Vac Empties Itself
When you have three different floors in your house, like I do, using a cordless stick vacuum is the key ingredient to keeping them clean. It’s easy to carry around to different areas, compact enough to vacuum two staircases without pulling a muscle, and still wide enough to vacuum... Read more