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NYT Connections, Strands and Quordle answers for Thursday, October 1
NYT's Oct. 1 word puzzles are live. TechRadar has answers for Connections #1208, Strands #942 and Quordle #1711.
NYT's Oct. 1 word puzzles are live. TechRadar has answers for Connections #1208, Strands #942 and Quordle #1711.
The FTC is reportedly investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI providers over unfair or deceptive practices, rogue AI agents and data handling, with civil investigative demands expected in coming weeks.
A two-year trial off Cornwall found that floating scarecrow buoys and bird-shaped kites reduced seabird bycatch in gillnets by 59% and 71%, according to research published in Conservation Letters.
A community-led excavation on Scotland’s Lismore has uncovered a major sixth-century monastery, burials, decorated stonework and rare seventh-century metalworking, findings archaeologists say illuminate early Christianity’s spread.
Opera has added a built-in eSIM to its Android browser, offering travelers 3GB of free mobile data for three days in supported destinations, with the connection covering the whole phone.
Chicxulub impact created an 8-million-year hydrothermal system that may have supported microorganisms, Ars Technica reports.
Google began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model it says leads Anthropic and OpenAI on most of its benchmarks, to vetted cybersecurity defenders, with general developer access still undated.
Elder fraud is rising in the US, with 72% of 2024 cases enabled by exposed personal data and $4.2 billion in losses, according to Incogni’s analysis of FBI data cited by 9to5Mac. The report details SIM-swap, family-chat and deepfake tactics and offers protection steps.
Warehouse robotics software startup Destro AI has raised $8 million in a seed round co-led by Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures to expand MothershipOS, its platform for coordinating robots from multiple vendors.
HPE said networking revenue will grow to about $11.3 billion in fiscal 2026 from $9.3 billion in fiscal 2024 and raised its fiscal 2027 guidance.
Fujifilm's Instax Pal 2, a palm-size digital camera with a dial, lever and downloadable color filters, is up for pre-order at $170 and can send images to a phone over USB-C or Bluetooth.
Grindr agreed to buy PurposeMed, parent of telehealth provider Freddie, for $250 million in cash and stock.
CoreWeave is expanding its AI stack beyond GPU compute as inference demand grows faster than training, according to theCUBE Research analysts.
Google pushed its third Google Home update of September on Sept. 30, 2026, improving Gemini for Home's ability to hear commands over background noise, speeding up replies, and fixing lighting, camera and device setup issues.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth of Astra's rates, citing near-Astra coding and computer-use benchmarks.
Oracle's Ashish Ray told theCUBE trusted recovery, validated backups and immutable data anchor its ransomware defense.
Plex is rolling out Discussions, Lists, Reviews, Reactions and Follows to its Android TV app, following a similar release on Apple TV in mid-September. The company says most reactions and watchlist additions already happen on television screens.
Microsoft warns that attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-73570 in Zimbra Collaboration Suite to steal email backups and authentication credentials. Synacor patched the flaw on July 20 but delayed disclosure for more than three weeks; Shadowserver has identified 274 compromised instances.
GMKtec launches EVO-X5 Pro at $6,399 with AMD Gorgon Halo chip, 192GB memory, and offline 320B-parameter LLM support.
Five technology CEOs and OpenAI President Greg Brockman signed a White House-backed voluntary AI safety accord that urges frontier model developers to adopt internal controls, external audits and board oversight.
Google is reportedly testing payments to about 100 publishers based on their content's contribution to AI search results.
NetApp CEO says data is the top challenge for production AI and outlines Novus, an architecture for scale and governance.
Nihon Falcom’s Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter, a remake of the 2006 JRPG, arrived September 17, 2026, for PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and PC. TechRadar praised its performance, visuals, soundtrack, and deep combat while noting melodramatic characters and uneven dialogue pacing.
Two Samsung smart glasses models, SM-O200J and SM-O200P, have appeared in FCC listings, suggesting a launch later this year.