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NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Wednesday, July 8 (Game #1123)

Looking for a different day? A new NEW Connections puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people are always playing “today’s game” while others are playing “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for the Tuesday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Connections Hints and Answers for Tuesday, July 7 (Game […]

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NEW Strand’s Hints and Answers for Wednesday, July 8 (Game #857)

Looking for a different day? A new NEW Strands puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people always play ‘today’s game’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for the Tuesday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Strand’s Hints and Answers for Tuesday, July 7 (Game #856). Strands is

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Quordle Hints and Answers for Wednesday July 8th (Game #1626)

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people always play “today’s game” while others play “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for the Tuesday puzzle instead then click here: Quordle Hints and Answers for Tuesday July 7th (Game #1625). Quordle was one

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‘Dolby Atmos has an uncanny ability to reveal not only the details of a recording but also the memories embedded in it’: Dire Straits’ producer says mixing spatial sound rescues lost elements ‘sacrificed’ to stereo

Dire Straits keyboardist/producer Guy Fletcher talks about mixing their albums in Dolby Atmos He says immersive mixing of the original recording sessions is “quite addictive” and often very emotional 3D sound can reveal details that were previously buried when designing for stereo One of the things I love most about audio technology is how it

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An AI chatbot stumbled across working ransomware while trying to satisfy a user’s impossible request

DeepSeek linked a theoretical browser bug to a working attack chain The ransomware sample targets Android’s Photos folder through a fake permission prompt Check Point classified 1,383 DeepSeek-linked files as malicious or dangerous A Chinese AI model accidentally stumbled upon a working ransomware technique while trying to satisfy an unrealistically broad prompt. New findings from

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Meituan just built a massive AI model without touching a single piece of Nvidia hardware

LongCat-2.0 contains 1.6 trillion parameters and a million-token context Meituan trained the model using over 50,000 domestic AI accelerators The model completed pretraining without any Nvidia hardware involved Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a large open source language model that contains 1.6 trillion parameters and supports a context window of 1 million tokens. This scale places

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ByteDance wants a homegrown processor ready within months to drive its AI ambitions quickly

ByteDance aims to complete its new CPU design in early 2027 Mass production and rollout is targeted for the second half of 2027 An early chip version has been used internally since late 2025 TikTok parent company ByteDance is reportedly racing to complete the design of a next-generation internal CPU in early 2027. According to

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Samsung just set the date for its next Galaxy Unpacked – and ‘A New Shape Unfolds’ could be its biggest clue yet about what to expect

The next Galaxy Unpacked is set for July 22, 2026 Samsung Teases “A New Shape Unfolding” A new foldable form factor could debut alongside the existing Fold and Flip phones A week after deleting its social media accounts and replacing them with cryptic teasers — and after months of rumors — Samsung has officially set

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New solar panel design could increase could increase daily PV energy production by 20% and it is far more important than you think

Reflect10 solar panel geometry increases daily energy production by 20% Cells capture more sunlight during hours of low angle and cloudy conditions The efficiency limits of silicon panels are approaching – that’s big news Canadian startup Reflect10 has introduced a new photovoltaic (PV) module architecture that could significantly increase how much energy solar panels could

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New Zealand rejects VPN restrictions after massive privacy backlash

New Zealand’s education minister rejects any plans to restrict or ban VPNs Reports previously claimed it was part of the ban on social media for teenagers Prime Minister Christopher Luxon also confirmed “no plan to ban VPNs” The New Zealand government has officially rejected any plans to restrict or ban VPN apps as part of

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