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NYT Strands hints, answers for October 5, 2026

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Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook In My Bag AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now All Series Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle. Today's NYT Strands hints will be easy if you're a Debbie Downer. Strands, the ' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters -- up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer.


NYT Connections hints today: Meanings for each word for Oct. 5, 2026

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Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook In My Bag AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now All Series Looking for a spoiler-free way to find a connection? Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints or just wondering why Connections is trending today? We've got what you need to understand the clues for today's puzzle without spoiling any of the answers. Of course, Mashable has also provided daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle, and Strands for years, so we can help you if that's also what you need. While we are focused more on meanings than hints in this story, sometimes learning that many of the words have completely unrelated meanings is a clue in and of itself.


NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for October 5, 2026

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Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook In My Bag AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now All Series Everything you need to solve'Connections' #1212. The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're a chill guy. The game is all about finding the common threads between words. And just like, resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier--so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's solution.


SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safety

The Japan Times

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has rare cautionary note on AI safety SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said AI can become super dangerous" during an event on the sidelines of the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto on Sunday. SoftBank Group chief Masayoshi Son -- one of AI's fervent believers -- said that even he's worried about safety risks as machines quickly gain more abilities. An exponential surge in AI capabilities makes it imperative for countries to build trust so that they can harness the technology together, Son said at an event on the sidelines of the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto on Sunday. He was speaking alongside White House science and tech policy advisor Michael Kratsios. "We don't have any more luxury of having human fight against human," Son said, adding that countries need to work together to control the far greater threat from powerful AI models.


Russia may be using hidden 'lunchbox-size' drone devices to counter Ukraine defenses: expert

FOX News

Russia may be hiding signal repeaters inside Kyiv to help drones evade Ukraine's electronic warfare defenses using mesh networking, a weapons expert says.


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Protesters gather as migrants brought ashore on south coast

BBC News

Protesters have gathered in a south coast town as more than 100 people believed to be migrants were brought ashore after crossing the Channel in a small boat. A number of people were seen arriving at a marina in Gosport, Hampshire, having been transported aboard two RNLI boats late on Sunday. Their dinghy appeared to have set off from near Utah Beach in Normandy during the morning, according to ship tracking data. French media reported there were about 120 migrants on board. Hampshire Police said it deployed officers to support our partners in the event of an emergency at sea.


Tech powerhouse's regulatory push bears similarities to a notorious Washington strategy

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Anthropic's push for AI regulation mirrors Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto lobbying playbook before FTX collapsed, with critics alleging regulatory capture tactics.


Diggers box office bomb is Tom Cruises worst opening in 19 years

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Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook In My Bag AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now All Series'Digger's box office bomb is Tom Cruise's worst opening in 19 years Tom Cruise's latest is on track to be this year's biggest box office bomb. Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic. The Tom Cruise climate change satire, directed by Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, made $8 million at the domestic box office over its opening weekend, reports .


Mac malware can hide commands in your iCloud calendar

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