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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for July 29, #1144

Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has a true red herring — or maybe a white herring. You’ll see a lot of pale or light-colored things, but they don’t end up in the same category. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers.

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ran…

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Study says relying on AI can turn doubt into false confidence

You’d think getting wrong advice would make you more cautious. New research says the opposite happens

led by Valerio Capraro, a psychology professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca, found that incorrect

advice made people less accurate, yet noticeably more confident in their answers (via

The s…

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The US is banning foreign robots

The ban will have a major impact on robots made in China.

The ban will have a major impact on robots made in China.

The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban.

The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on “advanced robotic devices” and power inverters ma…

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A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months

in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months.

A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise.

Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under t…

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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It’s now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an internal test of OpenAI’s latest AI models, was more extensive than the company initially disclosed.

, O…

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Spotify experienced another major outage

It wasn’t just you. Spotify was inoperable or bugged out for many users today, and after the original batch of issues were apparently fixed, there was a second major outage affecting the company’s web page and apps. The outages meant that people couldn’t stream music, log in, search the library or m…

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