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After winning Vikings-themed jackpot amid cancer battle, team invites Debbie Bury to big gameFind the links between the words to win today's game of Connections. Looking for Monday’s Connections hints and answers instead? You can find them here: Hey, there! This will already be the last work or school day of the week for many people ahead of a travel day tomorrow. In any case, I hope your week’s off to a terrific start. Today’s NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, November 26, are coming right up. How To Play Connections Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT website or Games app. You’re presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part. There’s only one solution for each puzzle, and you’ll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them. This Viral Smart Bassinet Is 30% Off With The Snoo Black Friday Sale The 50 Best Black Friday Deals So Far, According To Our Deals Editors Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay. Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you’re incorrect, you’ll lose a life. If you’re close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you’re one word away from getting it right, but you’ll still need to figure out which one to swap. If you make four mistakes, it’s game over. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen with the help of some hints, and, if you’re really struggling, today’s Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it’s easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the Connections archive . This includes every previous game of Connections , so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed. Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints for each grid via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query. What Are Today’s Connections Hints? Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today’s Connections groups, I’ll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them. Today’s 16 words are... And the hints for today’s Connections groups are: What Are Today’s Connections Groups? Need some extra help? Be warned: we’re starting to get into spoiler territory. Today’s Connections groups are... What Are Today’s Connections Answers? Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Connections answers. This is your final warning! Today’s Connections answers are... I got a little lucky with a 50/50 shot on my last life to extend my streak to five wins. Here's how I fared: 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 It probably says a lot about me that the first thing I thought of when I saw PLAZA was Die Hard (as in Nakatomi Plaza) and The Shining for OVERLOOK (the hotel where the film is set). RITZ is a hotel name too, but I didn't see a fourth word that quite fit. Nonetheless, I got the yellows first. Easy enough. OVERLOOK made sense with the rest of the greens, so I got those next. I thought that TURTLE, GOLDFISH, RITZ and ANIMAL might make up a group of crackers as the blues, so I went with the other four words. That left me one away from a group. I swapped out CLUB for RITZ, but I was still one away. Same thing with ANIMAL. Darn. I was confident that GOLDFISH had to be a cracker, so I tried TURTLE, and that fit the bill. The blues were left for the win. I am unfamiliar with CLUB crackers. I am also sure that I have never in my life heard of the ELOISE series of kids books. I would have had no chance with that group if I didn't have a solid idea about the crackers. And, yes, I did have to use Google for a clue that made sense for the purples. That’s all there is to it for today’s Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Wednesday’s game if you need them. P.S. Let's go with a pair of tracks from a Welsh band that had a couple of hits in the mid-2000s. Every so often, "Monster" and its incredibly hooky chorus will get lodged in my brain and stay there for weeks on end. Follow-up single "Raoul" is a fun one too: If you’re so inclined, please do follow my blog for more coverage of Connections and other word games and even some video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot!ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions Transforms its Go-to-Market-Strategy in Canada to Drive Customer ExcellenceThe relationship between high blood pressure and stroke underscores the importance of effective management and control of hypertension, especially in older adults. Lifestyle modifications, such as a healthy diet low in salt and saturated fats, regular exercise, weight management, and stress reduction techniques, can play a crucial role in lowering blood pressure and reducing the risk of stroke. In some cases, medication may also be prescribed to help regulate blood pressure levels.
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PHILADELPHIA — Jack Eichel got the lone goal in the shootout and the Vegas Golden Knights overcame a three-goal deficit to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-4 on Monday night. Ilya Samsonov followed up a 32-save performance by stopping all three shootout attempts. Eichel scored in the second period, and Ivan Barbashev, Pavel Dorofeyev and Tanner Pearson also scored for Vegas, which won its third straight. Emil Andrae scored his first career goal for Philadelphia, and Matvei Michkov netted his eighth goal of the season — the most among NHL rookies. He also leads the NHL in points among rookies with 17. Morgan Frost and Sean Couturier also scored for the Flyers. Ivan Fedotov made 26 saves for Philadelphia, which has lost three of four. Takeaways Golden Knights: Noah Hanifin had a rough night for Vegas, as he was on the ice for all four of Philadelphia's goals. Philadelphia Flyers' Travis Konecny, left, cannot score against Vegas Golden Knights' Ilya Samsonov during a shootout in an NHL hockey game, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, in Philadelphia. Credit: AP/Matt Slocum Flyers: Frost added an assist on Michkov's goal. It was his second multipoint game of the season. Key moment Frost had a chance to win the game for the Flyers on the power play late in the third period but missed a wide-open net from the doorstep. Vegas was able to keep it tied, killed off another penalty in overtime, and pulled out the victory in the shootout. Key stat Samsonov gave up four goals on the first 14 shots he faced. He then stopped the next 25 shots he faced, including the three in the shootout. He made a sprawling glove save on Travis Sanheim in overtime. Up next The Golden Knights wrap up a five-game road trip in Colorado on Wednesday. The Flyers visit Nashville the same night.New Democrat Leader Marit Stiles proposed the motion on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women while the government continues to study an NDP bill introduced last spring to declare an epidemic. Stiles said passing the bill would clear the way for a boost in provincial aid to overcrowded women’s shelters and other programs to fight the violence problem as high housing costs make it difficult for women to leave abusive partners. “They’re just spinning their wheels and it’s really offensive,” Stiles said, noting the NDP’s Bill 173 has been before the legislature’s justice committee since it passed second reading in April. “The reason they will not do this is very simple. They do not want to commit the resources to actually addressing the issue,” she added. Williams said the government is using the committee hearings to come up with a comprehensive plan of action, not just a declaration of an epidemic. So far, the committee has heard input from organizations in the field and will soon hear from victims and survivors. “I’ve worked in the sector for 20 years,” the associate minister added. “We know that there are things that we can be doing. And we’re government, we need to be thinking upstream. I want to address those root causes.” Critics are worried the government will call an next spring, stranding the bill, which the Progressive Conservatives after signalling they would not. “I wish the government had the same sense of urgency for intimate partner violence as it does for booze and bike lanes,” Liberal MPP John Fraser (Ottawa South) said in a reference to the government’s moves to put beer, wine, cider and pre-mixed cocktails into and control where municipalities have special lanes for cyclists. Stiles said the government should be moving to save lives now by implementing from a 2022 coroner’s inquest into the brutal 2015 murders of three women in a one-day killing spree by a shotgun-toting man in eastern Ontario.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook’s parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, the company said Wednesday, bringing hopes that the $10 billion facility will transform an economically neglected corner of the state. Republican Gov. Jeff Landry called it “game-changing” for his state's expanding tech sector, yet some environmental groups have raised concerns over the amount of energy it would use — and whether it could lead to higher energy bills in the future. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Amazon invests another $4 bn in AI firm Anthropic
In the face of unprecedented challenges and threats to scientific integrity, the 77 Nobel laureates have set an inspiring example of courage and determination. Their unified front against the Trump cabinet picks sends a resounding message to the world: that the scientific community will not stand idly by while the principles of science are undermined and neglected.
Reinvent the dollar This year alone, US Treasury would have to roll-over $10 to $14 trillion in maturing short-term debt A man counts US dollars in a money exchange shop. — AFP/File Imagine: the US national debt has skyrocketed past a staggering $36 trillion – a burden that translates to $275,000 for every American taxpayer. Imagine: the US national debt is exploding at an unsustainable pace: $7 billion every single day, $300 million every hour, and a jaw-dropping $5 million every minute. Imagine: unfunded government obligations have reached an additional $75 trillion. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700472799616-0'); }); Yes, this year alone, the US Treasury would have to roll-over $10 to $14 trillion in maturing short-term debt. Lo and behold, that’s not all – the US government must also borrow even more to fund its annual budget deficit, which is on track to blow past $2 trillion. Yes, the numbers are staggering, the pace is relentless, and the implications are clear: America’s debt crisis is accelerating, and the clock is ticking. At 9:04am on September 2, 1945 – exactly 28,966 days ago – World War II in the Pacific Theater came to an end as Japan formally surrendered aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Yes, at that moment in history, the US national debt stood at a mere $260 billion. Now, brace yourself: in the 28,966 days since, the US Treasury has raised an astonishing $35.74 trillion. Yes, trillion. Let’s not forget where the seeds of this epic financial journey were sown: a loud and resounding round of applause for the Bretton Woods Conference, where the Bretton Woods Agreement was signed at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire. That moment reshaped the global economic order and set the stage for a debt spiral, unlike anything the world has ever seen. At 9:04am on September 2, 1945 – exactly 28,966 days ago – a sum of $2,800 could buy a staggering 80 troy ounces of gold. Fast forward to today, and that same $2,800 buys a single ounce of the precious metal. This collapse in the dollar’s purchasing power must serve as a glaring testament to the relentless debasement of the US dollar, driven by 28,966 days of the US Treasury’s reckless monetary policies and 28,966 days of the US government’s unchecked spending. Lo and behold, the US government’s spending juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down. Brace yourself once again: a staggering $2 trillion every year vanishes into Medicare, another $1.5 trillion into Social Security, $1 trillion just to pay interest on the national debt, and a colossal $954 billion fuels defence and endless wars. Yes, the numbers are mind-numbing. Yes, the bill keeps growing. Let’s see how Elon Musk shaves $2 trillion off this mountain of spending. Yes, the world is now waking up to the dollar's massive debasement. Yes, China and Russia are cutting dollar holdings. Yes, India, Russia and China are shifting to gold. Yes, foreign investors, wary of multi-trillion dollar deficits and endless borrowing, are pulling back on US Treasuries. Enter the maverick Donald Trump, decisively embracing the ‘digital pivot.’ On July 27, 2024, at 3pm, he unveiled an ambitious vision: to transform the US into the “crypto capital of the planet.” His strategy revolves around leveraging stablecoins, RLUSD, XRP, Ripple, and other digital assets pegged to the US dollar. By monopolising these emerging technologies, Trump envisions exporting a digital dollar, thereby cementing perpetual global demand for the greenback. Trump is reinventing the dollar’s role in an evolving financial landscape. Voila – the US dollar stays the dominant reserve currency, and America’s borrowing spree continues unabated. Hallelujah! The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. He tweets/posts @saleemfarrukh and can be reached at: farrukh15@hotmail.comSuchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products. “We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir’s loved ones during this difficult time,” said a statement from OpenAI. Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said “appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.” The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide. His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a “happy, smart and brave young man” who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends. Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT. “Suchir’s contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn’t have succeeded without him,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what made him such an exceptional engineer and scientist was his attention to detail and ability to notice subtle bugs or logical errors. “He had a knack for finding simple solutions and writing elegant code that worked,” Schulman wrote. “He’d think through the details of things carefully and rigorously.” Balaji later shifted to organizing the huge datasets of online writings and other media used to train GPT-4, the fourth generation of OpenAI's flagship large language model and a basis for the company's famous chatbot. It was that work that eventually caused Balaji to question the technology he helped build, especially after newspapers, novelists and others began suing OpenAI and other AI companies for copyright infringement. He first raised his concerns with The New York Times, which reported them in an October profile of Balaji . He later told The Associated Press he would “try to testify” in the strongest copyright infringement cases and considered a lawsuit brought by The New York Times last year to be the “most serious.” Times lawyers named him in a Nov. 18 court filing as someone who might have “unique and relevant documents” supporting allegations of OpenAI's willful copyright infringement. His records were also sought by lawyers in a separate case brought by book authors including the comedian Sarah Silverman, according to a court filing. “It doesn’t feel right to be training on people’s data and then competing with them in the marketplace,” Balaji told the AP in late October. “I don’t think you should be able to do that. I don’t think you are able to do that legally.” He told the AP that he gradually grew more disillusioned with OpenAI, especially after the internal turmoil that led its board of directors to fire and then rehire CEO Sam Altman last year. Balaji said he was broadly concerned about how its commercial products were rolling out, including their propensity for spouting false information known as hallucinations. But of the “bag of issues” he was concerned about, he said he was focusing on copyright as the one it was “actually possible to do something about.” He acknowledged that it was an unpopular opinion within the AI research community, which is accustomed to pulling data from the internet, but said “they will have to change and it’s a matter of time.” He had not been deposed and it’s unclear to what extent his revelations will be admitted as evidence in any legal cases after his death. He also published a personal blog post with his opinions about the topic. Schulman, who resigned from OpenAI in August, said he and Balaji coincidentally left on the same day and celebrated with fellow colleagues that night with dinner and drinks at a San Francisco bar. Another of Balaji’s mentors, co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, had left OpenAI several months earlier , which Balaji saw as another impetus to leave. Schulman said Balaji had told him earlier this year of his plans to leave OpenAI and that Balaji didn't think that better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence “was right around the corner, like the rest of the company seemed to believe.” The younger engineer expressed interest in getting a doctorate and exploring “some more off-the-beaten path ideas about how to build intelligence,” Schulman said. Balaji's family said a memorial is being planned for later this month at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California, not far from his hometown of Cupertino. —————- EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. —————-- The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives.
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Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died
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