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Today's Connections: Sports Edition requires expertise in women's tennis.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of


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Happy Thursday and welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over



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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you're a cinephile.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints


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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're never on time.

Strands, the New York Times' 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. There


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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan speaking at a conference
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan
  • Broadcom cut staff in sales and account management roles this week, according to LinkedIn posts.
  • The layoffs follow Broadcom's 2023 acquisition of VMware, which saw its workforce halved.
  • Broadcom has benefited from the AI boom by designing chips to power the technology.

The $1.65 trillion chip giant Broadcom cut staff earlier this week.

The cuts


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Scale AI interim CEO Jason Droege.
  • Four lawsuits accused Scale AI of misclassifying and underpaying contract workers.
  • Plaintiffs alleged they worked long hours below minimum wage and were denied benefits like overtime.
  • Scale AI agreed to settle and has since stopped hiring California gig workers.

Scale AI has agreed to settle four lawsuits filed by its former


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The Twitch logo displays on a screen with a person holding a phone in Knurow, Poland, on September 20, 2025.

TwitchCon 2025 kicked off with a massive celebration of its 10th Anniversary, including a whole host of new announcements about changes coming to the social media platform.

"As we head into 2025, our goal continues to be to make Twitch the absolute best place for our streamers, and also, an exciting place for new creators and viewers to build and find their communities," Dan Clancy, the CEO of