Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Feb. 25, #359
Here are some hints — and the answers — for Strands No. 359 for Feb. 25.
Google Doing Away With SMS Codes for Gmail Authentication
Codes sent via SMS messages will be replaced by QR codes sent to user’s phones to verify Gmail accounts.
iOS 18.4 Public Beta 1: Your iPhone Could Get a Ton of New Features Soon
Ambient music and recipes are a few of the new features developers and public beta testers can try now.
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet takes aim at OpenAI and DeepSeek in AI’s next big battle
Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI with groundbreaking ‘thinking time’ controls, challenging OpenAI and DeepSeek while reshaping enterprise AI with unified reasoning capabilities and new coding tools.Read More
Apple Update Teases Google Gemini Integration on iPhones
This move comes as Apple seeks to make Siri a more dynamic and intuitive virtual assistant.
How to Get Your Share of the FTC’s $16.5 Million Avast Settlement
Payouts won’t be big, but 3.7 million Avast users could potentially get one.
Apple to hire 20,000 people, invest $500 billion in the U.S. amid Trump tariffs
Apple is among tech giants unveiling plans about how they plan to invest billions in the United States as they face potential tariffs and tech policy changes during President Trump’s…
Intel launches Xeon 6 processors with performance cores for 2X AI processing
Intel is launching its new Intel Xeon 6 processors with performance-cores, offering better performance across data center workloads and up to two times higher performance in AI processing. The company…
Acid Labs raises $8M to build viral Web3 games on social chat platforms
Acid Labs has raised $8 million in funding for its instant social games on messaging platforms.Read More
Less Food and Doctors’ Visits: How People Kept the Internet on After ACP Ended
An estimated 5 million households lost their internet connection after the program ended.