Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, May 29
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for May 29.
23andMe Sued by California Over Massive 2023 Data Breach
Attorney general calls the company’s security measures “lax” and says the company failed to adequately investigate warnings its systems had been compromised.
Perplexity AI Says ‘You Can’t Copyright Facts’ in Defense Against CNN Copyright Suit
More than 100 copyright lawsuits have been filed against AI companies as of early 2026.
AI-Generated Film About Iranian Protest Violence Heads to Tribeca Film Festival
Dreams of Violets, a 75-minute docudrama from first-time filmmakers Ash and Prooya Koosha, was made entirely with AI tools.
iOS 26.6 Public Beta Available, Adds Small Change to Blocked Contacts
The public prerelease versions of Apple’s system software increment as we get close to WWDC.
Some Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Getting the Trash-Bag Treatment
Facing public backlash over surveillance cameras, cities are turning to a low-tech fix to stop Flock from watching.
Researchers automated LLM reasoning strategy design and cut token usage by 69.5%
Test-time scaling (TTS) has emerged as a proven method to improve the performance of large language models in real-world applications by giving them extra compute cycles at inference time. However,…
Apple WWDC 2026: What We Expect From This Year’s Keynote and How to Watch
Don’t expect any new hardware in the coming weeks, but the rumored software updates may surprise you.
SpaceX’s Starship V3 Can’t Fly Again Until a ‘Mishap’ Is Addressed, Says FAA
The investigation is being led by SpaceX, but it needs approval from the FAA before the Starship can launch again.
Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI…