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Oscar-winning Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas has died – Engadget

Marcia Lucas, who edited ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Return of the Jedi,’ has died at 80.

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“Her work was known for its emotional intelligence, rhythm, and humanity — a rare ability to find the truth of a scene and bring heart, momentum, and clarity to the screen,” her family said in a statement.

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, May 30

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When solved, today’s Mini Crossword ends up with a colorful grid, with the color reflecting two of the clues. Read on for all of the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

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Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for May 30, 2026.

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Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: It’s always greener on the other side of the grid
Answer: GRASS

6A clue: 7-Eleven frozen drink
Answer: SLURPEE

8A clue: Getting a D or better
Answer: PASSING

9A clue: Sculpture or painting
Answer: ART

10A clue: Poker-playing animal in a classic painting
Answer: DOG

11A clue: High Life beers, e.g.
Answer: MILLERS

13A clue: Democratic political figure ___ Tanden
Answer: NEERA

14A clue: See 1-Across
Answer: GRASS

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Blindingly obvious
Answer: GLARING

2D clue: Cattle ___ (Wild West thief)
Answer: RUSTLER

3D clue: Letters between “cues” and “esses”
Answer: ARS

4D clue: They spend a lot of time on the web
Answer: SPIDERS

5D clue: Married women, in Madrid
Answer: SENORAS

6D clue: Text that gets the reply “STOP,” say
Answer: SPAM

7D clue: Stle grocery purchase
Answer: EGGS

12D clue: Broadway star ___ Michele
Answer: LEA

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 30 #818

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Today’s NYTStrandspuzzle was a bit challenging. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, and some are long, so if you need hints and answers, read on.

I go into depth about therules for Strands in this story.

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Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is:We’ll be there

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Admirable traits

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

REAL, TUNE, TUNED, GOOD, ROOD, GULR, GULP, PEWS, STUN, STUD

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

LOYAL, CARING, HELPFUL, RELIABLE, TRUSTWORTHY

Today’s Strands spangram

The completed NYT Strands puzzle for May 30, 2026.

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Today’s Strands spangram is GOODFRIENDS. To find it, start with the G that’s three letters down on the far left, and wind over and then down.

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 30, #1084

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Today’s NYTConnections puzzleis a real challenge. You’ll need a good sense of musical history in order to solve the purple category. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: That’s not hpening.

Green group hint: Good plan!

Blue group hint: Editors use these.

Purple group hint: Music of the 1950s.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: “In your dreams.”

Green group: Sensible.

Blue group: Typogrhical symbols.

Purple group: Song of the Year nominees at the first Grammy Awards.

What are today’s Connections answers?

The completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 30, 2026.

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The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is “in your dreams.” The four answers are impossible, never, no way and sorry.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is sensible. The four answers are clear, lucid, right and sound.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is typogrhical symbols. The four answers are brace, caret, pipe and tilde.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is Song of the Year nominees at the first Grammy Awards. The four answers are Fever, Gigi, Volare and Witchcraft.

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Fable dodges GTA VI with another delay – Engadget

The reboot of the classic Xbox series is now coming out in February 2027.

Fable, a reboot of the Xbox fantasy RPG series developed by Playground Games, has been delayed. The game’s release date is shifting from fall 2026 to February 2027 “so it can have the dedicated moment it deserves,” according to a post from Xbox on X. The new release date will give developers more time to polish the game before it comes out, while also moving it out of the blast radius of Grand Theft Auto VI, which is scheduled for release on November 19.

This isn’t the first time the reboot has been delayed, and as Microsoft notes in its announcement post, the back half of the year is particularly stacked with big releases like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Control Resonant and the aforementioned Grand Theft Auto VI. Moving to 2027 rather than duking it out with those more hotly anticipated titles could give Fable more time to shine. It does make a long development cycle even longer than it was before, though. The Fable reboot was originally announced in 2020, and Microsoft didn’t share proper gameplay footage of the game until January of this year. That means from announcement to release, Fable will have taken seven years to make, and that’s likely not taking into account work that went into the project ahead of its original announcement.

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During its earlier 2026 showcase, Microsoft demoed Fable‘s detailed character creator and ambitious proach to simulating NPCs. The company also shared that the game would be available on PlayStation 5, alongside Xbox Series X/S, PC via Steam and Xbox and Game Pass Ultimate. While Fable won’t be available this year, Microsoft says it will show off “a major new look“ at the game during its Xbox Games Showcase on June 7.

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CNN is the latest media company to sue Perplexity – Engadget

The cable news channel has accused the AI company of “massive copyright infringement.”

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CNN has joined the growing ranks of media companies suing Perplexity for copyright infringement. The cable news network has accused the AI search company of “massive copyright infringement” that includes wrongfully scring its website and copying more than 17,000 pieces of its content.

The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, claims that the AI company “unlawfully crawls, scres, copies, and distributes CNN’s content from CNN Digital Platforms and third-party platforms.” It also accuses the AI tools of reproducing “verbatim copies” of its articles, including paywalled stories, in query responses to users. Perplexity’s AI tools allegedly have incorrectly attributed “hallucinated” content to CNN, which the company says in the suit violates its trademark.

“CNN’s lawsuit stands for the proposition that Perplexity, a company valued at tens of billions of dollars, should not be able to steal from entities that create the original content Perplexity exploits,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement to the outlet. “The public rely on high quality news journalism reported by human beings to understand their world, which is frequently dangerous and expensive to produce. Commercial operators can and must pay to make use of it.”

CNN is far from the first media company to sue Perplexity for scring content without permission. The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Reddit, Merriam-Webster, Encyclopedia Britannica andNikkei have also filed lawsuits against the company. “You can’t copyright facts,” Perplexity’s Chief Communications Officer Jesse Dwyer said in a statement to CNN.

Interestingly, it seems that Perplexity was at one point trying to strike a deal with CNN that would have allowed it to use some of the network’s content. According to the lawsuit, the two companies were in negotiations last year that would have made paywalled CNN content available to Perplexity’s paid subscribers. The deal ultimately fell through, but Perplexity continued to use CNN’s name and content in its products despite warnings from the TV network’s legal team. Perplexity never responded, the lawsuit says.