​Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? I’d just like to point out that the New York Times puzzle-makers love the 7-Across answer — they use it about every other week. Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword. Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for March 10, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Mini across clues and answers. 1A clue: Writing that lacks substance. Answer: FLUFF. 6A clue: Pencil in a cosmetics bag. Answer: LINER. 7A clue: ___ acid (building block of proteins). Answer: AMINO. 8A clue: Partner of services, in economics. Answer: GOODS. 9A clue: Small criticism. Answer: NIT. Mini down clues and answers. 1D clue: Warning sign in a relationship, metaphorically. Answer: FLAG. 2D clue: Fancy prom ride. Answer: LIMO. 3D clue: SAG-AFTRA, for one. Answer: UNION. 4D clue: Luxury fashion house headquartered in Rome. Answer: FENDI. 5D clue: Ground coating on a cold morning. Answer: FROST  

​More than half a century after astronauts last left footprints on the lunar surface, humanity is preparing to return to the moon. The excitement surrounding NASA’s Apollo program once captivated the world, and now NASA hopes to rekindle that same sense of wonder with its modern lunar effort, the Artemis program.. NASA’s Artemis II launch is scheduled for the first week of April. It’ll be the first human mission to the moon since 1972, and it should be quite the achievement for the Artemis program. Now, NASA has released a new tool that lets the public track Artemis II in real time.. The Artemis program is NASA’s long-term effort to return humans to the moon and establish a sustained presence there for the first time since the Apollo program. The program aims to land astronauts near the lunar south pole, develop new technologies for long-term exploration and use the moon as a stepping stone for future missions to Mars.. The Artemis Real-time Orbit Website, dubbed AROW, is already available to the public, although there isn’t much to see since the launch is still a few weeks away. It’s also available directly from the NASA app if you’re using a mobile device. The site lets the public visualize data collected by sensors on Orion and sent to the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.. The website is simple to navigate. You’ll see a visual representation of Artemis II’s progress, including its speed, distance from Earth and distance to the moon. Mobile app users get all of the above, along with an extra augmented reality tracker that lets you point your phone at the sky and see where Artemis II is relative to your position on Earth. It works much like Google Star Map and other stargazing apps that use similar technology.. According to NASA, tracking will be available once the Orion capsule separates from the rocket’s upper stage, which is expected about 3 hours after the upcoming April launch. The site will then update its information in real time for the entire 10-day mission.. NASA is also making flight data available for download so that people interested in creating their own content, such as visualizations or tracking apps, can do so. The data will include all sorts of things, including state vectors, which are data that “describe precisely where Orion is located and how it moves.” That same data will be used by NASA to study Orion and make improvements for future Artemis missions.. An exact launch date for Artemis II hasn’t been set, but the agency plans on launching the mission no earlier than April 1. The launch was originally scheduled for February, but it was delayed multiple times due to a hydrogen leak and a helium flow issue. NASA says it has since fixed both issues.  

​Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition features a lot of team names, but that doesn’t mean it’s an easy one to solve. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play it for free online.. Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta. Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.. Yellow group hint: Play ball!. Green group hint: Not front.. Blue group hint: Certain NFL player.. Purple group hint: They play at Smoothie King Center.. Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups. Yellow group: An AL Central player.. Green group: Words appearing before “back,” in football.. Blue group: Associated with Derrick Henry.. Purple group: New Orleans Pelicans.. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words. What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?. The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for March 10, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. The yellow words in today’s Connections. The theme is an AL Central player. The four answers are Guardian, Royal, Tiger and Twin.. The green words in today’s Connections. The theme is words appearing before “back,” in football. The four answers are corner, defensive, full and running.. The blue words in today’s Connections. The theme is associated with Derrick Henry. The four answers are Heisman, King, Ravens and Titans.. The purple words in today’s Connections. The theme is New Orleans Pelicans. The four answers are Bey, Fears, Murphy and Queen.  

​A new set of laws in Australia requiring adult websites and app stores to age-restrict content for those under 18, and requiring AI companies to restrict chatbot offerings from displaying certain types of sensitive or adult content to minors, is apparently driving many to download Virtual Private Network apps there.. Major adult sites have closed their virtual doors to those who aren’t age-confirmed in Australia, and these changes follow a nationwide ban on social media use by teenagers and young children that went into effect in December.. According to reports from Reuters, The Guardian and others, in response to the bans, downloads of VPN-related apps, which people can use to circumvent location-based restrictions, are sharply on the rise. According to Reuters, three of the 15 most downloaded free iPhone apps in the country were VPN-related as the new laws went into effect on Monday.. Lawmakers in some regions, including the US, are well aware that people use VPNs in this way. In states such as Michigan and Wisconsin, laws are being proposed to limit or outright ban VPN use. Wisconsin’s proposed law would require adult sites to block VPN traffic, while Michigan’s proposal would ban VPN use entirely in the state.. There is also a proposal in England under consideration to ban VPN use by minors. That proposal is currently under review.  

​You may be seeing more content on social media nowadays, but how much of it are you actually engaging with? Between new group and friend suggestions, suggested content and ads, you may be seeing less of what you love.. Buffer, a social media management platform, recently released a new data study, The State of Social Media Engagement in 2026. Buffer analyzed 52 million posts and over 191,000 monthly users and found that engagement on some of the most popular social media platforms declined last year.. Engagement rates on Instagram, LinkedIn and Threads declined last year compared with 2024, while Facebook, Pinterest and TikTok increased slightly. Only X posts saw significantly more engagement compared with last year. Buffer measured engagement as likes, replies and shares.. Why are certain platforms seeing a dip in engagement?. In 2025, there were more social media posts but less engagement. Posts doubled, even tripled, across most platforms, according to Buffer. Yet, half of the analyzed social media platforms saw a decline in user interaction last year compared with 2024. Buffer says algorithm updates, feature launches and user experience redesigns could be a few reasons. Engagement can also depend on who posts what and when.. But there are other factors worth considering.. Suggested content overload. Suggested content and ads don’t always align with our interests. And it seems like nowadays, we’re being fed more content that we may not be interested in. You might see more ads and reels from unfamiliar creators, making it harder to catch a family announcement or your friend’s vacation highlights.. AI-generated content increasingly floods our timelines, reducing human connections. After scrolling for so long, you may leave the app without engaging with the content you actually want to see.. Read more: Half of US Adults Who Use Social Media Want Better Labels on AI Posts, CNET Finds. Algorithm changes. Social media platforms frequently change their algorithms beyond our control. Those changes impact the content you may see.. The European Commission has formally charged TikTok with breaching EU online content rules due to its addictive design. And Facebook’s algorithm change last year was designed to show you reels you’ll like, even if they’re AI-generated. Those changes can lead you to engage less with the content you want.. Different content types. The type of content you see on each platform may be more or less engaging to you.. For example, Buffer found that carousels get more engagement on LinkedIn compared to videos and photos, whereas Reels are more popular on Instagram than carousels. And that’s no surprise, considering Instagram’s big push for Reels, including its availability on Fire TV.. How to personalize your social media algorithm. We no longer have the same control over our social media feeds that we did with MySpace profiles in the early 2000s. However, you can adjust your settings to see more of the content that interests you.. So