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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.

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

Looking for the most recent Strands answer?Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

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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California sues 23andMe over 2023 data breach that affected 7 million users – Engadget

Chrome Holding Co., the company formerly known as23andMe, is facing a lawsuit filed by California AttorneyGeneral Rob Bonta over a massive security breach in 2023 that compromised millions of people’s sensitive data. Bonta is accusing the company of misleading customers and failing to protect their”sensitive personal information and genetic data related to their health, genetic predispositions and risk factors, biological relatives, ancestry and ethnicity.” The incident had affected 7 million users across the US, the lawsuit said, 855,541 whom were California residents.

23andMe, which offered customers DNA testing kits so they can find out their ancestral origins and genetic health risks, admitted back in 2023 that bad actors were able to access users’ accounts through credential stuffing. Bonta argued that companies, especially one that collects genetic data, should know to guard against such a common method of cyberattack.

It wasn’t just credential stuffing that allowed the bad actors to steal millions of private information. After using the attack method to break into14,000 accounts, they then exploited a vulnerability in the website’s DNA Relatives feature to access data from more customers. Bonta said the company’s security measures were so lax, the hackers were able to operate undetected inside its system for five months. He added that the company only started investigating after the bad actors had already started selling stolen user data on the dark web and demanding a ransom.

Bonta accused 23andMe of omitting critical information when it informed customers about the breach. He said the company downplayed the sensitivity of the stolen data and claimed that the DNA Relatives feature was “essentially public,” all while it was secretly negotiating with the bad actors who were highlighting the inclusion of information about Asian American and Pacific Islanders, as well as Jewish users, in the dataset they were selling.

“The sale of this data on the dark web took place amidst a period of mounting anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander and antisemitic hate and violence — and explicitly called attention to the deeply personal and identifying nature of that information,” Bonta wrote. “This is disturbing and incredibly dangerous.”

23andMefiled for bankruptcy in March 2025. As notes, it also faced a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of failing to protect its customers, and a judge overseeing its bankruptcy had proved a $50 million settlement earlier this year.

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, May 29

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Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I thought 1-Across and 5-Across were a bit tricky. Read on for all 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 29, 2026.

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Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: “Whatcha ___?”
Answer: DOIN

5A clue: “Whatcha ___?”
Answer: UPTO

6A clue: Ecosystem that includes the bristlemouth, the most common vertebrate on Earth (roughly 1 quadrillion organisms)
Answer: OCEAN

7A clue: Marx who wrote “Das Kital”
Answer: KARL

8A clue: Period at a hotel
Answer: STAY

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Old gold coin of Europe
Answer: DUCAT

2D clue: Performance at Milan’s La Scala or Nles’s Teatro di San Carlo
Answer: OPERA

3D clue: Home to Milan and Nles
Answer: ITALY

4D clue: Prefix with starter or smoker
Answer: NON

6D clue: proves
Answer: OKS

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CNN is the latest media company to sue Perplexity – Engadget

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