Product Review: Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Friday, Oct. 30, #971

The companies behind powerful AI technology are high-stakes territory for international espionage. A new investigation from The New York Times published Thursday found that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of Chinese spying activity, with the US government identifying a data center executive with whom he had developed a “close relationship” as…

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October has been a rocky month for readers of the fan-run fiction site Archive of Our Own, popularly known as AO3. Now, a routine disruption has escalated into a crisis. What began as an estimated 12-hour unplanned outage has ballooned into a multi-week shutdown, leaving millions of users locked out of the site following a…

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Here are today’s Connections hints and answers for NYT Connections No. 1,237 on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026. 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.

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