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Israel Orders Partial Evacuation of Rafah, Fueling Fears of New Offensive

Hamas says it has agreed to a cease-fire plan that Israel said did not meet its demands, the latest in a long series of negotiating stumbles.

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Peter Baker

Inside the White House Scramble to Broker a Deal in Gaza

The flurry of actions underscores how fluid the situation in the region is as President Biden and his team try to ultimately end the war that has devastated Gaza.

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NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for May 7

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for May 7's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep...

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Edward Wong and Julian E. Barnes

Officials Describe Pact Hamas Has Embraced as U.S.-Israel Proposal With Small Changes

The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, was consulted on the changes, the officials say. The proposal uses the term “sustainable calm,” wording that Israel had earlier agreed earlier to, but whose definition may be a point of friction.

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Here's The Inspiration Behind Doja Cat's Controversial Wet T-Shirt Look To The Met Gala

As for what Doja wore on her way to the Met Gala? She wore a towel.

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Lana Del Rey's Met Gala Look Is Giving Eldritch Horror, And I'm Low-Key Obsessed

I feel like she's stepped out of the woods to put a curse on me.

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Gobert (personal reasons) ruled out vs. Nuggets

Minnesota Timberwolves star center Rudy Gobert is out for Monday night's Game 2 against the Denver Nuggets, head coach Chris Finch announced.

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Isaiah Hartenstein cuts into Pacers halftime lead with long range buzzer-beater

The shot marked Hartenstein's first made three-pointer of the 2024 playoffs and longest field goal of his career.

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Eric Nagourney and Aaron Boxerman

Timeline of Recent Twists and Turns in Gaza Cease-fire Talks

Hopes for an agreement to halt the fighting and free hostages have risen and fallen repeatedly in recent days.

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Umar Shakir

Google TV’s ‘Magic Button’ makes its debut — but not on a Chromecast

Not a Chromecast remote with a new button. | Image: AFTVnews

Google’s rumored “Magic Button” shortcut for Google TV has been spotted in the wild on a real-world remote for an upcoming streaming box... made by Walmart.

AFTVnews got hold of Walmart’s still-unreleased Onn 4K Pro — a Google TV-powered streaming box — and the remote features the new star button in the top right corner. The device simply calls it the “customizable button,” and it can be programmed as a...

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Wes Davis

How much would you pay for this prototype Super Famicom with a headphone jack?

Image: Yahoo! Auctions (Japan)

Over on the Japanese Yahoo Auctions site, someone has listed an apparent pre-production version of the Super Famicom — the Japanese counterpart of the Super Nintendo (SNES). It’s similar to the console Nintendo eventually released in 1990 but with some stand-out differences, like a headphone jack and volume wheel on the side. Video game collector and historian Chris Kohler called it “god-tier Nintendo collector bait.”

Some other variations...

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We Already Vetted These 38 Well-Reviewed Products So You Don't Have To

Skip straight to the good stuff.

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Andrew Lopez

Wemby becomes sixth unanimous ROY winner

Victor Wembanyama was named the NBA's Rookie of the Year on Monday, garnering all 99 first-place votes to become the sixth unanimous winner.

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Tesla just laid off more employees after gutting the entire charging team

Tesla isn't done with laying off workers.

According to reports from Business Insider and Electrek, Elon Musk's EV car company laid off more employees over the weekend. With these latest cuts, Tesla has now entered its fourth week of layoffs.

It's unclear just how many workers lost their jobs at Tesla in this latest round of layoffs. At least seven employees have confirmed being laid off from their jobs in Tesla's software, services, and engineering departments. 

"After watching my team...

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Emilia David

Google’s AI plans now include cybersecurity

Illustration: The Verge

As people try to find more uses for generative AI that are less about making a fake photo and are instead actually useful, Google plans to point AI to cybersecurity and make threat reports easier to read.

In a blog post, Google writes its new cybersecurity product, Google Threat Intelligence, will bring together the work of its Mandiant cybersecurity unit and VirusTotal threat intelligence with the Gemini AI model.

The new product uses the Gemini 1.5 Pro large...

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