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Today’s Hurdle hints and answers for April 3, 2025

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take

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Trump’s Tariffs Could Reshape the US Tech Industry

Known as the de minimis exemption, it has been used by the Chinese shopping giants Shein and Temu to send millions of packages to the US each year duty-free, helping keep the prices of their products low for Americans. But the exemption is also important for marketplaces like eBay and Etsy that allow people in

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OpenAI’s o3 model might be costlier to run than originally estimated

When OpenAI unveiled its o3 “reasoning” AI model in December, the company partnered with the creators of ARC-AGI, a benchmark designed to test highly capable AI, to showcase o3’s capabilities. Months later, the results have been revised, and they now look slightly less impressive than they did initially. Last week, the Arc Prize Foundation, which

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Apple Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in iOS 15 and 16

Image: ink drop/Adobe Stock On Monday, Apple issued critical security updates that retroactively address three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities affecting legacy versions of its operating systems. CVE-2025-24200 The first vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-24200, was patched in iOS 16.7.11, iPadOS 16.7.11, iOS 15.8.4, and iPadOS 15.8.4. CVE-2025-24200 allows a physical attacker to disable USB Restricted Mode on

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Wordle today: The answer and hints for April 3, 2025

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d

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Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades

NIST spends under $200 million annually on the MEP program, with most of the money passed on to states and Puerto Rico in batches of payments. The congressional aides tell WIRED that they expect all remaining centers will lose their funding over the next year or so, as their next checks come due. Depending on

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Stablecoin issuer Circle takes another stab at a public listing

Circle, the issuer of USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, filed to go public on Tuesday. The company, which makes money from interest earned on its reserve assets, reported that its 2024 revenue and reserve income was $1.68 billion, up from $1.45 billion the year prior. Circle’s 2024 net income was $156 million,

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iOS 19 May Leave These Three iPhones Behind

Image: Aminu Abdullahi/TechRepublic Apple is gearing up to announce iOS 19 at WWDC 2025, but not all iPhones may get the update. A new rumor suggests that Apple could be dropping support for three models from 2018 — the iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max. According to a report from 9to5Mac, the information

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The ‘Dimension 20’ cast chooses their ultimate Intrepid Heroes squad

The Dimension 20 cast (Brennan Lee Mulligan, Ally Beardsley, Lou Wilson, Siobhan Thompson, and Zac Oyama) locked in to draft their ultimate teams of characters from Intrepid Heroes campaigns.Which PC will be the first pick? Which cast members betray each other in order to get the characters they want? And most importantly, which of these

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The Founder of OnlyFans Wants to Buy TikTok

Tim Stokely, founder of the adult content platform OnlyFans, has submitted an eleventh-hour proposal to buy TikTok’s US operations from its Chinese owner ByteDance. The “intent to bid” was made by Zoop—a social media startup Stokely cofounded with RJ Phillips, who has a background in influencer marketing strategy—and cryptocurrency company The Hbar Foundation. For Zoop,

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