Month: April 2024
NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Wednesday, May 1 (game #59)
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, including the Spangram.
New month, same old (relatively new) NYT Strands. That means a 6×8 grid of letters, hidden within which are a number of answers grouped around a theme. It’s brought to you by the people behind Wordle and Connections, and it’s rather difficult. Read on for some hints.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Strands today (game #59) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… A token of our appreciation
NYT Strands today (game #59) – hint #2 – clue words
What are some good clue words today?
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
• BIRTH
• MOPE
• ARROW
• SHINE
• WIRE
• LOWER
NYT Strands today (game #59) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• Pass go
NYT Strands today (game #59) – hint #4 – spangram position
Where does today’s spangram start and end?
• Start: top, 4th column
• End: bottom, 6th column
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #59) – the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today’s Strands, game #59, are…
THIMBLEIRONSHIPWHEELBARROWRACECARPENGUINSPANGRAM: MONOPOLY
My rating: EasyMy score: Perfect
I loved MONOPOLY as a kid, although my sisters probably didn’t love the zeal with which I would routinely bankrupt them. Anyway, this was a fun Strands puzzle, albeit not too taxing.
Four-letter words are the easiest to find in Strands, so it always helps when there are a couple of them among the answers. The two hidden within today’s puzzle – IRON and SHIP – were enough for me to confirm what the theme here was, when added to the hint of ‘A token of our appreciation’.
The only issue was that I have no idea what the tokens in MONOPOLY are these days. When did a PENGUIN get added? But finding the spangram was very easy once I knew what I was looking for, and that pointed the way to the likes of THIMBLE and RACECAR once the board had some structure.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Tuesday 30 April, game #58)
MAYOTZATZIKIKETCHUPSRIRACHAAIOLIMUSTARDSPANGRAM: CONDIMENT
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s currently in Beta and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
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Systemd Announces ‘run0’ Sudo Alternative
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Foss Outpost: Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacement called “run0”. The developer talks about the weaknesses of sudo, and how it has a large possible attack surface. For example, sudo supports network access, LDAP configurations, other types of plugins, and much more. But most importantly, its SUID binary provides a large attack service according to Lennart: “I personally think that the biggest problem with sudo is the fact it’s a SUID binary though — the big attack surface, the plugins, network access and so on that come after it it just make the key problem worse, but are not in themselves the main issue with sudo. SUID processes are weird concepts: they are invoked by unprivileged code and inherit the execution context intended for and controlled by unprivileged code. By execution context I mean the myriad of properties that a process has on Linux these days, from environment variables, process scheduling properties, cgroup assignments, security contexts, file descriptors passed, and so on and so on.”
He’s saying that sudo is a Unix concept from many decades ago, and a better privilege escalation system should be in place for 2024 security standards: “So, in my ideal world, we’d have an OS entirely without SUID. Let’s throw out the concept of SUID on the dump of UNIX’ bad ideas. An execution context for privileged code that is half under the control of unprivileged code and that needs careful manual clean-up is just not how security engineering should be done in 2024 anymore.” […]
He also mentioned that there will be more features in run0 that are not just related to the security backend such as: “The tool is also a lot more fun to use than sudo. For example, by default, it will tint your terminal background in a reddish tone while you are operating with elevated privileges. That is supposed to act as a friendly reminder that you haven’t given up the privileges yet, and marks the output of all commands that ran with privileges appropriately. It also inserts a red dot (unicode ftw) in the window title while you operate with privileges, and drops it afterwards.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Foss Outpost: Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacement called “run0”. The developer talks about the weaknesses of sudo, and how it has a large possible attack surface. For example, sudo supports network access, LDAP configurations, other types of plugins, and much more. But most importantly, its SUID binary provides a large attack service according to Lennart: “I personally think that the biggest problem with sudo is the fact it’s a SUID binary though — the big attack surface, the plugins, network access and so on that come after it it just make the key problem worse, but are not in themselves the main issue with sudo. SUID processes are weird concepts: they are invoked by unprivileged code and inherit the execution context intended for and controlled by unprivileged code. By execution context I mean the myriad of properties that a process has on Linux these days, from environment variables, process scheduling properties, cgroup assignments, security contexts, file descriptors passed, and so on and so on.”
He’s saying that sudo is a Unix concept from many decades ago, and a better privilege escalation system should be in place for 2024 security standards: “So, in my ideal world, we’d have an OS entirely without SUID. Let’s throw out the concept of SUID on the dump of UNIX’ bad ideas. An execution context for privileged code that is half under the control of unprivileged code and that needs careful manual clean-up is just not how security engineering should be done in 2024 anymore.” […]
He also mentioned that there will be more features in run0 that are not just related to the security backend such as: “The tool is also a lot more fun to use than sudo. For example, by default, it will tint your terminal background in a reddish tone while you are operating with elevated privileges. That is supposed to act as a friendly reminder that you haven’t given up the privileges yet, and marks the output of all commands that ran with privileges appropriately. It also inserts a red dot (unicode ftw) in the window title while you operate with privileges, and drops it afterwards.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced To 4 Months In Prison
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to enabling money laundering through his cryptocurrency exchange. CNBC reports: The sentence handed down to Zhao in Seattle federal court was significantly less than the three years that federal prosecutors had been seeking for him. The defense had asked for five months of probation. The sentencing guidelines called for a prison term of 12 to 18 months. In November, Zhao struck a deal with the U.S. government to resolve a multiyear investigation into Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. As part of the settlement, Zhao stepped down as the company’s CEO.
Zhao, who wore a dark navy suit with a light blue tie to court, is accused of willfully failing to implement an effective anti-money laundering program as required by the Bank Secrecy Act, and of allowing Binance to process transactions involving proceeds of unlawful activity, including between Americans and individuals in sanctions jurisdictions. The U.S. ordered Binance to pay $4.3 billion in fines and forfeiture. Zhao agreed to pay a $50 million fine.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to enabling money laundering through his cryptocurrency exchange. CNBC reports: The sentence handed down to Zhao in Seattle federal court was significantly less than the three years that federal prosecutors had been seeking for him. The defense had asked for five months of probation. The sentencing guidelines called for a prison term of 12 to 18 months. In November, Zhao struck a deal with the U.S. government to resolve a multiyear investigation into Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. As part of the settlement, Zhao stepped down as the company’s CEO.
Zhao, who wore a dark navy suit with a light blue tie to court, is accused of willfully failing to implement an effective anti-money laundering program as required by the Bank Secrecy Act, and of allowing Binance to process transactions involving proceeds of unlawful activity, including between Americans and individuals in sanctions jurisdictions. The U.S. ordered Binance to pay $4.3 billion in fines and forfeiture. Zhao agreed to pay a $50 million fine.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.