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Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025. By New York Times Games Hello, fellow word lovers. Welcome to Strands Sidekick. Our goal here is to help you solve ...

Oracle's stock jumped after the cloud provider joined a group of investors slated to lead TikTok's U.S. operations. The deal prevents a shutdown of the app in the U.S. over national security concerns.

Oracle stock slid after a report that Blue Owl Capital won't back a $10 billion data center for OpenAI. The cloud company later said that the project remains "on schedule" but that Blue Owl was out of ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Today we have a pair of easy groups followed by a pair of ...