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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, August 13 (game #794).

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #795) - today's words

(Image credit: New York Times)

Today's NYT Connections words are…

• TRAIN
• BACKPACK
• RACKET
• CABOOSE
• HUBBUB
• SEAT
• BUSTLE
• STICK
• BOUQUET
• BAT
• TAIL
• COOKBOOK
• MALLET
• VEIL
• NITWIT
• BACKSIDE

NYT Connections today (game #795) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: Polite words for butt
• GREEN: Sporting equipment 
• BLUE: Here she comes
• PURPLE: A willy-nilly collection

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #795) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: DERRIERE 
• GREEN: USED TO HIT A BALL IN SPORTS 
• BLUE: COMPONENTS OF A BRIDE'S ENSEMBLE
• PURPLE: RHYMING COMPOUND WORDS 

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #795) - the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Connections, game #795, are…

• YELLOW: DERRIERE BACKSIDE, CABOOSE, SEAT, TAIL
• GREEN: USED TO HIT A BALL IN SPORTS BAT, MALLET, RACKET, STICK
• BLUE: COMPONENTS OF A BRIDE'S ENSEMBLE BOUQUET, BUSTLE, TRAIN, VEIL
• PURPLE: RHYMING COMPOUND WORDS BACKPACK, NITWIT, COOKBOOK, HUBUB

• My rating: Easy
• My score: 1 mistake

My stupid mistake was thinking that BOUQUET belonged with BAT, RACKET and STICK, because it was something you carried in your hand.

At this stage I wasn’t thinking of MALLET in a sporting context. More as something you use to hammer tent pegs into hard ground.

I can only think of two sports that use a mallet POLO and CROQUET, both of which appeal to the same high-born demographic and one which has little use of tent pegs I’m sure.

Anyway, this error aside I breezed through today’s puzzle and particularly enjoyed the yellow group and a reminder of the word CABOOSE. The sort of word you can imagine Dean Martin getting away with, but not many others.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, August 13, game #794)

• YELLOW: CAPTIVATE CHARM, ENTRANCE, RIVET, THRILL
• GREEN: EXCERPT CLIP, EXTRACT, PASSAGE, QUOTE
• BLUE: MEMBER OF A GIRL GROUP BANGLE, CHICK, GO-GO, SUPREME
• PURPLE: STAR___ BOARD, FISH, GATE, STRUCK

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

• Google has shared a teaser video for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold
• The video shows off the phone in full, but doesn't include any specs
• Leaks and rumors have given us a good idea of what to expect from the phone

You can’t leak something that’s already been officially shown – or at least, that might be Google’s thinking, as the company has now teased multiple upcoming handsets, with its latest teaser being focused on the Pixel 10 Pro Fold.

In a brief YouTube video, the company has shown the phone from the front and back, revealing a device that looks a whole lot like the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold, complete with a large camera block that looks a bit like two smaller camera blocks jammed together.

You can also see a punch-hole camera in the top right corner of the foldable screen, which again is a match for the previous model.

No specs are revealed, with the accompanying narration instead joking about the joys of being able to open a new phone twice when you buy a foldable (the first time being the opening of the box, the second of the phone itself).

Still, thanks to leaks and rumors we do have a good idea of what to expect when Google fully unveils this phone – likely on August 20 – and below we’ve listed five of the main upgrades we’re likely to see.

1. An IP68 rating

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

While the Pixel 10 Pro Fold might not look very different to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, it could have quite a lot of less visible differences, including better dust resistance.

One leak has suggested that the Pixel 10 Pro Fold will have an IP68 rating, which would mean it’s certified to withstand water at depths of up to 1.5 meters for up to 30 minutes, as well as being dust tight.

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold for comparison has an IPX8 rating, which means the same level of water resistance but no real dust resistance.

So adding dust resistance to the Pixel 10 Pro Fold would be a big win, especially as no current foldable phones have much dust resistance. But the fact that none have such robust resistance, also makes us slightly skeptical about whether Google’s phone will achieve it.

2. A big battery

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

As well as lacking dust resistance, foldable phones also often struggle when it comes to battery capacity, with these devices typically having smaller batteries than non-foldable phones – which themselves tend to have far smaller screens to power.

That’s not ideal, but the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold could take a step in the right direction, with reports suggesting it might have a 5,050mAh battery. That’s up from 4,650mAh in the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, so it would be a significant improvement in capacity.

It would also mean this phone has a bigger battery than its main rival, as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has a far smaller 4,400mAh one.

3. Camera Coach and voice editing

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

Google is one of the biggest names in AI, so of course the Pixel 10 Pro Fold will have some new AI features, and we’ve heard of two possible ones.

Most excitingly there’s a rumored feature called ‘Camera Coach’, which will apparently help teach you to take better photos, by analyzing the snaps you take and making suggestions of how they could be improved.

But we’ve also heard about a ‘Conversational Photo Editing’ mode, which will apparently let you use your voice or typed text to tell Gemini to make changes to your images, such as removing unwanted elements or adjusting the background.

These two tools should help further improve the already-impressive Pixel photography experience.

4. A Tensor G5 chipset

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is also sure to be more powerful than its predecessor, with numerous leaks – and past form – suggesting it will have a Tensor G5 chipset, replacing the Tensor G4 of the Pixel 9 Pro Fold.

So this should give the phone a power boost, which could help with AI, gaming, and more. This chipset probably still won’t be as powerful as the Snapdragon 8 Elite used by the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S25 line, but for most users it should still be plenty powerful enough.

5. Screen improvements

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold (Image credit: Philip Berne / Future)

Finally, the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold could have a better screen than the current model. Specifically, the cover screen could be slightly bigger at 6.4 inches (up from 6.3 inches on the Pixel 9 Pro Fold). But due to smaller bezels it might still not take up any more space.

Additionally, we’re hearing that the cover display might have a peak brightness of 3,000 nits – which is up from 2,700 nits on the current model. This leak doesn’t mention the main display but it’s likely that would get a brightness boost too, since otherwise it would be less bright than the cover screen.

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• Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, and she's using Spotify to kick-start the roll out
• A mysterious Spotify playlist curated by Swift now appears in her artist page, packing 22 of her best songs to tease the next era
• This marks the beginning of the album rollout, taking to a music streaming service first before TikTok to promote new music

It’s official, a new Taylor Swift record is on the way – and the internet is going feral. The singer announced her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, on August 12, and she’s using Spotify in order to prepare us for the next era.

Alongside the announcement of her 12th studio album - also referred to as TS12 - a collection of strange billboards across New York City and Nashville showcasing a giant mint-green Spotify code with cascading orange glitter (see below), which fans immediately spotted.

Mysterious Spotify billboards popped up in NYC and Nashville leading to a new playlist by Taylor Swift. pic.twitter.com/A8qo91Txi6August 12, 2025

When you scan the code in the Spotify app, it takes you to a playlist curated by Swift herself titled ‘And, baby, that’s show business for you’ – and it appears to drop subtle hints for the upcoming release.

For starters, the new Spotify playlist packs 22 of Swift’s biggest pop bangers from albums Red, 1989, and Reputation. Coincidentally, they’re all songs produced by Max Martin with whom she hasn’t worked with since 2017, which leads us to believe her long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff won’t be returning for TS12.

(Image credit: Future)

At the moment, this project is still a little ambiguous, and this mysterious Spotify playlist is all we have as of yet. However, it’s an interesting strategy to say the least, and one that I think could do wonders for encouraging artists to use music streaming services more for music promotion over platforms such as TikTok.

How to find Taylor Swift’s new Spotify playlist

(Image credit: Future)

After scouring the Spotify app for ways to track down the playlist, I've discovered two ways to find it.

The first is by scanning the Spotify code that was teased in the billboards. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be there in person, and you can scan any image of the code online using the camera feature in the Spotify app.

Alternatively, head to the Spotify app and go to Taylor Swift’s artist page. Scroll down until you see the ‘Artist Playlists’ section, and the newly curated playlist will be there. This is the easiest way to locate it, so I would recommend trying this as opposed to scanning the Spotify code.

A new era for music streaming?

For the past few years, it’s been the new norm for artists to use platforms such as TikTok to promote new music, and while Spotify has introduced countdowns to hype new album releases, that’s pretty much it when it comes to offering artists ways to market their music.

At the time of Swift’s 2022 album Midnights, TikTok was crucial to the album rollout, and each week Swift would post a video to reveal one song from the tracklist. Her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department adopted a similar Tiktok-style rollout, but her upcoming project The Life of a Showgirl has been absent from the platform – for now.

While the Swift-curated Spotify playlist is far from revolutionary, it’s certainly a step away from promotional practices we’ve seen become the norm in recent years, as most artists immediately jump on the TikTok bandwagon. Of course, Swift will inevitably take to other platforms as we get closer to the album release date, but it’s still an exciting way to kickstart the new era.

It’s still very early days into the album rollout – we don’t even have an official release date yet – but after Swift was crowned Spotify’s top artist of 2024, this strategy makes a lot of sense. Will other artists catch on and revert to using music streaming services to promote new music instead of throwing it all on TikTok? Let us know what you think about it in the comments below.

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• August 2025 Patch Tuesday update addresses 111 flaws
• These include multiple critical-severity flaws and a zero-day issue
• Users should apply the patch immediately, or risk attack

Microsoft has released its August 2025 Patch Tuesday package, a cumulative set of updates addressing more than 100 vulnerabilities across a host of its products.

Among them was a known zero-day vulnerability in Windows Kerberos, the company's implementation of the Kerberos authentication protocol, which securely verifies user identities in a Windows network using tickets instead of sending passwords over the network.

Kerberos was found to contain a “relative path traversal” flaw which allows an authorized threat actor to elevate privileges over a network.

Critical severity flaws

Besides the zero-day, Microsoft fixed another 106 flaws, including 13 bugs labeled “critical”.

Of those, nine are remote code execution (RCE) flaws that can be abused in device takeover attacks, information disclosure flaws that can be used in data exfiltration attacks, and an elevation of privilege bug.

Some of the more notable vulnerabilities fixed in the release include a 10/10, critical flaw in Azure OpenAI, tracked as CVE-2025-53767 which could allow unauthenticated threat actors to remotely access sensitive information in AI environments.

Another notable mention is a remote code execution bug in Microsoft Graphics Component that can be exploited through malicious files or images. It is tracked as CVE-2025-50165, and was given a severity score of 9.8/10 (critical).

There are also CVE-2025-53766, CVE-50171, and CVE-2025-53792, all of which have a severity score of 9.1 and higher, making them critical.

In total, 111 vulnerabilities were addressed by Microsoft, and although none are marked as being actively exploited in the wild, admins would be wise to apply the fix without delay.

Via BleepingComputer

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