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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
April Fools’ 2026: Mini to Micro.

For April Fools’ Day, The New York Times is sharing a “Micro Crossword,” which has just three boxes to fill in. The NYT is also launching April Fools’ Day-themed versions of other puzzles, too, including a maximalist Connections.

An image of The New York Times’ “Micro Crossword” for April 1st, 2026.
An image of The New York Times’ Connections puzzle for April 1st, 2026.
An image of The New York Times’ Strands puzzle for April 1st, 2026.
An image of The New York Times’ Spelling Bee puzzle for April 1st, 2026.
1/4Image: The New York Times
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Apple is patching the iOS 18 DarkSword exploit.

iOS 26 devices are already protected against the hacking tool that targets iPhones when visiting malicious links, and today Apple is pushing out a new security update for older, vulnerable versions of iOS. That means iOS 18 users can protect their phones and avoid the Liquid Glass design update.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Rocky 3D printed Grace, and you can too!

If you’ve visited the official Project Hail Mary website on mobile rather than desktop, you may have missed the free STL file that you can download to replicate this popular prop from the movie. You’ll have to acquire the Xenonite yourself though, obviously.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Garmin watches now help with birth control.

Not because they’re so ugly, it’s because Garmin wearables that track skin temperature during sleep — like the Fenix 8 and Forerunner 970 — can now feed that data to the FDA-cleared Natural Cycles birth control app to show the wearer’s daily fertility status.

Time to get busy.
Time to get busy.
Image: Natural Cycles
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Google’s AI Inbox expands to Ultra subscribers.

If you’re the type that pays Google $249.99/mo for its AI Ultra plan in the US then you’ve earned yourself early access to Gmail’s new semi-useful-perhaps-someday-in-the-future AI Inbox. It’s still in beta, so take care.

Your inbox on AI. Any questions?
Your inbox on AI. Any questions?
Image: Google
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
The NASA countdown begins.

Providing all goes to plan, NASA’s Artemis II mission will launch later today and carry astronauts around the moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The launch window is targeted for 6:24PM ET, with the onsite countdown officially underway.