Oura has filed a patent suggesting it is exploring smart AR glasses controlled by its well‑known smart ring, potentially allowing biometric data like heart rate to be displayed directly in front of the wearer’s eyes.

The Finnish company, best known for its health‑tracking smart rings, has been linked to a new wearable concept thanks to a recently published patent application numbered 20260023426.

The filing, dated July 2025 and published in January 2026, outlines how a smart ring could work in tandem with augmented reality glasses to display health metrics in real time.

The idea is straightforward: instead of pulling out a smartphone or checking a wristwatch, users could see their heart rate or other biometric data projected directly into their field of view. The smart ring would not only collect the data but also act as a controller, enabling gesture‑based interactions with the glasses.

The patent describes scenarios where such a system could be useful, particularly during workouts. For example, a runner could glance at their heart rate without breaking stride, adjusting intensity on the fly. Gesture controls via the ring could allow users to switch between metrics or dismiss overlays without touching the glasses themselves.

While this is not a groundbreaking leap in technology (similar concepts have been explored by companies such as Samsung and Even Realities), it does highlight Oura’s ambition to expand beyond rings into a broader wearable ecosystem.

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is a real challenge. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

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Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Stop that!

Green group hint: Ho-hum.

Blue group hint: You might need to use a special character.

Purple group hint: Not one, not three.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Suppress.

Green group: Same old stuff.

Blue group: Features of a strong password.

Purple group: Words after “two.”

Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words

What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is suppress. The four answers are gag, inhibit, muzzle and silence.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is same old stuff. The four answers are drill, grind, habit and routine.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is features of a strong password. The four answers are length, number, symbol and uppercase.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is words after “two.” The four answers are bit, cents, faced and timer.

I knew the DXRacer Martian Pro would be one of the best gaming chairs I’ve ever sat in, and three months with it have only confirmed my suspicions.

Why did I know this?

A newly discovered toolkit called DKnife has been used since 2019 to hijack traffic at the edge-device level and deliver malware in espionage campaigns.

The framework serves as a post-compromise framework for traffic monitoring and adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) activities. It is designed to intercept and manipulate traffic destined for endpoints (computers, mobile devices, IoTs) on the network.

Researchers at Cisco Talos say that DKnife is an ELF framework with seven Linux-based components designed for deep packet inspection (DPI), traffic manipulation, credential harvesting, and malware delivery.

The malware features Simplified Chinese language artifacts in component names and code comments, and explicitly targets Chinese services such as email providers, mobile apps, media domains, and WeChat users.

Talos researchers assess with high confidence that the operator of DKnife is a China-nexus threat actor.

Researchers couldn’t determine how the network equipment is compromised, but found that DKnife delivers and interacts with the ShadowPad and DarkNimbus backdoors, both associated with Chinese threat actors.

DKnife consists of seven modules, each responsible for specific activities related to communication with the C2 servers, relaying or altering traffic, and hiding the malicious traffic origin:

• dknife.bin – responible for packet inspection and attack logics, it also reports attack status, user activities, and sends collected data
• postapi.bin – relay component between DKnife.bin and C2 servers
• sslmm.bin – custom reverse proxy server derived from HAProxy
• yitiji.bin – creates a virtual Ethernet interface (TAP) on the router and bridges it into the LAN to route the attacker’s traffic
• remote.bin – peer-to-peer VPN client using the n2n VPN software
• mmdown.bin – malware downloader and updater for Android APK files
• dkupdate.bin – DKnife download, deploy, and update component

“Its [DKnife’s] key capabilities include serving update C2 for the backdoors, DNS hijacking, hijacking Android application updates and binary downloads, delivering ShadowPad and DarkNimbus backdoors, selectively disrupting security-product traffic and exfiltrating user activity to remote C2 servers,” the researchers said in a report this week.

Once installed, DKnife uses its yitiji.bin component to create a bridged TAP interface (virtual network device) on the router at the private IP address 10.3.3.3. This allows the threat actor to intercept and rewrite network packets in their transit to the intended host.

This way, DKnife can be used to deliver malicious APK files to mobile devices or Windows systems on the network.

Cisco researchers observed DKnife dropping the ShadowPad backdoor for Windows signed with a Chinese firm’s certificate. This action was followed by the deployment of the DarkNimbus backdoor. On Android devices, the backdoor is delivered directly by DKnife.

On the same infrastructure associated with the DKnife framework activity, the researchers also found that it was hosting the WizardNet backdoor, which ESET researchers previously linked to the Spellbinder AitM framework.

Apart from payload delivery, DKnife is also capable of:

• DNS hijacking
• hijacking Android app updates
• hijacking Windows binaries
• Credential harvesting via POP3/IMAP decryption
• Phishing page hosting
• Anti-virus traffic disruption
• monitoring user activity, including messaging app use (WeChat and Signal), maps app use, news consumption, calling activity, ride-hailing, and shopping

WeChat activities are tracked more analytically, Cisco Talos says, with DKnife monitoring for voice and video calls, text messages, images sent and received, and articles read on the platform.

The user’s activity events are first routed internally between DKnife’s components and then exfiltrated via HTTP POST requests to specific command-and-control (C2) API endpoints.

Because DKnife sits on gateway devices and reports events as packets pass through, it allows monitoring user activity and collecting data in real time.

As of January 2026, the DKnife C2 servers are still active, the researchers say. Cisco Talos has published the full set of indicators of compromise (IoCs) associated with this activity.

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This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of $23 billion — a nearly threefold increase from the $8.1 billion valuation the Nvidia rival had reached just six months earlier.

While the round was led by Tiger Global, a huge part of the new capital came from one of the company’s earliest backers: Benchmark Capital. The prominent Silicon Valley firm invested at least $225 million in Cerebras’ latest round, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Benchmark first bet on 10-year-old Cerebras when it led the startup’s $27 million Series A in 2016. Since Benchmark deliberately keeps its funds under $450 million, the firm raised two separate vehicles, both called ‘Benchmark Infrastructure,’ according to regulatory filings. According to the person familiar with the deal, these vehicles were created specifically to fund the Cerebras investment.

Benchmark declined to comment.

What sets Cerebras apart is the sheer physical scale of its processors. The company’s Wafer Scale Engine, its flagship chip announced in 2024, measures approximately 8.5 inches on each side and packs 4 trillion transistors into a single piece of silicon. To put that in perspective, the chip is manufactured from nearly an entire 300-millimeter silicon wafer, the circular discs that serve as the foundation for all semiconductor production. Traditional chips are thumbnail-sized fragments cut from these wafers; Cerebras instead uses almost the whole circle.

This architecture delivers 900,000 specialized cores working in parallel, allowing the system to process AI calculations without shuffling data between multiple separate chips (a major bottleneck in conventional GPU clusters). The company says the design enables AI inference tasks to run more than 20 times faster than competing systems.

The funding comes as Cerebras, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., gains momentum in the AI infrastructure race. Last month, Cerebras signed a multi-year agreement worth more than $10 billion to provide 750 megawatts of computing power to OpenAI. The partnership, which extends through 2028, aims to help OpenAI deliver faster response times for complex AI queries. (OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is also an investor in Cerebras.)

Cerebras claims its systems, built with its proprietary chips designed for AI use, are faster than Nvidia’s chips.

The company’s path to going public has been complicated by its relationship with G42, a UAE-based AI firm that accounted for 87% of Cerebras’ revenue as of the first half of 2024. G42’s historical ties to Chinese technology companies triggered a national security review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, bumping back Cerebras’ initial IPO plans and even prompting the outfit to withdraw an earlier filing in early 2025. By late last year, G42 had been removed from Cerebras’ investor list, clearing the way for a fresh IPO attempt.

Cerebras is now preparing for a public debut in the second quarter of 2026, according to Reuters.

Parents grapple with the modern day question of whether to give their kids phones for staying in contact and keeping tabs on their whereabouts, while also navigating the realities of too much screen time and shielding them from the corrosive effects of social media. 

AT&T just introduced its own answer, the AmiGo Jr. Phone, a Samsung smartphone with an AmiGo app that applies parental controls at the device level. Parents use an AT&T AmiGo app on their iOS or Android phone to manage apps, settings and screentime limits on the kid’s phone; the AmiGo software works only with this AmiGo Jr. Phone.

The AmiGo Jr. is a Samsung Galaxy A16 phone with a 6.7-inch display, 128GB of storage and a 5,000 mAh battery. It has a trio of cameras on the back: a 50-megapixel main camera, 5-megapixel ultrawide camera and 2-megapixel macro camera. The phone is available only in black.

The phone is available now online at AT&T, in AT&T stores and via the MyAT&T app, and priced at $3 a month for a 36-month contract. Parents also need to purchase an unlimited data line on their phone plan for the phone starting at $61 a month, plus pay a $35 activation fee.

Offering an inexpensive older camera for a child’s use isn’t new — it’s how parents often set up devices for kids. The Galaxy A16 was released in January 2025. What makes the AmiGo Jr. different is the AmiGo app implementing parental controls at the device level under Android 16, according to an AT&T spokesperson. Beyond the parental control features offered in Android, the AmiGo software adds Safe Zones that generate alerts when the phone has entered or exited them and a School Mode for restricting features during times when their attention should be focused away from the screen.

“After extensive, candid conversations with parents, we heard a clear message: This isn’t just a device decision — it’s a deeply personal one about trust, safety and staying connected,” said Erin Scarborough, AT&T senior vice president of revenue management and commercialization, in a statement. “Creating a kid’s phone was the natural and overdue next step for us.”

The company cited the fact that 40% of its current customers are parents as incentive to develop the AmiGo Jr. Phone. And based on its own research, 60% of parents of kids up to age 12 consider a smartphone to be a safety essential.

Building phones for kids is not a novel concept; CNET’s Katie Collins looked at the HMD Fusion X1 at last year’s Mobile World Congress, for example. And system-based parental controls have also become more robust in recent years, even as a recent study suggests that parents should wait until the age of 13 to give their kids a phone.

Also available now is the AT&T AmiGo Jr. Watch 2, a more durable smartwatch that ties into AT&T’s AmiGo system.