NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Friday, June 26

Looking for help with today’s New York Times Pips? We’ll walk you through today’s puzzle and help you match dominoes to tiles.

The hidden cost of complacency and Jay Roland’s mission against corporate America’s technical debt crisis
The hidden cost of complacency and Jay Roland’s mission against corporate America’s technical debt crisis

Corporate America is hemorrhaging money through inefficient IT business processes, and Jay Roland, founder of Varex Solutions, believes that the industry is complacent about it. Technical debt, which is the accumulated cost of deferred IT fixes, miscon…

NYT Strands Answers Today: Hints & Clues For Friday, June 26 (I’ll Gobble You Up!)

Looking for help with today’s NYT Strands puzzle? Here’s an extra hint to help you uncover the right words, as well as all of today’s answers and Spangram.

SpaceX Starship Could Spark Explosion In Space Tourism, Scholar Says

The SpaceX Starship, the most powerful and advanced super-capsule ever designed on this planet, could spark an explosion in space tourism and supercharge Space Race II.

Small Language Models Outperform Frontier AI On Cost, Speed And Accuracy

Bigger has defined AI from day one. New data says task-specific small models beat frontier LLMs on accuracy, cost and speed — and save money.

Bayer Not Liable After Man Claimed Weedkiller Caused His Cancer, Supreme Court Rules

The court ruled against a man who sued Monsanto, alleging its weed killer Roundup caused his cancer.

10 best contract management software tools for 2026 (compared)
10 best contract management software tools for 2026 (compared)

Most teams don’t go shopping for the best contract management software until something slips. A renewal auto-fires nobody approved. A signed agreement sits in someone’s inbox instead of a searchable record. An auditor asks for a contract trail and the …

Apple raises Mac and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch reaches the shelf
Apple raises Mac and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch reaches the shelf

The AI boom has been an abstract thing for most consumers, a story about data centres and model launches happening somewhere else. This week it arrived somewhere concrete: the price of a Mac. Apple is raising prices on Macs and iPads to offset the soar…

‘Supergirl’ Reviews Have Some Writing Off James Gunn’s DCU Already

Supergirl’s poor reviews and Rotten Tomatoes score have some questioning James Gunn’s DCU judgement, even if he’s an excellent filmmaker himself.

A Michigan township killed a $2.4 billion Chinese battery plant, and now the company might bankrupt it
A Michigan township killed a $2.4 billion Chinese battery plant, and now the company might bankrupt it

Less than three years ago, residents of Green Charter Township, a rural community of roughly 3,000 people in central Michigan, packed a hall to celebrate what they saw as a victory for local democracy. They had recalled every member of their town board…