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This breach raises concerns about the security of patient records. Hackers have breached the computer systems of Oracle. Several medical institutions in the US were blackmailed after sensitive patient information was leaked. The breaches have brought to light some serious security issues within the healthcare sector.

Breach of Patient Data and Subsequent Blackmail by Hackers of Oracle

Oracle notified some firms about the breach a few weeks ago. According to the account, the attack occurred after January 22nd. Hackers breached Oracle’s servers and exported sensitive patient data to external storage. The company claims it noticed the breach sometime around mid-February. Authorities note that the total number of revealed records remains open-ended. Additionally, the FBI launched an investigation to uncover the hackers’ ransom demands.

Effects on Healthcare Providers

Oracle offers a wide array of services to hospitals and clinics. The company acquired Cerner Corp, a major provider of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, for $28 million in 2022. This purchase aimed to facilitate the transfer of data from paper to the cloud. In a shocking turn of events, cybercriminals undermined Cerner’s old servers. They exploited sensitive data that had not yet been migrated to the cloud. Most reports state that these hackers gained access using captured customer login credentials. The FBI launched an investigation to uncover the hackers’ ransom demands.

Oracle’s Reaction and Efforts to Counter the Threat

As soon as Oracle became aware of the breach, they pledged to assist healthcare firms in analyzing the affected data. The firm’s objectives include recognizing impacted patients and enhancing safety protocols. They are also actively working to improve the company’s cybersecurity posture.

A representative from the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs confirmed that Oracle’s systems were not impacted. This is despite Oracle having a $16 billion deal with the Department to oversee their electronic health records.

Final Thoughts

This case is a critical reminder about the possible cybersecurity problems that exist in medicine. While digital records indeed facilitate more efficient management of patient data, they also come with greater risks. Improving security protocols to sensitive information must be done as a top priority. Healthcare and technology companies need to join forces to protect patients from future breaches whilst safeguarding their privacy.

On March 27, Nintendo Direct introduced Virtual Game Cards, a new feature designed to streamline digital game management on the company’s upcoming platform. This announcement, coinciding with growing excitement for the Switch 2, signals a shift in how players will access and organize their digital titles. However, for the uninitiated, the concept might be a bit complex. To help you, we have compiled a handy guide explaining Nintendo Virtual Game Cards on the Switch and Switch 2. So with that, let’s break it all down.

What are Nintendo Virtual Game Cards?

Nintendo Virtual Game Cards are the company’s solution to bring the flexibility of digital game cards to the Switch’s digital library. While physical game cards can be swapped between Switch consoles with ease, digital downloads have lacked similar portability. As such, the new Virtual Game Cards will try to eliminate that problem.

So, just like purchasing a traditional video game cartridge, this will be a version for digital downloads. Nintendo Switch users can access this feature through a hardware system update that is expected in late April. After its release, Nintendo Virtual Game Cards will be fully compatible with Nintendo Switch 2.

How to Use Nintendo Virtual Game Cards

With the help of Virtual Game Cards, you can easily load into any of your digitally purchased games. Remember that demos or Nintendo Switch Online member-exclusive games may not be available in the Game Cards library. With that, here is how you can use the Nintendo Virtual Game Cards:

• Turn on your Switch device and select the Virtual Game Cards option.
• Select the account from which you bought the game card.
• Click on the purchased game and press the Load on This System button.
• After the loading is done, press OK and start the game.

Load Game Card On Different Devices

One key concern for digital downloads on Nintendo is switching devices. Thankfully, the new system will eliminate that concern. With Virtual Game Cards, you can seamlessly switch between systems linked to your Nintendo Account. So, like a physical cartridge, you can ‘eject’ the game card from one console and ‘load’ it onto another.

Once loaded, the game is playable offline and accessible to all user accounts on that system. You can also manage your Virtual Game Card library directly through your Nintendo Account on the website. Initial system pairing for card transfers requires local wireless and internet access.

Virtual Game Cards require a linked Nintendo Account on both systems. Switch 2 exclusive and ‘Edition’ titles are restricted to Switch 2 hardware, which means you cannot use some specific title game cards on your Switch or Switch OLED models if you bought them for Switch 2. A maximum of two systems can be linked to each Nintendo Account.

How to Lend Games In Nintendo Family Group

With the arrival of Virtual Game Cards, Nintendo will now let you lend games to up to eight family group members. You can lend one game per account for 14 days (unless the borrower returns it earlier). Once they return, the saved data will remain intact for both the lender and the member who borrowed the game card.

Certain games that are part of a Nintendo Switch Online membership will not have a lending feature. If you want to lend games in your Nintendo account family group, here is the simple step-by-step process:

• Connect your family devices using local wireless (while both have an internet connection).
• Click on a game and select the Lend to Family Member option.
• Select the family member you want to share the game with.
• Click the Lend button, and the member can access the game.

And just like that, your family members will be able to use your Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 titles.

That is everything you need to know about the Nintendo Virtual Game Cards. Will you use this new feature to try out the best Switch games on the Switch 2? Do tell us in the comments below!

There aren’t many dragons you get to see inside the gates that spawn in the world of Solo Leveling. However, when one appears, massive destruction always follows its arrival. Sung Jinwoo recently extracted Kaisellin’s shadow in the Demon Castle arc and got a dragon shadow called Kaisel. But there is one more dragon, named Kamish, who is hailed as one of the strongest dungeon bosses in the series. We will see Kamish in Solo Leveling Season 3. However, if you’re curious about Kamish, including his origin and powers, keep reading to find out everything about this powerful dragon in Solo Leveling.

Spoilers Warning:

This post includes major spoilers for Solo Leveling. So, we highly recommend reading the manhwa or watching the anime to avoid ruining the intended experience.

Kamish in Solo Leveling: The First S-Rank Gate Boss

• Manhwa debut: Chapter 115

You must be aware of the gigantic and ferocious dragons from the Game of Thrones universe. Well, Kamish, a mighty dragon similar to the GOT ones, emerged from the first-ever S-Rank gate that spawned on Earth, more precisely on the West Coast of the US, almost eight years ago. Hence, this automatically made Kamish the first S-Rank magical beast boss faced by humanity in the world of Solo Leveling.

The Ant King killed around eight Japanese S-Rank hunters on Jeju Island. In comparison, Kamish is said to have massacred over 100 S-Rank hunters whom America gathered after the S-Rank dungeon break and promised to shower them with lavish rewards in return. The dragon, along with the S-Rank hunters, annihilated the entire West Coast with its people. That is why Kamish is still considered the “Greatest Calamity of Humanity.”

The remaining five S-Rank hunters teamed together and slayed the monstrous dragon to save humanity. In recognition of their victory, these hunters went on to become National Level Hunters, having authority similar to a nation’s in the story. The Americans enshrined Kamish’s body and put up a headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Hunters (FBH) on top of the dragon’s corpse.

Kamish As Sung Jinwoo’s Shadow in Solo Leveling

• Manhwa Debut: Chapter 142

Years later, Jinwoo gets clearance from FBH to see the corpse of humanity’s greatest calamity. As we already know by now, our hero never lets go of the body of a mighty adversary to waste, so Jinwoo is seen using his Shadow Extraction ability to add Kamish’s shadows to his army.

After two consecutive tries, Kamish gets resurrected as Master Jinwoo’s shadow in manhwa chapter 142. Kamish begins to share his history with Jinwo, where he confirms he was one of the servants of Antares, one of the many Monarchs in Solo Leveling. The Monarch of Destruction is also known as the King of Dragons, so understandably, one of the greatest dragons humankind has ever seen used to work for the king.

When the Monarch and the Rulers clashed for the first time, Kamish was apprehended by the rulers and they placed an essence stone inside him. Later, it was revealed that essence stones were used as the main source of energy for FBH’s headquarters.

Kamish was easily one of Jinwoo’s strongest shadows, but the dragon couldn’t continue to live as he began to disintegrate into pieces soon after this resurrection. This is because Jinwoo revived him as a shadow after the dragon had been dead for a long time.

As Kamish was slowly disintegrating, he regretted that he could not serve his new master and informed Jinwoo about the humans with Rulers’ powers. Unfortunately, Kamish faded away after being a shadow for a short period in Solo Leveling.

Solo Leveling Kamish: Powers and Abilities

Kamish, also known as “The Inextinguishable Flame,” truly lived up to his moniker and destroyed many human lives, including the killing of hundreds of S-Rank hunters. Thus, Kamish is one of the deadliest magical beasts ever encountered in the Solo Leveling world. If you are wondering about the dragon’s powers, we have listed all of Kamish’s abilities here:

• Unparalleled Strength and Resilience: Kamish was a massive dragon who was gifted with incredible strength and durability.
• Dragon’s Breath: Unlike any other dragon, Kamish had the power to unleash powerful fire blasts, which earned him the nickname – The Inextinguishable Flame.
• Dragon’s Fear: This was a special ability where Kamish could channel a roar infused with mana. This powerful roar could put the weak hunters (even allies) in a hopeless and dreadful state.

Hunter Items Made Out of Kamish’s Corpse

After the death of Kamish, his corpse was used to forge powerful weapons and skills in the Solo Leveling world. They are:

• Kamish’s Runestone: This runestone possessed the Dragon’s Fear skill and Sung Jinwoo later breaks the stone to inherit this skill.
• Kamish’s Wrath: Thomas Andre was bitten by Kamish in the battle. He collected the razor-sharp fangs and made daggers using them. These daggers are one of the strongest weapons created and were later gifted to Sung Jinwoo by Andre.
• Kamish’s Essence Stone: The essence stone implanted inside Kamish is being used as the energy source for FBH’s HQ.

That’s all you need to know about Kamish, the dragon who almost destroyed the United States. I wish we got to see more of him as Sung Jinwoo’s shadow. However, the Solo Leveling fandom is madly awaiting the day when Kamish’s story will be adapted in the third season of Solo Leveling. Until then, let us know your thoughts about Kamish in the comments below.

Apple and AI haven’t had the smoothest relationship. First, the company faced relentless scrutiny for lagging behind in the AI race. Then, Apple’s long-awaited entry into AI-powered experiences with Apple Intelligence, which was meant to be a turning point, instead became a source of constant frustration. What was meant to be a triumphant debut of Apple Intelligence turned into a logistical nightmare, with delays, fragmented rollouts, and underwhelming features tainting the company’s reputation for seamless execution.

Apple’s one hope at turning the narrative around was the release of an AI-powered Siri. Now, with the latest delay in Siri’s AI makeover — pushing the update to at least 2026 — Apple finds itself in a crisis unlike any before.

The State of Apple Intelligence

From the outset, Apple Intelligence has struggled. Not only was Apple late to the party, but most of the Apple Intelligence features the company promised garnered an underwhelming response. There wasn’t anything truly revolutionary in there. Features like Writing tools, Image Playground, and Clean Up fell into the “been there, done that” categories.

Still, there’s always been an unspoken expectation when it comes to such features that even if Apple is late, its execution will more than make up for it. However, with Apple Intelligence, even that expectation has fallen flat.

Unlike the polished, timely releases Apple is known for, AI features have been plagued by delays and inconsistencies, making for a disjointed user experience.

Timeline of Delays and Rollouts

• WWDC 202424 (June 2024): Apple announced Apple Intelligence to the world with the keynote at their annual developer conference, officially marking their foray into the world of AI.
• iOS 18 release (September 2024): iOS 18 is officially released as a stable version, with which, as per norms and expectations, Apple Intelligence should have arrived. However, the initial version of iOS 18 had no Apple Intelligence features.
• iOS 18.1 (October 2024): iOS 18.1 saw some Apple Intelligence features starting to come in. But it was again a slow and bumpy ride with features coming in fragmentation. A lot of features, like Writing tools, a slightly improved Siri with a new interface, Notification summaries, priority notifications in messages and mails, natural language search in the Photos app, and custom memory movies, AI-generated summaries for calls and notes recordings, and AI-powered focus mode arrived. However, the update still left out plenty of features — major ones at that.
• iOS 18.2 (December 2024): Another round of new Apple Intelligence features arrive, including ChatGPT integration, Image Playground, Genmoji, Image Wand, Visual Intelligence for camera on the iPhone 16 lineup. Still, the roster was far from complete.
• iOS 18.3 (January 2025): 8 months after Apple initially announced AI, the set of features coming under this umbrella was still in shambles. All promised features still haven’t arrived, and in what’s probably a first for Apple, the company disabled an AI feature they had already shipped. Due to inaccuracies, AI-generated notification summaries for news apps have temporarily been removed.
• iOS 18.4 (Expected in April 2025): While iOS 18.4 is expected to arrive next month, it still won’t ship with the remaining Apple Intelligence features, even 11 months after the first announcement.

Even after nearly a year, Apple Intelligence remains incomplete and inconsistent, making its debut one of Apple’s most turbulent rollouts in recent history.

Apple Intelligence: More Hype than Impact?

The fragmented rollout of Apple Intelligence features hasn’t been the only problem plaguing Apple’s AI. In fact, far from it.

By far, with all the Apple Intelligence features the company has shipped, it has failed to roll out anything that’s impacted the users’ lives in a meaningful manner.

Not everything about Apple Intelligence is a disappointment. Features like Writing Tools have provided a privacy-conscious alternative to AI-assisted writing, and priority notifications have added some utility to the AI experience. But beyond these few successes, Apple Intelligence remains largely forgettable.

Another feature — Notification summaries — is sort of steeped in a bit of controversy, much like most of Apple Intelligence at this point. While notification summaries can help users quickly scan their alerts, their AI-driven interpretation isn’t always reliable.

Notification summaries aren’t useless; in fact, far from it. But there’s also the fact that notification summaries have led to some huge mess-ups. Summaries struggle especially with text messages that tend to be more informal and can even be too literal, which an artificial intelligence model needs to better cope with. At other times, summaries have outright led to notifications, especially for news apps, that change the whole meaning of the news. It’s one of the reasons Apple has disabled notification summaries for news apps for the time being.

Features like Image Playground and Genmoji work fine, but none of the features bring anything meaningful to the table. For the most part, you might forget about their existence after toying with them for a while.

One feature for which most people, including me, were most excited about, other than the new Siri, was the Clean Up tool. It’s something that could have helped people out in their daily lives, that is, if it worked as well as it should have. Clean Up struggles with even simple edits, making it feel like an afterthought rather than a true AI-powered enhancement. In contrast, Google’s Pixel or Samsung’s S25 already offer a version of this feature that shows what’s truly possible.

Google’s Magic Eraser is even available on older iPhones, and it performs significantly better than Clean Up, removing objects cleanly without distortions. So, why can’t Apple step up?

However, as if all the constant disappointment around Apple Intelligence wasn’t enough, Apple dropped an even bigger bomb in the midst of it all. In hindsight, all the constant letdowns should have been a signal for the biggest disappointment around Apple Intelligence feature — Siri’s delay.

While there were rumors going around that the updates to Siri might arrive with iOS 18.4 in April, Apple pulled the rug from under its users last Friday when the company confirmed that Siri’s AI overhaul has been delayed indefinitely.

While the company wants to ship these features by at least the release of iOS 19 later in 2025 — and yes, the “at least” part is important — there is no clear timeline for when (or if) Apple will be able to deliver on its vision.

Siri’s Evolution: Another Letdown Instead of a Breakthrough

Apple promised a new era for Siri with Apple Intelligence — one that would make the virtual assistant truly useful. Users have been asking for this overhaul for years. And after neglecting Siri’s potential for far too long, it seemed like Apple was finally listening.

With the updates, Siri was supposed to become an indispensable assistant capable of seamlessly integrating with users’ daily lives, helping with anything and everything around your device, thanks to new abilities like contextual understanding, on-screen awareness, and in-app actions.

The improvements for Siri that Apple showcased at the WWDC 2024 last June were truly impressive. With a simple prompt like “When is Mom’s flight arriving?” Siri could understand who you meant by “Mom”, get her flight information from your emails, cross-check it against real-time information for that flight, and tell you the exact time your mother’s flight would land.

After spending years in a stasis, it looked like Siri would finally bloom and step into its potential. And this example was only the tip of the iceberg. With Siri’s abilities to take actions in and across your apps, it finally felt like the average user had a reason to care about all the hype around AI. Apple’s promise to deliver “AI for the rest of us” made sense.

Undoubtedly, Siri’s makeover was an ambitious take on Apple’s part. Yet the company promised the features with a confidence that did not indicate, not even once, the possibility that the features didn’t already exist and were almost ready to be shipped. But I’m left with this question:

Does An Improved Siri Even Exist?

While Mark Gurman’s report suggests that the new personalized Siri works, many Apple fans, including myself, are now taking this information with a grain of salt. It’s been 10 months since the WWDC 2024 keynote and there’s not a single demo for this new and improved Siri that has been shown to the public. If a feature works 80% of the time, can it at least not be demoed?

Even John Gruber of Daring Fireball calls it “vaporware”. No one outside of Apple can vouch for its existence, and that should raise concerns.

It can be argued that Apple, ever since its post-NeXT-reunification era, has followed a rule of not publishing concept videos. So, perhaps we should give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that the LLM Siri really does exist as more than a concept, and the only obstacle standing in the way of shipping it is to get it working 100% of the time.

But it can also be argued that the Apple that hasn’t published concept videos in decades was also an Apple that has never had to worry about falling behind in any sort of technology race. However, the era of AI changed that, and it can be argued that the company found itself in uncharted waters for the first time in a long time.

It wouldn’t be so hard to believe that this was indeed a company scrambling to appease its shareholders.

The Aftereffects of Siri’s Delay

Delays to the personalized Siri have now even led to delays in the release of Apple’s smart home hub, which some refer to as HomePad, because it reportedly relies on the new App Intent features with Siri.

According to a private meeting held by the Siri team, reports of which were shared by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the new personalized Siri is nowhere near ready to be shipped even now. According to the report, the AI-powered assistant reportedly works only 60-80% of the time, meaning that in about one-third of interactions, it simply fails.

In lieu of these numbers, Apple has decided to postpone the launch since the company only wants to ship a feature that users can really count on.

There doesn’t seem to be much else of a fallout from the all-hands meeting with the Siri team. Currently, the reports suggest that Apple doesn’t plan on firing any executives, but that could change in the future. However, this doesn’t mean there isn’t a sense of urgency at the company. Reportedly, more executives are being shuffled under John Giannandra, the head of AI at Apple, to assist with the AI crisis and turn the situation around. The company’s AI efforts are also going to be the focus of the discussion at the major offsite exec meeting happening later this week.

Apple Intelligence vs. the Competition: Is It Already Too Late?

The problem with new Siri’s delay isn’t only a question of not getting the features we want. Even if the new Siri exists as more than just a concept and Apple can deliver it in 2026, by the time it arrives, will it already be too late?

The contextualized Siri was the highlight of Apple’s AI efforts. Siri has long suffered at the hands of Apple’s negligence — from being one of the first and best virtual assistants to exist, to becoming an obsolete afterthought. With the WWDC announcement, Siri finally felt like it could again claim a place in the lead.

But while Apple has been struggling to get its AI ducks in a row, Apple’s competitors have been shipping out steady updates to improve their assistants. Google is already tossing out Google Assistant in favor of Gemini on Android. Google’s Gemini is rapidly evolving, offering conversational AI that feels more intuitive and context-aware. It can even perform actions on your Android phone like a true assistant.

Even Samsung’s Bixby has come a long way. Samsung’s Galaxy AI can now take natural language prompts like “My eyes hurt” and intuitively suggest options to reach display settings. Meanwhile, Apple’s settings app is struggling to even return results for simple searches like “Messages” sometimes. You can forget natural language searches anytime soon on your iPhone.

With ChatGPT and Gemini showing us what AI assistants can truly be capable of, what will keep Apple and Siri in the race? Even Apple’s ChatGPT integration in Siri offers such a disjointed experience that it can hardly make a difference. Perhaps Apple should forget about trying to develop its in-house LLM and just buy OpenAI. How else would they close the increasing gap with their competitors seems like an impossible question to me.

Avoiding a Crisis of Faith

The company is now facing a full-blown crisis that extends beyond the crashing of its stocks and disappointing its shareholders. It’s facing a crisis of faith from even its most ardent fans.

There’s no doubt that Apple is now trying to contain this dumpster fire. Along with putting out the statement about the delays in new Siri, Apple has now also put up disclaimers about the delay on their website and (silently) pulled an iPhone 16 ad showcasing the Siri features from YouTube. To be honest, it was a grave mistake on Apple’s part to market the iPhone 16 lineup with Apple Intelligence features, especially the Siri overhaul, when the phone otherwise lacked major changes. It was a gross violation of the trust users put into the company to promote a feature that was not ready to be shipped, even months later.

If Apple wants to regain trust, it needs to give more than a statement or put up disclaimers on its website. I’m not asking them to ship a half-baked product; we’ve already had a lot of those since iOS 18. But there needs to be more transparency around what’s going on and at least some demonstrations to prove that the new Siri really does exist as something more than a concept.

On top of that, Apple is now also reportedly planning a major redesign with iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16. At present, it feels like the company is hoping to distract users from its AI fails by dangling a shiny new redesign in front of them. However, if this redesign doesn’t include major changes under the hood to incorporate Apple Intelligence at the OS level, maybe Apple should just forget about it. There’s no amount of changes at the UI level that would make up for the absolute circus AI at Apple has turned into.

All Solo Leveling arcs are well-crafted, but what makes the Jeju Island arc stand out is the intense fight between Jinwoo and the Ant King. Isn’t it? The penultimate episode of Solo Leveling Season 2 finally adapted the most exciting battle of the acclaimed manhwa. While the anime-only fans left their seats fully impressed, some manhwa readers had complaints about the fight. That’s because manhwa readers believe the anime changed the Jinwoo vs Ant King fight, such that it is not that fulfilling.

Spoiler Warning:

This post includes heavy spoilers for the Solo Leveling manhwa and anime. Proceed with caution.

Ant King and Sung Jinwoo’s Fight: Manhwa vs Anime

After arriving on Jeju Island, Jinwoo first extracts the shadows of the dead ants and makes them fight each other. He immediately calls Iron, one of Jinwoo’s strongest shadows, and instructs him to eradicate the ants. Once they are defeated, the protagonist astonishes everyone by extracting their shadows.

In the anime, however, Jinwoo couldn’t extract the shadows of the ants as the Ant King arrives before he could do that. He was about to extract the shadows since he told everyone to keep this a secret, but he couldn’t do so as the Ant King was standing in front of him.

It’s hard to say why the anime decided to skip that part, but that made Sung Jinwoo’s entry in the anime less heroic than in the manhwa. Well, the anime-only fans may still have enjoyed Jinwoo’s entry, but the ones who have read the manhwa know that something was missing.

Jinwoo Struggles Against the Ant King, Unlike In The Manhwa

The manhwa stretched the fight a bit, but even for a second, the fandom didn’t feel that Jinwoo struggled against the Ant King. However, if we talk about the anime, there are several scenes that make us see Jinwoo’s concern. For instance, the scene when the Ant King was about to insert a sharp object into Jinwoo’s eye showcased fear or worry in our hero’s eyes.

Jinwoo clenched his teeth hard and was worried about getting hurt, so he used the Mutilation ability to escape the situation. This was a feeling that fans didn’t see Jinwoo portray in the manhwa. In the manhwa, Jinwoo dodged every attack from the Ant King easily and overpowered him with each attack. It was basically a one-sided fight in the manhwa, whereas in the anime, Jinwoo did struggle slightly and showed signs of anxiety.

This change is controversial for everyone in the Jinwoo vs Ant King fight. Some fans think that the anime made Jinwoo look weaker and less confident, which didn’t go well with his aura. On the other hand, a significant part of the fandom thinks it was a good change, as Jinwoo’s struggle against the Ant King made the fight more interesting. A one-sided fight would have been boring, as people want to have a little bit of fear for the protagonist to truly enjoy a fight scene.

There Were Fewer Dialogues In the Anime

The Ant King returns to the battlefield after killing Gyoto Ryuji and encounters Jinwoo. The S-Rank hunter was amused seeing a talking ant for the first time.

The fight begins, and the first thing Jinwoo notices is the Exoskeleton of the Ant King in the anime, as well as the manhwa. He lands a heavy blow; the anime makes us hear a cracking sound, while the manhwa gives us some dialogue.

He broke through my Exoskeleton, says the Ant King.

The anime and manhwa featured some significant changes, especially around the dialogue. Well, it’s pretty understandable that stuffing the episode with unnecessary dialogue could’ve been frustrating, so the creators made the right decision in that regard.

The manhwa doesn’t make the characters move, so it’s important for the pages to feature some dialogue for the readers to better understand the current scenario. Fans wanted to experience the fight scenes through the anime and not listen to some unnecessary lines from the source material. So, it was a rather welcoming change for the manhwa and anime readers alike.

Regardless of some changes from the manhwa, the fight in the anime was truly incredible. From animation to action choreography, everything was S-tier in Jinwoo and the Ant King’s fight. It’s only sad that we will have to wait for Season 3 of Solo Leveling to experience more fights like this.

Last year, Microsoft made it mandatory to sign in with a Microsoft account on all consumer editions of Windows 11 during the setup process. However, people found a quick hack that allowed users to set up Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. You could just launch Command Prompt during the setup process and run “oobebypassnro” to skip the online account requirement.

Now, Microsoft on its Windows Insider blog has mentioned that the company is removing the bypassnro.cmd script that allowed users to skip the Microsoft account requirement during the installation process.

Microsoft notes, “We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.“

Currently, the update is rolling out to Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516 in the Dev channel. However, it’s quite likely that Microsoft will apply the change to all builds including the stable channel. So in the future, you won’t be able to bypass the Microsoft account requirement during Windows 11 setup.

I have used touchscreen Windows laptops in the past. However, I rarely find myself using the touch functionality anymore. Moreover, when Windows laptops get hot, the touch screen starts to act up, often registering erratic inputs. In that case, it’s best to turn off the touch screen on your laptop. So, if you are facing similar issues or just don’t use the touch feature enough, here is how you can turn off the touch screen on Windows 10 and 11 devices permanently.

1. Turn Off Touch Screen on Windows 10 and 11 Using Device Manager

First and foremost, you can turn off the touch screen on Windows 11 and 10 using Device Manager. You can simply disable the driver for the touch screen, which will prevent it from working. Here are the steps to follow.

• Press “Windows + X” to open the Quick Link menu.
• Click and open the “Device Manager” from this menu.

• Next, expand “Human Interface Devices” and scroll down.
• You will find the “HID-compliant touch screen” listing here.
• Right-click on this listing and select “Disable device”.
• If you see other listings mentioning touch screen, disable them too.
• Finally, click “Yes” to turn off the touch screen on your Windows 10 or 11 PC.

You can right-click on the same listings that you’ve disabled above and choose to enable the touch screen on your Windows laptop at any time.

2. Disable the Touch Screen on Windows 10 and 11 Using PowerShell

You can also use PowerShell to disable the touch screen driver on Windows 10 and 11 PCs. With a single command, you can turn off touch input on Windows laptops right away.

• Launch the Start menu and search “powershell”.
• Now, click on “Run as administrator” in the right pane.
• In the PowerShell window, paste the below command and hit Enter.

Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object { $_.FriendlyName -like "*touch screen*" } | Disable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false

• This will automatically disable the touch screen on your Windows laptop.
• In case, you want to re-enable the touch screen, run the below command.

Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object { $_.FriendlyName -like "*touch screen*" } | Enable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false

3. Permanently Turn Off Touch Screen on Windows Laptops Using Registry Editor

In case, the touch screen keeps re-enabling after a reboot or Windows update, you can permanently disable it through the Registry Editor. You can modify the “TouchGate” value to turn off touch input right away.

• Open the Start menu and search “registry”.
• Now, open the “Registry Editor” from the search results.
• Here, paste the below path into the address bar.
• This will take you to the “Touch” Registry entry.

ComputerHKEY_Current_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWispTouch

• On the right side, look for “TouchGate” and open it.
• Next, change the Value data to 0 and click on “OK”.
• Now, restart your Windows laptop, and the touch screen will be disabled.

So, these are the three different ways to turn off the touch screen on Windows 11 and 10 laptops. Many users have reported that disabling the touch functionality through Device Manager doesn’t persist after rebooting the PC. If that’s the case, you can modify the Registry value to disable the touch screen permanently.

NYT Wordle is a satisfying and tricky test of vocabulary and logic that challenges players to guess a new five-letter word every day. However, things can get a little too challenging at times, and that probably explains why you’re here. So, if you don’t want to break your word-guessing streak or get too frustrated, take a look at today’s Wordle hints and answer for puzzle #1379 for March 29, 2025, down below!

How to Play Wordle

Wordle is a word puzzle game by The New York Times. You are given six attempts to guess a five-letter word. The letters are highlighted in Yellow, Green, and Grey when you input a word. Yellow denotes that the letter appears in today’s Wordle answer, but it’s not at the right spot. Meanwhile, when a letter turns green, it means you have guessed the right letter in the right position. At last, a grey letter means the letter is not part of today’s answer.

While it may seem that winning at Wordle is easy, it is difficult to get that pesky five-letter word right. To help you out, here are some quick tips on how to play Wordle:

• Open with a strong word – Using the right Wordle starting words rich with multiple vowels and consonants is important. While you can take a look at our dedicated guide, starting words like AISLE, SALTY, and DINER are my go-to choices.
• Pay attention to colors – Keep track of the yellow, green, and grayed-out letters to eliminate incorrect positions and letters. To make every guess count, avoid accidentally repeating letters that have already been eliminated.
• Isolate the vowels – There can be days when your usual starting words don’t help much. In that case, try to test the remaining vowels by using different words.
• Repeating letters is good – Don’t be afraid of repeating letters as history is proof that there are chances the Wordle answer will have one or two letters that repeat themselves.
• Use the Wordlebot – As described above, NYT’s Wordlebot is an intuitive bot that analyzes your responses and compares them against itself. Instilling some healthy competition can help you improve your own Wordle guessing and see what you could have done better.

If you still need more details, learn how to play Wordle and check out more Wordle tips and tricks to ensure you get the answer almost every time.

Hints for Today’s Wordle Answer for March 29

We know you are here for Wordle hints and clues, and we are eager to help you. Like always, to assist you with today’s puzzle, we list the starting word for today’s Wordle answer, whether it has any vowels or repeating letters, and more.

After that, we also provide an additional hint for today’s Wordle game to get one step closer to the answer. So scroll down if you’re ready. SPOILERS AHEAD!

Does Today’s Wordle Have Any Vowels?

Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, March 29, 2025, has a single vowel.

If you guess the vowels correctly, there is a high possibility that you will guess the correct 5-letter answer in no time.

Does the Wordle Today Have Double Letters?

Well, there are double letters in the Wordle answer today.

What Does Today’s Wordle Answer Start with?

Today’s Wordle answer starts with the letter “S.”

Spoiler Warning:

Scroll slowly past this point. Major hint and answer for today’s Wordle #1379 lie ahead.

Additional Hint for Today’s Wordle Answer

If the above-mentioned hints haven’t helped much, here’s the Wordle cheat hint that will definitely get you to the answer. The final hint for today is:

You say this when you seek forgiveness.

What Is Today’s Wordle Answer?

The answer for Wordle today on March 29, 2025, is SORRY.

Meaning of Sorry — “Sorry” expresses regret, sympathy, or apology.

As usual, my three musketeers came in super handy and had an S, Y, and O to offer, in green. Additionally, I also got a yellow R out of DINER, which led me straight away to try SORRY next. And, well, surprisingly enough, it turned out to be the Wordle answer for the day.

Do you also solve NYT Connections and Strands every day? Check out our posts for Strands hints for March 29 and Connections hints for March 29 since they include helpful tips and clues to today’s puzzles.

Previous Wordle Answers

For regular Wordle players, we have curated the answers of all past Wordle answers in one place. If you are trying to find patterns in these word puzzles, check out our list of past Wordle answers.

Why Is Wordle Still So Popular?

Despite over 1,350 puzzles and nearly four years since its initial surge, Wordle is still going strong as a free-to-play word puzzle game that it is. What started as a simple game to pass the time during the pandemic has now become a daily habit for millions of The New York Times readers.

Just like reading your early morning newspaper, Wordle adds some productive value to your daily life as a brainteaser, which explains the incredible player base. Some avid Wordle players even stay up late to solve the puzzle as soon as it releases at 12:00 AM local time.

The fact that there’s a single puzzle on a daily basis that every player tries to solve makes it all the more competitive and challenging. According to a report by The Conversation, just in 2022 itself, Wordle had around a whopping 3 million users across the world. As of 2025, one can only imagine where this number has soared.

That said, if you are one of them, hope the Wordle hints we shared today helped you figure out the answer without having to scroll to the answer.

NYT Connections is the one word association game known for the difficulty and amusement that it brings. However, if you are part of the folks lost as to what today’s Connections answer is, then you are in the right place. We post a NYT Connections answers guide every day to help you solve each day’s puzzle easily. So, let’s not waste time and check out Connections hints for today’s game #657 to help you get to the answers for March 29, 2025.

What is NYT Connections Game?

After Wordle’s overwhelming success, The New York Times embraced the fun and launched another word puzzle game called Connections. NYT Connections is a popular word puzzle game available to play for free on mobile and desktop.

Thankfully, it’s easy getting started with NYT Connections. This word association game spreads 16 random words across a 4 x 4 grid. Players must find well, connections among these words and divide them across four categories, colored yellow, green, blue, and purple, based on difficulty.

Connections Hint Today for March 29, 2025

As mentioned above, the NYT Connections puzzle has four different categories that are divided into color-coded difficulties. From Yellow category being the easiest to the hardest Purple one, the game can quickly become difficult if you’re unprepared.

To make your life even easier, here are the NYT Connections hints for today’s categories:

• Yellow Category – There’s something about eating in luxury
• Green Category – You wear these on your torso
• Blue Category – A combination of grammatical terms
• Purple Category – All released in a certain year

Do you also solve Strands from The New York Times every day? Our articles include Strands hints for March 29 and Wordle hints for March 29, useful tips to help you figure out the answers to these puzzles.

Spoiler Warning:

Scroll past this point AT YOUR OWN RISK. Major category hints and answers for today’s NYT Connections below.

Check out Today’s Connections Categories

The Connections categories today are an interesting mix of themes, which might get a bit difficult for us all. That said, here are the NYT Connections categories for Saturday, March 29, 2025.

• Yellow – MATERIALS ASSOCIATED WITH FANCY DINING
• Green – KINDS OF SHORTS
• Blue – NOUNS IN A FAMOUS PALINDROME
• Purple – MOVIES FROM 1985

Do you finally see where each word should go? No? Then, keep scrolling to see the NYT Connections answers for today.

Today’s Connections Answers for March 29, 2025

The answers for Connections today, on March 29, 2025, are:

• MATERIALS ASSOCIATED WITH FANCY DINING – China, Crystal, Linen, Silver
• KINDS OF SHORTS – Bermuda, Biker, Boxer, Cargo
• NOUNS IN A FAMOUS PALINDROME – Canal, Man, Panama, Plan
• MOVIES FROM 1985 – Brazil, Clue, Commando, Witness

How to Play Connections: Tips & Tricks to Solve the Puzzle

Given the fact you’re here, chances are that you already know how to play NYT Connections. As you might be able to tell by now, Connections by The New York Times is a word association game where players sort out 16 random words into four categories by finding a common ‘connection.’ This can be anything from a common sound to a deeper meaning.

That said, if you’re still confused, here are the best tips on how to play NYT Connections:

• Simplicity is key: Connections will often throw ambiguous words at you. While it’s easy to get caught up in the details, the answer almost always lies in the simplest connections possible. So, instead of dear and deer being connected through a hunter-prey dynamic, they most likely connect because of a similar sound.
• Watch those guesses: A key thing to note is Connections only gives you four chances in 24 hours for a single puzzle. As such, we advise not being trigger happy and carefully weighing in your words before pressing that submit button.
• Shuffle Away: While a bit tricky, the sneaky Connections editor deliberately puts the first word placement as a misdirection. So the one golden tip here is to press that Shuffle button before you go on solving it.

If you’re still unsure how to proceed, check out our dedicated how-to-play NYT Connections guide for all the help you need.

We hope you had similar luck as I did for today’s game. If not, please let us know in the comments below!

The second season of the Solo Leveling anime has outdone the debut season and has strengthened its standing as the greatest manhwa adaptation. Sung Jinwoo successfully defeated the Ant King and ended his assault against the S-Rank Hunters on Jeju Island in the penultimate episode. Sadly, there is only one more episode to go in season 2. So, find out the exact release date and time of the final episode, Solo Leveling Season 2 Episode 13, to see what Jinwoo does next.

Solo Leveling Season 2 Final Episode Release Time and Date

As Sung Jinwoo has defeated the Ant King, it is time for fabs to meet a new shadow in the upcoming episode, titled ‘On to the Next Target.’ That said, Solo Leveling Season 2 Episode 13 is confirmed to be released on March 29, 2025, at 10:30 AM PDT (or 1:30 PM ET).

• Release time in the US: 10:30 AM PDT on March 29, 2025
• Release time in the UK: 5:30 PM GMT on March 29, 2025
• Release time in Australia: 4:30 AM AEDT on March 30, 2025
• Release time in the Philippines: 1:30 AM PHT on March 30, 2025
• Release time in India: 11:00 PM IST on March 29, 2025

Solo Leveling Season 2 Episode 13 Countdown

If you don’t see your region listed above, use our countdown timer to stay on track with the release of the final episode of Solo Leveling Season 2:

What to Expect from Solo Leveling S2 Episode 13?

Jinwoo has won against the Ant King, but there is one more pressing issue to resolve; Cha Hae-In isn’t recovering with the use of magical healing potions. Her condition is getting worse rapidly, and there is no healer around to help out. Sung Jinwoo has one last trick up his sleeve, and we will find out whether it will save Cha Hae-In or not in the upcoming episode.

Moreover, you can also look forward to our protagonist recruiting a brand-new shadow who might instantly become Jinwoo’s strongest shadow so far in the story. The final episode will also tease the beginning of the upcoming arc during Min Byung Gyu’s funeral. So, gear up for a memorable finale to set the stage for season 3.

To stream the latest episodes of Solo Leveling Season 2 as soon as they are released, you can head over to Crunchyroll and Prime Video in global markets. The sequel will be released on other anime streaming platforms, like Netflix, Hulu, and more, later.