The New York Times Purchases Wordle
“Wordle was acquired for an undisclosed price in the low seven figures.” BRB, getting to work on building a viral word game ...
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Data and electronic civil rights in wartime; building safer creativity at work.
In wartime, megascale data centers may make way for distributed architectures
"To avoid collateral damage, countries consider ditching giant server hubs for smaller, distributed ones—especially now that military and civilian data live side-by-side."
XOXO Explore is fitting showcase for a brilliant experiment
XOXO was completely wonderful. This site is a lovely showcase of why.
The user-tailored newsroom
Newsrooms typically treat publishing as a one-size-fits-all broadcast. What if they tailored their work to a reader's needs and interests?