🟩 Wordle has been bought by The New York Times
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Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, will stay free for everyone to play. The smash online word game Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, which will integrate the daily word puzzle into The New York Times Games suite of word games, creator Josh Wardle announced today. (Chaim Gartenberg via The Verge)
Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO - and he says it's his choice. Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it, is stepping away as the company's CEO seven years into his reign. (Connie Loizos via TechCrunch)
Teachers Are Quitting, and Companies Are Hot to Hire Them. Burned out teachers are leaving the classroom for jobs in the private sector, where talent-hungry companies are hiring them—and often boosting their pay—to work in sales, software, healthcare and training, among other fields. (Kathryn Dill via Wall Street Journal)
Why Simple Is Smart. Complicated language can send a signal that a writer is dense or overcompensating. (Derek Thompson via The Atlantic)
Inside Trickbot, Russia's Notorious Ransomware Gang. Internal messages WIRED has viewed shed new light on the operators of one of the world's biggest botnets. (Matt Burgess via WIRED)
This company says it's developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA. Though it almost certainly won’t work, it is a telling sign of where the field is heading (Tate Ryan-Mosley via MIT Technology Review)
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