The New York Times

Elon Permits Advertisers to Un-F*ck Themselves

Fri, 06/21/2024 - 10:14

Elon Musk’s social media business X, formerly Twitter, took a turn for the worse in November 2023 when he told advertisers to “go f**k yourselves” on stage with the New York Times.

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Wordle Now Lets You Go Back and Play Puzzles You May Have Missed

Tue, 05/07/2024 - 17:20

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Rejoice, Wordle lovers. The game’s owner, the New York Times, has announced that paying subscribers will now be able to go back into an archive of over a thousand previous Wordle puzzles to play them at their leisure.

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Publishers Give OpenAI Their Content for Top Spot in ChatGPT’s Answers

Mon, 04/29/2024 - 14:45

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The Financial Times announced a deal with OpenAI on Monday to license its world-class journalism for training and informing

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Apple's Hidden iOS Puzzle Game Is Designed to Infuriate You Back to Wordle

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 15:50

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The next rendition of iOS 17 is right around the corner, and it’s bearing gifts we want and a few better left on the drawing-room table. The latest iOS 17.5 beta includes a hidden game for Apple News+ subscribers called Quartiles. The game features word snippets in five-by-five tiles that players must match to create…

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Court Says Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Group Is an Attack on Free Speech

Mon, 03/25/2024 - 12:50

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A California court dismissed Elon Musk and X Corp.’s lawsuit against the Center for Counseling Digital Hate

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Facebook Marketplace Is a Surreal Nightmare. These Are the Most Unhinged Listings

Fri, 03/15/2024 - 15:30

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Facebook is a wasteland. Once the default gateway to the internet, today the site has a reputation as one of the least cool places on the web—at least for America’s taste-making young people.

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The New York Times Is Trying to Kill Your Favorite Wordle Clone

Fri, 03/08/2024 - 17:05

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The New York Times is on the hunt for copies of Wordle, the word-guessing game it acquired for seven figures in 2022. And it’s using takedown notices to kill 1,900 versions of the game housed on GitHub.

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OpenAI Accuses the New York Times of 'Hacking' ChatGPT

Tue, 02/27/2024 - 15:20

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The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement and claims that the influential tech startup used its journalistic material to train its chatbot, ChatGPT, without paying the proper licensing fees.