Enlarge / The New York Times is buying Wordle. (credit: Wordle) The New York Times announced today that its Games division would be purchasing Wordle—everyone’s favorite five-letter-word guessing game and emoji-square generator—for a number in the “low-seven figures.” The sale caps a meteoric rise for the simple game. It rode word-of-mouth recommendations and glowing media...
A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO’s Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.
The federal agency said an agreement with Verizon and AT&T would enable the wireless providers to expand their networks while allowing aircraft to land safely.
How does a TikTok star make a living? In a zillion different ways.
Claims about professional athletes dying after getting vaccinated have been a recurring conspiracy theory since the shots were introduced.
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A fake two-factor-authentication app that has been downloaded some 10,000 times from Google Play surreptitiously installed a known banking-fraud trojan that scoured infected phones for financial data and other personal information, security firm Pradeo said. 2FA Authenticator went live on Google Play two weeks ago, posing as an alternative to legitimate...
Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) As Internet attacks go, data floods designed to knock servers offline are among the crudest, akin to a brutish caveman wielding a club to clobber his rival. Over the years, those clubs have grown ever larger. New data provided by Microsoft on Thursday shows...
The company’s revenue and profit beat Wall Street expectations, easing concerns that supply chain problems and the coronavirus were a drag on sales.
The agency cited national security in revoking the license for the American subsidiary of a state-owned Chinese telecom operator.