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紐約時報買 Wordle...

在 Hacker News 上看到「The New York Times Buys Wordle」這篇，紐約時報買下 Wordle，Hacker News 上的討論「The New York Times buys Wordle (nytimes.com)」裡面有在討論商業模式之類的事情，另外因為紐約時報的報導放在 paywall 裡面，所以另外提供 Internet Archive 的版本可以看：「The New York Times Buys Wordle」。

這邊就不介紹 Wordle 了，在中文版的維基百科上面有條目可以看說明：「Wordle」，玩過幾天後我就放掉了...

紐約時報買 Wordle 的價錢沒有詳細透露，只有說大約是 million 等級的價錢：

Wordle was purchased from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price “in the low seven figures,” The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.

但後續的動作就不知道了，也許是整合 word puzzle，也許是藉此延伸 social network？

紐約時報網站上 Tor 的 Hidden Service (i.e. Tor Onion Service)

紐約時報官方把整個站台放到 Tor 的 Hidden Service 上了：「The New York Times is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service」。

而且也買了 SSL certficiate：

The address for our Onion Service is:
https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/

讓所有人想看到的人都有辦法看到是紐約時報的目標，所以就推出了許多不一樣的方式讓使用者可以看到內容...

The Times is dedicated to delivering quality, independent journalism, and our engineering team is committed to making sure that readers can access our journalism securely. This is why we are exploring ways to improve the experience of readers who use Tor to access our website.

美國年輕人的理想職業

紐約時報報導 National Society of High School Scholars 問了一萬八千名美國年輕人 (15～29 歲) 理想的職業，也不少出乎意料的結果跑出來：「The New Dream Jobs」。

常見的網路公司在上面，但讓紐約時報感到意外的，FBI、CIA 與 NSA 也在上面：

When the National Society of High School Scholars asked 18,000 Americans, ages 15 to 29, to rank their ideal future employers, the results were curious. To nobody’s surprise, Google, Apple and Facebook appeared high on the list, but so did the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency.

不過應該是不意外？在教育體系被灌輸愛國主義不就很容易就有這樣的結果？