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The New York Times Is Trying to Kill Your Favorite Wordle Clone
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. At the heart of the situation is the game “Reactle,” a Wordle copycat created by Developer Chase Wackerfuss…
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I Scream, You Scream: iFixit Wants to Fix McDonald’s Busted Ice Cream Machines
McDonald’s busted ice cream machines have long been a meme across cyberspace, but iFixit wants to put an end to it. The popular how-to tech website is appealing to Congress after applying to circumvent a copyright law that prevents the average Joe from fixing the problem. iFixit posted a video to YouTube today that gets…
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Apple TV+ Reportedly Struggling to Control Digital Piracy ????
While it’s no secret that Apple executives sit up in their sierra blue ivory tower and count their guilders as the most profitable company in the world, the company’s streaming arm, Apple TV+, is relatively new and has yet to see the same staggering returns other parts of the company have long enjoyed. That’s maybe…
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LiquidVPN Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Promoting Pirating Content
Virtual private networks can be great for folks wary of how their data is tracked online, but what happens when a VPN provider directly markets itself to those who would use that promise of anonymity to break the law?