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The New York times says the Scottish game may have breached the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

7 posts published by Dark Helmet, Tim Cushing, Mike Masnick, Gretchen Heckmann, and Karl Bode on March 8, 2024

Remember Wordle? I sure do and one of the ways I start my days at work is to pull up the site and give it a quick play. But I honestly may just need to stop, given the behavior of the current owners of the game. For this discussion, you really do need to recall…

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The New York Times has taken action against Wordle clones and spinoffs by filing multiple DMCA takedown notices against developers on GitHub.

Shetland's Up Helly Aa fire festivals – which see Viking longships set ablaze – are just one manifestation of the strong Nordic influence on the remote archipelago.

ONE year after its launch, people all over the world “are still logging in every single day” to play a unique version of the hit game Wordle ...

IN TODAY’s instalment of the I Hear Dee project’s History in a Wird series, we explore the origins of the Up Helly Aa season of fire festivals. Run by linguist Dr Viveka Velupillai and native Shaetlan speakers Roy Mullay, Julie Dennison and Andrew Blance, the I Hear...

THE I Hear Dee language project was formed to protect and promote the Shaetlan language, a variant of Scots native to the archipelago. The project…

IT IS Christmas and, appropriately, Shetland language project I Hear Dee is delving into the origins of the word Yül, the 12 days of festivities which is much, much older than all our current traditions and probably dates back to pre-Christian times. For us this is a good way...