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Welcome to a new edition of āOn the Net Todayā, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.
Here are the topics weāve prepared for today:
š Crossplay, The New York Timesā new free two-player word game
āļø Wikipedia turns 25: a quarter century of human-powered knowledge
š Wide range of free training from Santander Open Academy
āļø In brief
š¤ Express Quiz
š”Recommended by: Kiko Llaneras
š Crossplay, The New York Timesā new free two-player word game
The New York Times has launched this week a new free two-player word game called Crossplay, available through its own app for both iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play).
In Crossplay, two players take turns forming words on a board to accumulate points. Letters have different values, and certain board positions allow players to boost their score, in a similar way to classic word board games. It is also possible to play against the computer.
Crossplay app on the App Store
Crossplay app on Google Play
Crossplay adds to the steadily expanding NYT Games portfolio. Since launching its Crossword in 1942, The New York Times has consistently invested in word and logic games. In 2014, it introduced the Mini Crossword, followed over the years by games such as Spelling Bee, Letter Boxed, Tiles, the hugely popular Wordle, and Connections, among others.
Current NYT Games include:
Most of these games are included in the newspaperās paid subscriptions (Games o All Access), which provide unlimited access to both current and archived puzzles.
However, several titles allow free access to the daily puzzle, including Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee (with limited access), Strands, Pips and Sudoku.
The new game, Crossplay, notably the first two-player game developed by The New York Times, is currently available with full free access.
Links:
Crossplay ā The New York Times
Crossplay help page ā The New York Times
Crossplay on the App Store
Crossplay on Google Play
āļø Wikipedia turns 25: a quarter century of human-powered knowledge
On 15 January 2026, Wikipedia ā the worldās largest online encyclopedia ā marked its 25th anniversary, celebrating a quarter century āof making trustworthy, human-powered knowledge accessible worldwide,ā according to the Wikimedia Foundation.
To mark the occasion, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia has launched the Wikipedia 25 campaign, inviting people around the world āto discover Wikipediaās journey over the last 25 years, celebrate the volunteers who make the site possible, and be part of the platformās future.ā
āWikipedia is a digital wonder of the world, unlike anything else,ā said Maryana Iskander, Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. āWith billions of monthly visits and an ever-growing number of organizations relying on Wikipediaās free, verified knowledge, this platform has become integral to the architecture of the entire internet.ā
As part of the anniversary celebrations, the Foundation has released a new video docuseries offering a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Wikipediaās volunteer editors across the globe. āAll of the knowledge on Wikipedia is created and maintained by a global community of nearly 250,000 volunteer editors who write, edit, and fact check information according to rigorous standards on neutrality and reliability,ā the Foundation explains.
From On the Net Today, we invite you to explore this special anniversary content, which highlights the people behind Wikipedia and reinforces a central idea echoed throughout the campaign: even in the age of artificial intelligence, knowledge remains fundamentally human.
The Wikimedia Foundation has also launched a ā25 Years of Wikipediaā digital time capsule, allowing Wikipedia fans worldwide to explore the platformās past, present, and future. The initiative reflects on Wikipediaās role during major global events and looks ahead to how the encyclopedia is evolving in a rapidly changing technological landscape, including its growing relationship with artificial intelligence and partnerships with AI companies.
Some key facts about Wikipedia
Wikipedia is viewed nearly 15 billion times every month.
Wikipedia contains over 65 million articles across more than 300 languages.
Wikipedia is edited by nearly 250,000 editors every month around the world. Editors are defined by one edit or more every month; only editors with a username are counted.
Wikipedia is accessed by over 1.5 billion unique devices every month.
Wikipedia is edited 324 times per minute.
Wikipedia is the only website in the top-ten most-visited global websites to be run by a nonprofit.Ā
Links:Ā
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best ā Wikimedia Foundation
š Wide range of free training from Santander Open Academy
Among the most valued resources in āOn the Net Todayā are online platforms offering quality free training. And in this edition, we're introducing another one of these platforms.
Santander Open Academy is a non-profit initiative from Banco Santander that provides any user with a comprehensive global learning and professional development platform featuring 100% subsidized courses, free quality content, and scholarships from leading universities and institutions.
Its goal is to help users develop professional skills that improve their employability. Santander Open Academy offers more than 1,000 courses, content pieces, and scholarships.
Among the available training options are on demand courses. These are a wide and varied selection of short courses with no enrollment limits, where you simply need to register for free to start immediately.
To sign up for these courses, you don't need to be a bank customer or hold a university degree. The courses can be completed at your own pace, and you can take as many as you want. All courses are available in multiple languages, and you can obtain a certificate of completion when you finish each course.
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āļø In brief
One of the key moments at this week's World Economic Forum Davos 2026 meeting was the speech delivered by Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney. For some analysts, this is a speech that history books will remember. As explained in the introduction, Carney āemphasized the end of the rules-based international order and outlined how Canada was adapting by building strategic autonomy while maintaining values like human rights and sovereignty.ā The Canadian PM ācalled for middle powers, such as his own, to work together to counter the rise of hard power and the great power rivalry, in order to build a more cooperative, resilient world.ā
You can read the full transcript and watch the video of his speech here.
Special from The New York Times Opinion team on the future of world order.
The World Is In Chaos. What Comes Next? ā The New York Times
āTimes Opinion asked five writers where they believe our world could be headed as the foundations of the post-World War II era slip out from under us and nations try to find their footing.ā
Anthropic has published the new constitution for its AI tool Claude: Claude's new constitution
āWe're publishing a new constitution for our AI model, Claude. It's a detailed description of Anthropic's vision for Claude's values and behavior; a holistic document that explains the context in which Claude operates and the kind of entity we would like Claude to be.ā
And here's the document:
Claude's Constitution
Our vision for Claude's character
Note from Ismael:
Yesterday, January 22nd, marked 30 years since the launch of The New York Times website. Three decades later, it is the outlet with the largest number of paid subscribers in the world, more than 12 million, most of them digital subscribers. If you read Spanish, here's the link to the chapter from my book "La reinvenciĆ³n de The New York Times," where I explain precisely those origins of the Times website:
1996: Lanzamiento de NYTimes.com ā "La reinvenciĆ³n de The New York Times"
š¤ Express Quiz
There are many fonts that can be used on websites, and today's challenge is about that.
Of the following six fonts, which one do you think is Poppins? We've also used the following: Roboto, Raleway, Montserrat, Arial, and Lato.
In case you're interested in this topic, the website we used to create the samples is fontscompare.com, which allows you to compare more than 1,800 free fonts.
In the previous edition of "On the Net Today" we asked you about the definition of responsive web design. The correct answer was the second one: "A system that automatically adapts a websiteās content and structure to the size and characteristics of each device".
š” Recommended by: Kiko Llaneras
Name: Kiko Llaneras
Role: Data journalist at EL PAĆS; author of Think Clearly
Links: Instagram | LinkedIn | X | Kiko Llaneras
Recommended resource: A notes app: Workflowy
Why?
I organize myself with two apps: notes and calendar. The calendar can be any one you like (I use Fantastical). The key point is that I do not use to-do lists, because they tend to grow endlessly. All my tasks go straight into the calendar. That way I make time for what really matters and discard whatever simply does not fit.For notes, I use Workflowy. It is simple but powerful, much like a notebook. It is an outliner, meaning it is organized as lists within lists. Adding something is as easy as typing into one big document. The real magic, though, is that you can focus on a sublist and see it in isolation. Imagine you are preparing an article about housing. You have a list with sections: rising prices, causes, solutions. Inside āpricesā you develop three paragraphs. While you are writing, that is all you see. Then you move one level up and the full outline appears again. This way of organizing ideas into what I think of as āfractal listsā is unbeatable for me. It is an app for thinking.
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