Windows Notepad is now complex enough to have a serious security flaw

You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.

A Roman board game has mystified researchers for years. AI discovered how to play

By simulating thousands of matches and analyzing wear patterns, researchers reconstructed the rules of a long-lost blocking ...
TweakTown

Unity AI will let you create 'full casual games' with text prompts and no coding experience

An upgraded Unity AI that will let budding game developers create full games with natural language prompts is set to be ...
CNET

How to Use ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Your First AI Conversation

You can talk to the chatbot like it's a friendly acquaintance, and it'll help you get a lot done. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and ...
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A new South African video heist game robs museums to return African art

Is it theft to take back what was stolen? That question drives the new video game Relooted. The goal is to recover real ancient African artifacts currently displayed in Western museums. The game’s ...
Tech Times

Inside Open-World Game Development: How the Game Design Process Creates Immersive Maps and NPC Systems

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive.
IFLScience

With The Rules Lost For 1,500 Years, AI Learns How To Play Board Game From The Roman Empire

A rtificial Intelligence (AI) has been able to crack the rules of a mysterious Roman board game that’s been lost to history for over 1,500 years. By analysing the scratches on a weathered limestone ...
The Verge

Microsoft Paint can now make AI coloring books

Is anyone actually asking for this? Is anyone actually asking for this? is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, ...
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Insider previews for Notepad and Paint with more AI features

In new versions of Notepad and Paint for Windows Insiders, Microsoft is adding more AI features. Notepad is learning more Markdown. This was announced by Microsoft in a blog post. Notepad will ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

In the video game News Tower, as in real life, running a newspaper isn’t easy

The game, which puts you in the shoes of a newspaper publisher in the 1930s, is a test of your management skills — and your ethics.

NetEase breaks up with another western studio, but it refuses to die and instead 'remains motivated and deeply committed to the incredible game we’re building'

NetEase's tumultuous relationship with its own western studios shows no sign of abating, as action-adventure studio Anchor Point declares it's parting ways with the corporation and going independent.
The Verge

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally.