OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent ...

Hold the redstone phone, Hytale is hiring automation devs, and I'm ready for Minecraft kids to make me feel like a fool

With players finding wacky ways to bend Hytale to their will, the team is hunting for people to add automation to the sandbox ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
Engadget

Azure is in recovery following an outage that affected Microsoft 365, Xbox and Minecraft

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that affected key apps and services like Microsoft 365, Xbox and Minecraft. All three showed spikes in outage reports on DownDetector ...
The Conversation

I tried out a new version of Minecraft to see why environmental storylines help children learn

Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda receives funding from Natural England for work associated with the Public Engagement Laboratory for Nature and Society. A new version of Minecraft aims to teach students about ...
Variety

‘Minecraft 2’ in the Works, Sets July 2027 Release Date

To the surprise of nobody in Hollywood, Warner Bros. has greenlit a sequel to the nearly-billion-dollar smash “A Minecraft Movie.” “Minecraft 2” is currently in the works and is scheduled to premiere ...
TheWrap

‘Minecraft’ Sequel Lands July 2027 Release Date

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary will release the untitled “Minecraft” sequel on July 23, 2027, the studio announced on Thursday. Jared Hess is also returning to direct. Hess is also writing the ...
Government Technology

Code.org Initiative to Expand Digital Literacy Beyond Coding

Over a decade after introducing students to the fundamentals of computer science through its Hour of Code campaign, education nonprofit Code.org is broadening its reach with a new program that bridges ...
GeekWire

Code.org CEO rips NY Times for stoking ‘populist fears’ over computer science jobs and AI

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...
Shacknews

New Friendly Fishing add-on is live now on Minecraft Marketplace

Mojang Studios announced a new fishing adventure loaded with everything from tuna and clams to sharks, anchovies, and even treasure. The Friendly Fishing add-on is now live in the Minecraft ...
Newsweek

Minefields Over Minecraft—Ukraine’s Youth Robbed of Childhood Innocence | Opinion

Things are getting worse in Ukraine these days. The frontline feels like a giant game of Pac-Man as Russians try to gobble up remote agrarian villages where hardscrabble families eke out a desperate ...
IGN

Ambitious Minecraft Competitor Hytale Canceled After Nearly 7 Years of Development: 'This Is Not the Outcome Any of Us Wanted'

Hytale, the Minecraft competitor announced in 2018, is canceled and its developer is shutting down. Hypixel Studios announced that the ambitious, Riot Games-backed Minecraft-style game had ended ...