Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...

The Miasma supply chain campaign has sparked a fresh attack wave called Hades, this time involving 37 malicious wheel ...

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HANDS ON Even after 60 releases, to borrow Carlsberg's slogan, OpenBSD is probably the most secure FOSS Unix-like OS in the world. OpenBSD 7.9 arrived just a couple of days after project lead Theo de ...

Python 3.15 introduces an immutable or ‘frozen’ dictionary that is useful in places ordinary dicts can’t be used. Only very rarely does Python add a new standard data type. Python 3.15, when it’s ...

A Florida python hunter captured a 202-pound female Burmese python in the Everglades. The captured snake is the second heaviest on record in Florida, measuring 16 feet, 10 inches long. Burmese pythons ...

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

Comedy legends unveil a plaque to 'Monty Python's first curry'. There can't be many memorials that feature a giant foot squashing a globe. But then there aren't many plaque-worthy subjects like Monty ...

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A documentary film about the programming language 'Python,' titled ' Python: The Documentary | An origin story,' was released on YouTube on Friday, August 29, 2025. Anyone can watch it for free. The ...

[danjovic] came up with a nifty entry for our 2025 One-Hertz Challenge that lands somewhere between the categories of Ridiculous and Clockwork. It’s a clock that few hackers, if any, could read on ...