OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the startup whose tools quietly run inside the workflows of millions of Python developers. The deal drops Astral's team in.

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...

GlassWorm campaign injects malware into GitHub Python repos using stolen tokens since March 8, 2026, exposing developers to ...

Learn how to automate your Git workflow and environment variables into a single, error-proof command that handles the boring ...

A method for exfiltrating sensitive data from AI-powered code execution environments using domain name system (DNS) queries has been demonstrated by security researchers, highlighting potential risks ...

When you're trying to get the best performance out of Python, most developers immediately jump to complex algorithmic fixes, using C extensions, or obsessively running profiling tools. However, one of ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Python has many powerful applications as a "meta-language" or a code generation system. The newly unveiled Copapy library uses Python as a system for generating and running assembly language on the ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

The images of political prisoners, taken just before they were killed by Nazis in 1944, were put up for auction on eBay. The sale was pulled shortly thereafter. By Koba Ryckewaert and Niki Kitsantonis ...