PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

Whether you’re building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing software. Flojoy, an ...

There are many stories of how artificial intelligence came to take over the world, but one of the most important developments is the emergence in 2012 of AlexNet, a neural network that, for the first ...

Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a "full" language server mode for Pylance, ...

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When the news of the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) first emerged, open source software developers and companies were worried sick. As the Python Software Foundation (PSF) executive director Deb ...