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 ...

The Top.gg Discord bot community with over 170,000 members has been impacted by a supply-chain attack aiming to infect developers with malware that steals sensitive information. The threat actor has ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a flexible, cross-platform editor that can be transformed into a full-blown IDE for most any language or workflow. Over the past few years, it has exploded in ...

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, ...

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 ...

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result that over 350,000 projects are at risk of potential supply chain ...

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