Tag: Python
GitHub Action Compromise Risks Data Leaks for 23,000 Repositories
The attacker introduced malicious Python code that would expose secrets like authentication credentials in public repositories ...
Riveting Repositories: JFrog GitHub Unification Leaps Onward
Repositories rarely rivet and rope themselves together quite like the union that has been forming between JFrog and GitHub. The company known for its bullfrog-themed universal repository manager for software application artifacts ...
The Software Extinction Event That Wasn’t
The world may have just avoided a cybersecurity disaster, with potential impact of CrowdStrike x1000. Imagine if the world’s most pervasive programming language, used in the majority of organizations, services, websites and ...
Modular Makes a Case for Mojo Programming Language, Based on Python
Modular created Mojo to provide Python developers with a programming language that uses the same familiar syntax to build high-performance applications ...
How Open Source Software Powers High-Impact Climate Science
Innovations from the open source community are helping revolutionize climate science, letting researchers quickly derive insights from data ...
Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
Richi Jennings | | ARM, ARM processors, Exascale, microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, NVIDIA, Python, scripting, supercomputer, The Long View, VBScript, visual studio, Visual Studio Code, VS Code, windowsIn this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer ...
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
Richi Jennings | | ActivityPub, Cinder, Elon Musk, fediverse, Instagram, JIT, Mark Zuckerberg, Mastodon, Meta, Meta Platforms, Python, The Long View, ThreadsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making ...
US DoJ Makes PyPI Give Up User Data ¦ Tape Storage: Not Dead
Richi Jennings | | backup, backup and recovery, backups, Canary, data backup, databackup, database backup, HPE, ibm, LTO, PyPi, Python, Python Software Foundation, Quantum Corporation, Ransomware, storage, tape, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: PyPI complies with a “string of subpoenas,” and LTO continues to grow, despite predictions of its demise ...
OpenAI to go Open Source — Elon Musk was a ‘Huge Idiot’ ¦ Mojo Risin’
Richi Jennings | | ai, AI ChatBots, AI machine learning, AI models, AI/ML, commercial open source, generative AI, LLM, LLMs, LLVM, MLIR, open source, OpenAI, Python, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Sources say it’s an open source future for OpenAI, and improving AI perf with Mojo ...
Wipro Fires 2-Job Staff | Python Bug from 2007 | Lite Layoffs
Richi Jennings | | Alphabet, careers, CVE-2007-4559, facebook, google, I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue, layoffs, Meta Platforms, Python, Software Supply Chain Security, tarfile, The Long View, WiproIn this week’s The Long View: Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting at competitors, Python has a nasty 15-year-old bug, and companies are finding new ways to lay people off without calling it ...
Checkmarx Report Highlights Need for AppSec Collaboration
A research report published by Checkmarx finds the same basic malicious software developed using multiple programming languages as cyberattackers industrialize their malware development processes. Checkmarx, a provider of code scanning tools, shared ...
Game Developers Shouldn’t Overlook Python’s Potential
Python is an object-oriented, general-purpose and high-level programming language developed in 1991 by Guido van Rossum. Since its development, Python has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world ...
