Tag: Python
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 ...
Everything You Need to Know About Cookiecutter
Cookiecutter is a templating library for creating project boilerplates in any programming language. When individuals, teams and organizations create projects, they must follow consistent standards so that those projects are easily readable ...
WTH? We Wanna WFH | DoD Dual-Sources JWCC | More Nvidia ARM Woes
Richi Jennings | | ARM, Department of Defense, github, google, IT contracts, JavaScript, JEDI, JWCC, NVIDIA, Octoverse, Python, remote working, SoftBank, The Long View, U.S. government, WFH, work from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Working from home is de rigueur, JEDI redux, and more about Nvidia/Arm ...
