Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that's leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT ...

What should an elementary reading block look like? For such a common part of the school day, it’s surprising to find that there’s no one right answer. More than 40 states have passed legislation ...

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What if the database you rely on could handle writes four times faster without sacrificing simplicity or reliability? For years, SQLite’s single-writer limitation has been both its strength and ...

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was acquitted in the case of her boyfriend’s death this year, filed a lawsuit alleging that she was framed for the murder in a cover-up plot to keep authorities ...

Horrifying footage has captured the moment a six-meter python dragged a tour guide underwater, just moments before coiling around his neck. Experienced snake catcher, Heru, was traveling down a river ...

An investigation into what appeared at first glance to be a “standard” Python-based infostealer campaign took an interesting turn when it was discovered to culminate in the deployment of a ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood exerts on the blood vessels in your body. As your heart beats, it contracts and relaxes, pushing blood out of the heart to the arteries, which ...

A snake in southern California was craving more than rodents and birds this week, so it stopped at an In-N-Out Burger drive-thru to get some grub. An employee at the burger chain’s Monrovia location ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, negatively impacting native wildlife and ecosystems. State and federal programs pay contracted hunters to find and remove the invasive snakes ...