New WhatsApp Web attack spreads self-propagating ZIP files containing Astaroth banking malware through trusted conversations.
The simple-repository-server is designed to be used as a library, but also includes a convenient command line interface for running a simple repository service: If ...
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AI coding assistants are getting worse

This gives me a unique vantage point from which to evaluate coding assistants’ performance. Until recently, the most common ...
How to Vibe Code: 5 Simple Tips for Using AI to Become a Programmer Have an app you've always wanted to build? A humdrum task to automate? AI tools make it easier than ever, but they can be as ...
PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
According to Andrej Karpathy on Twitter, the Python random.seed() function produces identical random number generator (RNG) streams when seeded with positive and negative integers of the same ...
Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...
Sometimes, reading Python code just isn’t enough to see what’s really going on. You can stare at lines for hours and still miss how variables change, or why a bug keeps popping up. That’s where a ...