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Python’s security developer-in-residence Seth Larson reports from this year’s official core developer Python Language Summit:
“No one said ‘don’t do this’ last year”. After testing the waters at PyCon US 2025, [software engineer] David Hewitt returne… Continue reading How Python Will Test Adding Rust Into CPython
Last month, the U.S. House passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. They call it “a bipartisan effort to require AM radio in new vehicles,” adding that the bill now “awaits action in the Senate, where a companion measur… Continue reading Radio Broadcasters Support America’s ‘AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act’
James Cameron’s Avatar is no longer the highest-grossing movie in box office history. That honor now goes to the Disney/Marvel Studios film Avengers: Endgame. Variety explains:
“Avatar” spent a decade as the biggest release ever until “Avengers: Endga… Continue reading Disney/Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Beats ‘Avatar’ as Top-Grossing Film, ‘Coyote vs Acme’ #1 on Apple TV
“Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles…” writes Live Science.
“If confirmed, that pattern could help reveal how the hot soup of quarks and gluons that filled the univers… Continue reading Particle Collider Experiment Recreates the Big Bang’s Primordial Soup – and Finds Unexpected Pattern
Car thefts in San Francisco are down almost 59% for the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same months in 2022, according to analysis of police department statistics by NPR’s Planet Money — and car break-ins are down more than 82%.
“S… Continue reading San Francisco’s Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve?
“Free your BIOS today!” urges the web page for GNU Boot, calling it “a 100% free software project aimed at replacing the nonfree boot software (like BIOS or UEFI) of computers with free boot software.
GNU Boot is only a distribution: it reuses existin… Continue reading FSF Sponsors ‘GNU Boot’, a Libre, Ethical Replacement for Nonfree BIOS Or UEFI
A U.S. banking group just sued the government agency that issues America’s federal bank charters, reports CoinDesk, “accusing it of exceeding its legal powers in granting national trust-bank status to crypto firms.”
The agency’s move “creates a gapin… Continue reading US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates
Long-time Slashdot reader Andreas(R) announces Northstar, a “minimalist” web browser written entirely from scratch in C — now available in version 1.0.11:
One window, one page, one process — about 160,000 lines of original C, small enough… Continue reading Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser ‘Northstar’
Politico EU reports:
The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams — but officials using it aren’t impressed, with one describing the tool as “absolute shit.”
The Commission introduced Element Pro over the summer a… Continue reading Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe’s Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft Teams
“Scientists have discovered a virus that is a tiny bit human, carrying a gene it stole from our ancestors about 100,000 years ago,” writes the New York Times. “And this virus may be using our own gene to infect us.”
Phys.org explains that it’s “both … Continue reading This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won’t Let Go of It