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The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar top 20 programming languages. Continue reading April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity
LLMs’ tendency to “hallucinate” code packages that don’t exist could become the basis for a new type of supply chain attack dubbed “slopsquatting” (courtesy of Seth Larson, Security Developer-in-Residence at the Pyth… Continue reading Package hallucination: LLMs may deliver malicious code to careless devs
TL;DR: A critical deserialization vulnerability (CVSS 9.8 – CVE-2025-27520) in BentoML (v1.3.8–1.4.2) lets attackers execute remote code without… Continue reading BentoML Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution on AI Servers
Back in 2023 Python’s infrastructure director called it “the first step in our plan to build financial support and long-term sustainability of PyPI” while giving users “one of our most requested features: organization accounts.” (That is, “self-managed… Continue reading Python’s PyPI Finally Gets Closer to Adding ‘Organization Accounts’ and SBOMs
GPS is an incredible piece of modern technology. Not only does it allow for locating objects precisely anywhere on the planet, but it also enables the turn-by-turn directions we take …read more Continue reading Writing a GPS Receiver from Scratch
GPS is an incredible piece of modern technology. Not only does it allow for locating objects precisely anywhere on the planet, but it also enables the turn-by-turn directions we take …read more Continue reading Writing a GPS Receiver from Scratch
Slashdot reader rikfarrow summarizes an article they wrote for Usenix.org about the Open Source Python compiler Codon:
In 2023 I tried out Codon. At the time I had difficulty compiling the scripts I most commonly used, but was excited by the prospect… Continue reading Codon Python Compiler Gets Faster – and Changes to Apache 2 License
Sonatype researchers uncover critical vulnerabilities in picklescan. Learn how these flaws impact AI model security, Hugging Face, and… Continue reading Picklescan Vulnerabilities Could Let Hackers Bypass AI Security Checks
Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their deep-rooted role in critical systems proves these “dinosaurs” are here to stay. Continue reading March 2025 TIOBE Index: Legacy ‘Dinosaur’ Languages Are Making a Comeback
Kaspersky experts have discovered campaigns distributing stealers, malicious PowerShell scripts, and backdoors through web pages mimicking the DeepSeek and Grok websites. Continue reading Trojans disguised as AI: Cybercriminals exploit DeepSeek’s popularity