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In an already fraught environment surrounding the popular Python programming language software package manager, hackers are coming up with new ways to sneak malicious goodies past cybersecurity buffers.

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The PSF received three subpoenas from the US Department of Justice for PyPI user data in March and April of 2023.

The PyPI blog: In March and April 2023, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) received three (3) subpoenas for PyPI user data. All three subpoenas were issued by the United States Department of Justice. The PSF was not provided with context on the legal circumstances surrounding these subpoenas. In t...

The climate of concern around open source security and supply chain attacks may have caused a small story to become a big one.

SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Guillermo Martinez, of Los Angles, has been appointed to the Board for

Python, at least in the CPython reference implementation, is not a particularly speedy language. That is not at all surprising to anyone who has used it—the language is optimized for understandability and development speed, instead. There have been lots of efforts over the years to speed up various parts of the interpreter, compiler, and virtual-machine bytecode execution, though no comprehensive overhaul has been merged into CPython. An interesting new proposal could perhaps change that, t...

One of my communities is choosing a new governance structure, and in preparation for our first conversation on the topic, I wrote up three governance case...

Last year Pythons massive PyPI repository of pre-written software packages had 235.7 billion downloads — a 57% annual growth in its download counts and bandwidth. So now Pythons nonprofit Python Software Foundation has an announcement. Their director of infrastructure said today that they...

The world’s largest Muslim dating app, Muzz (formerly Muzmatch), has seen its growth slow in India in the last two years.