New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...

New Research: SQL Rivals Python as America’s Most In-Demand Programming Language – and It’s Needed Far Beyond Silicon Valley

Coding skills are increasingly mentioned across job ads in finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and other sectors.Vilnius, ...
Dark Reading

With Complex Cloud Integrations, Small Errors Lead to Major Compromises

Cybersecurity researchers create a five-step exploit chain using over-permissioned roles, secrets discovery, and NHIs to attack a popular low-code service.
The Hacker News

TrapDoor Supply Chain Attack Spreads Credential-Stealing Malware via npm, PyPI, and CratesIO

TrapDoor spread 34 malicious packages across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, stealing developer credentials and enabling persistence.

TestMu AI Expands Real Device Testing With Multi-Language Playwright Support and Advanced Audio Testing for iOS

TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest), the world’s first full-stack Agentic AI Quality Engineering platform, today announced two major enhancements to its Real Device Cloud: expanded support for Playwright ...
TheServerSide

Get started with Bluesky API and Python API

One of the first moves Elon Musk made when he took over X, formerly Twitter, was to slap a $42,000-per-month price tag on the enterprise Twitter API, while neutering the capabilities of the API's ...
SiliconANGLE

OpenAI acquires open-source Python tooling startup Astral

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

Google developers find that with AI, judgment is more important than JavaScript

Companies like Google are using AI to take over the bulk of coding. This gives developers more decision-making and oversight ...
TechRadar

North Korean job scammers target JavaScript and Python developers with fake interview tasks spreading malware

Lazarus Group evolving Operation Dream Job campaign to target Web3 developers New “Graphalgo” variant uses malicious dependencies in legitimate bare-bone projects on PyPI/npm ReversingLabs found ~200 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Aspire 13 Makes Python a First-Class Workload with .NET and JavaScript

Microsoft has added official Python support to Aspire 13, expanding the platform beyond .NET and JavaScript for building and running distributed apps. Documented today in a Microsoft DevBlogs post, ...
Geeky Gadgets

The Future of Python : Here’s What’s Coming & Trends You Can’t Ignore

What if the programming language you rely on most is on the brink of a transformation? For millions of developers worldwide, Python is not just a tool, it’s a cornerstone of their craft, powering ...
Wired

AI Code Hallucinations Increase the Risk of ‘Package Confusion’ Attacks

AI-generated computer code is rife with references to nonexistent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison legitimate programs with malicious packages ...