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Linux I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop Games Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to ...

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) due to funding terms forcing a compromise on its commitment to ...

A PSF proposal to address vulnerabilities in Python and PyPi was recommended for funding, but it was declined because the terms barred “any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory ...

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration, the nonprofit said in a blog post yesterday. The grant ...

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In the late 1970s, a startup founded by Larry Ellison and two fellow computer programmers got a big break in the form of a CIA contract to build a database program code-named Oracle, which later ...

The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website. PyPI is a ...

When AI leader Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase "vibe coding" for just letting AI chatbots do their thing when programming, he added, "It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects … but it's not ...

A tech entrepreneur named Jason Lemkin set out to document his experience using an AI “vibe coding” tool called Replit to make an app. But the “vibes” turned bad real quick. The AI wiped out a key ...

A popular database that tracked the nation's growing number of billion-dollar disasters is going away, in another of the ongoing changes at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The ...