OpenAI has acquired Astral, the company behind Python tools uv and Ruff, to integrate them into its Codex platform as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.

Dave Gray offers a solid, free Python tutorial that runs for about 9 hours. It’s a pretty methodical course, starting with the basics and moving into more complex stuff like closures and recursion. He ...

Everything you may have missed from the past week.

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...

GlassWorm attack uses stolen GitHub tokens to inject malware into Python repositories, exposing developers to supply chain risks.

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

One IDE to rule them all. You won't want to use anything else.

Abstract: In the past few years, 360° video has started to infiltrate various aspects of daily life. Although there have been significant developments in 360° video coding technology, understanding of ...

Copilot CLI is generally available for all paid Copilot subscribers. Agentic workflows feature Plan mode, Autopilot mode, and dynamic agent delegation. Subscribers can choose from top AI models and ...