Cybersecurity researchers have identified41 malicious "imposter packages"on the PythonPackage Index (PyPI)repository that are posing astyposquattedversionsof popular libraries. The packages, which have names similar to legitimate modules, such as requests, urllib and urllib3, have descriptions that.. read more  

Sentry, the APM platform, now supports OpenTelemetry, the open standard for observability. With this support, developers can use Sentry's modern APM to make their observability data actionable. Currently, support is available for Golang, Node.js, Python, Ruby, with Java and .NET coming soon.. read more  

CPython and PyPy can interpret the Python language specification differently due to deliberate flexibility in the specification. The specification allows forvariations in implementation techniques, such asobject destructors, which can affect how programs run. The specification also leaves certain a.. read more  

The author usedGPT-3 to control their Hue Lightswith simple instructions such as ‘make the lights blue’, ‘make one light pink and one like orange’ or ‘make them fancy’. They wrote the project in Pythonusing the phue libraryto talk to their Hue lights. They integrated this with GPT-3 by asking it to.. read more  

In celebration of Python's 32nd birthday, this article lists32 open source libraries for AI/ML development in Python. The libraries are divided into three categories: - natural language processing, - computer vision, - and machine learning.Some of the libraries included are: - spaCy, - PyTorch, - T.. read more  

The author of this article shares their preferred set of tools for starting a new Python project, includingpip-toolsfor dependency management,pyproject.tomlfor configuration,Makefilesfor common sense,Rufffor linting, andBlack&isortfor formatting. They also suggest usingpre-commit hooksto enforce co.. read more  

This blog post outlines techniques forimproving the training performance of PyTorch models without compromising their accuracy. The author uses aDistilBERTmodel to demonstrate various optimization techniques such as using theLightningModuleandTrainer classes, automatic mixed precision training, sta.. read more  

Why Python is Popular Despite Being (Super) SlowPython is one of the most widely used programming languages, and it has been around for more than 28 years now. One common question arises in mind of most people, especially beginners and newbies, that why Python is popular in mainstream despite being ..

Go is once again the world’s 10th most popular programming language, per the March 2023 edition of the Tiobe index. The language, developed by Google, ranks 10th after being absent from the top 10 since July 2017. Go's return to the top 10 is attributed to its popularity among software engineers an.. read more  

Turborepo is migratingfrom Go to Rustin their 1.7 version. The decision to migrate is due to the fact that as the Turborepo codebase has scaled and merged with Turbopack, Go has begun to underserve both their core team and users in the areas that matter most to Turbo. Comparing Go and Rust, they f.. read more