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Critical Flaw in Python’s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image

Pillow 13.0.0 fixes EPS, JPEG, and TIFF flaws, including command execution paths involving Ghostscript and crafted image ...
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PHP, Node.js, eMudhra, and LiteLLM lead busy week for security teams

Security roundup: PHP2Shell, eMudhra certificate failures, Node.js security fixes and the LiteLLM supply-chain attack reshape ...

Python Defenses for the Day Your AI Library Gets Hijacked: Four Layers of Pinning, Cooldown, Verification, and Monitoring—What Gets Stopped, What Gets Through, …

This is written for those who use AI or LLM libraries in Python and haven't decided where to stop or how to detect when a ...
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Tencent Hy-Memory Claims Open-Source Benchmark Lead Over Claude Opus 5 on Own Benchmarks

Tencent’s Hy-Memory-30B-A3B is a free open-source mixture-of-experts model claiming Claude Opus 5 parity on AI agent memory ...

What is pip? A chemist who cried over 'pip install' errors teaches the 5 commands every Python beginner should learn first

Hello, I'm Kaname🌸 I deliver easy-to-understand content from the realistic perspective of a research lab.Suddenly, though...
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Python 3.15 Makes UTF-8 the Default, Easing Windows Text Issues — but Legacy Code Needs a Check

Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...

Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...
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Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT

Python 3.15 is out with explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, frozendict and sentinel types, the Tachyon ...

Python 3.15 released: Lazy imports, UTF-8 and new data types

Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.
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Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster

Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language. Python's JIT compiler is still in experimental form but it's a lot faster now with Python 3.15. The ...
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Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day

Meta open-sources Rebalancer, the Apache 2.0 C++ solver behind 40 million daily assignment problems across its global infrastructure.
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We Stopped AI Agents From Installing Into the Wrong Python: Task Success Rates Jumped to 95%+

AI agents are supposed to save you time. Ask one to install a dependency or run your project, though, and it often does the opposite: It installs into the wrong Python, ignores the uv or virtual ...