Anthropic launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term program pairing frontier Claude models, on-site engineers and funding with defenders of critical infrastructure and open-source software. It…
A developer tested three AI coding assistants across 30 prompts and found they suggested six nonexistent package names, with two fake names appearing in more than one tool — a pattern the author says …
A developer warns that AI coding agents are being exploited through "slopsquatting," where attackers register hallucinated package names that LLMs recommend. A USENIX Security 2025 study by Spracklen …
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) reported that its AWS spending increased 69% from July 2025 to July 2026, driven by growth in Python usage and AI agents installing packages, after eight years of …
Ramya Ravi, a Developer Advocate for AI and Open Source at NetApp Instaclustr, is running for the Python Software Foundation board in 2026. She aims to bridge the gap between AI/ML practitioners who u…
Kalyan Prasad, an AI and Data Science Practice Lead, is running for the Python Software Foundation Board in 2026. He brings a decade of experience in data, technology, and AI transformation, along wit…
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) reported a 69% increase in AWS spending from July 2025 to July 2026, driven by growing Python usage and AI agents installing packages. The PSF's infrastructure, in…
JetBrains Academy's July digest announces new learning resources, including a Gen AI Engineer Bootcamp by Ardit Sulce for building AI applications and agents, a pandas course with portfolio projects, …
A new supply chain attack called 'slopsquatting' exploits AI hallucinations by registering fake package names that large language models invent. A USENIX Security 2025 study found that 43% of hallucin…
On February 17, 2026, attackers compromised the Cline AI coding tool via a malicious npm package, silently installing OpenClaw on 4,000 developers' machines through a postinstall script. This "slopsqu…
Python Software Foundation security developer Seth Larson reported that JetBrains' PyCharm IDE Full Line Code Completion plugin suggests code containing severe vulnerabilities, but JetBrains declined …
A security researcher used the AI-native tool Xint Code to scan the entire CPython source code, which identified a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-6100) in the tarfile module within 30 minutes. The b…