OpenAI Says Its Models Can Give the Financial Sector a Coding Makeover

Banks, government agencies, and other critical institutions run largely on antiquated programming languages. Can AI help ...
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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 ...
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Free-threaded Python is no longer an experiment. Here's what it unlocked in my workload

It's been in the works for a while.

Nexford University Launches a 90-Credit Bachelor’s in Management and AI That Can Be Finished in 19 Months

The Bachelor of Applied Science in Management & AI in Business is 90 credits, takes up to 66 transfer credits and ...

The story of the morning when four identical articles were published | Minimal code to prevent "two things running at once" in Python (file locking)

I leave the daily morning article publication to my PC. In a previous article, I introduced a design that ensures "it only ...

Could convenient Python code created with Claude Code be the cause of personal information leaks? Three terrifying security incidents that actually happened

An era where anyone can create programs. But who protects their security?Since the arrival of Claude Code, the world of ...
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Three Ways to Speed Up Python Code With Numba: A Practical Guide

Overview: Numba is a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that turns Python functions into fast machine code. In one tested example, a ...

Maxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up

It may not be enough to just use LLMs to write your code when you can also use them to adjust it while your program runs.

Tencent admits AI agents it was testing made more than 2,600 attempts in 11 days

Researchers hid a message for a live fleet of rogue AI agents, and the agents wrote back.

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.

Bright Security Introduces STAR Fuzzer, Agentic Fuzzing That Writes Its Own Harnesses and Proves Every Finding

Built on an evolutionary engine first released in 2018, STAR Fuzzer by Bright Security finds crashes, memory exhaustion and memory-safety bugs in security-critical code without a running application.
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OpenAI has trained an AI to rewrite outdated programs with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI announced significant performance improvements in its models for programming languages with relatively little code and ...