Astral's uv utility simplifies and speeds up working with Python virtual environments. But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally ...

Researchers at Sophos Group plc have released details of new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor. The ransomware ...

A new strain of Python-based malware has been used in a "sniper" campaign to achieve encryption on a corporate system in less than three hours. The attack, one of the fastest recorded by Sophos ...

[Damien George] just created Micro Python (Kickstarter alert!), a lean and fast implementation of the Python scripting language that is optimized to run on a microcontroller. It includes a complete ...

[Clifford Wolf] wrote in to let us know about a project he recently completed called EmbedVM. It’s a virtual machine for AVR microcontrollers. The package has a relatively small overhead, taking up ...

Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times faster ...

Every programming language has strengths and weaknesses. Python offers many convenient programming conventions but is computationally slow. Rust gives you machine-level speed and strong memory safety ...