GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP ...

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that's engineered for stealth and persistent access to ...

Long-term tracking shows a Burmese python is rewriting assumptions about breeding, giving new intel for Florida's battle against the invasive snake.

On June 11, 2025, the Python core team released Python 3.13.5, the fifth maintenance update to the 3.13 line. This release is not about flashy new language features, instead, it addresses some ...

Python allows developers several ways to write concurrent programs. The most notable of these are asynchronous programming and multithreading. These two approaches were designed specifically to ...

Understanding the differences between multithreading and multiprocessing is crucial for developers to make informed decisions and optimize the performance of their concurrent applications. The main ...

In Python, threads created by threading.Thread are automatically joined during runtime/interpreter finalization, by default. To not auto-join, a programmer must explicitly mark the thread as a "daemon ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

I have encountered a deadlock during subinterpreter shutdown after upgrading from Python 3.9.7 to 3.9.8. Git bisection reveals that #28589 ("Fix threading._shutdown() for the main thread (GH-28549)") ...

But in many cases, it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Properly optimized, Python applications can run with surprising speed—perhaps not as fast as Java or C, but fast enough for web ...