AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

The work of Open Source Mano has been showcased in February at the SNS4SNS 2026 second edition of the ETSI Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services event (SNS4SNS), with a dedicated ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

How modern infostealers target macOS systems, leverage Python‑based stealers, and abuse trusted platforms and utilities to ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile ...

This desktop app for hosting and running LLMs locally is rough in a few spots, but still useful right out of the box.

What sets Codeflash apart, he argues, is that it operates not just as a one-time audit or consultancy (as many optimization firms do) but as a continuous engine: “Codeflash has beaten us at optimizing ...

Researchers have revealed that bad actors are targeting dYdX and using malicious packages to empty its user wallets.