In ‘The Python Hunt,’ a Real Competition as Riveting as Fiction

The Florida Python Challenge brings out a fascinating cast of characters, all captured by the director Xander Robin’s camera.
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...
Microsoft

When prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks

New research exposes how prompt injection in AI agent frameworks can lead to remote code execution. Learn how these ...

How to Automate Your Daily Tasks and Code with OpenAI Codex

Explore the features of OpenAI Codex, a local desktop assistant included with ChatGPT that automates emails, builds ...
TMCnet

BlueRock Open Sources MCP Python Hooks for Real-Time MCP Server Visibility

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueRock today announced the open source release of BlueRock MCP Python Hooks, a lightweight runtime observability tool for Python. It captures MCP ...
How-To Geek on MSN

What makes a Spotify hit? I tested over 30,000 songs in Python to find out

Digging through the data to find chart success.
OSTechNix

How to Fix Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) Vulnerability on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Learn how to fix Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) in Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Copy Fail vulnerability allows any local user gain root ...

Why OpenAI's 'goblin' problem matters — and how you can release the goblins on your own

If OpenAI can accidentally train its flagship model to obsess over goblins, what other more subtle and potentially harmful ...
The Hacker News

PyTorch Lightning and Intercom-client Hit in Supply Chain Attacks to Steal Credentials

Malicious Lightning 2.6.2/2.6.3 released April 30 enable credential theft via hidden payload, leading to PyPI quarantine and ...

Runpod launches Flash to bring AI inference to developers without infra overhead

Developer-centered artificial intelligence cloud provider Runpod Inc. today announced the launch of Flash, a software ...
Cybernews

One tiny exploit gives full Linux access: all kernels since 2017 are vulnerable

The critical "Copy Fail" bug (CVE-2026-31431) affects all Linux kernels since 2017, allowing unprivileged local users to gain ...
TMCnet

MathWorks Brings Trusted AI to Embedded Systems Development in MATLAB and Simulink Release 2026a

MathWorks announced Release 2026a (R2026a) of the MATLAB® and Simulink® product families today, introducing new AI capabilities for embedded systems development. R2026a introduces Simulink® Copilot to ...