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Excel gets containerized, cloud-based Python analytics and visualization powers

Enlarge / If this kind of thing raises your eyebrows, there’s a whole lot more inside a ribbon bar for you. reader comments 71 with If you’re decent in Python (or aspire to be) but don’t have the chops for advanced data work in Excel, Microsoft now offers the kind of peanut butter-and-chocolate combination that… Read More »

Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI

Enlarge / An AI-generated and human composited image of “Wolverine programming on a computer.” Benj Edwards / Midjourney reader comments 66 with Share this story Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do it for you? That’s what a developer that goes by “BioBootloader” did by creating Wolverine, a program… Read More »

10 malicious Python packages exposed in latest repository attack

Enlarge / Supply-chain attacks, like the latest PyPi discovery, insert malicious code into seemingly functional software packages used by developers. They’re becoming increasingly common. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered yet another set of malicious packages in PyPi, the official and most popular repository for Python programs and code libraries. Those duped by the seemingly familiar… Read More »

Software downloaded 30,000 times from PyPI ransacked developers’ machines

reader comments 85 with 63 posters participating, including story author Share this story Open source packages downloaded an estimated 30,000 times from the PyPI open source repository contained malicious code that surreptitiously stole credit card data and login credentials and injected malicious code on infected machines, researchers said on Thursday. In a post, researchers Andrey… Read More »