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The secret Python switch: How one flag makes your scripts run faster

When you're trying to get the best performance out of Python, most developers immediately jump to complex algorithmic fixes, using C extensions, or obsessively running profiling tools. However, one of ...

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

Y Combinator-backed Random Labs launches Slate V1, claiming the first 'swarm-native' coding agent

When a worker thread completes a task, it doesn't return a sprawling transcript of every failed attempt; it returns a compressed summary of the successful tool calls and conclusions.
Security Boulevard

China-nexus Threat Actor Targets Persian Gulf Region With PlugX

IntroductionOn March 1, 2026, ThreatLabz observed new activity from a China-nexus threat actor targeting countries in the Persian Gulf region. The activity took place within the first 24 hours of the ...
Microsoft

Contagious Interview: Malware delivered through fake developer job interviews

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...
How-To Geek on MSN

7 Python mistakes that make your code slow (and the fixes that matter)

Python is a language that seems easy to do, especially for prototyping, but make sure not to make these common mistakes when coding.
The New York Times

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too

Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers. By Emmanuel Morgan Reporting from San ...
CSOonline

Contagious Interview turns VS Code into an attack vector

Threat actors behind the campaign are abusing Microsoft Visual Studio Code’s trusted workflows to execute and persist malicious code. Threat actors behind the long-running Contagious Interview ...
ZDNet

I used Claude Code to vibe code a Mac app in 8 hours, but it was more work than magic

Vibe coding trades creativity for coordination and oversight. Performance and UI issues still demand human judgment. AI shines when developers relentlessly lead, test, and correct. Over all my years ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Malware Discovered in 19 Visual Studio Code Extensions

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...