Python Software Foundation: Equal Opportunity More Important Than US Funding

The PSF forgoes potential funding because the requirements explicitly prohibit programs promoting equal opportunity under DEI ...

Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation ...
Techzine Europe

Python Foundation declines substantial grant

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is withdrawing its application for a $1.5 million (€1.3 million) grant from the US ...
InfoWorld

Software bill-of-materials docs eyed for Python packages

Python enhancement proposal would incorporate SBOM documents in Python packages as a way to improve dependency tracking and vulnerability analysis. Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be ...
InfoWorld

How to package Python apps with BeeWare Briefcase

Python falls short in a few areas. For instance, Python isn’t the fastest language around, but third-party libraries like NumPy let you work around that. Where Python is most deficient, though, is ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious PyPI packages with over 10,000 downloads taken down

The Python Package Index (PyPI) registry has removed three malicious Python packages aimed at exfiltrating environment variables and dropping trojans on the infected machines. These malicious packages ...
ZDNet

Twelve malicious Python libraries found and removed from PyPI

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...