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It's been a tough couple of days. Microsoft's support for the Faster CPython project was canceled yesterday, and my heart goes out to the majority of the team that was laid off. A hard day for me, but even harder for others.

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In this video, we uncover one of the most bizarre and sophisticated supply chain attacks we’ve seen so far — involving Unicode PUA characters, base64 obfuscation, and Google Calendar invites as malware delivery vehicles. 🕵️‍♂️

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Within the very same week, and in just a span of a few days, we got not one, but two Mario games decompiled, with the first one this week being the very first Gamecube game to get a completed...

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In a recent educational trick, curl contributor James Fuller submitted a pull-request to the project in which he suggested a larger cleanup of a set of scripts. In a later presentation, he could show us how not a single human reviewer in the team nor any…

AI-assisted coding doesn’t mean fewer developers—it means more ambitious, higher-quality products

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

Rust 1.0 shipped in May 2015. Here's how it came about and why it marked a turning point in the world of software development.

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