Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...

On February 11, the pull request was technically sound. It offered 24% faster code with benchmarks to prove it. But when matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh discovered the contributor was an AI ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI agent’s performance optimization pull request was closed because the project limits contributions to humans only. The ...

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Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Main façade of the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Credit: Venicescapes, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark’s Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a ...

Matplotlib is a feature-rich module for producing a wide array of graphs, plots, charts, images, and animations. Since Matplotlib is not part of the Python core libraries (like the math and csv ...