Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...
InfoWorld

I ran Qwen3.5 locally instead of Claude Code. Here’s what happened.

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.
How-To Geek on MSN

4 reasons to learn Python (even if you don't want to be a developer)

It's time to join the Pythonistas.
Security Boulevard

Fake Temu Coin airdrop uses ClickFix trick to install stealthy malware

A fake $TEMU crypto airdrop uses the ClickFix trick to make victims run malware themselves and quietly installs a remote-access backdoor.

GlassWorm malware hits 400+ code repos on GitHub, npm, VSCode, OpenVSX

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...
Circuit Digest

LiteWing Python Library - Quick Start Guide and API Documentation

Clone the LiteWing Library repository from GitHub using the following command: ...
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.
CNX Software

AERIS-10 open-source hardware radar can track multiple objects up to 20km away

GHz phased array radar system featuring Pulse Linear Frequency Modulated (LFM) modulation and based on an AMD Artix-7 FPGA. Two versions are available: the AERIS-10N (Nexus), providing up to 3km range ...

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
eWeek

Beyond Search: Perplexity’s Ambitious Plan to Take Over Your Mac

Perplexity is developing an always-on AI agent for Mac that can access apps and files to run tasks continuously, expanding ...

The Invisible Heist: How North Korean Hackers Stole Millions Through an AirDrop

Hackers reached out to a developer at the firm they wanted to attack and pretended to want to collaborate with him on an open ...

Glassworm Malware Campaign Uses Invisible Code To Infect Hundreds Of GitHub Repos

The GlassWorm malware made news when it pivoted from exclusively targeting Windows users to also targeting Mac OS users in January, and in the time since, the malware campaign has spread across at ...