The hackers compromised GitHub Action tags, then shifted to NPM, Docker Hub, VS Code, and PyPI, and teamed with Lapsus$.

OpenAI bets on Astral to strengthen AI coding By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 23 Mar 2026According to OpenAI, Python has become one of the most important languages in modern software development.

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

Seriously? Astral's tools aren't even AI-focused, and now they're tied to a company that's losing money hand over fist? Click to expand... I'm guessing that a fair amount of stuff around AI (be it ...

Astral tools and expertise will be leveraged in OpenAI Codex agentic coding app to expand AI capabilities across the software ...

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

JetBrains, the company behind the popular PyCharm IDE, offers a free introductory Python course. This is a pretty neat option if you like learning by doing, especially within a professional coding ...

TL;DR: Arion Kurtaj, a key Lapsus$ hacker behind major cyberattacks including the GTA 6 leak, revealed he received a smartphone while hospitalized. He accessed Rockstar's systems via compromised ...

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has lauded nearly $36 billion in investment from Japan to support three American-based projects. It represents the first batch of investments by Tokyo following a landmark ...

From solar farms in Australia to hydroelectric power plants in the U.S., renewable energy projects are making more electricity available to homes, businesses and industries around the world. Microsoft ...

The Python extension now supports multi-project workspaces, where each Python project within a workspace gets its own test tree and Python environment. This document explains how multi-project testing ...