The Cool Down

Cyclist spots alligator chomping giant Burmese python, then swimming off with the catch

A video of an alligator in the Florida Everglades biting into an invasive Burmese python and then swimming off with the snake ...

Meet a scientist tracking invasive reptiles, and even their parasites

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...
Roads & Bridges

Python 5000 Pothole Patcher

Python 5000, the only one-person-operated pothole patcher that uses standard asphalt mixes–both hot and cold–to make permanent, compacted patches in two minutes. Fix potholes before they get to be a ...
ZDNet

I've reviewed every PDF editor out there - then I had ChatGPT build me a better one

Yellow sheet music can confuse playback apps. A command-line Python script solved the PDF problem. Sometimes AI is best used to write the tool. Recently, my wife, Denise, started singing with her ...
ecoportal.net

Florida is battling a python invasion. The solution has been to put GPS collars on their prey so they swallow them.

The extensive wetlands of Florida are being invaded by hundreds of thousands of invasive Burmese pythons. These relentless predators hunt without fear, consuming nearly everything that crosses their ...
GitHub

dabeaz-course/python-mastery: Advanced Python Mastery (course by @dabeaz)

An exercise-driven course on Advanced Python Programming that was battle-tested several hundred times on the corporate-training circuit for more than a decade. Written by David Beazley, author of the ...
TechRepublic

TIOBE Index for February 2026: Specialized Languages Gain Ground as Python’s Lead Eases

February 2026 TIOBE Index shows Python still far ahead, C strengthening in second, C# rising, and R holding the top 10 as rankings compress. Python remains comfortably ahead in February, but the ...
Dark Reading

AsyncRAT Malware Infests Orgs via Python & Cloudflare

An emerging phishing campaign is exploiting a dangerous combination of legitimate Cloudflare services and open source Python tools to deliver the commodity AsyncRAT. The attack demonstrates threat ...
Microsoft

Introducing the Dataverse SDK for Python

With the open-source Dataverse SDK for Python (announced in Public Preview at Microsoft Ignite 2025), you can fully harness the power of Dataverse business data. This toolkit enables advanced ...
VentureBeat

AI coding transforms data engineering: How dltHub's open-source Python library helps developers create data pipelines for AI in minutes

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...
WESH

'Python Be Gone': Gov. DeSantis shares efforts in place to solve Florida python problem

The governor held a press conference on Monday where he highlighted the success of a public-private partnership aimed at removing Pythons from Florida's Everglades.Gov. Ron DeSantis shared the success ...
Mental Floss

6 Movies That Were Improved by Budget Constraints

FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images (Monty Python), Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images (Raiders), FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images (Rocky), ...