A critical vulnerability in the untgz tool of the in many operating systems and programs included zlib library allows code smuggling. The untgz tool is a user contributed program from the ...

Update 12/26/25: Article updated to correct that the flaw has not been officially classified as an RCE. MongoDB has warned IT admins to immediately patch a high-severity memory-read vulnerability that ...

The Trifecta Tech Foundation has sponsored work on Rust re-implementations of zlib and libbzip2. These implementations are as fast or faster than their C counterparts (including zlib-chromium and zlib ...

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 ...

What exactly is Python and what is MicroPython? The major differences between both languages. Some use cases for each. As difficult as it is to imagine, the Python programming language made its ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Some variants of the s390x platform have instructions for hardware-accelerated deflate compression. With HW acceleration, compressed byte stream can be different from the software implementation in ...

A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia last week, police said, the second python killing in the province in a month. Siriati, 36, had gone ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python ...