Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...

After the catch: What some hunters do with carcass of pythons they catch

Preserving what's left of a python after its caught and killed requires a great deal of time, skill and patience.
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Microsoft, Google patch flaws as Cordyceps spread across open-source repositories

Security researchers at Novee found over 300 exploitable CI/CD workflow chains across repositories belonging to Microsoft, Google, Apache, Cloudflare, and the Python Software Foundation. The flaws ...
Sun Sentinel

Record 8,000 pounds of pythons pulled from southwest Florida using sex drive

Biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed 8,080 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons from the outskirts of Naples in just six months. The haul — 177 snakes in total — beats their ...
People

Burmese Python Found with 20 Eggs Under Florida Sidewalk: 'They Are Not Native to Our Area and Are Disrupting the Ecosystem'

The reptiles, native to Southeast Asia, are considered an invasive species, and state law requires them to be euthanized after capture Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined ...
CNBC

Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that dilutes Black vote

The Supreme Court on Tuesday night said it would allow the state of Alabama to use a new map for congressional districts that a lower federal court had ruled was discriminatory to Black voters. The ...
NBC News

Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that eliminates a majority-Black district

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that eliminates one of two majority-Black districts in the state in a win for Republicans. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News ...
Variety

Martin Scorsese Backs AI Company and Says He’s Using It to Storyboard Movies: ‘We Have to Be Open to How’ Cinema Can ‘Evolve’

Martin Scorsese is the latest Oscar-winning director to hop on the AI wagon, joining the AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser in a bid to “push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer ...
The Verge

AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the ...
The New York Times

Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters

Alabama is likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost Democrats a majority-Black district. By Emily Cochrane and Abbie VanSickle Emily ...
The Hill

Black Democrats accuse Republicans of using redistricting to create ‘Jim Crow 2.0’

Black Democrats on Capitol Hill are up in arms over the GOP effort to purge Congress of minority districts, accusing Republicans of silencing Black voters and, in the process, undermining decades of ...
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Ilford just gave large-format photographers the black-and-white film they have been begging for: Pan F Plus now comes in 4x5in and 8x10in sheets!

Harman Technology has just given large format photographers exactly what they have been asking for, with the launch of Ilford Pan F Plus in 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film formats for the very first time. For ...