OpenAI acquires open-source Python tooling startup Astral

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious PyPI package with 37,000 downloads steals AWS keys

A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers. According to ...
InfoWorld

Amp your Python superpowers with ‘uv run’

The uv utility lets you run Python packages and libraries with one command and no setup. Here's the quick guide to running Python packages without installing them. Astral’s uv tool makes setting up ...
InfoWorld

Software bill-of-materials docs eyed for Python packages

Python enhancement proposal would incorporate SBOM documents in Python packages as a way to improve dependency tracking and vulnerability analysis. Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be ...
Computer Weekly

PyPI loophole puts thousands of packages at risk of compromise

Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the ...
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New python package, ERTool, developed for efficient multi-source evidence fusion

Scientists from Peking University developed a new Python package for efficient implementation of the Evidential Reasoning approach for multi-source evidence fusion. Researchers from Peking University ...
Bleeping Computer

PyPI urges users to reset credentials after new phishing attacks

The Python Software Foundation has warned victims of a new wave of phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website to reset credentials. Accessible at pypi.org, PyPI is the default ...