Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer.

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Moltbot’s viral open-source AI assistant wowed users with automation power but sparked major security, privacy, and misuse concerns.

Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

You can now find, install, and update Microsoft Store apps using a command prompt on Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs. No GUI ...

A federal officer, paid by our tax dollars, shot Renee Good, an unarmed U.S. citizen and mother. The video released by the government recorded Good's last words to him as "I'm not mad at you." The ...

In the first decade of the 21st century, most scientists and policy-makers were focused on 2°C as being the highest “safe” threshold for warming above pre-industrial levels. But emerging research was ...

A state program designed to protect North Carolinians from people charged with sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking and other crimes needs more funding to continue operations, its leader told ...

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The first time Donald Trump came to Davos in 2018 he was an awkward guest at the global elite party. Eight years on, the U.S. president has bent ...

Prompt injections have become one of the biggest emerging threats to the modern home as AI adoption grows. It's a new era of malware -- and one that requires new defenses. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home ...

The release of files, videos and photographs from the federal inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein is the largest to date, and the final one planned by the Justice Department. Times reporters are sifting ...