Final preparations for PyConDE & PyData next week in Darmstadt. We’d love to see you there. Please feel free to arrange a meeting with us: cusy.io/en/about/eve...
@pyconde.bsky.social #Python #PyData

Publish package Finally, you can deploy the package on the Python Package Index( PyPI) or another index, for example GitLab Package Registry or devpi. For the Python Package Index, you must register with Test PyPI...

We have analysed the attacks on the software #SupplyChain of LiteLLM and Telnyx and now recommend dependency cooldowns alongside immutable references, trusted publishers and digital attestations to secure deployments:
• python-basics-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pa...
#Python #ITSec #DevSecOps

Many thanks to @sethmlarson.dev and @miketheman.com for their ongoing work on securing the Python infrastructure.

That wasn’t an April Fool's joke.

Have you had your identity verified on LinkedIn to get the blue tick? If so, I’m afraid I have to tell you that your passport, ID and biometric data are now stored with ‘Persona Identities’, a company funded by Peter Thiel.
thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...
#LinkedIn #Privacy

A new era for Open Research Europe European Commission to co-fund new phase of operation for open access publishing platform.

In future, Open Research Europe (ORE) will no longer be open solely to projects funded under the EU Programmes for Research; instead, all research institutions in the participating countries will be able to use the platform free of charge: research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

Open data A topic-based overview of public repositories containing research data. Agricultural sciences: AQUASTAT Dissemination System, Global information system of the Food and Agriculture Organization of t...

We have now significantly expanded our collection of open data and organised it by topic: www.python4data.science/en/latest/da...
#Python #DataScience #OpenData #Agriculture #Biology #Chemistry #Climate #Weather #ComputerNetwork #Energy #Finance #GeoScience #Healthcare #ImageProcessing #Medicine

OpenAI to acquire Astral Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

OpenAI will acquire Astral and integrate its tools into the Codex ecosystem. Perhaps it’s time for forks: openai.com/index/openai...
#OpenAI #Astral #Python

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Social media algorithms prioritize right-wing content and influence the political views and behavior of real users. This is the finding of the recent study “The political effects of X’s feed algorithm”: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SocialMedia #Algorithm #BigTech
@algorithmwatch.org

Will AI Help or Hinder Scientific Publishing? Artificial intelligence could reshape both the creation and evaluation of research. But experts warn of risks.

... and on the same topic: “AI is forcing us to evolve, on some level, every aspect of the publishing process”
undark.org/2026/02/25/a...

Artificial Intelligence in the Review Process

The German Research Association (@dfg.de) has established a binding framework for the use of AI. The aim is to ensure the legally compliant and transparent use of AI: www.dfg.de/en/news/news...
#Research #RSE #Science #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Compliance

Safer Assistance » Linux Magazine Agentic LLM systems are susceptible to attack. We'll show you some steps you can take to mitigate the risk.

“Security for LLM Agents” has now been published in @linux-magazine.com: www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2026/...
#ITSecurity #AI #LLM

Mehrsprachige SVGs erleichtern die Wartung und Pflege von Datenvisualisierungen erheblich. Danke an @scy@chaos.social für den Hinweis. www.cusy.design/viz/diagram-...
#Multilingual #SVG #Dataviz

Donald Knuth is quite enthusiastic about his recent experiences with generative AI: cusy.io/en/blog/knut...
#Knuth #GenAI #AI #Claude #Anthropic

Configuration You can use configuration files to change the way pytest runs. If you repeatedly use certain options in your tests, such as--verbose or--strict-markers, you can store them in a configuration file s...

… and now we have also moved the pytest configuration to the pyproject.toml file: python-basics-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/te...
#Python #Testing #pytest

tox tox is an automation tool that works similarly to a CI tool, but can be run both locally and in conjunction with other CI tools on a server. In the following, we will set up tox for our Items appli...

Since tox 4.44.0, tox.ini has been frozen. Only the toml configuration is supported for further development. We have therefore updated our tutorial accordingly: python-basics-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/te... #Python #testing #tox

📅 Am 23. April ist Girls’Day. 👩‍💻Schülerinnen können mit uns in die Welt der Softwareentwicklung eintauchen und entdecken, wie toll es ist, selbst Software zu schreiben.
Weitere Infos findet ihr unter
cusy.io/de/about/eve...
#GirlsDay #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM

tox TOML now supports every feature INI ever had, which means tox.ini is officially “frozen” — it’s not dead, it’s just enjoying a very stable retirement 🧓🧊 The future is tox.toml 🚀: tox.wiki/en/4.44.0/re...

Presentation Night: Whirlwind Tour of Numba, Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup 📆 Agenda * 19:00 Welcome to the PUB (Python Users Berlin) – setting up * 19:15 Main talk * 20:00 Lightning talks * 20:30 Social gathering 🎙 Main talk by [@esc](https://

Tonight Valentin Haenel will give a talk on Numba, a Python just-in-time (JIT) compiler. We would be delighted to see many of you there: www.meetup.com/python-users...
#Python #Berlin

I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: cusy.io/en/blog/how-...
#OpenSource #Ai #LLM #AISlop

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears AI features on EU devices sent data to cloud, prompting the Parliament’s IT support to switch them off.

EU Parliament blocks AI tools. Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information “to AI features that scan or analyze content,” be “cautious” with third-party AI apps and “avoid granting broad access to data”: www.politico.eu/article/eu-p...
#EU #AI #ITSecurity

🧵 2/2 Although the vulnerability received the highest possible severity rating of 10 out of 10 on the common CVSS, Anthropic does not intend to fix the problem for the time being.

Claude Desktop Extensions Exposes Over 10,000 Users to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - LayerX Summary: LayerX discovered a zero-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT), in which a single Google Calendar event can silently compromise a system running C...

🧵1/2 The security company LayerX has found a critical vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT). A manipulated Google Calendar entry can execute arbitrary code on the computer without any user interaction: layerxsecurity.com/blog/claude-...
#Anthropic #Claude #AI #ITSecurity

The slides from Rodrigo’s presentation ‘The paradox of itertools.tee’ have now been published: python.berlin/en/latest/pu...
#Python #Berlin

Python Users Berlin (PUB): The paradox of itertools.tee, Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup 📆 Agenda * 19:00 Welcome to the PUB (Python Users Berlin) – setting up * 19:15 Main talk * 20:00 Lightning talks * 20:30 Social gathering 🎙 Main talk by [Rodrigo Girão

Final preparations for the Python Users Berlin (@python.berlin) meeting tonight. I’m looking forward to meeting all the Pythonistas in Berlin and Rodrigo’s (@mathspp.com) talk on itertools.tee: www.meetup.com/python-users...
#Python #Berlin

Git Internals So far, we have looked at how you can use Git to manage the different states of your code. Now we want to show you the data and storage models that underlie Git. Data Model: You will be able to use...

Git 2.53 provides faster insights into the repository structure with 'git repo structure'. However, to better understand this, it is helpful to be more familiar with the Git data and storage models: www.python4data.science/en/latest/pr...
#Git

Die BfDI hast das Konsultationsverfahren zum datenschutzkonformen Umgang mit personenbezogenen Daten in KI-Modellen abgeschlossen und ausgewertet:
www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/BfDI/Kons...
#Datenschutz #KI

Lizenzen für Dokumente, Bilder, Audio/Video, Fonts und Hardware Open-Source-Lizenzen sind für Software gedacht. Für Dokumente, Bilder, Audio/Video, Schriftarten und Hardware gibt es eigene, passgenau zugeschnittene Lizenzen. Wir verbinden häufig freie Lizenzen led...

Heute ist der vierte Teil unserer Artikelserie zu Open-Source-Lizenzen von Frank Hofmann und mir im Linux-Magazin erschienen: www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/202...
#OpenSource #OpenData #OpenHardware

On the way to Cologne for a week-long workshop on Python for Data Science.
#Cologne

Good report on technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure in the EU: ‘The European Union is currently heavily dependent on foreign technologies. This reduces its capacity for strategic action and its economic competitiveness.’
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
#EU #DigitalSovereignty