Editors, Adam Turner and Thomas Wouters,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.13, compared to 3.12. Python 3.13 was released on October 7, 2024. For full details, see the changelog. ... (more…)

What does it take to become a software engineer for a hedge fund? Is there any point in teaching yourself how to code? Do you need to go to university?

Last year, computer engineers from Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) introduced the world's first battery-free Game Boy, which harvests both solar energy and the user's kinetic energy from button mashing to power an unl... (more…)

This should have been obvious to me for a longer time, but until earlier today I did not really realize the severity of the issues caused by str.format on untrusted user input. It came up as a way to bypass the Jinja2 Sandbox in a way that would permit r...

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