Ubuntu MATE is looking for a new maintainer, with current project lead Martin Wimpress revealing he no longer has the ‘passion’ for the project he once did – nor the time, it seems. Wimpress created ...

An Ubuntu-first reconstruction of Accio Work that turns the packaged desktop release into a Linux-native product workflow: buildable, installable, testable, and ready to publish. This is not the ...

Several of this week’s top stories touch on the pitfalls of open source development, especially when things like power, money, and ego are involved. Also, a look at Python’s nifty new sampling ...

The beta release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ is now available to download, a month ahead its planned stable release on 23 April, 2026. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS runs on the latest release candidate ...

Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director and OpenAI cofounder, is calling a recent Python package attack "software horror"—and the details are genuinely alarming. A compromised version of LiteLLM ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Four Australian universities boast engineering courses in the world’s top 10, and 13 data science and AI courses are in the global top ...

No more waiting on slow-loading modules or wasting time on ad hoc workarounds: Python 3.15’s new ‘lazy imports’ mechanism has you covered. When you import a module in Python, the module’s code must be ...

A new study suggests a substance in python blood could lead to new weight loss therapies for humans. The mice given the substance lost 9% of their body weight over 28 days. Scientists believe this ...

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

CU Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The ...

A sinkhole has opened up on a golf course in Manchester, England, revealing an abandoned wine cellar. Officials say nobody had been in the forgotten space for more than 100 years. Steve Hopkins, the ...

A newly identified local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability has been discovered affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 and later, allowing attackers to gain full root access.