A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first ...

Windows PowerShell now warns when running Invoke-WebRequest scripts

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web ...

Malicious VSCode extensions on Microsoft's registry drop infostealers

Two malicious extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace infect developers' machines with information-stealing ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Aspire 13 Makes Python a First-Class Workload with .NET and JavaScript

Aspire 13 adds official, first-class Python support so distributed apps can orchestrate Python services natively alongside ...
Big Island Now

Hawaiian Electric proposes plan to equip residents, businesses in wildfire-prone areas with backup power

A new Hawaiian Electric rebate proposal aims to aid households and businesses in wildfire risk areas that are subject to preemptive power shutoffs. The Backup Power Rebate Program, designed to serve ...
Click2Houston

Houston has the worst power outages in the nation; how bad is it in your ZIP code?

Read full article: From a high of 70 on Sunday to a morning low of 38 on Tuesday morning—welcome to Houston! Multiple people were arrested in an after-hours club raid in Third Ward. Multiple people ...
IEEE

CHARON: Polyglot Code Analysis for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Scripting Languages Native Extensions

Abstract: Scripting languages like Python or JavaScript are extremely popular among developers, in part due to their massive open-source ecosystems that enable smooth code reuse. However, recent work ...