An old Python package named “ctx,” not updated since 2014, suddenly came back to life with new updates. But as discovered by Yee Ching Tok, ISC Handler at the SANS.edu Internet Storm Center ...

PSF is urging its legion of Python users to upgrade systems to Python 3.8.8 or 3.9.2, in particular to address the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that's tracked as CVE-2021-3177.

Microsoft has released the May 2020 update for its Python extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its popular open-source, cross-platform code editor. Users should update the extension to ...

[Click on image for larger view.] The Main VS Code Python Extension (source: Microsoft). The VS Code dev team stewards all of those extensions, and this week announced what's new in the latest update ...

The latter is the province of the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant, and the new update specifically addresses the main Python extension's Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL). That is an interactive ...