OpenAI has acquired Astral, the company behind Python tools uv and Ruff, to integrate them into its Codex platform as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.

Dave Gray offers a solid, free Python tutorial that runs for about 9 hours. It’s a pretty methodical course, starting with the basics and moving into more complex stuff like closures and recursion. He ...

Everything you may have missed from the past week.

How many headlines, articles and self-indulgent LinkedIn posts have you seen lamenting the state of the tech industry in Australia and abroad? We shudder to think about how many we’ve seen. But while ...

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, ...

GlassWorm campaign injects malware into GitHub Python repos using stolen tokens since March 8, 2026, exposing developers to ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...