Microsoft

StealC and Amadey: Breaking down infostealers and the cybercrime services that deliver them

On June 24, 2026, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) facilitated the takedown, suspension, and blocking of domains that ...
IEEE

LLM-based Satisfiability Checking of String Requirements by Consistent Data and Checker Generation

Abstract: Requirements over strings, commonly represented using natural language (NL), are particularly relevant for software systems due to their heavy reliance on string data manipulation. While ...
GitHub

[ctypes] [feature request] Create a Python string without buffer copies given a bytes pointer, size, kind

In interop scenarios, it might be useful to be able to have a Python string referencing an existing buffer without copies (e.g. if the underlying char data is stored in NumPy/PyTorch tensors, ...
Hacker

Resolving TypeError: A Bytes-like Object is Required, Not 'str' in Python

Your browser does not support the audio element. In this tutorial, we'll dive into resolving the error TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' in Python ...
InfoWorld

C# 11 previews raw string literals, dumps parameter null checking

Next version of Microsoft’s flagship .NET language promises a variety of new features for better productivity and better performance. Microsoft’s planned C# 11 language upgrade is set to feature ...
GitHub

string vs bytes type checking/handling

The problem is, on Python 2 this will always evaluate to False! For both bytes and unicode strings. The reason is, that on Python 2, both str (bytes) and unicode ...
Ars Technica

How can I write a null byte to a file in Python?

So I have a program in Python for use on a Linux machine that's dealing with binary data flowing through what may be a Linux FIFO.<BR><BR>I'm using Avinash Kak's BitVector to modify the data as it ...