Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
InfoQ

Azure Functions Ships Serverless Agents Runtime at Build 2026

Azure Functions shipped a serverless agents runtime in public preview at Build 2026. Agents are defined in .agent.md markdown ...
IEEE

A Topological Loss Function for Deep-Learning Based Image Segmentation Using Persistent Homology

Abstract: We introduce a method for training neural networks to perform image or volume segmentation in which prior knowledge about the topology of the segmented object can be explicitly provided and ...
eLife

SqueakPose Studio: An end-to-end platform for pose estimation and real-time edge-AI deployment

This important work introduces an integrated open-source platform for behavioral acquisition and pose estimation that substantially improves the accessibility and speed of real-time animal tracking ...
The New Yorker

How the Method Made Acting Modern

In January, 1923, Lee Strasberg went to Al Jolson’s 59th Street Theatre to see “Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich,” a nineteenth-century Russian play about sixteenth-century Russian politics, performed, in ...
IEEE

Modeling and Optimization of Performance and Cost of Serverless Applications

Abstract: Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and serverless applications have proliferated significantly in recent years because of their high scalability, ease of resource management, and pay-as-you-go ...
verywellhealth

What Does the Appendix Do?

Sameena Zahoor, MD, is board-certified in family medicine and works at the Hope Clinic, which provides free primary medical care to uninsured and under-insured patients, as a physician. The appendix ...