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 ...
National Audubon Society

Meet the Kid Who Wowed the Internet With His Incredibly Accurate Bird Calls

When 10-year-old Samuel Henderson decided to share his bird calls at a school talent show this past May, he wasn’t nervous at all. In fact, in his mind, he was playing to a much larger audience than ...
GitHub

Function decoration for backoff and retry — modern, fast, zero dependencies.

backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.

How Burmese pythons reached the Florida Keys and pushed a rare woodrat toward extinction

The Key Largo woodrat has survived in the tropical hammocks of a narrow Florida island for thousands of years. It builds ...

Florida's giant Burmese pythons are doing more than eating wildlife, they are transforming the Everglades by spreading seeds

Burmese pythons have already earned a reputation as one of Florida's most destructive invasive species, wiping out populations of native mammals and disrupting ecosystems across the Everglades. But ...
IEEE

Less is More: Optimizing Function Calling for LLM Execution on Edge Devices

Abstract: The advanced function-calling capabilities of foundation models open up new possibilities for deploying agents to perform complex API tasks. However, managing large amounts of data and ...