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Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe says.

I used ChatGPT to build a Moltbot and get accepted onto Moltbook. Here’s a step-by-step look at what I did, what went wrong, ...