"The history keeps growing every time I call it"—A story about falling into the trap of Python's default arguments

Last week, I was given a small assignment in class. It was a seemingly simple task: "Write a function that records test ...
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This One Simple Investment Could Save Us From the Next Cyber Catastrophe

Spread the loveWe’re living through a quiet, yet utterly critical, crisis. It’s not playing out on battlefields or in ...
HackerNoon

Building an Urban Heat Island Detector with Python, Satellite Data, and Machine Learning

Urban heat islands are a solvable data problem: this piece shows how to combine free satellite imagery, standard ...

What you can do in your 50s: The 'deep understanding' found in the transition from VBA to Python

Why Python now?The moment when the code you have been writing in VBA for over 20 years stops being useful arrives sooner than you think. What lies beyond that—frustration, or a new perspective? I am ...
Escudo Digital

Russian cybercriminal uses Claude code to hijack 87,000 IP addresses

The attacker exploited unprotected network devices and weak passwords, using a modified version of Claude Code, the ...
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Someone made an Arduino-powered NFC scanner that treats physical movies like cartridges

It even lets you randomly pick from a genre, if you're feeling indecisive.
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Dell Coupon Codes: 20% Off for September 2026

Expect to save over $600 on the hottest models, including $250 off monitors, for crisp and clear gaming (or writing), 40% off laptops, and up to $1,200 off desktops for true gamers. We’ve rounded up ...
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Luciferus Advertises AI-Generated RAT Malware Code

Sophos Counter Threat Unit researchers identified an underground advertisement for Luciferus on August 24, 2026, and found that its "uncensored" AI service returned Python remote-access-trojan code ...