"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 ...
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 ...

The 'Building Individual Processes from Basic Processing' Structure Discovered While Reading Practical Python Code

The sense of unease encountered while reading practical codeWhile reading actual Python code this time, I encountered a structure that is difficult to grasp just by looking at it as simple 'function ...
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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 ...
Hackaday

Rosy Retrocomputing

Most of us are guilty of romanticizing the past. Do you long to be the captain of a tall ship? Just as long as you don’t mind weevils in your food, vitamin deficiencies, and death from an ...