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 ...

Cate Blanchett, Steven Soderbergh, Nikki Hexum on How the Human Consent Registry Helps People Protect Their Identity From AI Theft: It’s a ‘Human Right’ (EXC…

The Human Consent Registry is a free public utility tool people can use to create a record of how their name and likeness can ...
Mountain DemocratOpinion

California Commentary: The bullet train’s threat to local governments

In April, the Senate Transportation Committee held an informational hearing on the latest version of the California ...
Ars Technica

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

Here we go again. Get used to it, folks. This is part of the new business model... has little to do with the model being somehow amazingly more powerful than whichever ones came immediately before it.
Miami Herald

A giant python was hiding beneath a Miami-Dade sidewalk. A hunter found 20 eggs

South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) python removal contractor Guillermo Tapanes captured a Burmese python and its nest containing about 20 eggs in Cutler Bay on Saturday, May 23, 2026.
Variety

‘The Python Hunt’ Review: An Entertainingly Garish Documentary Account of a State-Sanctioned Culling Spree

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. Where that doc series had the ...
Government Technology

Connecticut Pauses AI Use to Create ‘Criminal Reports’

(TNS) — Connecticut prosecutors and police chiefs have put the brakes on the rapidly expanding acquisition by police agencies of artificial intelligence-powered law enforcement tools until the ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents

Agentic AI is the tech industry’s newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises the tools they need to create these automated little helpers. To that end ...
Bleeping Computer

Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens

The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular "LiteLLM" Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of ...
CNBC

OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Astral in boost for Codex team

OpenAI said it will acquire Astral, a startup that builds tools for software developers. Astral's team will join OpenAI as part of the group running its AI coding assistant, Codex. OpenAI has been ...
Engadget

Claude can now generate charts and diagrams

With Claude enjoying a moment of newfound popularity among regular people, Anthropic is previewing an update designed to make its chatbot better at explaining some concepts. Starting today, Claude can ...
NBC News

The AI child exploitation crisis is here

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has made it easier than ever for bad actors to create child sexual abuse material, leaving prosecutors and lawmakers struggling to keep up. Limited ...