Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

Hackers have compromised virtually all versions of Aqua Security’s widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner in an ongoing ...

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...
The New York Times

Shutdown at D.H.S. Extends to Cyber Agency, Adding to Setbacks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has navigated staffing cuts without a Senate-confirmed leader. Employees have become demoralized and concerned about the agency’s ability to ward ...
IEEE

Python Source Code Vulnerability Detection Based on CodeBERT Language Model

Abstract: Programming language source code vulnerability mining is crucial to improving the security of software systems, but current research is mostly focused on the C language field, with little ...
GitHub

Fast Multimodal Semantic Deduplication & Filtering

SemHash is a lightweight, multimodal library for semantic deduplication, outlier filtering, and representative sample selection. Text works out of the box with fast Model2Vec embeddings, and images, ...
IEEE

Evaluating Python Static Code Analysis Tools Using FAIR Principles

Abstract: The quality of modern software relies heavily on the effective use of static code analysis tools. To improve their usefulness, these tools should be evaluated using a framework that ...
Gizmochina

Scientists Create World’s Smallest QR Code, Smaller Than Bacteria

Researchers at TU Wien and Cerabyte created the world’s smallest QR code, measuring just 1.98 square micrometers. The record has been officially verified by Guinness World Records, making it 37% ...