AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software ...

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, has been dealing with AI slop bug reports for the past two years and recently decided to shut down curl's bug bounty program to remove the ...

Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions ...

Learn how to create contour plots in Python using NumPy’s meshgrid and Matplotlib. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how ...

A software engineer and book author with many years of experience, I have dedicated my career to the art of automation. A software engineer and book author with many years of experience, I have ...

Matplotlib mistakes often come from poor layout, unclear labels, and wrong scale choices, not from the data itself. Clear plotting improves when scatter plots and large datasets are simplified for ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

What exactly is Python and what is MicroPython? The major differences between both languages. Some use cases for each. As difficult as it is to imagine, the Python programming language made its ...

We’re just going to cover the basics here. Why? Because Matplotlib has thousands of features and it has excellent documentation. So we’re just going to dip a toe in the waters.