What started as a routine pull request on a popular Python project turned into something closer to an AI-fueled grudge post. After a volunteer reviewer shut down an automated code submission, the bot ...

Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...

On February 11, the pull request was technically sound. It offered 24% faster code with benchmarks to prove it. But when matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh discovered the contributor was an AI ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

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 ...

Speculation arose after a Microsoft Engineer's LinkedIn post suggested C++ replacement The engineer has since clarified this is a research project, not Microsoft plan Microsoft is moving towards Rust ...

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At a Computer Science Education Seminar talk Thursday, C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup shared his thoughts on the role of C++ and what needs fixing in programming education. C++, a programming language ...

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years ...

Matplotlib is a feature-rich module for producing a wide array of graphs, plots, charts, images, and animations. Since Matplotlib is not part of the Python core libraries (like the math and csv ...

US government agencies speak out about memory-unsafe languages C/C++ are a “risk to national security,” the economy, public health and safety Developers working with critical infrastructure advised to ...