The Next Web

The AI industry’s model and agent skill repositories are full of malware. The infrastructure built to accelerate development is now the vector for compromising it.

Hugging Face hosts 352,000 unsafe model issues. ClawHub's registry contains 341 malicious AI agent skills. The AI supply chain is now the most attractive target in software security.

Building a Fan, Brick by Brick

Launched at CES 2026 and on sale now, the LEGO® SMART Play™ sets and the SMART Brick were developed by the LEGO Group’s ...
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Florida scientists use tagged wildlife to track invasive pythons

Unlikely python trackers: Tagged raccoons and opossums have inadvertently led scientists to Burmese pythons after being eaten, offering a new detection method. Ecosystem stakes: Burmese pythons have ...
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Mastering Python for smoother autograder wins

Lightweight testing strategies for early bug detection Using Python’s unittest or pytest frameworks enables repeatable checks for correct function behavior before submission. As described in Python ...

Raccoons and possums with tracking devices used to locate invasive pythons in Florida

Researchers in Florida are capturing invasive Burmese pythons by using tracking devices placed on raccoons and possums.

How to perform web scraping at scale

Web scraping is a process that extracts massive amounts of data from websites automatically, with a scraper collecting thousands of data points in a matter of seconds. It grabs the Hypertext Markup ...