Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

People infected with HIV must take antiretroviral drugs for life. But promising trials using engineered antibodies suggest that "functional cures" may be in reach. When you purchase through links on ...

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration, the nonprofit said in a blog post yesterday. The grant ...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using a local open-weight model. We create a miniature simulated desktop, ...

On 8 September 2025, the European Commission adopted amendments to Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2021/821 (EU Dual-Use Regulation) and published a Delegated Regulation, updating the EU’s dual-use control ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programming. They let you organize your code, reduce repetition, and make your programs more readable and reusable. Whether you’re writing small scripts or ...

In context: If there's one thing YouTube has shown, it's that almost anything can be built by yourself at home if you have the time, skill, and required parts. Take, for example, polymatt, who managed ...

TIOBE Programming Index News August 2025: AI Copilots Are Boosting Python’s Popularity Your email has been sent Generative AI can be a self-fulfilling prophecy: Because gen AI scans vast amounts of ...

Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages continue to rise. Perl surprises. Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the ...

An Introduction to Programming and Computer Science with Python, second edition is a free, open source textbook available under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Originally developed for UVM’s CS 1210 ...