Two fake spellchecker packages on PyPI hid a Python RAT in dictionary files, activating malware on import in version 1.2.0.

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There may be times when you are working in the Linux terminal and suddenly see the “can’t set the locale” error and see some mysterious characters like ...

Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...

I’ve been doing some transcoding of videos from x264 to x265NVENC. So far some of the results have gotten really good compression ratios but I end up being disappointed by a lot of the banding that ...

According to Andrej Karpathy, the use of UTF-8 confusables and variation selectors can impact cryptocurrency transaction security by allowing arbitrary byte streams to be hidden, potentially affecting ...

The popular Ultralytics YOLO11 AI model was compromised in a supply chain attack to deploy cryptominers on devices running versions 8.3.41 and 8.3.42 from the Python Package Index (PyPI) Ultralytics ...