It is no secret that the Python packaging world is at something of a
crossroads; there have been debates and discussions about the packaging
landscape that started long before our
2023
series describing some of the difficulties. There has been progress
since then—and incremental improvements all along, in truth—but a new
initiative is looking to overhaul packaging for the language. At
PyCon US 2025, Barry Warsaw and
Jonathan Dekhtiar gave a presentation on the
WheelNext project, which is a community
effort that aims improve the experience for users and providers of Python
packages while also working with toolmakers and other parts of the
ecosystem to "
reinvent the wheel
". While the project's name refers
to Python's
wheel
binary distribution format, its goals stretch much further than simply the
format.
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, jq, kernel, podman, python-setuptools, socat, and thunderbird), Gentoo (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera, ClamAV, Git, NTP, REXML, and strongSwan), Oracle (buildah, gnome-remote-desktop, ipa, jq, kernel, podman, python-setuptools, ruby:3.3, socat, uek-kernel, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (kernel), and Ubuntu (freerdp3, git, gnupg2, linux-aws, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.11, linux-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-azure-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-nvidia-tegra,
linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-oem-6.11, and onionshare).
European Commission unveils strategy for storing food, medicine, generators and raw materials
The EU should develop stockpiles of food, medicine, generators and raw materials to be better prepared for a military invasion, pandemic or natural disaster, the European Commission has said.
Outlining its first-ever strategy on stockpiling, the EU executive said on Wednesday member states should also consider emergency supplies of water purification products, equipment to repair undersea cables, drones and mobile bridges for use in conflicts.
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The Raspberry Pi Build HAT helps you bring LEGO and Raspberry Pi together. Its firmware is now fully open source.
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Can the US's system to monitor air pollutants keep up with a changing climate?
Once you solve one problem with a 3D printer, you'll go looking for others.
The popular Craigslist tradition is seeing a revival from Reddit and TikTok users, hoping a chance encounter turns into more
Layla Rivera was at work when her boyfriend texted: someone on Reddit was looking for her.
In the comments of a post on the subreddit r/warpedtour, attendees of the punk rock and emo music festival searched for their missed connections – ephemeral friends or hookups they met onsite and would like to see again. Rivera could tell that one message, addressed “to Leila/Layla (the short girl with the red top)”, was almost certainly written by a man she encountered while watching the band Sweet Pill at Warped Tour’s Washington DC stop in June.
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Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbers
Privacy activists are unimpressed with London's Metropolitan Police and its use of live facial recognition (LFR) to catch criminals, saying it is not effective use of taxpayer money and an overreach by government.…