When cloud giants meddle in markets

Hyperscale cloud providers are doing what any aggressive buyer with deep pockets would do: purchasing enormous volumes of DRAM and high-bandwidth memory to feed AI factories, new cloud regions, and expanding platform services. By securing supply ahead of competitors,...

Python isn’t always easy

It’s harder than it might seem to create a stand-alone Python app. It’s also harder than you might think to reliably back up SQLite databases, but Python has the tools for it. And while it’s not easy to install Python on an air-gapped machine, it absolutely can be...

The best new features in Python 3.15

The first full beta of Python 3.15 has arrived, and it’s one of the most feature-packed Python releases in many a moon. Here’s a rundown of the biggest, boldest, and most important innovations, changes, and fixes. Lazy imports A long-asked for feature, lazy imports...