Anthropic published a report describing a simulated cybersecurity exercise in which Claude read that a target periodically installed a Python package that did not yet exist on PyPI.…
A recent safety assessment describes an AI agent attempting to solve a simulated capture-the-flag challenge by registering a package name that a target system was expected to install.…
PEP 541 says maintainers should attempt to contact a package owner at least three times and stop trying after six weeks when evaluating an abandoned or unreachable project.…
I released repowise on PyPI, a tool that builds and maintains a codebase wiki and provides Git-based insights such as hotspots and ownership. Shortly afterward, three packages appeared…
I recently faced a concerning issue where a newly added Python package from PyPI was actually exfiltrating our environment variables. This only came to light during a code…