In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges ...

Credential stealing seems to be the main goal. Once executed on a machine, the fshec2 malicious payload collects information about the system such as usernames, directory listings, and hostnames ...

Python’s bytecode system, compiler, ... All of these changes fall short of one of the most commonly suggested improvements to Python: machine-code generation in the runtime, ...

Python 3.12 brought more specializations and other refinements to the interpreter. Now, Python 3.13 adds new elements to the JIT that generate actual machine code at runtime, instead of just ...

Lots of microcontrollers will accept Python these days, with CircuitPython and MicroPython becoming ever more popular in recent years. However, there’s now a new player in town. Enter PyXL, a… ...