“Lebanon’s electricity network collapsed on Saturday,” reports the Washington Post, “after the two most important power stations ran out of fuel, leaving private generators as the only source of power.” The state-owned electricity company has been providing citizens with just a few hours of power a day for months, but the total collapse of the…

ZDNet reports: “Python 3.10.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations,” CPython maintainers announced in a blogpost… One of the headline features is “structural pattern matching” in Python 3.10 — a technique for handling data that’s already available in C, Java, JavaScript, Scala and…

Our world is constantly bombarded by high-energy particles from various sources, and if they hit in just the right spot on the sensitive electronics our modern world is built on, they can start flipping bits. Known as Single Event Upsets (SEU), their effect can range from unnoticeable to catastrophic, and [Veritasium] explores this phenomenon in…

A planned launch in August didn’t work out, and now it looks like we’ll have to wait a while. …read more Source:: CNet

ZDNet reports that Python “is now the most popular language, according to one popularity ranking.” “For the first time in more than 20 years we have a new leader of the pack…” the TIOBE Index announced this month. “The long-standing hegemony of Java and C is over.” When Slashdot reached out to Guido van Rossum…