Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
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Australian entrepreneur sells AI start-up Modular in $5.6bn deal

A Melburnian who arrived in Silicon Valley with only a suitcase and a laptop has sold his start-up to Qualcomm for $US3.9bn.
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Function decoration for backoff and retry — modern, fast, zero dependencies.

backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.
Tech Times

Qualcomm Closes $3.9 Billion Modular Deal: Meta Validates Full-Stack CUDA Challenge

Qualcomm confirmed a $3.92 billion all-stock deal to buy AI software startup Modular, paired with a Meta Platforms CPU ...

Australian entrepreneur Tim Davis sells AI start-up Modular in $5.6bn deal

A Silicon Valley AI software start-up co-founded and led by an Australian entrepreneur is set to be sold for $US3.9bn ($5.6bn ...
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ProjectBEA — AI VTuber Engine

ProjectBEA is a modular, fully autonomous AI VTuber engine. It powers a living AI persona — Bea — that can hold live conversations, monologue to her audience when idle, join Discord voice calls, play ...