Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Many devices and consumer-grade routers in the Asia-Pacific region continue to use the insecure Telnet protocol, despite a recent critical vulnerability and the general insecurity of the protocol ...

Nioh 3 is the first game in the series to adopt an open-world approach, where you can explore pretty much wherever you like. There are some constraints to that, as each subregion within the game's ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...

Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability that affects hundreds of thousands of telnet servers, bringing an often-neglected threat vector back into the limelight. One Monday, the US ...

So, you want to learn Python? That’s cool. A lot of people are getting into it these days because it’s used for all sorts of things, from building websites to analyzing data. If you’re looking for a ...

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 ...

This beginner-friendly tutorial shows how to create clear, interactive graphs in GlowScript VPython. You’ll learn the basics of setting up plots, graphing data in real time, and customizing axes and ...

An error in the firmware-upload handler leads to devices starting an unauthenticated root-level Telnet service. A security defect in the discontinued Totolink EX200 ...