The power of Python trumps Excel workbooks.

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NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Princeton computer scientist Sayash Kapoor about his assertions that AI won't lead to mass layoffs.

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This week's ThreatsDay Bulletin covers curl flaws, a critical Hoppscotch bug, smart TV proxyware, macOS ClickFix attacks, ...

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.