If you're upgrading to a new iPhone 17 or installing the latest operating system, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble by making a good backup first. Here's how to do it. Jeff Carlson writes about ...

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Python developers often need to install and manage third-party libraries. The most reliable way to do this is with pip, Python’s official package manager. To avoid package conflicts and system errors, ...

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I was working on a script using Scapy for a Home Assistant installation, and I observed that importing the conf package was taking over 4 seconds on the system. After some profiling and debugging I ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

A few days ago, Microsoft manifested something that had been a long time coming: forced installation of the new Outlook app on Windows 10 PCs by way of the February 2025 mandatory update. This is the ...