After a man made a "dongle" joke at a tech conference, two people lost their jobs: the man who made the joke — and the woman who publicly called him out. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

Tech workers are reckoning with years of declining market power and a fundamental shift in what it takes to build a sustainable career. That was front and center at PyCon US 2025 last week, the ...

The country’s largest annual Python programming convention is (finally) coming to Pittsburgh. Python Conference US, aka PyCon US, was first scheduled to be held in the Steel City in 2020. Yet, as you ...

An incident at the annual Python developer conference has led to allegations of sexism, death threats, the firings of two people, and -- apparently -- multiple DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) ...

Colm Gorey was a senior journalist with Silicon Republic. He joined in January 2014 and covered AI, IoT, science and anything that will get us to Mars quicker. When not trying to get his hands on the ...