Materials inspired by nature, or biomimetic materials, are nothing new. Scientists have designed water-resistant materials ...

OpenAI bets on Astral to strengthen AI coding By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 23 Mar 2026According to OpenAI, Python has become one of the most important languages in modern software development.

Ronald Maravanyika is a Zimbabwean software developer and community leader. He co-founded ZimboPy, chairs the Python Zimbabwe Trust, and works as ICT Manager at ZACH.

OpenAI to acquire Astral, bringing Python tools like uv, Ruff, and ty into Codex as it moves from code generation to executing full developer workflows.

SARAO has an exciting Software Engineer position to form part of a development team building the MeerKAT, MeerKAT Extension, African VLBI Network (AVN) and the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO ...

SARAO has an exciting Senior Software Engineers position which forms part of the software development team building the MeerKAT, MeerKAT Extension, African VLBI Network (AVN) and the Square Kilometre ...

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

Astral tools and expertise will be leveraged in OpenAI Codex agentic coding app to expand AI capabilities across the software ...

Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports. “As the security ...