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, ...

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 ...

In an age of blogs, tweets, Hacker News, Reddit and Anonymous, an off-the-cuff joke can spin wildly out of control. At least it appears that’s what happened with PyCon this week when a sexual joke led ...

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) attacks.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Another day, another boneheaded sexist misstep igniting a blamestorm in the tech ...

Attendees from around the world at PyCon US 2025 in Pittsburgh (Alice Crow/Technical.ly) Tech workers are reckoning with years of declining market power and a fundamental shift in what it takes to ...

First, two guys at a programming conference made some jokes about big dongles and wanting to fork some other guy's repo, and the woman sitting in front of them took offense. Then she snapped their ...

“We didn’t set out to have more female featured speakers than male,” says PyCon organizer Diana Clarke–it just happened that way. Here’s how the community around the Python language, which kicks off ...

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) ...