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, ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At PyCon U.S., leaders from the community that uses and develops Python shared their thoughts on the future of the open-source programming language. Organizers held the event in Salt Lake City and ...

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 ...

Time to learn Python programming with PyCon. PyCon Zimbabwe is holding a conference that will give developers, both seasoned and aspiring a chance to “share knowledge, learn about new technologies, ...

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.