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Langflow 1.12.3 Closed 25 Holes. Your Canvas Still Executes
SecurityOnline dated IBM's 25-CVE Langflow bulletin Oct 6. Two unauthenticated RCEs score 9.8. Affected 1.0.0 through 1.12.2. No workaround. pip show is the patch.
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FastAPI Conf Is Oct 28. Your OpenAPI File Is the Talk
The first official FastAPI conference is October 28 at Amsterdam's Transformatorhuis. Colvin, Ramírez, and the Starlette maintainer are on the site. The after-party page went up this week.
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TabICL Fits Like sklearn. XGBoost Still Owns Time
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PyTorch 2.14 Zeroes the Clamp Gradient
Real Python's Oct 5 digest: clamp at the bound now backprops 0, not 1. vLLM 0.29 defaults to Model Runner V2. Transformers 5.16 replaced the tensor-parallel API.
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Django 6.1.2 Ships Four CVEs. Your UUID Formset Is the One
Sarah Boyce's Oct 6 releases patch language-code DoS, header parsing, GIS bytes that phone home, and edit-only formsets with settable primary keys. BigAutoField was already fine.
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Reddit Kills RSS on Nov 13. Your feedparser Job Is Next
Reddit told mods RSS dies 13 November because of AI scraping. Non-mod feeds have no replacement. Public API intake freezes 31 October. Python cron jobs need a calendar.
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