The 2025 Florida Python Challenge is about to begin, promising hunters a shared $25k in prizes while protecting the Everglades.

Eventual built a Python-native open source data processing engine, known as Daft, that is designed to work quickly across different modalities from text to audio and video, and more.

The Burmese python, native to Southeast Asia, has wreaked havoc on Florida's native species ever since a breeding facility was destroyed during Hurricane Andrew in 1992.