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Python 3.14.1 arrives with a pile of improvements

Python 3.14.1 also has a few improvements to building for iOS and iPadOS platforms. Binary modules can now be compiled with dynamic library linking, instead of Framework linking. The iOS testbed app ...
InfoWorld

Understand Python’s new lock file format

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when. Python Enhancement Proposal ...
9to5google

You can now test Gemini 2.0 Flash’s native image output

Following Gemma 3 and Gemini Robotics earlier today, Google’s AI news continues with wider access to native image output in Gemini 2.0 Flash that allows for conversational image editing alongside ...
IEEE

BenchING: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Following Structured Output Format Instruction in Text-Based Narrative Game Tasks

Abstract: In this article, we present BenchING, a new benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on their ability to follow structured output format instructions in text-based procedural ...
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Google TV Streamer now lets you manually pick audio output formats

The Google TV Streamer is getting its first update, and one of the new features allows users to manually pick audio output formats such as Dolby formats. Roughly two months after it launched, Google ...
GitHub

Extract text from .docx and .odt files to strings in pure python.

My personal replacement for docx2txt. It's intended to be very simple and provide some utilities to match the functionality of the original lib. Doesn't preserve whitespace or styling like the ...