The June winners of the South Florida Water Management District python elimination program rakes in snakes and money.

The News-Press and Naples Daily News asked Kodiak Hengstebeck of the FWC 10 questions about this year's Python Challenge.

LLM agents need memory to store what they have seen and retrieve it when needed. Everyone hand-designs these systems: pick a vector store, write some retrieval logic, tune the prompts, ship it. This ...

IBM has become the first company to settle with the US government under the Trump administration's Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, a program aimed at ensuring diversity programs don't cross a line and ...

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at jsolochek@tampabay.com. Anyone can view ...

Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at jsolochek@tampabay.com. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration, the nonprofit said in a blog post yesterday. The grant ...

748 pythons were caught in July 2025 alone (up from 235 in July 2024). The US state of Florida is addressing its invasive Burmese python problem by converting the snakes into high-end leather products ...

Florida is partnering with a luxury leather company to increase the number of invasive pythons caught. The company, Inversa, turns python skins into high-end fashion items like wallets, belts, and ...

Governor Ron DeSantis says the removal of giant invasive snakes from the Everglades in Florida has tripled compared with last year. "These species are under a unique threat from one particular ...