Over the last few months, I've been seeing an increase in a third type of hidden pixels: PNG padding. Almost all of these sightings have been associated with steganographic challenges, capture-the-flag forensic contests, and similar puzzles. (Ever since people began staying home due to COVID-19, there seems to have been an increased interest in security, steganography, and related topics.)
Source: PNG and Hidden Pixels, an article by Dr. Neal Krawetz.
Netflix on Tuesday announced that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the showrunners of HBO’s Game of Thrones, are working on an adaptation of Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem trilogy as their first major project since signing exclusive contracts with the streaming service last year.
“Liu Cixin’s trilogy is the most ambitious science-fiction series we’ve read, taking readers on a journey from the 1960s until the end of time, from life on our pale blue dot to the distant fringes of the universe. We look forward to spending the next years of our lives bringing this to life for audiences around the world,” reads the duo’s joint statement.
Source: Game of Thrones showrunners are adapting The Three-Body Problem as first major Netflix project, an article by Nick Statt.
I look forward to this series as I enjoyed the three books a lot; I even recommended them to my friend Simon.
In this post, which can be read as a follow up to our ultimate web scraping guide, we will cover almost all the tools Python offers you to web scrape. We will go from the more basic to the most advanced one and will cover the pros and cons of each. Of course, we won't be able to cover all aspect of every tool we discuss, but this post should be enough to have a good idea of which tools does what, and when to use which.
Source: Web Scraping 101 with Python, an article by Kevin Sahin.