After a man made a "dongle" joke at a tech conference, two people lost their jobs: the man who made the joke — and the woman who publicly called him out. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

A woman's tweet about an offensive joke has led to firings and death threats. March 23, 2013 — -- Offensive jokes whispered at a tech conference last Sunday night have now spread much further ...

An inclusive developer conference in March, PyCon 2013 was home to free workshops for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. These events included a workshop ...

An incident at the annual Python developer conference has led to allegations of sexism, death threats, the firings of two people, and—apparently—multiple DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Another day, another boneheaded sexist misstep igniting a blamestorm in the tech ...

The country’s largest annual Python programming convention is (finally) coming to Pittsburgh. Python Conference US, aka PyCon US, was first scheduled to be held in the Steel City in 2020. Yet, as you ...

Attendees from around the world at PyCon US 2025 in Pittsburgh (Alice Crow/Technical.ly) Tech workers are reckoning with years of declining market power and a fundamental shift in what it takes to ...

An incident at the annual Python developer conference has led to allegations of sexism, death threats, the firings of two people, and -- apparently -- multiple DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) ...