Python

Sherlock, an open-source Python tool from the Sherlock Project, lets users search a username across hundreds of social networks to locate linked accounts. The project is drawing heavy attention on GitHub this week, ranking near the top of trending repositories. Interest centers on its usefulness for OSINT investigators, security researchers and people checking their own username footprint online.

NVIDIA has published Auto Ontology, an open-source Python framework for building semantic, graph-based reasoning layers over data. The tool aims to produce deterministic query generation, improve context retrieval, and make AI outputs more explainable in large language model and agent workflows. Developers are watching the early project as interest grows in making LLM-based systems more reliable and auditable.

Louise Erdrich, the acclaimed American novelist, has a new short story collection titled Python's Kiss: Stories. Early coverage, including a review from the California Review of Books, is drawing attention to the book. Readers and critics are discussing the work of one of contemporary Native American literature's most celebrated voices as the collection arrives.

Google has published a new open-source repository called Agent Skills on GitHub, offering reusable agent skills for Google products and technologies. Written in Python, the project is aimed at developers building AI agents that work with Google services. It is quickly drawing attention from the developer community.

Scrapling, an open-source Python web scraping framework by developer D4Vinci, is climbing GitHub's trending list. The project markets itself as handling everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl, and promotes a Discord community and daily scraping tips on social media. Developers are discussing it as a newer alternative for data extraction tasks.

Ninja Intel Group has released NinjaSignal, a free, openly licensed Python tool that lets security teams track which ransomware groups are accelerating their activity without manually checking leak sites. The package can be installed via pip and returns live, scriptable data on rising groups. Cybersecurity and threat intelligence communities are sharing the launch, noting its CC-BY licensing lowers the barrier for researchers and defenders.

PR Agent, an open-source AI pull request reviewer written in Python, is trending on GitHub. The project describes itself as the original open-source PR reviewer, adding the unusual clarification that it is not the Qodo free tier, pointing to a split between the open-source codebase and its commercial counterpart.

A new open-source project called Horizon, published on GitHub by developer Thysrael, lets users build their own AI-powered news radar that generates daily news briefings in both English and Chinese. The Python-based tool has begun attracting early attention from developers interested in automating personalised news summaries, though detailed reviews and real-world usage remain limited so far.

IEEE Spectrum has released its annual ranking of the top programming languages for 2022. The interactive list, a regular fixture in the developer community, scores languages on factors such as job demand, open-source activity and industry use. Developers are weighing in on where Python, C, C++ and other languages stand and whether the rankings reflect real-world hiring and project trends.