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After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth answer to the code hidden among the Smithsonian Institution’s archives.

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The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

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