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5 Common Cybersecurity Attacks on Open-Source Software

Open-source software (OSS) is amazing and a great accelerator for business everywhere. However, using open-source software is not without its risks. This article will cover some common attacks that your software developers may face when using open-source software and libraries. Most popular programming languages have a centralized repository of open-source libraries that anyone can use. […]

Implementing a Full ML Lifecycle with Anaconda Distribution on AWS Graviton

Introduction  In this blog, we will do a walk-through of implementing a complete machine learning (ML) lifecycle on AWS-Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances (AWS Graviton for short from now on) for a real-world fraud detection dataset use case. This is an example, and you can use Anaconda Distribution on AWS Graviton to work on various kinds […]

New Release: Anaconda Distribution 2023.07, Miniconda 23.5.0, and More!

We are pleased to announce the release of Anaconda Distribution 2023.07! Find the relevant release notes here, and download the installer here. Package Updates You’ll find 595 packages updated, 381 packages added, and 41 packages removed (across all platforms) since the last release of Anaconda Distribution 2023.03 in March 2023. The Anaconda Distribution 2023.07 installer […]

Security Fix for Windows Installers

At Anaconda, the trust and confidence of our users are of paramount importance. As such, we’re committed to providing a seamless, secure, and hassle-free user experience.  We recently uncovered an issue within our Windows installers that could, under very specific circumstances, inadvertently lead to the deletion of files from your system. We realize the inconvenience […]

Building an Interactive ML Dashboard in Panel

HoloViz Panel is a versatile Python library that empowers developers and data scientists to build interactive visualizations with ease. Whether you’re working on machine learning projects, developing web applications, or designing data dashboards, Panel provides a powerful set of tools and features to enhance your data exploration and presentation capabilities. In this blog post, we […]

Anaconda Navigator, the Next Generation

TL;DR: We are building a new desktop app experience. Public beta access is available to test.   Compiling, analyzing, and modeling data can be arduous. A data science environment helps data science and machine learning engineers save valuable time and focus on what really matters: the data. An environment with the right tools for data […]

Anaconda’s Q2 2023 Open-Source Roundup

Substantial and impactful open-source innovation is at the heart of Anaconda’s efforts to provide tooling for developing and deploying secure Python solutions, faster. With the goal of capturing and communicating our teams’ many ongoing contributions to a wide variety of open-source projects, we are now providing regular roundups of related news items on our blog. […]

Decimals type for pandas

Introduction Some time ago I had a go at implementing a “decimals” extension type for pandas. This was following stumbling upon parquet data of that type, which pandas could not read: pyarrow would error and fastparquet would convert to floats. The decimal type, with known, fixed precision, is very important in real-world applications such as […]

Why Open-Source Software Security Should Be Your Top Priority

Open-source software (OSS) is at the heart of innovative technologies and some of the most impressive AI successes being implemented today. It’s also the target of threat actors who seek to leverage the inherent risk of open source. The White House and the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) have issued guidance for organizations […]