Python’s new JIT compiler might be the biggest speed boost we’ve seen in a while, but it’s not without bumps. Get that news and more, in this week’s report.

Here are seven shows playing this weekend in San Diego County: straight plays and musicals, comedies and dramas, and even ...

• The Cambridge Footlights: A Very British Comedy Institution by Robert Sellers was published by Methuen Drama yesterday. It is available from Amazon priced £23 in hardback – or from uk.bookshop.org, ...

The day after I meet British comedian and author David Walliams, a cyclone hits. Not a metaphorical cyclone – that will come ...