Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.

Recently, a conventional neural decoder for speech codec has shown promising performance. However, it typically requires some prior knowledge of decoding such as bit allocation or dequantization ...

I realized it’s an encoding problem with python 2: In Python 3, all strings are sequences of Unicode characters, while in Python 2, a string may be of type str or of type unicode.

One of the top contributors to coding language Python lives in Ukraine. Fellow developers are helping his family escape the war and communicating via Google Translate.

At issue is a component of the digital text encoding standard Unicode, which allows computers to exchange information regardless of the language used.

Running the script produces the mentioned SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfa in position 141: invalid start byte The encoding settings in VS Code are all set to "utf8" ...