Article 6BTQC PyPI suspends new user/project registrations

PyPI suspends new user/project registrations

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corbet
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The PyPI Python module repository has temporarily suspended acceptance ofnew users and project names.

New user and new project name registration on PyPI is temporarilysuspended. The volume of malicious users and malicious projectsbeing created on the index in the past week has outpaced ourability to respond to it in a timely fashion, especially withmultiple PyPI administrators on leave.
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