MAINT - CI improvements (security and maintenance) #663

Job	Run time
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.9)	1m 35s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	1m 35s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.11)	1m 36s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.12)	1m 41s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.13)	55s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.9)	1m 27s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.10)	1m 35s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.11)	1m 33s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.12)	2m 3s
run-pytest (ubuntu-22.04, 3.13)	1m 7s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.10)	5m 3s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.11)	4m 0s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.12)	4m 26s
run-pytest (macos-14, 3.13)	4m 26s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.9)	3m 9s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.10)	2m 25s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.11)	2m 31s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.12)	3m 21s
run-pytest (windows-latest, 3.13)	1m 41s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.9, 6.1)	1m 41s
run-pytest (ubuntu-latest, 3.12, dev)	2m 8s
profiling	37s
Check coverage	41s
coverage-comment / Display code coverage	0s
	51m 16s

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