Open Source Digest: R, AI, Security & Community News

Debugging & Community Events

    • Social Coworking and Office Hours will focus on debugging in R, offering collaborative help for R users.
    • Rencontres R 2026 is scheduled for Nantes, France, bringing the R community together.
    • Africa Wiki Women’s On-Wiki Skills Mentorship Program celebrates growth, impact, and digital inclusion.

    Open Source & AI Policy

    • The Open Source Initiative helps the G7 deliver a vision on AI openness, shaping policy.
    • RAG gives models memory, enhancing AI capabilities with retrieval-augmented generation.

    Security & Infrastructure

    • BIRD/BIRD2 has a stack buffer overflow in BGP AS_PATH mask matching, with a CVE pending.
    • Aerospike Community Edition: our experience removing limits, now unrestricted.
    • Tailscale assigned interface? A query about Tailscale network configuration.
    • Docker ruined my computer? Help! A community plea for Docker troubleshooting.

    Hardware & Open Standards

    • RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 unites industry and academia in Bologna to promote open hardware.
    • OpenAI DevDay 2026 submission: building iwant2study.org as a playable open learning catalogue.

    Community Projects & Media

    • Show me your project: a call to share open source projects.
    • New crime mapping tool helps keep residents informed – RaleighNC.gov, a civic tech initiative.
    • Late Night Linux – Episode 388: podcast covering open source news.
    • Is ‘event_key’ meant to be empty? A development question.
    • First live performance of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ (1991) – historical mention.
    • Tillo appoints Michael Tigwell as Managing Director to accelerate global growth.

    FSF & Free Software

    • FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, June 5, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC).

Source: OpenWorld.News/open-source-digest/