Community & Events
- Social Coworking & Office Hours: Upcoming sessions include ‘Getting to Know SORTEE’ (June 3), ‘Vale and Text Linting’ (June 10), and ‘Debugging in R’ (June 17). Join live for collaborative coding and Q&A.
- Rencontres R 2026: The annual R conference will be held in Nantes, France. Save the date for this community gathering.
- Wikimedia Korea Strategy Meeting: Held in May, the meeting focused on future plans and community growth.
- Large-Scale Virus Distribution on GitHub: A researcher discovered widespread malware spread through GitHub repositories. Developers are urged to audit dependencies and enable two-factor authentication.
- Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU93: Latest support repository update includes bug fixes and security patches for Solaris users.
- IBM App Connect Start-up Optimization: New techniques reduce initialization time for integration workloads, improving efficiency.
- CKA Certification Enhancement: Passing the Certified Kubernetes Security (CKS) exam now automatically extends your CKA certification, simplifying recertification.
- Nvidia AI Trains Robots Autonomously: A new AI system enables robots to learn tasks in a lab without human intervention, accelerating robotics research.
- Project Spark: AI for Government: A German initiative uses AI to speed up administrative processes, aiming to make public services more efficient.
- Tyler Technologies’ Socrata Platform: Emphasis on soft power strategies to enhance open data accessibility for civic applications.
- Hidden Google Maps Settings: Over 40 lesser-known features every user should know, including offline maps and location sharing tweaks.
- Arbitrary IP Address Lookup: Tools and methods to look up any IP address’s geolocation and ownership.
- The Map of Physics: An animated visualization explains how different physics fields interconnect, from quantum mechanics to cosmology.
- Datasets for Online User Behavior: A guide to finding public datasets for research on user behavior, including social media and e-commerce data.
- Eternal Software Initiative: An open-source project aims to preserve today’s software in runnable form for 1,000 years, tackling digital decay.
- Huntsville vs. Silicon Valley: New analysis ranks US cities by take-home pay and job competition, with Huntsville, Alabama outperforming Silicon Valley.
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