Community and Events
- Join the next Social Coworking and Office Hours session focused on code linting in R. Connect with fellow developers, share tips, and improve your code quality.
- Ammon News reports on ‘Hacking silence,’ where neural impulses are becoming open data, raising questions about privacy and ethics in neurotechnology.
- Concerned about ExifCleaner’s network activity? The open-source tool claims to work offline, but users have spotted network traffic. The community is investigating.
- A critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-100310) affects GNU libextractor versions below 1.16 via the LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX environment variable. Patch now.
- Asgard v0.4.0 now supports scheduling periodic tasks, making it easier to automate recurring jobs.
- Bean Network Tester v0.7 is out: simulate various network conditions and access a suite of network tools on Windows.
- STITCH: A new spatio-temporal integration tool for enriching survey data with contextual and historical information.
- Italian researchers explore how material properties determine qubit performance, potentially guiding the design of more stable quantum computers.
- A new browser translator helps you learn words using Chrome’s built-in Translator API, your own AI key, and spaced repetition.
- West Chester Florist launches its fall collection with same-day delivery options, catering to seasonal floral needs.
- Skin Properties MediaPortal 1: A new media portal for skin properties? Details are scarce, but it’s making rounds in open-source circles.
- Job seeker builds a bot to increase interview chances after not getting callbacks. A practical application of automation in job hunting.
- The U.S. Navy’s shipyard revamp could cost over $200 billion, according to a GAO report. The massive investment aims to modernize naval infrastructure.
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