Introduction
Welcome to our latest open source digest, where we bring you the most relevant updates from the community. From code quality tools to security advisories, we’ve got you covered.
Community Events
- Join the Social Coworking and Office Hours session on Code Linting in R to improve your code quality and collaborate with peers.
- A privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-100310) has been found in GNU libextractor versions before 1.16, exploitable via the LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX environment variable. Users are advised to update promptly.
- Asgard v0.4.0 now supports scheduling periodic tasks, making automation easier.
- Bean Network Tester v0.7 is a Windows tool for simulating network conditions and includes additional network utilities.
- STITCH (Spatio-Temporal Integration Tool) helps enrich survey data with contextual and historical information.
- A recent study explores how material properties determine qubit performance, a key step toward better quantum computers (article in Italian).
- Why does ExifCleaner show network traffic if it claims to work offline? The community is investigating this discrepancy.
Security Updates
New Releases
Tech Deep Dives
Discussion
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