New Tools & Releases
- Asgard v0.4.0 now supports scheduling periodic tasks, making automation easier for developers.
- Bean Network Tester v0.7 released: a Windows network conditions simulator plus network tools for testing performance.
- STITCH debuts: a spatio-temporal integration tool for enriching survey data with contextual and historical information.
- Skin Properties MediaPortal 1 arrives, offering new customization options for the media portal.
- Chrome’s built-in Translator API gets a boost with a browser extension that helps you learn words using your own AI key and spaced repetition.
- CVE-2026-100310 affects GNU libextractor <1.16, allowing privilege escalation via the LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX environment variable. Users should update immediately.
- ExifCleaner faces scrutiny: users report network traffic despite claims of offline operation, raising privacy questions.
- Join the Social Coworking and Office Hours session on code linting in R—perfect for improving your R code quality.
- Ammon News explores ‘Hacking silence’: when neural impulses become open data, blending neuroscience and open source.
- Italian researchers investigate how materials determine qubit performance, a key step toward better quantum computers.
- The U.S. Navy’s shipyard revamp could exceed $200 billion, according to the GAO, highlighting massive infrastructure costs.
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