Community and Collaboration
- Social Coworking and Office Hours: Code Linting in R – Join a session on best practices for linting R code, share tips, and get help with your projects.
Cutting-Edge Science and Tech
- Hacking silence: When neural impulses become open data – Ammon News reports on a project turning neural signals into open data, raising ethical and privacy questions.
- Quando la materia determina le prestazioni del qubit – Italian researchers explore how material properties directly affect qubit performance, a key step toward better quantum computers.
Security and Privacy
- Why does ExifCleaner show network traffic if it claims to work offline? – Users question the tool’s network activity; the developer explains it’s for update checks, but privacy advocates urge caution.
- CVE-2026-100310: GNU libextractor < 1.16 Privilege Escalation via LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX – A critical vulnerability in GNU libextractor allows local privilege escalation; users should upgrade to version 1.16 or later.
New Releases and Updates
- asgard v0.4.0 now supports scheduling periodic tasks – The open-source task runner adds cron-like scheduling, making it easier to automate recurring jobs.
- Bean Network Tester v0.7 release – Windows network conditions simulator + network tools – Simulate various network conditions on Windows to test app performance and resilience.
- STITCH: A Spatio-Temporal Integration Tool for Contextual and Historical enrichment of survey data – New tool integrates spatial and temporal data to enrich survey datasets, now available on GitHub.
- Skin Properties MediaPortal 1 – A new skin for MediaPortal 1 enhances the media center interface with customizable properties.
Other News
- Navy’s shipyard revamp could cost more than $200 billion: GAO – The U.S. Navy’s shipyard modernization program may exceed $200 billion, according to a GAO report.
- Переводчик в браузере, который учит слова: встроенный Translator API Chrome, свой ИИ-ключ и интервальные повторения – A browser translator that helps you learn words using Chrome’s built-in Translator API, your own AI key, and spaced repetition.
- West Chester Florist Launches Fall Collection With Same-Day Delivery Options – Local florist introduces autumn arrangements with same-day delivery, catering to seasonal demand.
Source: OpenWorld.News/open-source-digest/
