Community and Collaboration
- Social Coworking and Office Hours: Code Linting in R – Join the R community for a session on code linting, sharing best practices and tools to improve your R code quality.
- Asgard v0.4.0 now supports scheduling periodic tasks – The latest release of Asgard adds the ability to schedule recurring tasks, making automation even easier.
Security and Privacy
- ExifCleaner network traffic mystery – Users question why ExifCleaner shows network activity despite claiming to work offline. The community discusses potential causes and solutions.
- CVE-2026-100310: GNU libextractor < 1.16 Privilege Escalation – A critical vulnerability in GNU libextractor allows privilege escalation via the LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX environment variable. Users are urged to update to version 1.16 or later.
Development Tools
- Bean Network Tester v0.7 released – Simulate various network conditions on Windows with this handy tool for testing application performance under different scenarios.
- STITCH: A Spatio-Temporal Integration Tool – This open-source tool enriches survey data with contextual and historical information, enabling deeper analysis.
Science and Research
- Hacking silence: When neural impulses become open data – Researchers explore making neural data open and accessible, raising ethical and technical considerations.
- Quando la materia determina le prestazioni del qubit – New insights into how material properties affect qubit performance could advance quantum computing.
Browser Extensions
- Translator in browser that teaches words – A new Chrome extension uses the built-in Translator API and a custom AI key to help users learn new words through spaced repetition while browsing.
Other News
- Navy’s shipyard revamp could cost more than $200 billion: GAO – The U.S. Navy’s shipyard modernization program faces massive cost overruns, according to a GAO report.
- West Chester Florist Launches Fall Collection With Same-Day Delivery Options – A local florist introduces a new fall collection with convenient same-day delivery.
- Skin Properties MediaPortal 1 – A new skin for MediaPortal 1 offers customizable properties for a personalized media center experience.
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Source: OpenWorld.News/open-source-digest/
