Community and Events
- Social Coworking and Office Hours: Code Linting in R – Join the R community for a collaborative session on code linting best practices, where you can cowork and get help with your R projects.
Neuroscience and Open Data
- Hacking silence: When neural impulses become open data – Ammon News explores the intersection of neuroscience and open data, discussing how neural signals are being shared and analyzed openly.
Government and Security
- Navy’s shipyard revamp could cost more than $200 billion: GAO – The U.S. Government Accountability Office reports that the Navy’s shipyard modernization may exceed $200 billion, raising concerns about budget and oversight.
- CVE-2026-100310: GNU libextractor < 1.16 Privilege Escalation via LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX – A critical vulnerability in GNU libextractor versions before 1.16 allows privilege escalation through the LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX environment variable. Users should update immediately.
Tools and Software Releases
- asgard v0.4.0 now supports scheduling periodic tasks – The latest release of asgard adds support for scheduling periodic tasks, enhancing its automation capabilities.
- Bean Network Tester v0.7 release – Windows network conditions simulator + network tools – Version 0.7 of Bean Network Tester introduces a Windows network conditions simulator and additional network tools for testing and debugging.
- Translator in browser that teaches words: built-in Translator API Chrome, your own AI key and spaced repetition – A new browser extension leverages Chrome’s built-in Translator API, allows users to use their own AI key, and incorporates spaced repetition to help learn new words while browsing.
Science and Research
- Quando la materia determina le prestazioni del qubit – Italian research investigates how material properties influence qubit performance, a key factor for advancing quantum computing.
- STITCH: A Spatio-Temporal Integration Tool for Contextual and Historical enrichment of survey data – STITCH is a new tool for enriching survey data with spatial and temporal context, enabling richer historical analysis.
Privacy and Security Concerns
- Why does ExifCleaner show network traffic if it claims to work offline? – Users question ExifCleaner’s offline claims after observing network traffic, sparking a discussion on privacy and transparency in open-source tools.
Miscellaneous
- West Chester Florist Launches Fall Collection With Same-Day Delivery Options – A local florist introduces a fall collection with same-day delivery, though the relevance to open source is unclear.
- Skin Properties MediaPortal 1 – A new skin for MediaPortal 1 has been released, offering customization options for the media center software.
- Не зовут на собеседования? Написал бота, который увеличит твои шансы на это – A developer created a bot to help increase interview invitations, sharing the solution with the community.
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Source: OpenWorld.News/open-source-digest/
