Open Source Digest: R Linting, Asgard v0.4, And More

Community and Events

• Social Coworking and Office Hours: Code Linting in R – Join the R community for a session on code linting best practices and tools.
• West Chester Florist Launches Fall Collection With Same-Day Delivery Options – A local florist now offers same-day delivery for its new fall collection.

Development Tools and Releases

• asgard v0.4.0 now supports scheduling periodic tasks – The latest release of asgard adds support for scheduling periodic tasks.
• Bean Network Tester v0.7 release – Windows network conditions simulator + network tools – A new version of Bean Network Tester simulates various network conditions on Windows.
• Chrome Translator API: Learn Words with Interval Repetition – A browser translator that helps you learn words using the built-in Translator API, your own AI key, and spaced repetition.

Security and Privacy

• Why does ExifCleaner show network traffic if it claims to work offline? – Users question network activity in ExifCleaner despite its offline claims.
• Re: CVE-2026-100310: GNU libextractor < 1.16 Privilege Escalation via LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX – A discussion on a privilege escalation vulnerability in GNU libextractor versions before 1.16.

Science and Research

• Hacking silence: When neural impulses become open data – Exploring the implications of making neural impulse data openly available.
• Quando la materia determina le prestazioni del qubit – How material properties affect qubit performance in quantum computing.
• STITCH: A Spatio-Temporal Integration Tool for Contextual and Historical enrichment of survey data – A new tool for enriching survey data with spatiotemporal context.

Government and Defense

• Navy’s shipyard revamp could cost more than $200 billion: GAO – The U.S. Navy’s shipyard modernization may exceed $200 billion, according to the GAO.

Career and Productivity

• Не зовут на собеседования? Написал бота, который увеличит твои шансы на это – A developer created a bot to increase interview callbacks.

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