Open Source News: Code Linting, Privacy, and Innovation

Open Source News: Code Linting, Privacy, and Innovation

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Community and Collaboration

    • Social Coworking and Office Hours – Code Linting in R: Join the R community for a session on code linting, sharing tips and best practices to improve code quality.

    • asgard v0.4.0 now supports scheduling periodic tasks: The latest release of asgard adds support for scheduling periodic tasks, making automation easier.

    Security and Privacy

    • Why does ExifCleaner show network traffic if it claims to work offline? A discussion on ExifCleaner’s network activity despite its offline claims, raising privacy concerns.

    • Re: CVE-2026-100310: GNU libextractor < 1.16 Privilege Escalation via LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX: A critical vulnerability in GNU libextractor allows privilege escalation; users are urged to update.

    Tools and Releases

    • Bean Network Tester v0.7 release – Windows network conditions simulator + network tools: A new version of Bean Network Tester offers enhanced network simulation and tools for Windows.

    • STITCH: A Spatio-Temporal Integration Tool for Contextual and Historical enrichment of survey data: STITCH is an open-source tool for enriching survey data with spatial and temporal context.

    • Translator in browser that teaches words: built-in Translator API Chrome, your AI key and spaced repetition: A browser extension uses Chrome’s Translator API and spaced repetition to help users learn new words while browsing.

    Science and Research

    • Quando la materia determina le prestazioni del qubit: Research on how material properties affect qubit performance, with implications for quantum computing.

    • Hacking silence: When neural impulses become open data – Ammon News: An article discussing the open data movement in neuroscience and the potential for hacking neural impulses.

    Miscellaneous

    • Navy’s shipyard revamp could cost more than $200 billion: GAO: A GAO report reveals that the Navy’s shipyard modernization could exceed $200 billion, sparking debates on defense spending.

    • West Chester Florist Launches Fall Collection With Same-Day Delivery Options: A local florist introduces a fall collection with same-day delivery, highlighting small business innovation.

    • Skin Properties MediaPortal 1: A new media portal skin offers customizable properties for an enhanced user interface.

    • Не зовут на собеседования? Написал бота, который увеличит твои шансы на это: A developer created a bot to help job seekers increase their chances of getting interview calls.

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