Open Source News: R Linting, Neural Data, Navy Costs, and More

Community and Development

    • Social Coworking and Office Hours: Code Linting in R – Join a collaborative session to learn about linting R code for cleaner, more efficient scripts.
    • Asgard v0.4.0 – Now supports scheduling periodic tasks, making automation easier for developers.
    • Bean Network Tester v0.7 – A Windows tool to simulate network conditions and test connectivity.
    • STITCH – A spatio-temporal integration tool for enriching survey data with contextual and historical information.

    Security and Privacy

    • ExifCleaner network traffic – Why does this offline metadata cleaner show network activity? The community investigates.
    • CVE-2026-100310 – GNU libextractor < 1.16 privilege escalation via LIBEXTRACTOR_PREFIX. Patch now.

    Tech and Science

    • Hacking silence – Neural impulses become open data, raising ethical and technical questions.
    • Navy’s shipyard revamp – Could cost over $200 billion, according to GAO.
    • When matter determines qubit performance – New insights into quantum computing materials.

    Tools and Tips

    • Browser translator – A Chrome Translator API extension that helps you learn words with spaced repetition.
    • Job interview bot – A developer built a bot to increase interview chances. Open source?

    Miscellaneous

    • West Chester Florist – Launches fall collection with same-day delivery (not tech, but noteworthy).
    • Skin Properties MediaPortal 1 – A new skin for MediaPortal 1.

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