Open Source Digest: R, AI, ReactOS & More

Open Source Digest: R, AI, ReactOS & More

Community & Events Social Coworking Sessions: Upcoming events include Getting to Know SORTEE, Vale and Text Linting, and Debugging in R. Join the community for collaborative work and learning. Rencontres R 2026: The R conference will be held in Nantes, France. Mark your calendars! ESEAP Conference 2026: First impressions highlight the value of regional Wikimedia … Read more

Open Source Digest: Coworking, R, Wikidata, & More

Open Source Digest: Coworking, R, Wikidata, & More

Community & Events Social Coworking: SORTEE, Vale/Linting, Debugging in R – Join upcoming free coworking sessions to explore the SORTEE community, learn text linting with Vale, or sharpen your R debugging skills. Rencontres R 2026 – Nantes – The French R conference heads to Nantes in 2026; mark your calendar for this key open-source statistics … Read more

Open Source & Tech Digest: Kernel Bugs, Wikipedia Editors & More

Open Source & Tech Digest: Kernel Bugs, Wikipedia Editors & More

Software & Security Updates A logic bug in the Linux kernel’s __ptrace_may_access() function has been reported, potentially allowing privilege escalation. Maintainers are reviewing the patch. A discussion thread asks: “What’s an open-source project you genuinely can’t believe is free?” – highlighting popular free tools like Blender, VLC, and FFmpeg. CRuby threads don’t offer true parallelism … Read more

Open Source News: R Meets, Rust Runtimes, and Security Fixes

Open Source News: R Meets, Rust Runtimes, and Security Fixes

Community & Events Rencontres R 2026 will be held in Nantes, France. Mark your calendars for this R language community gathering. Software & Libraries DeepSeek V4 has been released. The translation notes that this could be concerning for the US due to AI competition. librla is a new library offering randomized linear algebra routines for … Read more