#plugfest

#plugfest

Euro-Office is a 'true sovereign office suite' and a 'replacement for Microsoft Office with intuitive interface and strong compatibility.'

Contracts are a means of setting preconditions and postconditions on function declarations, and adding assertion statements within functions. The feature is intended to help make C++ code safer and more reliable.

Finding the right desk and office chair combo can have lasting effects on the quality of your spinal health, and in my case, landing on just the right pairing has boosted my productivity big time.

"For me, it is not about 'giving back' but about 'participating'. I started volunteering out of curiosity, and continued because of the people and interactions."

In order to use agents or in order to use AI in IT operations, all of your systems need to be interconnected and what interconnects all of your systems is an automation platform. Interconnecting systems is only a piece of the puzzle though. There is also some well-founded concern about the autonomous AI systems we are moving towards. AI agents may make decisions and inferences, but enterprises remain hesitant to allow direct execution on production systems.

Digital products & services shape almost every sector of modern life. They have become an important backbone of the world's economy and society. The balance of our digital economy depends on a delicate interplay between tech companies, startups, software developers, foundations, and other stakeholders - many of which have partly become autonomous in recent years.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Fred" who told us that in the 1990s he worked in tech support for a government agency. "The work was pretty routine, but being in that particular environment was never dull... at least not for me," he told The Register. To prove his point, Fred told us that one day a user he said we should refer to as "Emily" complained that her word processor had lost the ability to print on the resident HP LaserJet.

Retail point-of-sale systems today offer a wide range of options for peripherals and hardware. Their technical specifications play a major role in selection, and big retailers often choose multiple vendors to reduce a single point of failure. This gives them an advantage to negotiate price or support as well. Technically, these peripherals also require updating with new models and may have new feature sets. This necessitates the redevelopment of point-of-sale applications, increasing development costs.

The Eclipse Foundation today revealed it has created a framework for the Open VSX Registry, for tools based on open source VS Code that scan for known malicious patterns, detect namespace impersonation and extension name spoofing, flag exposed credentials or embedded secrets and quarantine suspicious uploads for review.

Multiple critical vulnerabilities in the popular n8n open-source workflow automation platform allow escaping the confines of the environment and taking complete control of the host server. Collectively tracked as CVE-2026-25049, the issues can be exploited by any authenticated user who can create or edit workflows on the platform to perform unrestricted remote code execution on the n8n server. Researchers at several cybersecurity companies reported the problems, which stem from n8n's sanitization mechanism and bypass the patch for CVE-2025-68613, another critical flaw addressed on December 20.

Software development used to be simpler, with fewer choices about which platforms and languages to learn. You were either a Java, .NET, or LAMP developer. You focused on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Full-stack developers learned the intricacies of selected JavaScript frameworks, relational databases, and CI/CD tools. In the best of times, developers advanced their technology skills with their employer's funding and time to experiment. They attended conferences, took courses, and learned the low-code development platforms their employers invested in.

For the longest time, Linux was considered to be geared specifically for developers and computer scientists. Modern distributions are far more general purpose now -- but that doesn't mean there aren't certain distros that are also ideal platforms for developers. What makes a distribution right for developers? Although I consider app compatibility, stability, and flexibility to be essential attributes for most any Linux distribution, developers also need the right tools

A secure software development life cycle means baking security into plan, design, build, test, and maintenance, rather than sprinkling it on at the end, Sara Martinez said in her talk Ensuring Software Security at Online TestConf. Testers aren't bug finders but early defenders, building security and quality in from the first sprint. Culture first, automation second, continuous testing and monitoring all the way; that's how you make security a habit instead of a fire drill, she argued.